Walt, like the main character in unbreakable, was unknowingly walking around with an interesting super power - luck

Walt's luck, as incredibly unlikely as it was, doesn't come from plot armor or lazy writing. Vince Gilligan has proven himself to be one of the best writers ever. He carefully crafts how his stories are told, layering them with rich and thoughtful details. His track record in writing and storytelling convinces me that Walt's incredible string of luck was also thoughtfully crafted.

But how do you explain it? Just in the last couple of episodes of the series alone, he was cuffed in the back of a car by the DEA and still got away. He rolled a barrel of money through the desert until he found someone who would sell him a truck instead of just killing him. He managed to barely eacape New Hamshire without getting caught. And then managed to kill all the Neo Nazis with a gun constructed to swing at just the right angle, at just the right height, and used it by parking the car in just the right place and angle to kill everyone but him, Jesse and Todd. It's fantastic but again I don't think it's plot armor or lazy writing.

I've rewatched the show a handful of times and after this past rewatch I couldn't help but wonder if Vince subtly included a sub-element of a supernatural kind that's hiding in plain site. Jesse even pointed out Walt's luck in his speech where he calls him the Devil. Even he recognized something there that seemed unexplainable, and attributed it to something supernatural.

It's possible that it was nothing more than an incredible run of luck for Walt that happened for a finite period of time. A fleeting moment of perfection, like pitching a no-hitter. But, at least for me, it's interesting to wonder if there might be been something more to it.

If Walt did have this super human power of luck, he wasn't even aware of it, at least until he killed Gus. And, like the main character in Unbreakable, he wasn't perfect and his power didn't make him impervious to making bad decisions or being hurt. But his odd godlike power is what ultimately made Heisenberg a legend within the Breaking Bad universe, almost mythological. And this would make Breaking Bad, and the story of Walter White, akin to being an epic tale of a fallen god, a Greek tragedy like Prometheus Bound.