He could just be a gangster rapper and have Jesse as his hype man and do all the same things that the rappers have been doing and sell drugs and put hits on people and shit
I don't know man there's some pretty big rappers in jail right now and some in prison for long periods,some dead also ,it seems like the newer generation does exactly what they rap about,where it used to be exaggerated story telling
MC Hammer put a hit out on the guys from 3rd Bass. legit had crips out there ready to kill them when they went to LA. There's always been rappers connected to that life and ones that just rapped about it.
Instead of making drugs he falls into drug-use affecting his relationships in the process while constantly asking for more drugs. This is how some artists/musicians ruin their lives.
“Uhh, you know, Jesse we gotta, umm, we gotta cook… these books or else the cartel, they’re gonna come after us. So, I need you to work with me here. Alright?”
BB is better by a longshot. I loved Ozark, and while the ending was ok, I was a little underwhelmed by it. It's worth watching just for some of the acting in seasons 3 and 4 though.
I don’t know if in the US you guys got a teacher that teaches religion, but we do in my country. Now I’m imagining Walt and Jesse secretly creating their own religion with honourable purposes at first, only then to be a blood thirsty cult by season 5 lol
Gus I guess would still be that charismatic guy, but now he is a politician that will help Walt to expand his cult even bigger. Just like in the show when they become enemy, now will be due to Walt want to be a God for this religion while Gus doing this for the money. Idk how Saul as a laywer will help them tho
Dude great idea- yeah we do have religious studies classes btw, especially in college as optional electives (or major areas of study if that’s your thing)
Now I also imagine how one of the iconic scene from the series would be like I am the danger scene. Skylar : Stop hiding from the fact you’re afraid of God, and repent yourself to forgiveness. Walt: I am not afraid of God, Skylar. I am THE GOD. A guy committed suicide due to the words from God, you think that of me? NO! I am the reason he died!
And yet, Mike's ego was in charge when he allowed Walt to bring the "go bag". Of all the fucking people, Walt?! Have Huell do it... hell, at least ask Francesca. I get his reasons for not wanting Jesse, those were altruistic.
But Mike let Walt bring him the bag because his ego couldn't see Walt as a threat to HIM. He should have at least been ready for the questioning about those 9 inmates/former Fring employees and kept a piece at the ready.
Walt's entire reason for going had to do with that and nothing else. It just went to show that everyone except Jesse and, oddly enough, Todd just could not allow themselves to see Walter White as an extremely dangerous and capable person.
He wanted Saul, but Saul was being followed so he said no. Jesse volunteered several times, but Mike nixed it. Finally, Walt said, "I'll just get it, now tell me about this bag," or something like that.
True, but a someone educated in physics probably wouldn’t have been a chemistry wizard like Walt. He probably would’ve made better meth than Jesse was making but Walt’s biggest skill was him being a chemist and that’s what put him above everyone else.
I guess you can compare it to a professional baseball player trying to play golf, they’re among the best in the world at playing baseball and are probably better than a majority of people who golf but wouldn’t be able to cut it with the rest of the professional golfers
The show really overstates the difficulty in cooking meth. A reasonable lab worker gets good yield. Physics educated people still have to do lab work in university. Being better than junkie meth cooks wouldn't be hard.
>Walt’s biggest skill was him being a chemist and that’s what put him above everyone else.
This is what I was mostly responding to. One doesn't have to be a trained chemist to do good meth cooking.
My headcanon regarding the difficulty in cooking meth is Walt is overstating it in-universe because he likes to feel smart. That's why he gets pissy when Jesse cooks good quality meth, why he snaps at Gale. What he does, perhaps any university-level chemistry student could achieve, but Walt enjoys feeling like a genius even if it is among junkie meth cooks.
The show also plays up how much a meth addict cares about purity, and also how much a difference the high would be. Honestly, the only thing higher purity would probably do would be making the high come slightly faster.
