I hate it when good characters go loopy. Towards the end of the current season (Season 5) Longmire was the least likable regular character. His obsession with Jacob Nighthorse was disturbing. I hope he finds someone and something else to fixate on next season.
shareI agree. I loved Walt being the stable, upstanding rock upon which everyone else could lean. Now he is just losing it. I'm only on episode 4 but if Walt is this way the rest of the season I'm not sure how much I'm going to enjoy it.
I did too, though the stress of being such a rock for everyone may be getting to him. He might just have been doing it so long that he's too emotionally fatigued to care much anymore and is letting his own demons take over.
shareblame the writers.........
bigtonk
I enjoy
Stable Walt
Obsessive Vic
steady Ferg
always there for you, no matter what Henry
shady but secretly a good guy Mathias
Crooked but willing to do the right thing Nighthorse
Constant fear and panicked look in the face Cady
Evil Malachi
willing to help out Travis
One day i'll get in Vic's pants Omar
Dead Barlow although the cocky lawyer puke this season is worse
Absent Dr. Donna
All Hail Zorg
LOVE Mathias -- yes, shady, difficult and unsparing but secretly a good guy.
Donna was useless . . .
Love Walt's lawyer, but the other two are needed snakes
I also agree, but in general, not just this particular case.
It's become a series trope to take the main character, or others, back and forth between the pit of decay or the upstanding moral compass. Apparently, no writer can handle the subtleties of a real person, only "good" or "evil."
Loved Walt this season. He wasn't stupid enough to stay with that shyster psychiatrist who will be boiling rabbits in his cabin next season.
latmfrh
He has jumped to wrong conclusions before now (eg Nighthorse killed Branch and his wife). The difference with this season is that we have been privy to some other things from other people's perspective which Walt is not privy to. If you focus entirely upon what Walt actually knows then I think his behaviour is not as "loopy" as it first seems.
I think it actually showed him to be more human rather than some super-cop.
"I care about the law. It's justice I don't give a toss about." Cleaver Greene
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From my point of view, he hasn't changed except that he finally (FINALLY!) seems to be *starting* to see the consequences of his approach to life.
And then there are the suppositions that Walt's character has 'changed' due to the head trauma and concussions he has suffered. I just think he's kinda burnt out and is soooo very tired of his daily dealings with the lowest, slimiest forms of humanity that there are around... it happens - even in Absaroka.
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