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Breaking Bad - The (Beautiful) Finale - Season 5 Part 2 - Sunday on AMC - OT3
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SolidChamp
Banned
Jesse in "slave chains" choking out Todd. Todd was looking out of a shuttered window (so was Jabba when Leia choked him out).
More_Badass
Member
1) What was the song that played during the finale promo?
2) Anyone have the link to that 2 hour series recap? I need to relive the series again
2) Anyone have the link to that 2 hour series recap? I need to relive the series again
What do you guys think of this ending:
This would have been at least 100x better than the "play everything as safe as possible and tie everything up in a neat bow" ending what we got and would have put Breaking Bad's finale into god tier category instead of just meh-tier.
- Walt's entire family gets killed. Skyler, Flynn, Holly.
- Walt's cancer gets cured. He has to live with this for the rest of his life in jail. All five seasons and everything he went through was for nothing.
This would have been at least 100x better than the "play everything as safe as possible and tie everything up in a neat bow" ending what we got and would have put Breaking Bad's finale into god tier category instead of just meh-tier.
I don't really agree. This is the difference between (how I understand) Dexter operates and how Breaking Bad operated: not every action has to be explained out in intricate detail.
triplestation
Member
so instead of fleeing the scene successfully (something he is highly capable of doing) he would have stayed to prove to the cops they can't get him because haha too late i did myself before you showed up!! xp
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a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Just finished watching it...somehow remained spoiler free until tonite, even had a very close call clicking this thread earlier by accident.
Fucking fantastic, quite pleased with how everything turned out. Hank getting killed was definitely a highlight of the series for me, I really didn't think they'd do that. Mixed feelings on Jesse getting away, I would have enjoyed him getting got as well (I like unhappy endings)
Was very pleased to see Lydia and Todd get it as well.
Walt going out like a straight G!
I will miss this show but it ended at the perfect time, couldn't have asked for more.
R.I.P. Mr. White, it's been a slice.
Fucking fantastic, quite pleased with how everything turned out. Hank getting killed was definitely a highlight of the series for me, I really didn't think they'd do that. Mixed feelings on Jesse getting away, I would have enjoyed him getting got as well (I like unhappy endings)
Was very pleased to see Lydia and Todd get it as well.
Walt going out like a straight G!
I will miss this show but it ended at the perfect time, couldn't have asked for more.
R.I.P. Mr. White, it's been a slice.
But the ending was god tier, in many's opinions.
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a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Put me in that category, I thought it was fucking great.
Edit: Hatehatehatehate on Walt all you want, he's been the most consistently entertaining and interesting protagonist in the last 20 years of television, maybe ever.
Walt doesn't deserve prison. He deserves to die.
This is basically the Dexter ending. And it's stupid.
Run away to... what? He has no money, he's on the verge of dying of lung cancer, and everyone he ever loved hates him. What's he gonna run away to exactly?
Nah, I like the idea of him dying in the meth lab better.
Admiral Woofington
Member
The Sopranos ended in a meh way and it's still god tier. This ended how everybody expected and it's still god tier. It still ended beautifully and will be up there among the greatest. It may have not been to your tastes, but it seems to be to that of many others.
1st point is alright but a bit sad and we already have the sadness for the family with Hank dying. His family being shoehorned and contrived into dying somehow would not be good. Only reason that would happen is the nazis coming back and killing them for no reason at all.
2nd point is horrible and does sound like the Dexter ending.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
He really was with all of his loved ones at the end.
More_Badass
Member
CharminUltra
Member
The finale is "god-tier" as is. Also, those suggestions are terrible lol
Meh-tier... are you sure you didn't watch the Dexter finale by mistake?
Zoramon089
Banned
Would have been terrible. It sounds like it's edgy for the sake of it...and I have a hard time thinking how it would make any sense. Everyone he knows somehow dies and his cancer is miraculously cured?!
His whole family dying seems just as predictable and would come off as intentionally pulling too hard at heart strings. Hank alone dying is much more effective, as the rest have to live with his loss. The emotional damage everyone who survived has to endure is a lot more affecting compared to them all being dead.
Nameless
Member
Yeah, he pretty much expresses to the arms dealer, Gretchen & Elliot, and Skyler that his death is part of his end game.
Had he survived the M60 I imagine he would have committed suicide by cop like he was about to do the first second we meet him. It was over.
Part of me thinks that Mike actually would've liked what Walt was doing in the finale. Giving money to his family without them knowing, saving Jesse, plus that whole "If we're going to go that way, you're going to need a bigger knife" thing was so Mike.
triplestation
Member
he'd surely figure something out, that's what he's always done
just cause he has no money doesn't mean he's option-less
he wouldn't just off himself like that
ALTERNATIVELY i really do think he'd turn himself in rather than kill himself
so for me its either he keeps running or actually turns himself in
Speaking of the arms dealer, I like that Walt tells him that the M60 is never leaving town when he buys it, and then immediately leaves town and assembles it in the desert.
whaaa? I thought the Ricin was super obvious with that tight shot of the mug.