It wasn’t about the addicts though, the buyers wanted it pure for the sake of reputation and so it could be cut more. More pure product meant you could cut it 4x as much as anyone else so 4x the profit.
Ah, I guess I didn’t think about it that way because they never explained it that way in the show. Walt always sold it as “this is the most pure meth you can get, best high possible” or whatever. And he always argued from the “demand” side of things.
I think this is also kind of intended to show that Walt didn’t know anything about this business side. The massive irony is that his pure masterpiece was going to be cut to shit and he had no idea
Higher purity is safer. A lot of overdoses come from getting a stronger than expected batch. If your drugs are always ~99% you can't get any unfortunate surprises.
Marty suffers more internally as a result of his choices, but I don't think his choices were necessarily less evil than Walts.
There's an interesting argument to be had on whether or not feeling guilty matters if you never change your ways.
Skylar White looks like a saint next to Wendy. Skyler suggested maybe killing someone once when Wendy suggest killing someone between meals. Nobody is safe from Wendy, not her friends and not even her family
Music - Walt becomes a famous songwriter with Jesse as the frontman of a band. While Jesse gets more and more successful Walt becomes a shadowy figure in the music industry that is willing to kill to maintain his success.
Maths - Walt finds a genius way to defraud companies by fudging accounting. To help him out he enlists Jesse, who took upon his suggestion and now studies business in university and makes connections to rapidly growing fast food companies.
Art - Walt is a brilliant painter and watches a documentary on art forgeries. He recruits his former student and now graffiti writer Jesse Pinkman to forge Banksy pieces.
"I don't think you understand the situation, Skyler, so let me be clear - a hit song gets written and you think I copy it? Oh No! - I'm the one who got knocked off!"
Dude basically was a physicist too, he was just way overqualified for his job which happened to be a chemistry teacher. He could have taught any science related subject
I was surprised no one thought of it first. ( I am saying this wearing Real Genius T-shirt, lol) Physicists making black market weapons is the theme of like half the action flicks made in the 80's.
What most seem to overlook is that Walt main skill wasn't chemistry per se. He was a chemist specialized in crystallography, i.e., the branch of chemistry that works on crystal.
That's why his meth was something unseen before and how he was able to come up with different processes to refine it.
I think his genius went beyond chemistry. Grey Matter doesn't seem to have been just a chemistry company and as another example making the battery in the desert was more physics than chemistry. I think even if he was teaching the oboe to kids at school he'd still be super smart in other areas.
If he was a music teacher it would be about a teacher and his student trying to become famous rockstars but walter’s obstacle would be the fact he’s “too old” to break into the industry and Jesse is a junkie holding him down
Idk about physics, but if he was computer science or computer engineering he'd probably probably be heavily involved in the dark web market. There's not any particular reason I know this.
As classical sophisticated music teacher that breaks bad and starts a heavy metal band with his former student. Together they arrange illegal concerts I shady clubs
If he was a biology teacher he would start making LSD from ergot fungi, art teacher could be money or ID counterfeit, maybe if he was a psychology teacher he could intimidate witness or be an interrogator for Gus
If the film was fictional and by fictional I mean very futurey fictional, where time travel would be a crime. I think Walt would go in a time where a cure for cancer already exists, if not then he would go back in a time when he didn’t have cancer. Or go back in a time where Skyler hadn’t left him yet.
All this, if he was a physics teacher. Can’t think of other subjects.
Math teacher would absolutely be running some kind of financial scam. I’d watch the hell out of him doing investment schemes and shit.
Arts and crafts probably has Walt bootlegging to make money, less interesting but still has creative potential.
Music teacher Walt just takes out a loan, builds a studio, and exploits Albuquerque’s young up and coming music scene and gets them hooked on drugs.
> Or a music teacher? "Jesse, we need to compose."
JESSE! WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A HIT SONG JESSE!
fallacies fallacies
One for you two for me
One Armani suits and run. Two Air Jordan shoes for you.
