The Truth Behind “I Am The One Who Knocks”
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Song 1: The Village of Bran Bal (Final Fantasy IX)
Song 2: Mechanical Kingdom (Radiant Historia)
Song 3: Shadows Dance in the Darkness (Radiant Historia)
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This video is best viewed in conjunction with this one:
Where Walter White Ends and Heisenberg Begins: ruclips.net/video/zA7cp6jy6NY/видео.html
Can you explain to me why was Skylar right in this situation . She said that Walt should confess to the police . I mean even if he confessed to the police wouldn't his whole family be in a threat from Gus . Wouldn't Gus kill him or may even his family because he destroyed his whole life and business ? This wouldn't help him or his family . I look forward to your response
I didn’t say that Skylar was right about him going to the police, I said she was right about her being in danger.
which one would be better to watch first?
@@chrissquid This video is better to be watched first, I uploaded it first as well.
Honestly his pride was THE REAL CANCER
Funny enough, that line comes back to bite Walt in “Fifty One” where he assures Skylar everything is safe now and Gus was “the danger” to which she responds “I thought you were the danger.”
Yes, and in my interpretation of this monologue and that moment in fifty one, they were both proven right in their points. Skyler was right because, as she said, one of these days someone is gonna come knocking (I will kill your wife I will kill your son I will kill your infant daughter) and Walt was right in that he is the danger, because when Gus came knocking Walt "knocked" back. The double edged sword of this of course being that Walt clearly doesn't knock, he knocks back. He doesn't act he reacts. He doesn't act on offense, rather in defense. Skyler saw that Walt did what he did because yes he was in danger not THE danger. This all kinda goes without saying though lol
@@jacobryan365 This is the exact moment Walter White became the door
@@jacobryan365 this is exactly why he could never be Gus. Because he will never take that first step like Gus always is able to
Man that woman is so annoying
I KNOCK ON THE DOOR OF THE ONE WHO KNOCKS. I KNOW ITS STRANGE BUT MY GOD SKYLER
Walt: *yells at his wife*
Everyone: what a badass.
I’m convinced the fans who defend Walter as some kind of righteous badass and hate Skyler are emotionally stunted.
@@Absurdword Walter Hartwell White, aka 'Heisenberg' of 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, did nothing wrong. He only defended himself and protected his family!! Skyler was evil for giving the money to Ted Bundy!!!!!
@@swaggypanda1808 that’s bait
well this is how the show frames him. there’s this great video essay on granite state where it analyzes how walt has done all these terrible things but it’s framed so that he’s the badass but after hank dies he’s shown to be the awful person he truly i.e. taking holly and and attacking his family
@@swaggypanda1808 ted bundy lol
He was right about one thing: He IS the danger. The danger to himself and his family.
Not only his family. The people around him in general.
@@theunknownuser9609 Yep. Jesse, Gale, etc
@@easschung9442 it was because Walter chose to saveJessie that Gale hed to die to begin with
@@munken7673 I know, I saw the show lol
Can any of you explain to me why was Skylar right in this situation . She said that Walt should confess to the police . I mean even if he confessed to the police wouldn't their whole family be in a threat from Gus . Wouldn't Gus kill him because he destroyed his whole life?
The story of Breaking Bad is ultimately the story of Walt's pride. Otherwise, he would have taken Gretchen's offer in Season 2. Then again, it was that very same pride which caused him to break up with her all those years ago.
Heisenberg may have been the ultimate personification of Walt's pride, but it was already rotting him from the inside long before the cancer did.
How do you know he broke up with her? When did it talk about that?
@@willtheprodigy3819 While never stated in the show itself, Vince Gilligan apparently mentions it in an interview. When Walter met Gretchens parents at their house for the first time he truly realized how rich they where and that he would have access to this fortune if he married Gretchen. But his pride would not allow him to become rich through marriage instead of achiving it by himself. So he broke up with her.
@@XTheJaws Yep. Though I do admit it certainly would have been better had such an important piece of information been mentioned onscreen, instead of through supplementary material.
