Falco’s, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLo5v2De8iM
Baby Blue is his trademark Meth. Skylar was not the love of his life; he paid her the respect of finally telling her the truth at the end: he didn't do it for his family. That was just a rationalization for evil. He did it because he liked it. He did it because it made him feel alive. And the obvious inference is, that she did not.
“Usually urgent love making. Walt said the meth game made him feel alive but so did Skylar as his wife and sometimes nemesis.”
I don’t think so. When they made love urgently, it was always Heisenberg, still high on his thrill from committing criminal acts (or having the whole school wondering about him while he is right under their nose). Clearly, before that, their love life was more humdrum, because Skylar is taken aback at his behavior the first time it happens, saying he was acting like a different person.
Walt was a ruthless child killing thug.
It wasn’t Skylar... even the meth . That was a tool. He felt emasculated He felt like he was going to die a smuck a weakling...a loser. When he knew he was the smartest guy in the room. So he sought a life of violence and crime ...a rush. He wanted to go out in a firestorm on his terms not societies. Not even Gods. The way he planned his last day was brilliant. I thought this season was a masterpiece in any art firm.
Not according to Vince Gilligan, the person who created and wrote the show. Baby Blue was the meth. The last thing Walter White did was walk through the meth lab admiring the set up he and Jessie built. The very last thing he did was touch that piece of meth equipment lovingly, marking it with his blood. He loved the power, the control and the recognition cooking the perfect meth gave him.
It cost him his wife, his children, his name, and all their futures. The son who used to adore him, now hates him and will have to live with what Walt did for the rest of his life. His baby daughter will never know him. Walter White gave up his soul for the meth and all the money he left his son won’t buy any of it back.
Wow there are a lot of passive-aggressive know-nothings here.
There are no facts, only interpretations. - Nietzsche
Apparently the fellows who are SO much smarter than the original poster, who wrote off dennisw’s thesis entirely without an ounce of support, don’t understand that a song can have *multiple* meanings.
The most obvious interpretation is the blue meth. However, the lyrics also can refer to Jessie because Walt came back and saved him.
“Kept you waiting there, too long my love
All that time, without a word
Didn’t know you’d think, that I’d forget, or I’d regret
The special love I have for you
My baby blue”
Walt always had a special place in his heart for Jessie. He wanted him dead because he had betrayed him to the feds and he knew at that point it was either him or Jessie. But he never wanted him to suffer.
Walt made it right with Jessie. He wouldn’t have ended his life with so clear a smile if he hadn’t saved him; there still would have been in the back of his mind the fact that he killed his friend Jessie, and this would certainly haunt him more than any other death he contributed to. Note that Walt did NOT personally kill the innocent child in the desert, and there’s no way he would have supported it either. Anyway in the end, sure he’d be relieved he saved his family, but there would still be regret on his face if he wasn’t granted the opportunity to redeem himself with Jessie.
The Skylar interpretation is also quite apt, as Walt loved Skylar. You don’t spend your entire life raising a kid with a woman and not love her, no matter how much fighting you do. Come on, people. And Walt wasn’t “evil” - he did what he did because he was tired of living a mundane, empty life, the kind of life most of us live today in this modernized world, and if you’d like to understand why I suggest you look into Dr. Thomas Dalton’s article on Nietzsche.
Walt did it for himself but he also did it because he felt he wasn’t providing sufficiently for his family, that he had wasted his life, his potential, that his relationship with his wife and child just wasn’t what it would have been had he been filthy rich. If you think Skylar wasn’t on a very deep level disappointed in Walt and his lack of success, you don’t understand women. When Walt banged her rotten after cooking meth, it’s because he felt alive - no longer guilty that he had let his wife and kids down by living a drab life scraping by on two incomes, since he knew if he had done differently he and his family could’ve been living in a mansion like his old business partners, and his wife wouldn’t have to slave away at work either.
Skylar was upset about Walt’s new “career” mainly because it was “illegal” and she was afraid of getting caught and what effect that would have on her family. But who’s to say what’s illegal? The same ignorant people posting here who in a democracy have an equal vote, even though they don’t have sensible opinions? Whether something is illegal doesn’t make it right or wrong, and those with the will to power know that. The masses however don’t understand that the Drug War is a war for profit. There are a lot of FAR WORSE people out there, like the bankers at the Federal Reserve who manipulate your currency and steal your money through “bail outs”, and you don’t see any heat on them now do you? You don’t see vast resources spent to put them away now do you? It’s about control, an end to freedom. Wake up.
Anyway, Walt did it for himself, yes, and he did it for his family too. For real men, the two are inseparable.
Finally, there’s one more interpretation for “baby blue” - Walt’s blue-eyed daughter, the same one he realized he could barely support on his wages as a teacher, the same one he was worried he wouldn’t live to see born when he was cooking meth, basically days away from death, to give her a final nest egg and make up for his lifelong failures. That’s how the whole mess started. Remember?
I swear, those of you who think Walt was purely selfish in all this must have really eaten up all the feminist anti-father propaganda in the world. Alcohol is a far worse drug than marijuana, and which one is illegal? Why? Do you think we’re killing Muslims in the Middle East for “freedom”? Really? Do you think we’re really “free” or that there aren’t serious ulterior motives to these wars? Sheesh.
Cui bono? Who benefits?