That song sucked hard ass
I love it, great energy. It’s shitty but good fun. Half of my enjoyment probably comes knowing where the song comes from though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKNodRa71Cg
THIS SONG GONNA GET US OUT THE ABQ JESSE
DUNNN DA DA
Mistah White! Gustavo’s diss track against you just went Gold!
Get shwiftty
Jessie I turned myself into a pickle
woooow nicee reference
Ooooowieeeee
Yeah, MUSIC.....BITCH!
Say my name Bulldops You’re goddamn right.
Jesse! Where did you hide the trumpet! Jesse! Wake up Jesse! Where is the trumpet! Jesse!
I.. I gave it to Ted.
You gave our trumpet to beneke…
Jesse, how is Vaminos Pest gonna hit the road and tour without a horn section?
i’m laughing so fucking hard at these lol
"I watched radio die."
LMAOOOOO
He could just be a gangster rapper and have Jesse as his hype man and do all the same things that the rappers have been doing and sell drugs and put hits on people and shit
*have been claiming to do
I don't know man there's some pretty big rappers in jail right now and some in prison for long periods,some dead also ,it seems like the newer generation does exactly what they rap about,where it used to be exaggerated story telling
MC Hammer put a hit out on the guys from 3rd Bass. legit had crips out there ready to kill them when they went to LA. There's always been rappers connected to that life and ones that just rapped about it.
NOT QUITE MY TEMPO
Underrated comment
this is the plot of the music man
Jesse! We need to fly Jeff Chris down from Indiana to mix it professionally!
“Relax, Mr. White, I got a guy right here in ABQ, okay? His mixes are like, the bomb yo.” The guy is Badger.
I could see them being a jazzy blues band that has an upright bass and sometimes badger plays trumpet
JESSE , WE NEED TO SOLVE THIS EQUATION - Walter White. Math teacher
Instead of making drugs he falls into drug-use affecting his relationships in the process while constantly asking for more drugs. This is how some artists/musicians ruin their lives.
Math - tax fraud, money laundering? Arts and crafts - creating fakes of paintings Physics - some sort of evil engineer Just some ideas
Math could also be gambling, funny enough
Then he’ll have to come up with a fake story about how he’s a drug dealer and that’s where his money came from
Let’s just dump it in the sewer and say we delivered it. No to much work, let’s burn it and say we dumped a t in the sewer
r/unexpectedfuturama
We already have that show and Jason Bateman's awesome in it
“Uhh, you know, Jesse we gotta, umm, we gotta cook… these books or else the cartel, they’re gonna come after us. So, I need you to work with me here. Alright?”
Perfect
>Math - tax fraud, money laundering? Arts and crafts - creating fakes of paintings Physics - some sort of evil engineer He would just cook math
I thought physics could be a nuclear physicist for some reason. Making the best dirty bombs in the business for third world dictatorships
If Walt was a theoretical physicist: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Yeah, this is also basically the plot of Ozark.
Is it good? I’ve seen it pop up on Netflix a couple times and I’ve been thinking of watching it How does it compare to BB?
BB is better by a longshot. I loved Ozark, and while the ending was ok, I was a little underwhelmed by it. It's worth watching just for some of the acting in seasons 3 and 4 though.
I loved it
>What if he was a maths teacher? Skyler's story would be true, he'd start illegal gambling
I don’t know if in the US you guys got a teacher that teaches religion, but we do in my country. Now I’m imagining Walt and Jesse secretly creating their own religion with honourable purposes at first, only then to be a blood thirsty cult by season 5 lol
I would watch the shit outta this
Gus I guess would still be that charismatic guy, but now he is a politician that will help Walt to expand his cult even bigger. Just like in the show when they become enemy, now will be due to Walt want to be a God for this religion while Gus doing this for the money. Idk how Saul as a laywer will help them tho
Saul could threaten litigation and scare those who want to leave the cult with legalese, also taxes and avoiding them is important
Dude great idea- yeah we do have religious studies classes btw, especially in college as optional electives (or major areas of study if that’s your thing)
Now I also imagine how one of the iconic scene from the series would be like I am the danger scene. Skylar : Stop hiding from the fact you’re afraid of God, and repent yourself to forgiveness. Walt: I am not afraid of God, Skylar. I am THE GOD. A guy committed suicide due to the words from God, you think that of me? NO! I am the reason he died!