But even without that, the flashback bits of "...and the Bag's in the River" shows that they were very close back then. So even without knowing about the events with Gretchen's family, it's clear that Walt broke ties with Gray Matter because of his past with Gretchen. Still proving that his pride had been hurting him decades before Heisenberg.
They had a history, indeed. In S01E03 it's hinted at very strongly in a flashback to their college days.
@@conanfan1412 Gretchen mention it during that lunch they had. How he was at her house and then he just left without saying anything. Also how Walt calling her 'poor little rich girl' at that same lunch. Vince really didn't need to explain.
That speech was actually a subtle show that the cancer had metastasized to his brain because Walt forgot that he didn’t knock Jesse did
SO DEEP
Walt didn’t just have cancer, he WAS the cancer; spreading all over and ruining everything/everyone he came into contact with.
@@Delta_Aves Every anti-hero does, i think walter and tony soprano are on the same level of cancer, they ran everything around them straight to the ground.
He said that before Jesse knocked. But you're right, "I am the man who gets other people to knock" would have been more accurate.
@@scrotiemcb5858 I thought he said it in season 4?
This is the the moment when Aleczandxr truly became a Breaking Bad Channel.
I am the one who uploads!
Through all the discussion; I've never heard anyone bring up that from Skyler's point of veiw "I am the on who knocks" was an admission from Walt that he killed Gale. The conversation started because she was afraid that the guy who killed Gale would be coming for Walt next.
And the irony is that Jesse was the one who knocks.
@@totesme14 to be fair the only reason jesse had to do it instead of walt was because mike cornered walt
That's a great point....it's been ages since I watched it again from the beginning, and I forgot this came shortly after Gale's death. Don't remember ever making that connection, so I definitely appreciated your comment. Discovering things like this, especially years later, further solidifies just how good the writing on this show truly was!!!!
I think the best proof of this is the look of disbelief for what he himself just said after he said it.
Yep that sells it for me too
I just finished Breaking Bad about a month ago after binging it for days on end. I can safely say that this is peak television, anyone who hasn’t watched it should
I’ve watched it 5 times. People saying it’s a mediocre show is BLASPHEMY!
@@Camdizzle8D I've never heard anyone say that
It's good but it's not the Wire
@@otto_jk Why can't a 10/10 match a 10/10?
@@otto_jk Facts.
The first time I heard that line I was shocked since by pop culture absorption I had come to associate that phrase with some bad ass druglord, but it was actually uthered by a small man in over his head that was more like a prisoner than a Druglord. I am glad you made this video!
I will always remember the day my friend was disappointed because he imagined this line to be a badass scene where Walt tells this line to Gus. I feel like he missed the point of the scene.
Walter actually did extremely well and handled stuff. If it werent for Jessie he would have won.
Wrong Walter white is literally the most dangerous man no one beats Walter other than himself
I always felt like walt pretended he was a badass to cope with his mortal terror (not just the cancer, but being threatened by gus), and the scenes that frame him as a badass are just showing us his deluded perspective
he was a small man who became a bad ass drug lord. which is even more bad ass. the "well acktshually" going on in the responses to this video is weird
I think skyler deserves some more recognition. In these kinds of stories where the protagonist is a middle aged loser who turns into a badass, they always have marital issues and the last straw is their wife cheating on them. But with Skyler even with everything they have to deal with she doesn’t show any discontent until Walt starts to change. She didn’t cheat on him when he was a loser, she did it when he was more “badass”
Skyler's an excellent character.
Exactly.
That’s an interesting observation
@@Aleczandxr please make a video essay on skyler. I know she's "unpopular" with the average Breaking Bad fan, but people tend to dismiss her as the annoying wife when in fact her character is very 3 dimensional and adds tons of depth to the story. Some people just don't want to admit it.
@@benl.4577 People don’t want to admit that Skylar was in the right for almost the entire series, which is kinda funny.
I love how, even when Jesse is riding along with Mike, building trust together, Walt listens, then says: "It's all about me."
If your character ever unironically says that exact line, you know their ego is (metaphor for incredibly large thing here)*. The "one who knocks" scene strikes me as bluster to reassociate himself with a mental image his ego can fit into, after having been caught slipping by Skyler.
