Walter White: I'm Back to Rooting for Him

WARNING: SPOILERS! This entry will no doubt contain many spoilers of the last 8 episodes of Breaking Bad, so if you're not caught up, save this page and come back later.

When this season started I wasn't sure what kind of man Walter White would become. He had done a lot of evil things for his own survival, but now he didn't really need to survive. Well, I got my answer pretty quick that Walter was going to become evil. He had found this power within himself that he didn't know was there and embrassed it. He stood up to people and got what he wanted.

To a degree, I can relate to this guy because things haven't gone his way in the past. He's gotten fucked out of a lot of money in his past, but he sees the ability to make up for that now. I'd probably do the same. Although we start to diverge when we see how Walter handles the power with his wife and their relationship. We see him kill more people. 

Some of what Walter did though, was still for survival. He was a guy that got in way over his head and found he had power when he came out the other side. He started to make use of the power and it corrupted him. He became evil, but when it was all said and done, he decided to try to get out of it. He realized he had enough. Maybe seeing the money stacked up, he realized his goal was long completed. (By the way, did anyone else think of Storage Wars in that scene?) 

Now I'm back to rooting for him. It appears he is making an attempt to go back to normalcy. I say "appears" because part of me is still suspicious this wasn't all an act. But it appears this way when the mid-season finale ends and everything changes yet again. Now he is going to go into survival mode more than ever with stakes even higher than before. I originally thought that something was going to explode at the end there, or there was going to be a shootout, but this quiet end was much better. 

Whether he actually got out of the business or not, we'll have to wait and see. That will play into whether or not I root for him in the last eight episodes. I'm sure I'll still be able to root for him and relate to his need for survival. I imagine I'll root for him, but Walter seems to have developed quite the talent for surprising me lately.