Instead of "I am the reason he died" it should be "I am the one who speaks"
Aaron Paul was in a show revolving a religious cult I believe. I forgot which streaming service it was on but I couldn't get past 2 episodes.
He’d be building robots instead of electrolyte cells for batteries
Robots that tase everyone
So Michael Reeves?
Hell yeah
The series ends with Walt going on Battlebots
The man is intelligent. There is no field where he would not excel. The problem is his ego.
“You and your pride and your ego”
And yet, Mike's ego was in charge when he allowed Walt to bring the "go bag". Of all the fucking people, Walt?! Have Huell do it... hell, at least ask Francesca. I get his reasons for not wanting Jesse, those were altruistic. But Mike let Walt bring him the bag because his ego couldn't see Walt as a threat to HIM. He should have at least been ready for the questioning about those 9 inmates/former Fring employees and kept a piece at the ready. Walt's entire reason for going had to do with that and nothing else. It just went to show that everyone except Jesse and, oddly enough, Todd just could not allow themselves to see Walter White as an extremely dangerous and capable person.
Didn’t he originally request Saul or Jessie? I think Saul was like “no way”. Then Walt stepped in.
He wanted Saul, but Saul was being followed so he said no. Jesse volunteered several times, but Mike nixed it. Finally, Walt said, "I'll just get it, now tell me about this bag," or something like that.
I didn't feel nearly enough disgust in that first "You"
ŸÖÜ ÄND ŸÖÜR PRÏDË ÄND ŸÖÜR ËGÖ
Waltuh
True, but a someone educated in physics probably wouldn’t have been a chemistry wizard like Walt. He probably would’ve made better meth than Jesse was making but Walt’s biggest skill was him being a chemist and that’s what put him above everyone else. I guess you can compare it to a professional baseball player trying to play golf, they’re among the best in the world at playing baseball and are probably better than a majority of people who golf but wouldn’t be able to cut it with the rest of the professional golfers
The show really overstates the difficulty in cooking meth. A reasonable lab worker gets good yield. Physics educated people still have to do lab work in university. Being better than junkie meth cooks wouldn't be hard.
I already said it would be better than most cooks, but not as good as walt’s
>Walt’s biggest skill was him being a chemist and that’s what put him above everyone else. This is what I was mostly responding to. One doesn't have to be a trained chemist to do good meth cooking.
They definitely do not, but it certainly helps
yeah but his was 99% pure after all, that's like impossible irl if I recall correctly
My headcanon regarding the difficulty in cooking meth is Walt is overstating it in-universe because he likes to feel smart. That's why he gets pissy when Jesse cooks good quality meth, why he snaps at Gale. What he does, perhaps any university-level chemistry student could achieve, but Walt enjoys feeling like a genius even if it is among junkie meth cooks.
The show also plays up how much a meth addict cares about purity, and also how much a difference the high would be. Honestly, the only thing higher purity would probably do would be making the high come slightly faster.
It wasn’t about the addicts though, the buyers wanted it pure for the sake of reputation and so it could be cut more. More pure product meant you could cut it 4x as much as anyone else so 4x the profit.
Ah, I guess I didn’t think about it that way because they never explained it that way in the show. Walt always sold it as “this is the most pure meth you can get, best high possible” or whatever. And he always argued from the “demand” side of things.
I think this is also kind of intended to show that Walt didn’t know anything about this business side. The massive irony is that his pure masterpiece was going to be cut to shit and he had no idea
Didn’t they explicitly forbid dealers from cutting it?
Higher purity is safer. A lot of overdoses come from getting a stronger than expected batch. If your drugs are always ~99% you can't get any unfortunate surprises.
Short order cook? Leggo my ego?