*Couldn't find the right way to word it after a lot of attempts lol
(i think massive would've sufficed but yeah you're right about his ego)
Nah you worded it very well tbh and I understood what you mean, not everyone will understand cause not everyone has iq to get it ;)
But it really was all about him. Mike's goal was to stroke his ego by riding along with Jesse. Gus literally staged the whole thing. So he's not delusional or anything.
The worst thing is that because it really was all about him, his delusions are justified and he becomes the monster he has always been but has never awakened.
Also another thing to note about this scene is him removing his red shirt to reveal a darker red t-shirt.
Ok
@@fierymut4105 Ok
@@turbo868_ Ok
@@kilroy5680 Ok
Ok
Walt says that "he's the danger" and in many ways I think that's true. His fate happened down to his own actions. He was a danger to himself.
I always say Walt didn't just *have* cancer, he *was* cancer to everyone who came into contact with him
"Someone needs to protect this family from the man who protects this family."
Something that springs to mind is Walt’s blowfish speech. As relatively wholesome as that scene may have been, it funnily enough also reflects Walt himself, particularly in this moment. Walt has merely been puffing up like this proverbial blowfish since the moment he decided to cook, except I don’t think he realized it.
FINALLY! You've perfectly articulated what I've always felt about that line. This is not a badass asserting his control of a terrifying situation, it's basically the equivalent of Fredo going "I'M SMART!!!" in The Godfather Part 2.
Agree, although his voice tone does sound kinda badass lol
And given that it is an iconic line that will therefore be cut out, that line will, unless you looks at Walter’s facial expressions, look like the speech of a person admitting he has come into his own and is the dreaded person.
"No shit, right now you're Fredo!"
-Saul Goodman to Walt.
It’s clear that he THINKS he’s the danger. You can clearly see that his ambitions and ego far outweigh his actual abilities any time that he actually gets power. Only glimpses and tastes of power are given to Walt. That’s why he keeps pushing, that’s why he’s constantly hungry during this phase.
He had to say this line because at this point, there was too much Walter in his personality, which would never allow him to beat Gus. Saying this line let loose more of Heisenberg, which is the only way he would ever overcome Gus. This is why he looks a little sad and almost confused after he says this because Walter would never say something like this, but Heisenberg definitely would.
Little does he know that Heisenberg and Walter White are one and the same.
I interpreted that face he does after more as: "oh shit, I just said that in front of my wife" but yeah it can be both.
I agree with Dylan Travis, and want to add that Skyler and Gus both had similar relationships with the man. At this point he, meaning both the Mr White and Heisenberg personas in tandem, knew that diving headfirst into being The One Who Knocks was the only way. As Mr White, he had known defeat at the hands of Skyler for years, serving her wishes as she couldn't replace him but didn't love him either; as Heisenberg, he knew that Gus, like himself, would not accept a continuing relationship between the defeater and the defeated the way that Skyler would, and would inevitably kill him if couldn't wiggle out of his seemingly inescapable position. While I agree it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, it was also a necessary one, something he needed to sell to himself, had to scream figuratively at Gus, and practiced against his marital antagonist. In a way, Skyler was his mini-Gus and telling it to her let him believe it against Gus.
He doesn’t have split personality buddy, Heisenberg is just Walt’s repressed ego, anger, and darkness finally coming out. It’s not an actual entity inside of him, it’s more metaphorical than literal.
Suggesting that this is some kind of “Good side vs Evil side battle” is just dumbing down and simplifying Walt’s character. This isn’t cartoons.
@@Johnnysmithy24 You don't need to have multiple personality disorder to have multiple personas within you. It's normal to be one persons with your girlfriend, a different persona with your boss, and a different persona with your mom. Indeed, in a way those personas are more real than the "real you" underneath - your boss, your girlfriend, your mom will remember the personas, but what you think is not tangible and never enters the physical world.
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Walter White was the One Who Knocks during season 5. Here he was prepping himself for it
Great video. It's fitting that the same people who see this scene as totally badass and not at all ironic/desperate are the same people who watch Breaking Bad to this day and don't realize that Walt is the villain of the show.
