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In response to
"Probably right. (spoilers)"
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Inigo
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Spoilers
Posted by
David (aka David)
Sep 9 '13, 12:06
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I believe that a lot of it is situational/conditional. He wasn't in that moment when he knew he had screwed up willing to sacrifice two of the four people in the world that he loves. Last week and early in this episode, when it was Jesse or him, he would have eliminated Heisenberg Junior.
During the showdowns in the garage and at the TGI Fridays clone, Walt would have done what was required to take Hank off the board. He found a way to do that without violence via the videotape. Whether he would do it via violence remains to be seen. To a certain extent, Walt is like the Iron Giant. Point a gun at his head and he changes into a killing machine. Hank was "only" threatening him with jail and public humiliation. He hasn't pointed the gun yet.
The Nazi rednecks are the people Kim and I have speculated for a while would be the trouble spot in all of this. They are uncontrollable, a chaotic presence. Thinking about the show from the perspective of chemical equations, they are the entropy that prevents The Blue from being created correctly. I have felt all along that their introduction was a calculated attempt to show that Walt has exclusively dealt with people who worship at the altar of money, even Tuco. These psychopaths want to see the world burn. Even Heisenberg does not scare them.
Todd is particularly interesting as a character. Since his introduction, he has been largely sweet and kind yet if we track his history, he is terrifying. He is amoral in a way I have never seen on television before. He simply seems unaware of right and wrong. When he is given an instruction, he follows it. If there is a problem, he asks people if they want his family to fix it. The how and why of the fixing are irrelevant. Shooting that child was not an act of evil to him but an order followed. That's why it was so chilling afterward when he reconstructed the events in his head, eventually determining he had done the right thing. The way that character's mind works, he had. It's like his family has raised him to avoid even the concept of ethics.
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