If you want to see walt but as a math genius watch ozark
Marty is a much better person than Walt.
Marty suffers more internally as a result of his choices, but I don't think his choices were necessarily less evil than Walts. There's an interesting argument to be had on whether or not feeling guilty matters if you never change your ways.
>whether or not feeling guilty matters if you never change your ways. And that's what Bojack Horseman is about.
Hahaha this was great response. Summed up the whole plot
Skylar White is a much better person than Wendy Byrde.
Skylar White looks like a saint next to Wendy. Skyler suggested maybe killing someone once when Wendy suggest killing someone between meals. Nobody is safe from Wendy, not her friends and not even her family
Laura Linney absolutely crushed that role
Can’t argue with that! Although not as good at money laundering as Marty. Maybe Marty and Walt should have teamed up.
Truth.
Music - Walt becomes a famous songwriter with Jesse as the frontman of a band. While Jesse gets more and more successful Walt becomes a shadowy figure in the music industry that is willing to kill to maintain his success. Maths - Walt finds a genius way to defraud companies by fudging accounting. To help him out he enlists Jesse, who took upon his suggestion and now studies business in university and makes connections to rapidly growing fast food companies. Art - Walt is a brilliant painter and watches a documentary on art forgeries. He recruits his former student and now graffiti writer Jesse Pinkman to forge Banksy pieces.
Until one day Walt and Jesse’s band hit it big with two singles- one, Fallacies, the other, Walt’s acoustic solo cover of A Horse with No Name.
"I don't think you understand the situation, Skyler, so let me be clear - a hit song gets written and you think I copy it? Oh No! - I'm the one who got knocked off!"
i mean even as a chemistry teacher he still knew alot about phyics - the battery and the magnet.
Isn’t the battery still chemistry? He used copper to restart it. And Jessie was the one who came up the magnet idea
Chemistry is applied physics.
And physics is applied math
My thoughts as well.
Dude basically was a physicist too, he was just way overqualified for his job which happened to be a chemistry teacher. He could have taught any science related subject
His biology speech to Gus was a bit cringe in my opinion
Remind me, when was this?
Don't quote him on that his biology is rusted
How so?
Physics genius could have designed illegal weapons to sell. Bombs, lazers etc.
Finally someone actually mentioned this, I'd have thought it would be obvious
I was surprised no one thought of it first. ( I am saying this wearing Real Genius T-shirt, lol) Physicists making black market weapons is the theme of like half the action flicks made in the 80's.
What most seem to overlook is that Walt main skill wasn't chemistry per se. He was a chemist specialized in crystallography, i.e., the branch of chemistry that works on crystal. That's why his meth was something unseen before and how he was able to come up with different processes to refine it.
Lol chemistry was his main skill He made poison from beans
[Walt breaks bad as a PE teacher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xehCiUNjrCo)
Walter Bishop from Fringe is what you get if you break bad with physics.
So there's a chance we also get another Walternate?
he'd suck some dudes off
Waltuh… put your dick away Waltuh…
Skyler, I fucked Ted. I liked it, and I was good at it.
I think his genius went beyond chemistry. Grey Matter doesn't seem to have been just a chemistry company and as another example making the battery in the desert was more physics than chemistry. I think even if he was teaching the oboe to kids at school he'd still be super smart in other areas.
Providing support to terrorist groups in the manufacturer of nuclear weapons. Doc Brown from Back to the Future as reference for archetype
“JESSE! They found us…idk how but they found us😢”
Chemistry is just the interval between astrophysics and nuclear physics, so I think he would have done just fine.
What an r-worded comment lol
Funny enough with math he’d be able to still enter the drug trade
Lol Heisenberg just becomes sauls accountant
Secret nuclear physicist for rouge third-world nation?