Thanks!
I see Walt as the villain and still think it’s badass
@@Serpent947 I still don't understand how. "Stay out of my territory" was 100 percent more badass than this. This was a simple mental breakdown of a paranoid dude.
@@whatno3145 wtf are you talking about
Finally someone who understands this scene. Walt is such a complex character, it’s a shame so many people dumb him down like he’s 2 dimensional.
I think what hurt him the most was the fact that his wife didn't really know of him much but with her cliché sounding lines she was able to truly sum up the worst face of his operation and she didn't even know it, like he was a cartoonof a villain, a cliché himself, not an ounceof true freedom... but deep inside he knew... but he's fooled himself enough to avoid seeing that, so words like that they really break the illusion.
Man I thought the manga did this well but the tv show far surpassed my expectations. 10/10 episode.
Good one
The OVA was peak though, tbh
What about the about the spin-off from the former univers Malcom is unbreakable
Todd is the best anime villain
I preferred Lawyer Tendency tbh. Jimmy McJoestar's character of a clever trickster is so much fun to watch, especially during battles or strategic moves. His outfits are also more eye catching. And he's much funnier and has a great supporting cast.
YeahThe creator had really come into his own style by this Part so it was great from the beginning unlike Part 1 where he was clearly still improving his craft and learning over the course of the series.
Though the later one with the younger protagonist who's kinda relatable but also cool and funny. It really makes you wanna root for him through it all. Camino is Unbreakable. Love that one too. Jesse Higashikata. Awesome dude, likes music, video games, girls, cars, and loves his loyal companions 😊
Two things I love about this channel:
---Avoids cringy and cliche video titles
---Great Content
What would you call a "cliché title"?
@@Nai-qk4vp Those old school Gaming intros with shit background music but it's a classic.
His own tumour in a way symbolises his ego, growing and metastasising as the show progresses. His ego would not have gotten so out of control had his perspective on life and death not changed as a result of his diagnosis. When his cancer goes into remission, so too does his ego. He attempts to live a more legitimate life with skyler running the car wash, shown through them wearing the colouring beige which is usually associated with Gretchen and Elliot
I have never viewed this as one of Walt's most badass moments because of the context. He isn't in control, and Skyler is absolutely right. So he delivers a speech designed to soothe his ego and just terrifies his wife instead...before going back to the job that has a complete stranglehold on him. It's honestly kinda pathetic.
@DnB and Psy Production what about him killing those thugs and risking becoming Gus's enemy to save Jesse, his plan to use hector to blow Gus up or mow down all the Neo Nazis with the machine gun.
I don't even think he believed it. You can see it in his face after he said like he was surprised he said it and yet didn't really believe it.
This is a pretty solid analysis. At this time he was still struggling underdog and wasn't this intimidating one who knocks. It sure helped motivate him to become Heisenburg that defeats Guss.
He was pretty honest in his relationship toskyler, the one being the danger to their family, is him.
Vince G said that this scene is really about Walt bullying his wife. But it was framed as the usual tough guy act. Fans ate it up... Meanwhile Ana Gunn was getting death threats.
"This is the moment when The One truly became Who Knocks"
For anyone who hasn’t seen the wire I highly recommend it
Rip Micheal k Williams
Also, The Sopranos.
RIP James Gandolfini.
Rip DOOM
“Ahhhh…. Wire”
I got chills the second Walter started speaking. Appreciate the Breaking Bad love.
I always thought of the line as a man who is now free but is dancing with fire and shadows in the hot desert sun in order to achieve something bigger than life. The “knocking on the door” could also represent a bad omen as though he was warning thats he’s coming for anyone in his way even family. It’s good foreshadowing. The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.
I’ve never seen breaking bad (just here because I really enjoy your content) so hearing the actual, original audio instead of the Breaking Bad S3-5 remix was actually a first for me
You should watch it if you want a masterpiece show! It's my favorite. :)
This truly is one of the best works in media. A must watch.
Mr. Chips to Scarface.
Vince Gilligan had a brilliant concept and found the perfect actor in Bryan Cranston.
