A situation where the fantasy illusion DID support a multiple-personality convention.
I think it's tricky because...
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... I have seen a lot of folks trying to digest Walt's final phone call to Skyler in "Ozymandias" as some kind of battle between 'Heisenberg' and Walt in which Walt finally gets the upper hand by basically giving Skyler an alibi, but if you're not maintaining that added level of fictionality, then the entire (narrative) purpose of that call becomes much clearer as does the functioning of the bookending of first call/last call. WALT secretly believed those things of Skyler from the very first episode. WALT never much cared for Hank and his outsized masculinity usurping his role as alpha male of the family. None of those things were Heisenberg, because Heisenberg isn't some kind of split personality of Walt... just a handle that WALT picked up to remake himself and express things he'd believed for years.
So of course Walt doesn't reveal where the bodies are, and yes, I'm afraid that Walt actually does believe those things of Skyler. (That initially the SHOW ITSELF believed them is a bigger problem I have with the whole front half of the show.)
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Date: 2013-09-19 12:23 pm (UTC)I think it's tricky because...
SPOILERS
... I have seen a lot of folks trying to digest Walt's final phone call to Skyler in "Ozymandias" as some kind of battle between 'Heisenberg' and Walt in which Walt finally gets the upper hand by basically giving Skyler an alibi, but if you're not maintaining that added level of fictionality, then the entire (narrative) purpose of that call becomes much clearer as does the functioning of the bookending of first call/last call. WALT secretly believed those things of Skyler from the very first episode. WALT never much cared for Hank and his outsized masculinity usurping his role as alpha male of the family. None of those things were Heisenberg, because Heisenberg isn't some kind of split personality of Walt... just a handle that WALT picked up to remake himself and express things he'd believed for years.
So of course Walt doesn't reveal where the bodies are, and yes, I'm afraid that Walt actually does believe those things of Skyler. (That initially the SHOW ITSELF believed them is a bigger problem I have with the whole front half of the show.)