Walt teaching cooking classes 👀 👀
[удалено]
But probably not at the same world class level that he did. It would be better than most but not the best in the world
If he was a music teacher it would be about a teacher and his student trying to become famous rockstars but walter’s obstacle would be the fact he’s “too old” to break into the industry and Jesse is a junkie holding him down
Would Walt break bad if he lived in a country with universal healthcare? What if his bills were paid, would he still go down the same path?
Lol so true!
I wonder what he would do if he was a history teacher.
Jerry & Marge Go Large. He'd use his mathematical prowess as a physicist to beat the lottery.
Most people who cook meth are uneducated junkies
Rockets. He’d be raining homemade V2s onto US cities on a pay per explosion deal with a terrorist group.
A music teacher? Compose the best song commercial for los pollos hermanos.
Build a nuke and threaten to use it unless he gets a billion dollars
Designing weaponry
Cooking meth isn’t rocket science. I’m sure a physics prof with Walt’s brain could do it just fine.
Using Gus's lab equipment and producing Heisenberg quality? Don't think so.
Idk about physics, but if he was computer science or computer engineering he'd probably probably be heavily involved in the dark web market. There's not any particular reason I know this.
Chemistry is applied physics. So... You get the idea.
Black market nukes.
i don’t know if he’d be as good but even as a physics major / physicist you have to take a lot of chemistry courses
Bank robber using vibrations to exploit structural weaknesses in bank vaults?
Jesse we need to paint
Building a nuclear bomb?
Physics - Bombs
Arms dealer
Physics? Creation of a nuclear bomb for terrorism
Physics teacher = Gun manufacturer
If he was a physics teacher I could see him being like a black market uranium dealer or something crazy like that.
taking notes just in case i go broke
>What if he was a math teacher? He would be doing illegal gambling, and make up a lie to his IRS brother-in-law by getting the money from selling meth
Dunno, but we'd probably have cracked nuclear fusion.
art teacher - draws furry porn
As classical sophisticated music teacher that breaks bad and starts a heavy metal band with his former student. Together they arrange illegal concerts I shady clubs
Develop missiles for North Korea.
Maybe build nuclear bombs for terrorists.
A civil engineer breaking bad is the *Saw* franchise
Physics: Arms design for rouge states.
Physics Teacher… maybe an arms dealer? Explosives and firearm mechanics?
He would take a job modeling mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps for bankers. Oh wait, that was what I did.
Lol, who's your Jesse?
i was hoping this was a joke with a really good answer
Nuclear weapon triggers
Basically just Werner
Jesse, we need to break physics law.
Half-Life
If he was a biology teacher he would start making LSD from ergot fungi, art teacher could be money or ID counterfeit, maybe if he was a psychology teacher he could intimidate witness or be an interrogator for Gus
Some serious nuclear shit!!!
He'd build Rube Goldberg machines that cooked meth for him.
Magnets
Bank /Jewelry International Heists
Selling nudes of Albert Einstein
Like they bagged Saul and took him to desert, Walt and Jesse would force a chemistry teacher to teach them how to make meth.
If the film was fictional and by fictional I mean very futurey fictional, where time travel would be a crime. I think Walt would go in a time where a cure for cancer already exists, if not then he would go back in a time when he didn’t have cancer. Or go back in a time where Skyler hadn’t left him yet. All this, if he was a physics teacher. Can’t think of other subjects.
Math teacher would absolutely be running some kind of financial scam. I’d watch the hell out of him doing investment schemes and shit. Arts and crafts probably has Walt bootlegging to make money, less interesting but still has creative potential. Music teacher Walt just takes out a loan, builds a studio, and exploits Albuquerque’s young up and coming music scene and gets them hooked on drugs.
"Jesse, we need to divide. JESSE"!!!!
Designing missiles for Gus to kill the cartel
Arts- painting visual illusions that trick your mind. Music - he'll just die an addict.
Arms dealer
If Walt was a theoretical physicist: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Werner Ziegler?!😳
There’s no money in physics. He would obviously use stochastic mechanics to best the stock market.
Physically
He'd be like idk Doctor Ivo Robotnik or wtvr his name is (from sonic the hedgehog)