Honestly the moment Walt said those words I loudly scoffed. Like 'yeah, okay buddy, whatever helps you cope'
If you think about it... Mike acknowledged that statement. He knows Walt is the real danger that's why he really despise Walt up until the end
That's an interesting interpretation about that scene you toke on the matter. I believe that Walter said it because he really wanted to take control of his life even if he has to take high risk to do it.
To me this is definitely the take I agree with the most. Actions define people. Walter had not done anything to be feared at this point yet. I don't agree when people say these words were the real truth.
even though walt was evil, i still feel kind of bad for him because of how the story is told and bryan’s acting during the show.
Yeah, they did that intentionally! Bravo all around quite simply!
Dang, a Breaking Bad video from BEFORE 2022? Those are rare.
After a few years of not watching Breaking Bad i binge rewatched it and finished in 5 days… what is my life
Knock Knock: Who's there?
Heisenberg: Say my name...
Oh sh
That scene is the wojak meme of the guy with the confident mask but he's crying behind it
Wow, that little knock cut of Walt at the end was really cool!
Amazing video as per usual, loved it!
Thanks!
Finally someone sharing my opinion on this scene
I was always existed to see it in context after seeing it everywhere in media
But when I saw it I got the feeling that it's not a show off as I thought it would be but a lie he needed to say to Skylar and more importantly himself just to get some trust
Every time i see one of your videos it makes my day! and I'm also glad for another breaking bad video
Hope you enjoyed!
Skyler i am not the danger i am in danger i guy open his door and gets shot and you think im the one who knocks no i am the one who gets shot
Great video analysis !
This is hella foreshadowing but i totally remembered the line wrong. I thought he said,
" a man answers a knock at the door, and gets shot and you think that of me? No.. I AM the one who KNOCKS."
Walt:goes into a mental breakdown
Literally everyone else:yo that's badass
it's the third time youtube recommends me your Breaking Bad videos
and I'm simply ASTONISHED.. by how good they really are
Glad you enjoy them! I’d recommend checking the BB/BCS playlist in case you’ve missed any of the ones I’ve made, since you seem to like them a lot.
The fact that Walt never completely loses that air of insecurity, even at his most arrogant, makes him a more compelling character.
Brilliant video as always :)
Great video man 🔥👏
this is the scene that got me to watch the show and when I went into I was expecting that by the time I got to this scene he would be some head of the biggest drug empire ever but in reality he was just the cook for someone who could end his life at any moment he chose it really just goes to show the overwhelming ego and pride Walt had
Love this channel
I don't know, I haven't rewatched (binged it once, rewatched some episodes more than once) and I _sorta thought Walt was the danger_ back in S3 with Mike! I'm like, "dang, how he do that?" and it happened so many times (S1-S3) - I think Walt's "advantage" (that he knew, early on) was that he could take on demeaning-seeming roles as part of a larger picture that, if willing to make a few sacrifices most people (I hope) wouldn't make, would make him a kingpin. Yep: he WAS the "danger".
Look at it this way: could Walt have legit walked in to the police and said he was in too deep, help, he'd made a mistake? Really? Or even, what if Walt had been able to keep his take and go back to normal life as a h.s. teacher. You think Walt could have ever been satisfied with being a normie again?
What he's telling Skylar here is that he ENJOYS his role. He can't go back to school teacher. Walt's not "in too deep". He IS the deep. And I don't think he was "bragging" about it in any way: I thought he was seriously confused that Skylar couldn't see that he was content in his career choices. -But she was hilarious later on when he said Gus was the danger and Skylar did her "I thought you were the danger".
I think you’d realize a lot of things if you rewatched with this talk in mind, but at the same time I don’t think you’re contextualizing “danger” in the way the show is putting it. He had done absolutely nothing in the way he phrased it here throughout the series. As I said, he had done bad things, but everything was so removed in context from the “man who knocks” scenario he gave Skyler. Nothing in the first three seasons shows that whatsoever. The moment he became the danger and truly embodied it was when he killed Gus. But he wasn’t it here, not at all, and his shocked reaction to his proclamation speaks for itself. It was a front.
