The Dark Psychology of Walter White from Breaking Bad 

I think it’s an important story for that reason. We live extremely privileged lives compared to most people throughout history and because of that, few people rarely learn who they are. BB shows how hidden people can be, even from themselves.

@@Dapryor A majority of the people today would slaughter for a chance to give their family security. The blue collar Nice Guy doesn't have security in the face of death.

Don’t forget his love for science

​@@Dapryor definitely. Our pets eat better than most people throughout history

Yes that fits more

Mike was the most bad ass and to the end

I can't believe he was the nerdy guy actor in the 80s.

@@boethius1812 wymmm

​@@lilmoose802 he was part of a show in the 80's where he played a nerd, I can't remember the name off of the top of my head though

@@jasonhake5502who was?

200hours

​@@GarlotarloI'd say more

“A whole lot”?

Fr shut has me thinking 😭🙏

This video is terrible lol

i was so happy she died

He did NOT in fact “tread lightly”

​@@Zonal13_Which is why he ended up dead 😔

It’s a line so powerful and packed with emotion and context, I can’t think of any line that’s better

@@TelestialGamingYeeeesss. Add to it all they are family and Hank's been looking for his own brother-in-law w/o knowing it..

It was also vengeance against her too.

and also cuz she was a bitch i think

Lydia put hits out on just about everyone, even Mike, which she confessed to Walt. Lydia was brazen enough to go straight to the car wash and knew who Skyler was. When Skyler told Walt about the knotsies late night visit, he didn’t seem the least surprised. Making Lydia a killer cup of tea was the right choice.

Nah I'm pretty sure he killed her because she was fucking annoying

She had it coming

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Easily impressed lib lol

​@@Alex-lj3sksilent thot

I'm actually curious, but what did he miss? Haven't finished the video yet@@Alex-lj3sk

Go watch "analyzing evil" he did the same thing but this was also good to watch.

Well Walt told him to do it

Therefore Jesse was just an extension

Lol yeah

I like the tease of how Walter became how he is. He went to visit Gretchen’s family and being intimidated (then angered over feeling that they thought they were better than he was) by their easy elegance, he walks out, breaking Gretchen’s heart with no explanation. He doesn’t talk to his mother about his diagnosis, makes fun of her to Skylar and even Walter Jr.. When Junior makes a GoFundMe for Walter, he’s enraged and trying to hide it, being chastised for his ‘pride’. He wouldn’t take a job at GrayMatter because of ‘pride’. We get his view of his own life is in the speech after being beaten up, to Junior. Talking of his fear and disgust as his father’s weakness, illness and death. Yet Junior reassures him, ‘This is real, so much better than how fake you’ve been this past year.’ Walter, clearly hears what Junior says but his shame stays the same. He’s a weak, scared man and tells Hank that, until his diagnosis, and he felt like anything goes because of his ‘death sentence’ has been imposed already.

No. He never did care. He only pretended. He resented his wife, disabled son and baby daughter. He saw them as beneath him and not good enough. He didn't break bad, he was always bad.

I never thought he loved Skyler. He loved Gretchen, couldn’t be with her because of his own hang ups, and went after a young woman who needed “saving”. She was just a character to him.

@@cl5470 I think he cared in a way, but ultimately his constant excuse of "doing it for my family" was really just a smoke screen, at least after the first cook. Once he found something he was good at it fed his ego, an ego that was already massive but being starved from a lack of attention from his family, piers and society in general. After that he was only ever in it for him, the whole family excuse was just a way for him to justify his actions to himself and others. Perfect example is how he turns down the offer of treatment from his former Grey Matter colleagues. If he really truly just cared about his family he would have taken the money without hesitation. But his ego wouldnt let him take a handout and he would have to give up cooking, the one thing in his life that was feeding his ego.

He only ever cared about Jesse, but he was still willing to use Jesse and manipulate him

nah he deep down loved jesse

Mike's death was an unnecessary, very sad event for many. Really bothered me. Made me hate Walter for being so uncharacteristically dumb for not realizing he could get the list of Mike's men elsewhere and because Mike was a reliable guy who warned Saul Goodman to stay away from the "Heisenberg fella" from the beginning.

​​​@@BlueButterfly7777 Mike tried to kill Walter at the laundromat when his Walt's only fault was trying to save Jesse. Mike was too emotionally invested in it to claim he was just following Gus' orders. For example he was upset and shocked when he found out that Walt knew Gale's address. He also beat up Walt at the bar after Walt bought him a drink and tried to confide in him. Good riddance.

@@rajkhan9643Mike was a very popular character on BB and BCS. I don't think many would agree but you be you.

UP!

Supressed resentment...

Suppression is never good...

The one thing that prevents me from really feeling too much sympathy for him is the fact that his mediocrity is his own making. He left Gretchen and Grey Matter after meeting her wealthy family and feeling inferior to them, which started his downward spiral. Then he convinced Skyler to buy a house they couldn't afford because he was certain his genius would lead to wealth down the road, but then he ended up as a high school teacher. It's definitely sad but I feel like if he'd swallowed his pride with Grey Matter then he would have had the life he felt he deserved.