Nameless
Member
Well I believe Walt said it was never leaving the state. Haven't listened to the podcast yet was that To'hajilee ?
Sounds like "Look we made a dark ending!" for the sake of it.
I'm surprised that people are surprised Walt would target Lydia. She was for all intents and purposes the true kingpin of the entire meth operation. It was all her contacts and money and support that kept the operation flowing. Walt, Jesse, and Todd were just cooks. The nazis were just muscle. Lydia was the operation.
Of course she had to die. That's not even getting into the fact that Walt knew what type of creature she was. She's much too dangerous to leave alone, especially when you take down her entire operation. Who knows in what way she would've lashed out.
Of course she had to die. That's not even getting into the fact that Walt knew what type of creature she was. She's much too dangerous to leave alone, especially when you take down her entire operation. Who knows in what way she would've lashed out.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
For whatever sick reason, I want a screencap or GIF of the last shots of Lydia.
Sort of like bringing muddy water to a wine tasting event.
That show isn't even worth spoiling.
In Live Free or Die, the dealer asks him if it's crossing the border, and Walt replies "it's never leaving town". I'm just making a little joke. The writers really didn't know what was happening in the flashforwards, so I'm just poking a little fun at them.
blame space
Banned
i would kill for fake news coverage of all of this shit like we got with the plane collision. i don't know why. we didn't get to see that side of it; neither did walt, so i guess that's how it's supposed to be.
I can't imagine doing that. You would be so lost. This is a straight serial show.
blame space
Banned
do you think marie did interviews?
Yeah, that would be really awesome. It would be a nice webisode or something.
Yeah, me either, but apparently she was able to pretty much follow what was going on. I guess she knew enough about the show beforehand.
Would've been pretty bad. Why would Holly deserve to die? Her only connection is with the White family/being a part of that family. And Lydia would've most likely been dead in your scenario anyway if Walt didn't go out in a blaze of glory.
If anything it'd be Walt and Jesse dead. Or Jesse dead with the nazis (for all the shit he caused this season to Walt after Walt gave him numerous chances to not "dick around with me") and Todd still alive and respects Walt enough to just get away (though I question why Walt would allow that to happen) and Walt somehow alive (dropping to the floor while letting the LMG fire?) to face court.
Really, if anything Marie, Skyler, Flynn, Holly really didn't do anything to deserve a bad end. But the rest of them? Yeah, I'd go for a complete death wipe on the rest of the cast.
Vire
Member
I'm glad you didn't write the ending
Ideas are spreading
I like it.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Just so pathetic with the vaporizer going in the background.
Ideas are spreading
Needs to have the snow fall away to have a smaller version of Walt hitting the smaller window, with that snow falling away to show another Walt again hitting a smaller window, and so on.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
His face has been on the national news for months - likely in the local news for even longer. Every cop in the city would LOVE to be the one to collar Heisenberg. It's silly. It doesn't ruin the episode, but even for a show that relies 75% on contrivance and coincidence to propel its plot forward, it's pretty implausible.
Not to mention, how the hell did he get all the way to New Mexico in a stolen car? He's probably one of the most wanted men in America. If they suspected he stole a car, they'd have cops on every highway in America - especially the ones from New Hampshire to New Mexico - looking for it. Perhaps he switched the plates, but then how did they find and identify his car at the Denny's within the same day?
They said that, but neither Marie nor Skyler KNEW, for sure, when the cops would come. Maybe they were watching the house all day. It's already a show where Nazis who are afraid of the police take a stupid risk like sneaking into a house being watched by police, but now the main character, a nationally-hunted fugitive who they're looking for all over town, takes an even bigger risk, going so far as to stand outside looking forlornly at the house so we can have a trite little shot of him looking at his son for the last time.
It's not COMPLETELY out of the question, but given Gretchen and Elliot's public disowning of him, it would be VERY suspicious for them to suddenly give Flynn $9 million. Flynn is avidly against accepting Walt's money, knows of their past with Walt, KNOWS Walt had no stake left in the company, etc. Not to mention, $9 million is an absurdly high amount for a trust and would be VERY hard to sell to the public - as well as the DEA, who are scrutinizing the Whites' finances like mad.
They were worried about him being wired. Maybe there's a recording device in the trunk? Maybe they put two and two together, realize he's maybe still miffed over the Hank thing, and wonder if he maybe has a bomb in his car? The whole ending required the Nazis to be pretty careless. (It also required Walt to be a mechanical whiz, in addition to simply being a chemistry supergenius.)
It's less on-the-nose than having him come out and say it, less on-the-nose than that final song, yeah. It's not SUBTLE, but it's a little more subtle. At the very least, it was a more effective ending (relative to its season) than this one was. Ending with ANOTHER successful, over-the-top Walt plan is cheap, safe, and does little to settle the story in any kind of unexpected way - and I mean on levels other than plot.