- Joined
- Feb 14, 2013
After watching the show all the way through 7.5 times, I can see where Walt Jr. comes into play. He is a symbol of Walt's disappointment in his own life. Probably a mediocre student, never going to succeed in anything physical due to CP, and the kid idolizes his uncle more than his own father. The moment in the show where we see Walt hit rock bottom (for him, anyway) is after Jesse's whupped his ass just before going to Mexico, when he's sitting in his condo and he cries to his son about how much of a mess he's made everything. The man is down at his worst, and the only person who wants anything to do with him, wants to listen, is the son he has resented.
Even then, with Walt Jr. (or Flynn, probably due to Errol Flynn's swashbuckling reputation being a stark contrast to his actual situation, possibly a reference to the gay rumors about him) there's still a bit of character growth. Sure, he's whiny at the beginning, but he's only 15. Who isn't a whiny pain in the ass at 15? At the end of Ozymandias he becomes the hero, realizing how much his father had manipulated him and hurt his family all along, and protecting his mother from a man he had finally come to respect.
