3 Times When It Was Hard to Hate Breaking Bad's Worst Villain
Why would the audience root for the show's villain? The reasons should be great enough.
Breaking Bad 's Walter White is the show's bad guy, and there's no doubt about it. He is unstoppable when it comes to his only motive – power and money.
Walter will kill, manipulate, threaten, and who knows what else he is capable of to get what he wants. A brutal drug lord, he never stops to think about right or wrong.
But despite all this, fans seem to have a weird sympathy for him until the very end of the series.
And there is a reason for this controversial feeling in the hearts of the fans.
Despite showing Walter as pure evil for most of the show, the writers still managed to squeeze in some major storylines that somehow show him as nothing less than a hero, or at least partially the same person from early episodes of the show, when he was just an unhappy middle-aged teacher.
He defended Walt Jr. in a store
This scene happened in the pilot of season 1, and it's the first of Walter's best behavior cases. In a store, he notices a man bullying his son, who has cerebral palsy, and decides to teach the guy a lesson by knocking him to the ground.
Walter is very convincing in this scene, expressing a confidence that has never been seen before. It certainly means that he really cares about his family (or has the ability to feel such feelings), and we give him credit for that.
He didn't want Hank to die
One of the most tragic scenes in the show is Hank's death, and it is not just the raw fact that makes it so dramatic, but how the show actually portrays that moment. The actual death is not shown on screen.
The producers decided to give the viewers Walter's perspective and show his reaction to Hank's death. He is shown with real pain all over his face as he realizes that his actions have taken him too far.
He never intended to hurt Hank, so the moment is hard to watch and Walter is hard to hate.
He sacrificed himself for Jesse in the end
It's hard to even call Walter a real human being by the end of the show, but there is one thing he does towards the finale that makes fans realize he was not a totally wasted case.
It was obvious that Walt should die in the show, but his death occurs while he is saving Jesse from the white nationalists, so he gets shot by his own car rig.
This only means he is willing to give up his own life to somehow suffer from the things he had done to Jesse and to others around.
So despite all the horrible things he has done, it seems that he is not "The Danger" after all...