YES, very well said!

I loved the layers to the story we can only guess at. We see Walter making fun of his mother, how important appearances were over the truth, especially as he is recounting his father’s death to Walter Jr. He acts like he is going to see his mother but doesn’t even bother. He felt intimidated by his fiancé’s parents’ home and abruptly walks out without ever explaining why, his shame. He rages about having ACCEPTED the 5K as a ‘payout’ he initially felt good about, and bought the little house. He sees weakness in accepting help, is that because mom had to seek help OR was she the model that appearances are all that matter? It sets up that with Marie & Skylar since we don’t know why Marie steals, but we do see her pretending at other lives and taking trophies for it. When Skylar gets in trouble because she takes the tiara back to the store, she’s protective of her sister and has a great ‘I’m about to give birth in this closet!’ That poor manager, taking the time to protest, ‘This is my OFFICE!’ She gets out of it and in recounting the vignette to Walter, we see the guilt on Walter’s face as he asks what she would do if HE had done something wrong. She laughingly says, she’d turn him in, yet her ACTIONS show she’d go for appearances being more important than the truth. What had these two sisters been brought up that one, while toying in theft and lies, is condemning of Skylar going along with Walter. How many shows make you wonder how these people got to be where they are?🤷‍♀️

True, but they did do him dirty a lot in the show. I can understand why he’d feel the need to do the 180 that he did. I think skylar cheating was the icing on the cake

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Not at all lmao was always bad? Yeah explains why he was crying so hard to kill someone who was trying to kill him (krazy 8) u need to watch season 1 again

The fact is that he always had it in himself. The meth business only allowed him to unleash it.

@@axesus6966having an extreme ego and the capability for great violence doesn’t make your first kill easy. The fact it didn’t stop him, that he killed and still walked into that life, yeah he didn’t actually care.

@@chelscara he so clearly cared lmao ur saying u would release a guy who is going to try to kill you? He had no choice

​@axesus6966 Being forced to brutally kill a man in self defense would still elicit guilt in a healthy sane normal man. Jesse never got over killing Gale even knowing he was dead if he didn't, and that's not "omg Jesse is so weak lol" that's human empathy for murder, and choosing to continue knowing he'll do it again when other legal and non-murderous options were being brought up constantly- that's evil pure and simple.

“I do not have cancer, Skylar. I AM the cancer”

@@craftymasterproductions4218 my favorite wanter wyatt line

Nah slippin jimmy was always slippin jimmy until the very last episode. Chuck was right as fuck. Jimmy never had the patience to show his brother that he was worth it. No one ever said JImmy was useless or dumb, he just wanted the short way.

@@seiben713Jimmy looked up to chuck and chuck constantly kept putting him down causing him to cut corners. Sure I can kinda understand why chuck didn’t like Jimmy but he should see that someone is trying to change. But as soon as you do something horrible you get a label that sticks to you for life.

@@YourFuneralBit jimmy was not cutting corners for anyone but jimmy.

⁠​⁠@@seiben713nah chuck was an ass 😂 I think he felt inferior because while he was stuck working harder, making little progress here and there, jimmy was working smarter and making way more progress, and so the little comments and the sabotaging comes out of jealousy and spite.

​@@chzbiexactly

Thank you man, appreciate you noticing this🙌🏼

True

Great recommendation

IMO he bumped his head and lost it

@@lando6420Imo that would ruin his character for me. Personally.

I feel like he was always a terrible person but the mask became harder to keep up after the events of ch6@@lando6420

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We can change that. Spread the word and get this man the flowers he deserves. The amount of effort put into these videos is astonishing, the quality is incredible.

Well you have channels pop up all over RU-vid now putting out the same quality stuff. There are hundreds just like this channel with the same formula and layout so there's gonna a lot of competition

@@jared2823 could you share some examples

How? Jesse realized how harmful to everyone walter is, he wanted out, and walter would just keep roping him in or eventually kill him. He nearly killed his girlfriends kid. I'd snitch too

who is lydia?

@@brynx24 the uptight young lady with the dark black hair, always drinking stevia in her tea. She found the gps tracker on the barrel in the warehouse. The methylamine hook up.

@@collectiveleak if you don’t understand, I can’t explain it to you. Jessie did lots of dishonorable things, and siding with the DEA was at the TOP of the list. Still, I wish he hadn’t been tortured like that.

​@@jordanwood183"Siding with the DEA" is awful? What fucking planet are you on?

The Sopranos is still being analysed and thats what 30 years?

@@Alex-lj3sk he most certainly is. how can you watch the show and come to the conclusion that he’s a good guy? he poisons a kid and bombs a hospital.

​@@ketomine.Teenagers and young people and trolls generally see him as good. Mostly fabricated

No, you just parrot the notion he’s a villain. He’s not a villain. Definitely not a good guy, but he’s not a villain. Yes he’s a bad guy, but you just simply don’t understand the show/character and just copy what RU-vidrs tell you to say.