I’m not sure what your police example has to do with this, I don’t see a correlation in that point. Apologies.
I don’t know where you’re getting that he’s telling Skyler that he enjoys this through this talk at all, but it simply isn’t true. That isn’t an idea that is presented through the text or the subtext in any way whatsoever. Throughout the entire story he tried to make it seem to Skyler that he was reluctantly doing these things for his family, not because he liked it. That’s why him admitting that he enjoyed it in Felina is one of the most gratifying payoffs in the entire series. Because it’s the first time he admitted it to her. Why would there be so much weight on that admittance if he already admitted it to Skyler here, like you argue? The answer is that there is that much weight because he never said it before. He wasn’t saying that he enjoyed it through this talk at all. That makes no sense at this point in the story and especially with the context of Felina.
And not to mention, the writers/directors backed up the things I said in the commentary for this episode. They themselves said that he was just trying to seem big in front of his wife. So the point I made is confirmed by those who wrote the story.
years later we still can't get enough of Breaking Bad
Subbed years ago for the anime content, but I'm loving the content about more serious live action dramas.
Glad you’re enjoying it!
@@Aleczandxr Of course! Consider Sopranos content, there is a LOT to dissect about that series.
Just finished Breaking Bad last week! A masterful series!
It was foreshadowing his brilliant plan of taking Gus's place.
he is the one who knocks
Walt could have gotten away with everything. He could have been rich. But because he was beat up on and sold out too soon with Gray Matter, and just a high school teacher who everyone still saw as a loser, he wanted to be the top dog. he wanted to show everyone what he could do. Thats why in the last episode, he dies with a smile next to the cook site. Knowing the blue meth is still out there, and they raid this place, and he is there, been hiding this whole time they think, he now in the end of the show gets his credit. He gets tied to it and dies happy.
"I am the one who sends Jesse to knock"
The knocking edit at the end..
Ayy more breaking bad content. I’m here for it.😌
This scene is similar to that “Until then who’s in charge? Me.” scene in the hospital where he spouts this big philosophical speech about how since the diagnosis he’s the one in control now when in actuality he’s basically a slave to Gus.
This is the 1st video I have ever seen to have Radiant historia music in the background
Based
It's so good
how is it that every time I finish watching something you make a video about it within 2 weeks? this is like the 6th time lol
Then you need to watch the room now
Wake up babe new Alexzandxr video just dropped
Could you perhaps make a video about my favorite character of the series: our beloved stoic Mike Ehrmantraut
I would love to see you do an analysis on Dexter
Dexter isn't a favourite show of his so I doubt he would do that
Dexter went off the rails and wasn't a well told story from beginning to end like breaking bad. It had something after s4 but lost it over the next few seasons. Hopefully the revival can give us a proper ending and not that horrible lumberjack ending we got
I liked most of Dexter’s seasons (the Trinity Killer is a fantastic villain) but unfortunately I won’t be covering it on the channel. Sorry about that!
I think in the list of main characters, Mike is the most interesting.
He is a hardened criminal. A cold-blooded killing machine who was actually at odds with Hank and the DEA, yet the fans view him as “far less evil” than Walt. They even call Mike as an honorable guy even though he’s responsible for a lot of deaths in this universe. How did Vince Gilligan succeeded in convincing us that Mike is a good guy really needs to be explored.
I heard that the final season of BCS will change peoples perspective on many characters from the BB show. Mike will be among them I can imagine.
@@tankdogization And I said that because I love Mike. He is an experienced badass. I just want a video on why Breaking Bad made us root for him (even more than Walt, Jesse, Gus or Saul) even though he committed a lot of atrocities.
@@nont18411 I think perhaps it is because Mike isn't ego or revenge driven like Walt, Gus and Saul seem to be. Similarly, this is true for our affection for Jesse. He's still young and relatively innocent/naive. Mike, of course, is his older and wiser counterpart...no longer innocent nor naive to the ways of this world. He's actually learned from his mistakes.
@@nont18411 Mike is the Macduff of this story, whilst Walt is the Macbeth. It's easy to see the Macduff as a good and kind man in contrast to the Macbeth, but they are actually not so different.
