Okay, there are matters of opinion and then there are matters of ethics. Coladar, bro, you got me worried about your sanity.
Hell yes I want Walt to win. I cannot forget him being so amazingly screwed by his former colleagues who basically stole his work and made millions off him, while he resorts to teaching high school. The early episodes where the grovelling to the woman partner for money for his medical bills? The lavish party Walt attended that rubbed the fortune in his face? I've been on Walt's side since day one.
So just because bad things happen to somebody, they're allowed to do anything? We don't know what happened with his former colleagues; it seems that he left that company voluntarily, probably because of his pride and anger issues. He didn't want to work with his ex after she left him for a coworker, is my interpretation, but we aren't totally in the know. Anyway, Walt left voluntarily.
Plus, he chose illegal activity voluntarily. Every single thing that's happened to Walt on the show
except cancer has been pretty much his choice.
He is a man the world freaked over endlessly, and thus doesn't owe it anything.
Pretty obviously false. We always owe the world basic obligations to decency, goodness, respect for others, and not letting somebody buy a drink on their own birthday. These obligations never change no matter what.
Walt ain't been going around killing innocent babies or anything of the sort - his actions have always been understandable, often even just.
Walt has:
- poisoned a child
- met and made small talk with the child he poisoned, afterwards, while using that child as bait to lure a man to his death
- sent an unarmed woman into his house, when he thought his house had murderous assassins
- killed Mike Ehrmantraut in a fit of rage
While these are understandable in a certain sense (you can figure out why he did them), none of them are "just" or forgivable. They are extraordinary violations of every reasonable ethical code. And there are a hundred other things we could chalk up to Walt, too. He watched Jane die; he kept dragging Jesse away from attempts to reform his life; oh yeah, and he's ruined hundreds, maybe thousands of lives, by cooking meth.
He's done some awful things, but always with reason and to get out of a bind or protect someone he cared about.
No. Many of the reasons Walt does awful things involve
- selfishness
- pride
- arrogance
- ego
Exhibit A: killing Mike.
I'm sorry, but Walt is a good guy that got screwed by the world and ended up getting his revenge - and instead of embracing the power he could have had, he eventually walks away entirely because of his family. Nothing more would have ever come if Hank had left well enough alone.
Wrong again, doubly so. Walt is not a good guy. And do you really think Hank sitting on the toilet is the reason that Lydia and Todd have dragged Walt back into the meth-cooking business? The product would have sucked without Hank and they would have brought Walt back without Hank.
Fine, Walt pulled some shadey ass crap. Got it.
Meth cooking and distribution, numerous murders, accessory to numerous other murders, ordering hitmen to carry out numerous
more murders = "shadey ass crap"
Going after Walt now only ruins his nephew/niece's lives forever. Their daddy, the Meth kingpin. It destroys his sister-in-law.
Let's be clear.
Walt destroyed his wife.
Walt ruined his nephew/niece's lives forever. This is basically a classic Sell Your Soul to the Devil story. And guess what? When you sell your soul, there are negative consequences.