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[Warlord]

Taking care of your family is what you are SUPPOSED to do. You don't get extra credit for doing what you're supposed to do anyway.

Leaving a legacy for a family you destroyed, a legacy built on selling drugs which destroyed the lives and families of countless others, is hardly redemptive either.

There's a long list of grievances I have with the Walt character which I won't get into now, but I think Vince Gilligan's experiment with the character was quite revealing about where we are as a society.

Vince said he wanted to create a protagonist who became the antagonist over the course of the show, and he wanted to see how long the audience would stick with the character before they gave up on him.

For me it was when his wife had a nervous breakdown and he responded by ordering a pizza. For many, that moment sadly never came. I've seen a lot of (young) people who never had that awakening. They followed Walt straight to the very end.

By the very end of the show, I was only there to see Jesse get away. Not because I thought he was any more redemptive than Walt, but simply because he just wasn't as loathsome.