Garioshi posted...
When he rejected a good-paying job with excellent healthcare purely because he felt it was an insult to him.
Yeah, that was the first real ego moment we see with Walt in the series. Technically the first ever was him even breaking up with Gretchen before the show started because he felt small and inferior when meeting her wealthy family which is just hilarious. Sabotaged his own future out of his own pride.
Hypnospace posted...
Having binge watched the show in 2012 and having not seen it since it ended I don't remember a lot of events, but from what I can remember, the turning point was when he let Jane die
Walt was doing crime and lying to his family but I felt like you could argue in decent faith that it was done with his family in mind up until after Tuco died. Him letting Jane die felt like the first 'holy shit, why the fuck did he do that' moment that had dire repercussions. The cold and twisted moments would only exponentially increase after that
Tbf Jane was blackmailing him. Not that that's reason to not save someone dying in front of you, but at least he had a reason, she wasn't just some innocent bystander.