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Baby Blue is his trademark Meth. Skylar was not the love of his life; he paid her the respect of finally telling her the truth at the end: he didn't do it for his family. That was just a rationalization for evil. He did it because he liked it. He did it because it made him feel alive. And the obvious inference is, that she did not.

Those were his last lines that everything he did before contradict. So I don't give them much weight. Sure the lines were cool and rebellious and had that "I did it my way" Frank Sinatra resonance. Don't be fooled. He did it for his family just like he professed for five seasons of Breaking Bad

Agree. He certainly did it for the family. If his motivation was wholly selfish he wouldn’t have gone back to have a proper goodbye with Skyler. He sacrificed himself for her to make sure she was safe by taking on the nazis. No loose,ends, no threats, no question that he was the cook.

“Don’t be fooled. He did it for his family just like he professed for five seasons of Breaking Bad.”

Nope. He may have started out that way, but if he did do it for his family, he failed them because all they really wanted was him. He essentially abandoned his two kids by insisting on holding onto a lifestyle that gave him a thrill. That’s why the whole story is a Greek-style tragedy (with some comedy thrown in). He damaged or destroyed everyone he touched - and I’m talking about the people he professed to be doing this for!

It may have started out about making $700,000 for his family but it very quickly became about his ego. He was finally somebody, finally the best at something and recognized for it, finally in control of money, power and people rather than just being a mild-mannered, unimportant high school science teacher with a lackluster marriage to a bored wife, a mortgage, a crippled kid, and a disease that was going to beat him in the end.

It reminds me of that great scene in Bronx Tale where Robert De Niro tries to explain to his son how much tougher it is to get up everyday as a working man than it is as a gangster. Walter White was a genius. And he was an idiot who betrayed every single person he knew including himself.

Nope. Don't buy it for a second. Walter White is not a sympathetic character and he didn't do it for his family. He's a drug manufacturer, a murderer, and a liar.

A significant part of what the writers were trying to do is get you to buy into his pathology, because the truth is even very evil people like Hitler and Stalin are actually quite complex individuals; they are not the cartoon characters of our imagination. So too is Walter White. But ultimately he was prideful and selfish.

We are the top predators on the planet, and all of us have a tremendous capacity for violence and evil, even though we may very well love our wives and children. But our facile excuses shouldn't be taken for tuth.