Aleczandxr is the one who knocks
Knocks every analysis out of the park! As a fledgeling writer I really enjoy his takes on characters and their defining moments in narratives.
Every time I hear that line from Walt, I always start cracking up because he’s so DEAD serious about what he said. Lol
Walter's adoption of his Heisenberg persona in this moment is the culmination of many things, including a realization.
Anyone who has been involved in this kind of stuff IRL and is willing to be honest can tell you, no matter how much power you have, the gallows loom just behind. Someone has your number, and you never know when it's going to be called.
When that reality looms over you, the only way to survive for long is to be the one willing to call everyone else's number. Walter is realizing this in the middle of his tantrum with Skyler.
He's a dangerous man, not the least bit due to his intellect, but he's not invincible. When you're that deep, if you're not the one who knocks, you're the one answering the door.
His fear and his ego come to agreement on this. In a way, Skyler is telling him exactly what he's been learning from experience from the start of the show, but it's an attempt to get him out, not cement his status.
I'd always found it odd until now as to why they had him strip down to his t-shirt right before this line, as I thought he looks a bit childish or unthreatening without the button up. Makes a lot more sense with this reading I think.
True, he looks very lost and dishevelled
That's just Walter leaving and Heisenberg coming in to say 'hello' to Skylar.
@@theclimbto1 Lol no, that's a very biased way of viewing that scene. It makes no sense.
@@seemonuzumaki723 I mean, that's literally the way Personalities work.
Heisenberg isn't an Alias, he's a Personality. He's a coping mechanism manifested to do the things that Walter can not, or has a difficult time, doing.
It's also why the shirt removal is so symbolic.
Heisenberg literally is the one who knocks. That's the entire purpose of the Personality, the only reason it exists.
@@theclimbto1 No, Heisenberg exists because of the bitterness that built in Walt throughout his life.
That little edit with the knocking at the end gave me chills
Just as I finished a Better Call Saul episode lmao
damn i didnt know i was being recorded
Thank you for this. Years ago I got in an online argument about this. I pointed out that at this point the only time the situation Walter describes had happened, someone knocking at the door and shooting the person who answers, it had been Jesse. I had pointed out that Walter had frequently had others do the dirty work for him up to this point in the story, and that the speech itself was not him proving or demonstrating his badassery, but just browbeating some largely powerless third party to make himself feel big. I had pointed out that, as a rule of thumb, Walter is a man of few words when he actually is in as much control as he wants people to think, and that him going on some lengthy tirade or "powerpoint presentation," as Bryan Cranston referred to Walter's spiel in the Box Cutter episode, is a telltale sign that he feels backed into a corner. Breaking Bad fans in general like to see Walter as this all-powerful meth kingpin so of course the people arguing with me missed the point of the observation with comments like "brains over brawn" and stuff like that. In any case, I feel a little vindicated that there are others who can see this scene for what it really is.
His end goal was becoming the one who knocks💀
Reminder that Todd is the WORST.
I wish I could watch this show again for the first time
EXCELLENT‼️ So Illuminating!!!
I'm new to the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Universe. It was actually the penultimate season of Better Call Saul that stimulated my interest.
I went back to the beginning of Better Call Saul, and I've been watching a great deal of Breaking Bad video essays. But I've seen little of BB. Right now I'm in the middle of season 3 of BCS.
I thought watching the BB essays was just a intellectually and emotionally stimulating way to spend my down time.
But now I think I Have to at least try to get through the whole Breaking Bad series. (Even though I now know so much. Other viewers here on RUclips say that knowing the plot and characters before hand doesn't interfere with the enjoyment of the show at all. That makes sense. Good art can benefit from surprises, but it doesn't need that.
My point is, everything I know is from my fiancé's eager analysis and these essays and comments.
BUT--I think you nailed Walt's psychology. It's not that unusual to have such pride and an inflated yet fragile ego. What is unusual is enacting that pride and ego in the life altering, incredibly dramatic way Walt does. And it's unusual that we get to hear and see, in an episode like The Fly, the tortured human being riddled with guilt even as he embraces the Demon that is his budding inner Sociopath.
