Breaking Bad 5:2
Jul. 22nd, 2012 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinema_babe1. Mike is my favorite character. Yes, he is a stone cold professional killer but he has a specific ethical code and out of all of these characters he does not pretend to be something he is not and he does not compromise his code.
2. So far I have Lydia and ted in the dead pool for this season, neither on of them will make it to the end.
3. Walter White is a textbook case of Hubris: Extreme pride or arrogance. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power. In the beginning he *was* doing this for his family but not anymore, now he is doing this because he enjoys the rush from the power.
Here is a guy who, at the start of the series, had no control over anything: he was dying of cancer, his wife was pregnant with a child they hadn't planned, he was financially strapped, had a crappy job as a high school teacher, and his former best friend and partner ended up with Walter's woman and became a rich multi millionaire. Now the shoe is on the other one and, to paraphrase Walt, *He* is the one who knocks at the door.
The thing about hubris, the finale is always met with death or mutilation of the hero and the destruction of his what is most important to him (Ask Oedipus and Julius Caesar).
2. So far I have Lydia and ted in the dead pool for this season, neither on of them will make it to the end.
3. Walter White is a textbook case of Hubris: Extreme pride or arrogance. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power. In the beginning he *was* doing this for his family but not anymore, now he is doing this because he enjoys the rush from the power.
Here is a guy who, at the start of the series, had no control over anything: he was dying of cancer, his wife was pregnant with a child they hadn't planned, he was financially strapped, had a crappy job as a high school teacher, and his former best friend and partner ended up with Walter's woman and became a rich multi millionaire. Now the shoe is on the other one and, to paraphrase Walt, *He* is the one who knocks at the door.
The thing about hubris, the finale is always met with death or mutilation of the hero and the destruction of his what is most important to him (Ask Oedipus and Julius Caesar).
