I honestly didn't care about anything else happening or not happening in this episode: I just wanted Jesse to be okay.
If Jesse's story had ended on a low-note it might have ruined much of the show in my eyes.
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Breaking Bad - The (Beautiful) Finale - Season 5 Part 2 - Sunday on AMC - OT3
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I honestly didn't care about anything else happening or not happening in this episode: I just wanted Jesse to be okay.
If Jesse's story had ended on a low-note it might have ruined much of the show in my eyes.
lazybones18
Banned
that bitch is dead
The Searchers is a pretty well respected film in terms of themes, direction, and cinematography.
Dozens of films have copied or paid homage to the famous "Door" shot in The Searchers. I believe a recent episode of Breaking Bad did it, actually.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
That is why I really loved the Skyler scene. Him finally just saying I did this all for me not his family. Really wish we got one last scene with Jesse and Walt just saying something at least.
ThatCrazyGuy
Member
I want to believe Jesse knows where the money is.
It's the last time he'll ever talk to his wife again, someone who he knows he's hurt but still deeply cares about. He also wants to see Holly before he goes.
Walt accused him of teaming up with a snitch. Jack is exactly the type of thug for whom snitches are the worst thing ever, so this was a huge insult to Jack's Nazi Pride. It worked for me.
I'm not sure he cares at this point. He's free and alive.
metalslimer
Member
In Dexter, Walt would have knocked out the guards watching her in plain daylight snuck in and kidnapped Holly and gave her to Lydia to raise.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Holy shit.
gutter_trash
Banned
I got to admit, I almost teared up during the credit roll.. it's over 
He had cancer, he was on borrowed time anyway. He eliminated the threat to his family and provided for them. Oh, and he had fun.
blame space
Banned
i don't watch dexter but that was maybe my favorite scene. what was bad about it?
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Watch wasn't on his wrist during first episode of season 5.
In season 5A episode 1 with the teaser walt doesn't have a watch on, later in the season they added the watch story with jesse but had to fix a continuity error of walt not having it BEFORE entering ABQ, which is where they put the small scene in.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Same reason the Aryans didn't kill Walt in the desert: Breaking Bad writing.
Still, I thought it was a great ending, and the best finale I've seen since The Shield's. It handled everything well, and didn't go in the direction I had anticipated (Jesse killing Walt), which I felt would be predictable.
Keep in mind that this is also the same guy who kept the rat alive and making meth for them because his nephew has a crush on his business partner.
Nazi logic is strange.
He wouldn't make it past the Canadian border. I have friends who were refused entry into the Canada just because they couldn't prove they planned to return to the states.
He provided for his family. That was his claimed goal from the start, right? Death was inevitable either way, so that doesn't really factor into my perception of whether it was a win or not.
Meh. It could be spun as a win.
Teletraan1
Banned
How could he have ever managed to slip past those 2 guys watching the house in a car across the street through the rear view mirror? HOW?
Infinite Justice
Member
Nah that nod said it all
Apparently in the flash forward of the first season five episode he didn't have it at the diner.
metalslimer
Member
In Dexter, characters can pretty much get away with anything and supposedly Walt getting into the house is Dexter level
Intheflorsh
Banned
I really don't know why they would check Walt's trunk. I mean would you expect a pop-up automated machine gun?
blame space
Banned
are you serious with these posts
I think the saddest shot in that episode was Walt looking through the window of another house and seeing Walt Jr. returning home, knowing that he would never get to say goodbye to his son. The last words he had with him were words of anger and disgust. "Why aren't you dead already? Just die."
The only child Walt had a real relationship with will forever recognize him as a monster, a different person from the caring, loving Father he wanted to be remembered by. Walt Jr. won't even use his birth name. Walt never gets his wish to be remembered in a good light by his son.
He gets to remember his father as a murderous, drug lord who killed his uncle and his partner in cold blood. There is no redemption for Walter in that sense.
The only child Walt had a real relationship with will forever recognize him as a monster, a different person from the caring, loving Father he wanted to be remembered by. Walt Jr. won't even use his birth name. Walt never gets his wish to be remembered in a good light by his son.
He gets to remember his father as a murderous, drug lord who killed his uncle and his partner in cold blood. There is no redemption for Walter in that sense.
Awesome season. Epic Walt/Godfather mass kill scene moment, Walt/Hank showdown, Jesse flipping the f#$% out. Ending was okay. It certainly wrapped things up, but I'm not sure if it was on the same level as the rest of the season. I suppose if I have to make an excuse for it, it would be that it was mirroring Walt's own decay in health and power in that it wasn't quite as powerful as the previous episodes but still got the job done. Also, glad that completely casual, soulless piece of shit Todd is dead.
I feel the fact that he's there and Skyler not resisting, arguing, yelling at him is a way to show how truly broken she is. Walt entering isn't what's important, it's the message he sends while there, and letting the audience see how Skyler has adjusted.
The wound wasn't bad enough to kill him in the 5+ minutes he was walking around after he got shot, so why would he suddenly die in the 90 or so seconds before the police got there? It's not like he got shot in the chest or anything, it was his side. Didn't look like worse than a flesh wound to me, maybe a shot to the kidney.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
I know I just wanted one word going sorry Jesse. The nod was epic I just wanted Jesse to say bitch one last time.
He's good at this.
Romars202129
Member
I'm sattisfied with the ending, TV dramas tend to have horrible finales though, so my expectations were low from the beginning.
I'd just say, I wish it wasn't so damn heavy handed. That ending song was just dumb. And those final moments between Jesse and Walt felt hella scripted. What the hell was that.... it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the final scene is the biggest slice of ham in the entire show, a show which initially drew me in with it's lack of ham.
I'd just say, I wish it wasn't so damn heavy handed. That ending song was just dumb. And those final moments between Jesse and Walt felt hella scripted. What the hell was that.... it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the final scene is the biggest slice of ham in the entire show, a show which initially drew me in with it's lack of ham.
I'm going to get all deep and shit and say that Walt leaving behind his watch is symbolic of how he's been watching the clock tick towards his inevitable death, but now he's leaving that behind, no longer fearing death or watching the clock as he's going to die on his own terms
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Bobby Roberts
Banned
She didn't know they went out to the desert together.
ThatCrazyGuy
Member
It would seem. But he might be wanted and on the run and has no money and ,mentally broken. I think he will go back on drugs and commit suicide.
Infinite Justice
Member
Walter being all Casper in the episode was fucking hilarious.
yes and no
TimeEffect
Member
That's the problem though. Walking in plain daylight, and having just two cops who aren't even doing their job right.
terribletwo
Member
Excellent finale because Walt fans can see it as Walt being a total fucking bad ass, because lets be real that trunk get up was fucking real
and people that understand Walt is a horrible animal get the catharsis of him finally admitting it and in an awkward way trying to set things right
and people that understand Walt is a horrible animal get the catharsis of him finally admitting it and in an awkward way trying to set things right