By now Walt is pretty solidly 100% evil. He didn’t even flinch when Todd killed that kid. Remember the sales pitch of the show was “we’ll turn Mr Chips into Scarface”. And Scarface always goes down. We like to root for the hero even when he’s an anti-hero, but anti-heroes can’t win in the end.
“By now Walt is pretty solidly 100% evil.”
This never entered my mind. For me he is 25% evil and most of his killings were justified. Most or all were tying up loose ends. So either Walt killed person X or person X would kill Walt first or squeal to law enforcement.
“Remember the sales pitch of the show was “we’ll turn Mr Chips into Scarface”.”
The show has done a very good job of showing the situational ethics of just about every character. Skyler now thinks it’s OK to kill someone (’What’s one more?’). Hank will sacrifice Jesse’s life, and lie to him, to get what he wants - Walter to get nailed. This also shows that Hank’s driven partially by ego. The only one is isn’t really a hypocrite is Saul - who has no ethics. The only character I really feel for on this show is Junior.