Note: This post contains spoilers for the first season (season 4 just started). The video segments are also is less safe for work due to language.
For those who haven’t watched Breaking Bad, there are two key characters you should know about. The first is Walt.
Walt is a middle aged beaten down beta high school Chemistry teacher. He also happens to be a Nobel Laureate. Everyone walks all over Walt, from his wife to his boss at his part time job at the car wash.
The second is Heisenberg. He is harder to describe. He isn’t an alpha in the Roissy sense, but he is in the more traditional meaning of the term. Heisenberg is a bad ass meth manufacturer who looks after his own and won’t tolerate any threats to his business:
Actually, they are both the same guy. Walt’s late life transformation from broken down beta to bad-ass Heisenberg is prompted by his terminal cancer. His cancer creates a need for money for medical treatment and to provide for his family after he is gone. He is forced to become the leader he has always shirked being. His transformation starts off small; this clip shows him standing up to his wife for what is likely the first time in their marriage:
Further on in his transformation Walt talks about overcoming fear with his DEA agent brother in law:
Here he is confronting a potential competitor:
Here he is taking care of business with a distributor who beat up his partner and stole his product (skip to 4:15 for the scene. The exchange at 1:34 is also good.)
Obviously this is just TV, and I wouldn’t advise manufacturing drugs or killing people. But within reason there is something we can all learn from Walt and his transformation.
News flash… Roissy just got deleted by its authors.
http://roissy.wordpress.com/
Kid you not, go see… hopefully it’s a tech problem.
[D: Looks pretty final to me.]
he’s back here http://heartiste.wordpress.com
[D: I stand corrected. Thanks!]
D’oh! Apparently, Heartiste has taken over…
http://heartiste.wordpress.com/
New site.
nice show, and it was funny to watch those changes. Especially the beta back sliding about the 2nd cellphone.
I had forgotten about the cellphone business. Yes, he definitely does beta backslide with his horse faced (ex) wife. I was surprised when I looked up the actress to see that she is only 42. My wife and I were both thinking she was at least in her late 50s.
The cannabis and LSD markets don’t require nearly as much manliness, though you still have to be willing to call a man’s bluff when he’s pointing a gun at you.
“Obviously this is just TV, and I wouldn’t advise manufacturing drugs or killing people. But within reason there is something we can all learn from Walt and his transformation.”
Men get this, but they don’t get how to apply it to their own lives. There’s just not a lot of opportunity to drop explosive crystals in the office. I’d like to see more about applying the truths of BB to the mundane world.
I dont have a TV hookup. So thanks to you, I got this DVD series. Understatedly he says, amazing is this show.
I dont have a TV hookup. So thanks to you, I got this DVD series. Understatedly he says, amazing is this show.
Post like Yoda we do? Hmmmmmm?