>Ever since the middle of season one where he was given the out (the rich couple offered to pay) I just couldn't stand him. Ah, you should have kept watching a

>Ever since the middle of season one where he was given the out (the rich couple offered to pay) I just couldn't stand him. Ah, you should have kept watching as this was explained. I'm going to go ahead and spoil this one for you: the reason Walt wouldn't take that money was because in his view it was already his money. In Walt's opinion (and maybe he's right) those rich people built a company completely on his ideas and cut him out. Instead of struggling with two dead-end jobs trying to provide for a family he should be driving expensive cars, have a huge house, library, etc. They are living the life that is, by rights, his and he sure as hell isn't going to beg for a small portion of that stolen money back. IMO the show is about a good man being changed by life situations into an evil person and watching how he deals with it. The twist is; Walt had already changed before the first episode. He was once a good, moral, optimistic person but the betrayal by his brother, the years of slogging away in public school, having to get on his knees and scrub rich kids cars had changed him. He became an evil, violent killer. But he was sharing a body with "ghost Walt": that good man from before. Ghost Walt wouldn't accept what Walt has become. This is basically how the whole series plays out. In the beginning Walt thinks he's completely pure and only does bad when he convinces himself to. For example when he makes a list of why he needs to kill crazy 8. After he had decided not to he had to check one more thing and finally had the evidence real Walt was looking for all along. Ghost Walt was angry that he found it. As the show progresses this dynamic flips: Walt kills and then fills in the justifications later ("You made me do this, this is on your head"). I'm half way through season 4 but I'm expecting Ghost Walt to eventually disappear and Walt to finally embrace what he is as Ghost Walt is now endangering his life. Another extremely interesting change is Walt's wife! I'm really wondering how far she will go because I think she was genuinely good when we met her and I suspect she still believes she is. EDIT: Also, about taking the money from the rich people, it should be mentioned: if he had taken that money what would it accomplish? So he can continue to live as a failure, working two dead end jobs trying to provide for a high expense family? The cancer simply forced Walt to recognize where he really was and eventually what he really was. Walt is evil but he doesn't want to accept it. What he wanted to happen was to make enough money to finally truly provide for his family, and then die. Instead "fate" cured him.