"Breaking Bad" - The Real Walter White

[WanderingBloom]

A TV cable series that ran for years and glorified to celebrity status a murderous psychopath and drug dealer, meth cooker and chemist. Who dies in the end of the series finale and yet in real life is still alive.

In real life if Walter White was our neighbor we wouldn't be a fan!But we would be in danger.

The Real Walter White - YouTube​

 

[WalksWithChrist]

I had no idea he was a real guy.

 

[CounselorForChrist]

Why anyone can watch a show about drugs and other content and say its ok to watch is beyond me. If I watched a show about sex I am pretty sure God would be disappointed with me.

 

[Vanilla Scripture]

I recall the hype surrounding the series finale of, Breaking Bad.
The main character, White, was a veritable hero to hear people tell it on those shows wherein it was hard to believe the show was soon over with.

Meanwhile, they showed highlights of the seasons past. Murder, mayhem, terrorism, the blue meth drug that was White's signature product since he was a former Chemistry teacher and knew how to make the best stuff.

And then to hear that color drug is being copied on the streets in real life! As if it's all celebrity and hero topics.

When in real life that meth cooker would be putting lives at risk for the volatility of the lab he has set up in the neighborhood.
Not to mention the lives lost, the lives decayed, due to the addiction factor. And the unbelievable violence that occurs among the users who lose their minds on the stuff.

But that garbage ran for years! The actors portraying the worst common denominator in society grew richer for it. While every single day real life Walter Whites were going to prison, while their victims were being shut in a refrigerator at the coroners office.

Our society is eroding exponentially. Starting with the boob tube and the big silver screen.

 

[CounselorForChrist]

I'll be honest. I watched every season of Dexter. Although while he killed someone usually every episode (someone who was bad), it seemed tame to all the stuff I heard was in Breaking Bad. Actually I hear Breaking Bad is pretty much like Game of Thrones in terms of immorality. Its why I stopped watching Game of Thrones. I felt like God was saying "Stop making excuses to watch the things you do!".

 

[WalksWithChrist]

I dunno. Watching Breaking Bad makes me want to stay as far away from anything to do with meth whatsoever. It's a cautionary tale.
The moral is, have anything to do with drugs and your life gets destroyed and any money you make...you don't get to spend it. And you destroy the lives of your customers.
No matter how smart you are, crime does indeed not pay.

 

[Eileen4Him]

This is one of my all time favorite TV shows. Haven't read about the "real-life Walter White" but to me it's just a TV show. The acting was amazing and it wasn't JUST about drugs and murder. It was about a man facing cancer and finding himself, finding something he was good at, something that made him happy. Nope not condoning his choices, like I said, it's a TV show!

 

[Thunder Peel]

Not all of those shows are meant to portray those characters in a positive light. I haven't seen much of the show but I never got the impression it was meant to glorify that lifestyle but instead to tell a story of people who get into something too deeply and end up causing a whole new set of problems for themselves and others.

 

[Vanilla Scripture]

This is one of my all time favorite TV shows. Haven't read about the "real-life Walter White" but to me it's just a TV show. The acting was amazing and it wasn't JUST about drugs and murder. It was about a man facing cancer and finding himself, finding something he was good at, something that made him happy. Nope not condoning his choices, like I said, it's a TV show!

He's dying of cancer and he finds something he's good at. Cooking meth, a highly addictive drug, while he becomes the danger! To his family, to his associates, to everyone who encounters him.

It's a TV show of course. But what does it glorify?

While for others it is a cautionary tale. The TV White dies of his injuries in the series finale. Not of cancer. But of a gunshot wound inflicted by his own gun.

It reminds me of that old movie, "Train Spotting". Critics jumped off the bridge condemning that movie before it ever hit the theater. Claiming it glorified heroine use.
I watched the movie to get my own take on its message. And it did not one thing to glorify heroine. Rather, if anything it demonstrated how evil heroine is and how destructive it is to everyone involved. From the user to those on the periphery.

I just think TV programs are becoming so contaminated with broadcasting the worst common denominator in our society, and glorifying the lifestyle so that those who are into depraved behavior are inspired by the program and those who are repulsed are forewarned and yet are still fans.

It's an odd dynamic really.

 

[thunderbyrd]

i watched all of breaking bad, i consider it one of the best TV shows ever put on. it did NOT glorify anything about the bad choices made by the characters, as a matter of fact it consistently showed the destruction caused.

it was not in anyway a "Godly" TV show. but i don't know of any "Godly" TV shows.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

i watched all of breaking bad, i consider it one of the best TV shows ever put on. it did NOT glorify anything about the bad choices made by the characters, as a matter of fact it consistently showed the destruction caused.

it was not in anyway a "Godly" TV show. but i don't know of any "Godly" TV shows.

Well said.