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Breaking Bad - The (Beautiful) Finale - Season 5 Part 2 - Sunday on AMC - OT3
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Lionel Mandrake
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This is the funniest post in this thread.
He still has Skyler. She still loves him. And he got a lot of closure. Plus he cares more that his kids have the money than that they love him. After all what does a man do? A man provides.
People talk about morality like it's black and white
I mean, they weren't huge things that bothered. Me just the two things that stood out to me, where I felt I had to give the writing a little wiggle room. But Breaking Bad has always been a really pulpy/stylized show. And while the show has sold us on this realism feeling throughout the show, the pulpy/stylized stuff has been there from Season 1.
So I had no issue with.
brickarts295
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Eaten By A Grue
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The part where Walt tells Skylar "I did it for me" is going to haunt me for the rest of my TV days.
akachan ningen
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The finale was a little disappointing. It went down pretty much like I thought it would. I was hoping for some surprises.
The first scene bugged me. Why did Walt check the lock to see if the car was unlocked? Why wouldn't he just try to open the door?
Strong-arming elliot and gretchen was a little surprising. Didn't think we'd see them again.
The first scene bugged me. Why did Walt check the lock to see if the car was unlocked? Why wouldn't he just try to open the door?
Just made this.. cuz.. you were all thinking it too.
edit: guess I forgot to set it to loop.. oh well.
Thank you.
Nameless
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Just made this.. cuz.. you were all thinking it too.
edit: guess I forgot to set it to loop.. oh well.
This. Is. Incredible.
CharminUltra
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T_T
So to those that generally hated Walt and think he is a scum bag - what did you think of the ending. I'm curious. Were you okay that Walt went out on top (at least in his mind) before dying? Did Walt accepting he's evil, make it this ending more okay? Or did you loathe it, and believe Walt should have paid the consequences more heavily?
I'm wondering that posers like maharg think.
I'm wondering that posers like maharg think.
Man, I don't know why it took me until now to realize it but Jesse mentioned working on that box back in that NA meeting in Kafkaesque: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615558/quotes
Me as well. I just didn't guess who killed Walter right. I was sooooo close too.
Baroquemantic
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Just made this.. cuz.. you were all thinking it too.
That is awesome.
NYR
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He got his legacy. Usually, most peoples legacy is their children. He lost his chance at that.
Him in the meth lab at the end wasn't a coincidence. They think it was still him cooking. He has his legacy, and that was all that matter to him. His kids were simply another legacy, that faded. He is Heisenberg, not Walter White. The final song says a lot..."baby blue" - the meth was his kid.
But again, "higher" doesn't automatically mean "more ambiguous."
err, what?
also, I think Walt cares just a tad about whether his family loves him or not. Jr. telling him to just die already was what pushed him into calling the police on him, after all.
Nameless
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Yeah, and sold it for an ounce of weed.
Chezzymann
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Why is predictability bad? I get it if it makes things boring, but when its a part of each character's unique development I don't see the issue.
I mean like I said guys, this was more of a - I'm not sure if I liked how they did it. Not trying to say it's impossible, or lazy writing. I agree you could certainly explain both moments (ie. Lydia having a specific routine, and Jack's personality being on display, and Walt knowing how he ticks).
Totally.
Vince wanted to end it at 5
AMC wanted to extend it for a few more seasons
Vince wanted closure and basically said lol no
AMC said fine
Vince said he needed 16 episodes to do it
AMC (from what I remember) asked them to do it in less.
Vince said 16 or bust, he and Sony Pictures then (idk if it was a bluff or not) talked about just moving the series over to FX who ORIGINALLY was suppose to have it, and they would finish out the show
AMC broke down, and said 8 now 8 later
Vince went with it.
AMC and Sony/Vince had alot going on behind the scenes last year iirc
Thats the short hand.
PeskyToaster
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It was the best finale and I loved every second. It had none of this ambiguous ending cop out crap and it was completely in tone with the show. I am completely satisfied. GOAT.
I really wanna know this too lol. I loved his reaction. Everyone's dead around him and he's just like "....huh."
djblackice
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WHERE'S THE MONEY?
metalslimer
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Well I hated him, but I think he payed some pretty heavy consequences. Watching his brother in law executed in front of him. Losing any love he had from his son. Having to sit dying of cancer alone for months in a frozen house and finally death. His children will live there lives hating him and Skyler also views him as a completely different person. Just because he got to die on his own terms does not mean he didn't suffer.
The stevia thing is more than just Lydia having a routine. She namedropped that shit in virtually every one of her scenes for the past year. :lol
Todd spent it all on gifts for Lydia and he STILL couldn't seal the deal.
Alternate Theory:
Huell is sleeping on it.
He does, but if Junior has the 9 million dollars than Walt is satisfied.
And obviously a lot went unsaid but in their final scene together she definitely seems to still love him. She even lets him see Holly and watches the two of them, almost smiling.
Eaten By A Grue
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IT IS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY, IT HAS ALWAY BEEN ABOUT THE SCIENCE!
Hubris.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Happy Badger and Skinny Pete got a awesome send off. Really happy it is over but I want to know what Jesse is doing now. He has to be finding Brock and hanging out.
Eh, it's a win/lose for me
Does he absolutely know his money is going to his kids? No. Does he get to fully enjoy the revenge on the Nazis? No. Not to mention the fact he's still down 75m dollars or so that he did make for his children, and only sought that revenge after his brother in law was killed in front of him and he spent months wasting away in a hell.
It was never about Walt winning, and he didn't win really, when you separate Walt's ego from the rest of the world. He went out in control. But everything else around him goes on, still fucked up. He admitted he was a fuck, he didn't die with his wife, or his children, or his partner. He died in a steel, metal meth lab. Heisenberg won, yeah. I'm not necessarily sure Walt did.
bean breath
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I don't really feel strongly about the ending, I guess I'm happy it wasn't awful.
It just feels like, to me, it would have been the same if they ended the show when Walt defeated Tuco, or when Walt defeated Gus, as when Walt defeated Uncle Jack.
It just feels like, to me, it would have been the same if they ended the show when Walt defeated Tuco, or when Walt defeated Gus, as when Walt defeated Uncle Jack.
Shows should be judged on how they subvert expectations based on months of speculation posted on online message boards by hardcore fans of the show. Its the only way.
To be continued in...NEED FOR SPEED
I must have missed it - but was there more than one of it? I know it's been mentioned over and over. I thought it was in a group of those packets tho (so that's what I meant about her having to pick that specific pack out of the others).
Or did she bring the pack herself? I forget. And if she brought it herself, how did Walt get it in there? (I thought she grabbed it from the restaurant, and Walt had swiped it before she sat down.)
zeroeffect
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I thought the ending was ok but I almost predicted exactly how this episode would go down several episodes ago. They did have a few surprises in there.
Going to miss the series. Loved every minute of it.
Going to miss the series. Loved every minute of it.