Great analysis of a really painful set of episodes. (Wait, as opposed to all the non-painful BrBa episodes....)
Only Walt knows how delusional Jesse is being with this speech and that Jesse is more a victim than a villain in this situation. But the only way Walt might take away Jesse's burden of being the bad guy is to reveal who the real bad guy is; something Walt's not prepared to accept. Wahhh :'(
This is a partner who Walt can consider his equal, so much so that he insists that Gale calls him 'Walt' rather than Mr White, something he never told Jesse to do. It caused me physical pain when Walt said that!
getting beaten up by a cop is just plain Kafkaesque yo. HA!
Walt thinks it'll be easy getting Jesse back on his side by dazzling him with the offer of 1.5 million dollars, but Walt forgets that it isn't money that Jesse has been yearning for. Right. I don't think Walt is even aware the extent to which Jesse wants Walt's approval--and I think Walt would be even more drunk on power if he did realize it.
Either way, Jesse calls Walt a few minutes later and he miserably agrees to be 50/50 partners again, even knowing that Walt never really viewed him as an equal partner before. A couple of my friends are watching BrBa for the first time and I've been occasionally joining them... when they saw this scene they both turned to me and said WHYYYYYY. And I said, because Jesse just wants his meth dad to love him, and they did not understand what I was talking about. Fine, whatever, casual TV friends.
I think Walt maybe realized how much Jesse craves his approval in Season 5 since he started being far more respectful and complimentary to Jesse at that point, just to keep him from leaving. And yes, Walt was drunk on power by that point.
Ha! Casual TV friends just don't get it. But yeah, I've always seen Jesse's emotional rant at Walt in the hospital as more of a cry for help and love even, than Jesse really telling Walt to get out of his life. As Jesse says in his speech, he doesn't have anyone in his life and Jesse has always struck me as someone who hates being alone.
Yeah, I think Jesse literally shielding Walt from Mike with his body cleared that one up for Walt :/ Plus I think the fact that Gus & Mike valued Jesse increased Jesse's value in Walt's eyes... I think there's an econ term for that but that's not my area of expertise. The point I'm trying to make here is... WAHHH, this show hurts me.
Only Walt knows how delusional Jesse is being with this speech and that Jesse is more a victim than a villain in this situation. But the only way Walt might take away Jesse's burden of being the bad guy is to reveal who the real bad guy is; something Walt's not prepared to accept. Wahhh :'(
This is a partner who Walt can consider his equal, so much so that he insists that Gale calls him 'Walt' rather than Mr White, something he never told Jesse to do. It caused me physical pain when Walt said that!
getting beaten up by a cop is just plain Kafkaesque yo. HA!
Walt thinks it'll be easy getting Jesse back on his side by dazzling him with the offer of 1.5 million dollars, but Walt forgets that it isn't money that Jesse has been yearning for. Right. I don't think Walt is even aware the extent to which Jesse wants Walt's approval--and I think Walt would be even more drunk on power if he did realize it.
Either way, Jesse calls Walt a few minutes later and he miserably agrees to be 50/50 partners again, even knowing that Walt never really viewed him as an equal partner before. A couple of my friends are watching BrBa for the first time and I've been occasionally joining them... when they saw this scene they both turned to me and said WHYYYYYY. And I said, because Jesse just wants his meth dad to love him, and they did not understand what I was talking about. Fine, whatever, casual TV friends.
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Ha! Casual TV friends just don't get it. But yeah, I've always seen Jesse's emotional rant at Walt in the hospital as more of a cry for help and love even, than Jesse really telling Walt to get out of his life. As Jesse says in his speech, he doesn't have anyone in his life and Jesse has always struck me as someone who hates being alone.
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