Posted on 10/01/2013 8:11:11 PM PDT by dennisw
Skylar with her blue eyes and final regrets and sadness is baby blue. Not Walts love for meth making. How many times did Walt use meth (never) compared to how many times he made love to Skyler? Usually urgent love making. Walt said the meth game made him feel alive but so did Skylar as his wife and sometimes nemesis. She was the sounding board for his lies. Conflicted soul mate and final beneficiary of his meth making along with the two children. Walt saying he made meth because he liked it is a cute trendy libertarian throw away line and only a part of his motivations. Of course a real man is part selfish user. But his dominant motivations were to provide for his family after he died.
"A man provides," Gus Fring said. "And he does it even when he's not appreciated, or respected, or even loved." and Walt did this
Badfinger----These words say more about Skylar than about stupid methamphetamine drugs
Guess I got what I deserved
Kept you waiting there too long, my love
All that time without a word
Didn't know you'd think that I'd forget or I'd regret
The special love I had for you, my baby blue
All the days became so long
Did you really think, I'd do you wrong?
Dixie, when I let you go
Thought you'd realize that I would know
I would show the special love I have for you, my baby blue
What can I do, what can I say
Except I want you by my side
How can I show you, show me the way
Don't you know the times I've tried?
[guitar solo (Joey Molland)]
Guess that's all I have to say
Except the feeling just grows stronger every day
Just one thing before I go
Take good care, baby, let me know, let it grow
The special love you have for me, my Dixie, dear.
I’m glad the show is over. I got a little corrupted watching the entire thing.
I think that that was part of it, but also that they stole his money and murdered his BiL in front of him when he felt that that did not need to happen. Those events drove his rage against the nazis more than allowing Jesse to live. Just my opinion though.
I don’t understand why people romanticism him. He ruined the life of every person who used his blue product.
Did anyone think that if Walt had an adequate life insurance policy (especially since Flynn probably has ongoing medical needs, if only for new crutches every now and then), none of this would have happened? : )
He did it for himself, mostly, but he loved his family and (in his own warped way) did his best to care for them.
I think the root cause of his problems may have been sniffing phosane gas (episode 1) and all the times he fell on or otherwise slammed his head (in countless episodes)
Luckily, this did not happen to me, and at the ripe old age of 57, my wife of thirty years is "the last true love I'll ever need."
Wow there are a lot of passive-aggressive know-nothings here.
There are no facts, only interpretations. - Nietzsche
Apparently the fellows who are SO much smarter than the original poster, who wrote off dennisw’s thesis entirely without an ounce of support, don’t understand that a song can have *multiple* meanings.
The most obvious interpretation is the blue meth. However, the lyrics also can refer to Jessie because Walt came back and saved him.
“Kept you waiting there, too long my love
All that time, without a word
Didn’t know you’d think, that I’d forget, or I’d regret
The special love I have for you
My baby blue”
Walt always had a special place in his heart for Jessie. He wanted him dead because he had betrayed him to the feds and he knew at that point it was either him or Jessie. But he never wanted him to suffer.
Walt made it right with Jessie. He wouldn’t have ended his life with so clear a smile if he hadn’t saved him; there still would have been in the back of his mind the fact that he killed his friend Jessie, and this would certainly haunt him more than any other death he contributed to. Note that Walt did NOT personally kill the innocent child in the desert, and there’s no way he would have supported it either. Anyway in the end, sure he’d be relieved he saved his family, but there would still be regret on his face if he wasn’t granted the opportunity to redeem himself with Jessie.
The Skylar interpretation is also quite apt, as Walt loved Skylar. You don’t spend your entire life raising a kid with a woman and not love her, no matter how much fighting you do. Come on, people. And Walt wasn’t “evil” - he did what he did because he was tired of living a mundane, empty life, the kind of life most of us live today in this modernized world, and if you’d like to understand why I suggest you look into Dr. Thomas Dalton’s article on Nietzsche.
Walt did it for himself but he also did it because he felt he wasn’t providing sufficiently for his family, that he had wasted his life, his potential, that his relationship with his wife and child just wasn’t what it would have been had he been filthy rich. If you think Skylar wasn’t on a very deep level disappointed in Walt and his lack of success, you don’t understand women. When Walt banged her rotten after cooking meth, it’s because he felt alive - no longer guilty that he had let his wife and kids down by living a drab life scraping by on two incomes, since he knew if he had done differently he and his family could’ve been living in a mansion like his old business partners, and his wife wouldn’t have to slave away at work either.
Skylar was upset about Walt’s new “career” mainly because it was “illegal” and she was afraid of getting caught and what effect that would have on her family. But who’s to say what’s illegal? The same ignorant people posting here who in a democracy have an equal vote, even though they don’t have sensible opinions? Whether something is illegal doesn’t make it right or wrong, and those with the will to power know that. The masses however don’t understand that the Drug War is a war for profit. There are a lot of FAR WORSE people out there, like the bankers at the Federal Reserve who manipulate your currency and steal your money through “bail outs”, and you don’t see any heat on them now do you? You don’t see vast resources spent to put them away now do you? It’s about control, an end to freedom. Wake up.
Anyway, Walt did it for himself, yes, and he did it for his family too. For real men, the two are inseparable.
Finally, there’s one more interpretation for “baby blue” - Walt’s blue-eyed daughter, the same one he realized he could barely support on his wages as a teacher, the same one he was worried he wouldn’t live to see born when he was cooking meth, basically days away from death, to give her a final nest egg and make up for his lifelong failures. That’s how the whole mess started. Remember?
I swear, those of you who think Walt was purely selfish in all this must have really eaten up all the feminist anti-father propaganda in the world. Alcohol is a far worse drug than marijuana, and which one is illegal? Why? Do you think we’re killing Muslims in the Middle East for “freedom”? Really? Do you think we’re really “free” or that there aren’t serious ulterior motives to these wars? Sheesh.
Cui bono? Who benefits?
I read all you had to say. I like your expansive take on the Breaking Bad ending. So will this be your only post at Free Republic?
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