An amazing show, and you really filled in a missing piece. I didn't know that Walt when he makes that declaration to Skylar is in deep trouble and still under Gus's thumb. I see you're right that he argues with Skylar like a child whose fragile ego is bruised by her more prudent and sane version of reality. I didn't know that famous scene had that mix of menance and petulant pathetic-ness. Just complex characterization! These guys really are geniuses.
And with Better Call Saul they can use their well earned clout to show that they don't need explosions and an ambiguous characterization of a "nagging" woman to create a masterpiece.
Two stupendous shows. And you really showed how deeply you understand this emotionally disturbed, intellectually gifted, and tormented protagonist. Great work!!
yeah but the event they were talking about was the one where he was actually the one who sent jesse to kill the guy so he literally is the one who knocks
Not quite - as I mentioned, the context was quite removed from the tone in which Walter implied all of that to Skylar, and regardless the fact remains that he was posturing here. The writers and producers have said in the episode commentary that this was all about him feeling inferior because of his wife’s criticism, like I mentioned.
I agree with your analysis but I have to say you didn't mention something of relevance here: in a way he DID do that before he said that line. In fact he was the one who ordered Jesse to kill Gale. And yeah this line is kinda recalling that scene. "A guy opens his door and gets shot" = Gale. "I'm the one who knocks" well to be accurate it was Jesse who knocked at the door but that was only because Walter was captured when he was just about to go and do that himself. And it was Walter to give the order. So in a way he was "the one who knocks" at that point already. Although I agree with what you say and the meaning behind those words said in that moment was to put on a facade. Only later he truly became "the one who knocks"... and that's when he really brought the tragedy upon himself because he became too confident in his abilities and his schemes and in the end all it took was for Hank to go take a dump to destroy everything
As seen in the serie Loki "A cruel elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear". In a sense Walter White could be considered as the more grounded inspiration for the MCU Loki.
Walter CHOOSE to sell his shares of Gray Matter for almost nothing and this led that otherwise incredibly brilliant man that could get away with everything with science to a path of mediocrity that only the death treat of a lung cancer could pull him out of.
At this moment Walt was the blowfish he taught Jesse to be after that incident with the junky killed by an ATM machine.
It was indeed very interesting for me to finally see the entire show about 2 years ago, so like a hundred years after I saw gifs from this scene on 9gag. I doubt if people being crazy about how this line was cool (remember the memes?) had so much insight into the scriptwriting art as the author of this video. The moment I saw the episode 6 of season 4 I thought only how stupid they were, considering that what Walter said was simply very, very far from true (and now thanks to this video I am sure that I was kinda right).
Radiant Historia has such a beautiful soundtrack, I need to finish that game
Yoko Shimomura is a godsend.
a friend tried to get me to play the game because he really likes it and i feel a bit bad about not finishing it
It's a half truth. He is the danger, maybe not to other druglords, but anyone who gets dragged into his world on his quest to acquire more power and influence.
He was the danger to his friends and family.
This is a really nice debunk. And it is interesting because many people believe that the biggest difference between Heisenberg and Walter is the fact that Heisenberg is in control while Walter White isn't... And I think that is actually the furthest from the truth... Heisenberg is never truly in control. Think about it, every time we make a plan, sometimes it goes as it was planned, but many times there is something unexpected that we have to adapt to. I think the difference between Heisenberg and Walter White is simple the way they react to the fact that life is full of unexpected things. Walter White shied away from those things, preferring instead 100% secure outcomes, while Heisenberg learned he could tolerate unexpected, even if the outcomes were actually painful. And instead of realising that he is now more comfortable with the unexpected (a process we all have to go through), he fools himself calling it "control"... It's not exactly control... It's active engage with the world, in other words, it's readiness to engage with the unexpected....
Loved you debunk, you have talent!
That phrase was everywhere back in 2013
Still everywhere
There's no exact moment where Walter becomes Heisenberg, bravo vince.
The main message of Breaking Bad: Power corrupts, cancer bad
do more live action dramas like this!
I do them quite often.