MikeK
Gold Member
I believe it is the natural impulse of any psychologically healthy individual to despise Hank because of what he represents, which is brutal authoritarian sadism. He derives intense pleasure from hunting and imprisoning others -- and it doesn't matter to him in the end if the quarry turns out to be his own brother-in-law whose generosity has enabled him to walk again. His instinct is to hurt. If you have read Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, or seen the play, you will recognize Hank as the embodiment of Inspector Javert. Only another authoritarian personality will fail to respond to the Hank character with revulsion.Just because YOU hate Hank doesn't mean Walt did. Hank was just doing his job.
Also, it's not quite correct to say Hank was just "doing his job," which is the typical rationalization offered by his kind. If he were interested in doing his job, per se, and in accordance with the rules, he would not have been conducting the Heisenberg investigation autonomously. Instead he would have kept his superiors apprised of his activities in his weekly report and he would immediately have notified his superior upon realizing his own brother-in-law was a prime suspect, which would have recused him from the case. And while you might not be aware of it, what Hank failed to do is a serious violation of the rules in any law-enforcement investigative capacity.
So he wasn't just "doing his job." He was using his job to facilitate his perverse personal pathology.
Put yourself in Marie's place. Consider the generosity Skyler and Walt demonstrated by paying for the physical therapy that enabled Hank to walk again. Marie totally ignored that and maliciously turned against Skyler and Walt, immersing herself in Hank's perverse authoritarian preoccupation, knowing the harm it will do to her sister. How would you have dealt with the same situation?Marie didn't deserve to go to prison. That would have been a bad ending. An innocent woman going to jail? That's the ending you were hoping for? How sick.
I think imprisoning Marie as an accessory would have been poetic justice. She more than deserves it. And if you are oblivious to the glaringly malicious pathology in her behavior you really shouldn't be tossing around inuendoes about" what is or isn't "sick" but should be looking more closely at your own values and reasoning.
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