@@johntonssen7231 no youtuber told me he’s a bad guy

@@ketomine.nursing home, almost bombed a hospital!

@@Alex-lj3sk and you're a mentally handicapped neanderthal for not being able to form a coherent sentence

Please walt never cared about Jesse. Season 5 reveals that clearly. If at some point he seemed to care it was only because he needed to use Jesse

@@elleelleelleelle_______ You mean the same season that ends with Walt saving Jesse at the expense of his own life?

@@elleelleelleelle_______He does care about Jesse, just not in the way he should. He feels that he’s an extension of himself less than he is his own person. Which yes, ain’t a good thing, but shows he cares

You understand breaking bad

Walt wasn't fully a bad person. Yeah he went into the drug business for his own ego, but Walter is fully capable of being kind of loving and this isn't debatable but a fact. He absolutely does love his family even if his perception of what they mean to him becomes more twisted and superficial later, and this creates a paradox in his character that makes him so incredibly complex and nuanced. He isn't as simple as good or evil, but a paradox, being both good and evil, yet neither at the same time.

he was not a bad person before, he was a good guy with flaw with his ego, and that ego just kept growing and transformed him

Walter wasn't really a good person. He was still incredibly egotistical and had no issue doing messed up stuff like leaving Gretchen on the spot without a word just because his ego took a slight hit. @@sodpati

@@errwhattheflip Yeah, i didn't say he was pure evil. Im saying that he just unleashed what was already there.

Walter white does not have DID

And don't start yapping about how his dad was dying and that was traumatic for him enough to give him it

@@chedder3390 I didnt say he has? Calm down, I was referring to that part in the video, where he says that Walter DOES NOT HAVE DID. Just some extra info about DID which contributes to the fact that Walter does not have it. jesus where in my statement did I even mention Walter? DID was clearly mentioned and ruled out int he video. How do you come to the conclusion that I think Walter has DID?

@sashathrymrsdottir I'm sorry man I hadn't seen that part by the time I commented

that would be amazing

That would be insane actually

Anime is gay

Griffith did everything right. Nothing that happened was his or Guts' fault, although a good portion of blame goes to c*sca.

@@swedhgemoni8092 you're tripping, especially if you're censoring the name Casca for no reason

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THAT!!!! literally every single BB summary/analysis etc video i have seen NEVER TALKS ABOUT THAT SCENE and idk why!!!!!

@@killrdoll It would make daddy Walter look like an awful person, which he clearly was. But you know, they think Skylar is an annoying b*tch so yeah.......

@@Alex-lj3sk how so

And others

​@@EllenSykes2028the ego and all the anger of living a miserable life while his former partners are all billionares

@@bankroll_q2412 He should’ve married Gretchen

Thank you bro I truly appreciate it🤍🙌🏼

Snowfall was sooo good up until the last few seasons.

​@@JC-hq7iuAll seasons of snowfall was good!

I mean Gus also told Walt to not interfere with the assassination of Hank

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Destroying lives

Much appreciated!

@@JWisdomyou’re terrible at what you do

Low quality

@@Alex-lj3sk you've replied to so many comments get his meat out your mouth😭

Gus never wanted Jesse. Walt’s did the reason Jesse ended up working for Gus. Gus tried to trust Walter to handle Jesse but he couldn’t. If Walter left Jesse alone and worked with Gale making meth like Gus wanted everyone would have been fine.

@@petermj1098 the point is Gus still ended up working with the person he didn’t trust and wanted to kill. That is why Walt was so angry with Jesse not killing Gus. Walt saved Jesse and he wanted the same loyalty

@@Drogenastic Jesse was only in danger of Gus because Walter wanted to bring him in in the first place. Walter’s pride made him refuse to work with Gale.

@@petermj1098 no Walter brought Jesse in to save himself and Jesse from pressing charges against Hank. It was nothing about ego. He had no problem working with Gale he had an argument with Jesse that could potentially cause trouble for his family and that was the best way for him to fix it

@@petermj1098so Walt is a egomaniac selfish narcissist blah blah blah but risked a good thing to help Jesse? Something isn’t adding up

I agree he didn’t get rid of Gale for ego related reasons but he was looking out for everybody

Nah he got basic facts of the show wrong over and over, it was embarrassing and cringey 😬

@@Alex-lj3sk why

@@Not-Kurosawafor one thing, he did NOT order Jesse to kill Gale. They both already agreed he had to go. Also, Walt has literally no power over Jesse other than basic respect LOL. Walter says to him, over and over, that they are 50/50 partners. And he means it too. This entire video was a character assassinations for one of the greatest characters to ever live.

@@Alex-lj3sk jesse didnt wanna kill anyone dude, walt just ordered him to and when he did jesse was literally refusing but he saw that there was no other way and it was either them or gale, plus walt never really cared about jesse, he just kept manipulating him and abusing his loyalty.