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So yea, the Grey Matter story ain't dead.
So yea, the Grey Matter story ain't dead.
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There's just no way Jesse would be allowed to get custody of Brock. He's not a family member, he's a known drug addict, and, most importantly, he's a known associate of the largest meth kingpin in the Southwest, if not all of the United States. Pretty sure that last point might carry some weight with Child Protective Services.
Does anyone feel that Jesse's family and Marie's shoplifting are somewhat "loose ends"?
I'm rewatching old episodes, and while I don't think these aspects are going to come into play in the final episode, they do seem to be loose ends within the arc of the series.
I'm rewatching old episodes, and while I don't think these aspects are going to come into play in the final episode, they do seem to be loose ends within the arc of the series.
Did Marie's shoplifting come into play with Walt's confession? That's the only way I can see it playing into the end game at all. I suppose she could end up doing it again to cope with Hank's death, but that seems like a waste of the precious 75 minutes they have left. I think it was ultimately just a character quirk written in to flesh out her relationships with Hank and Skyler (and probably to give Marie something to do).
Jesse's family I think only came into play to show that he had really burned that bridge and show why he was loyal to pseudo-family like Walt, Jane, and Andrea. I don't really think that's a loose end.
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I think the shoplifting gave Marie a nice quirk, but really set up her own confrontation with Skyler once the real news broke to her about what Walt was doing. Same confrontation, but reversed and very ramped up, as though Skyler and Walt have done something serious.
I really don't know what to do in terms of wrapping up Marie's story. There's still the blame for Walt over Hank's death. That has to be there. There's the sister relationship, and I'm not sure what happens there.
I really don't know what to do in terms of wrapping up Marie's story. There's still the blame for Walt over Hank's death. That has to be there. There's the sister relationship, and I'm not sure what happens there.
I was just watching several old episodes again over the past few days. I had completely missed the foreshadowing from Season 5-1 "Live Free or Die" opening scene, where Walt was sitting in the diner eating breakfast, with the cough and full head of hair. He had the New Hampshire driver's license, named Lambert, with the birthday of 5/2, and bought the gun from the dealer in the rest room stating "it won't leave the state" and he walked out, grabbed his bag of money then opened the trunk of the car to see the BFG (big f'n gun). This was obviously of him at the beginning of this coming final episode. Somebody is getting blown away.
Yeah, that foreshadowing did something other shows could not pull off. This entire "season" we've known he will come back yet we are still intrigued with how it will all end. With other shows they probably would not give us that much about the final episode.
Like in The Wire, I doubt they would foreshadow Omar being killed by a little kid.
I think this is what the majority of fans want (the producers led us there) and since it is a fictional show, we almost think we deserve it.
But I believe that it is the intent of the shows creators to define "Breaking Bad" with this story, and make light of the notion that once you turn bad, err the baddest of bads, there is no going back as you essentially entered a whole different world. The only escape from that world is death, and lucky for Walt the cancer will get him shortly after he realizes his only way out of "bad" is death.
Jesse on the other hand lives on. He doesn't have to break bad, since he never embraced it. Even though he did terrible, unspeakable things (see killing Gale) he never let himself justify the bad things, or truly become bad. It always made him sick and he wanted to end his involvement as soon as he felt the bad taking hold.
Walt embraced bad (in his case we call it Heisenberg) and once it is embraced, it can only be killed, not reversed.
I want Jesse to "win" also, but I'm not sure he's going to. I don't think there are going to be any winners in this. I think the moral of the entire story is that before you make ANY decision in life, you had better also consider ALL the consequences of that decision before you make it.
Jesse really is a good guy, but he did make some horrible decisions in this show too. And those horrible decisions will likely have bad consequences. They already have, but I think it's going to get worse for him.
Nobody in this show hasn't done bad things, except Walt Jr. and Holly IMO. Skylar certainly has. She cheated on her husband, and also went in with Walt on the drug business too. Marie is a shoplifter.
I just think there aren't going to be any winners. Walt Jr and Holly are really the only innocent people left.
Everybody is forgetting about Ted. He's lean, he's mean and he's got a healed neck. Ted is back, and he's breaking sexy.
You might be on to something. Ted wins. Ted is the one who gets the final knock. It's Ted's territory. You're damn right it's Ted, etc.
Rather than start a new thread I figured I'd put this article in here. It examines something I've noticed for awhile and underlines why if you like Breaking Bad and haven't yet watched The Shield you should check it out.
Breaking Bad finale is poised to echo the great FX show The Shield.
Breaking Bad finale is poised to echo the great FX show The Shield.
Who just watched, or remembers, the very first episode?
I think the person Walt noticed right before He passed out at the car wash was Gretchen Schwartz. I had never noticed that before.
I think the person Walt noticed right before He passed out at the car wash was Gretchen Schwartz. I had never noticed that before.
