Breaking Bad
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Don't forget his video confession in the Nazi rec room, although it may have been damaged in the shootout.
I thought the episode was VERY good, not epic (although my expectations were way too high) but very good. No loose ends, excellent character interaction...it was one of the better series finales.
My favorite tweet from the last night:
My favorite tweet from the last night:
I think the two best episodes of the series were the desert scenes with Walt, Jessie, Hank, Gomie, and the Nazis. Not only two of the best of Breaking Bad, but two of the best episodes ever on TV.
I'm guessing the Nazi's would have destroyed it at some point since it implicates them too.
Cyclonepride
Thought Police
Yeah, the Ozymandias episode was incredible. So many big things happened in that one, and the raw emotion was really really well done.
Some kids that trashed the house. They explained that in the episode before the last.
Any episode of television that incorporates both Marty Robbins and Badfinger is genius.
The finale was low-key and I'm sure there are things to nitpick with it, but it was the right ending for the show. Walt finally admitting that he ultimately did it all for himself was the one scene I thought was essential to ending the show the right way, so everything else was icing on the cake for me.
And in the end, Walt dies next to all of the equipment. The authorities and all the common folk will believe he was responsible for cooking all along and his legacy will live on (that he was the mastermind behind a meth empire who went down in a strange shootout with a gang of neo-Nazis). In the end, his ultimate selfish pride was the one human component that was sated, which was the premise behind him 'breaking bad'.
Not the best episode of this season, but one of the best finale episodes ever. When they took his keys and they were lying on the pool table was one of the more nerve-racking moments I remember in quite a while.
Don't know what will replace this show for me. Whatever it is will pale in comparison (at least for a while).
Not the best episode of this season, but one of the best finale episodes ever. When they took his keys and they were lying on the pool table was one of the more nerve-racking moments I remember in quite a while.
Don't know what will replace this show for me. Whatever it is will pale in comparison (at least for a while).
In no particular order and not all of these could happen:
-Jesse dying, his life was so bad anyway
-Jesse escaping himself by killing the Nazi's in someway
-Any meth explosion, like come on, how do they make a million pounds of meth with no explosions? Especially once it was rigged up underground or in that barn
-Jesse and Brock reuniting
-The ABQ Police Department actually being worth a damn. You think a meth kingpin could just waltz around town like it was nothing if this happened in real life?
-The Stevia Ricin switch not being so blatantly obvious
-How about a flash forward of what happens with Jesse. Is he a chemistry teacher? Is he a woodworking teacher? Is he back on drugs? I mean anything.
-If they were gonna bring up Grey Matter, why not show why Walt and Gretchen broke up
-Walt doing one last cook
-Walt trying meth just to see what it's like
-Walt blowing up the lab and him going down with his ship
-A true flashback to this quote: "Chemistry is... well, technically, chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change. [...] It is growth...then decay...then transformation. It is fascinating, really."
-Todd seeing Lydia die so he knows how that emotion feels
-Jesse actually killing Walt.
I have more. It did what it needed to do but it left me wanting something a bit more.
I'm glad they didn't do any flash forwards for the surviving characters. The show did an admirable job tying up the important loose ends, but something like that would have wrapped things up in too neat a bow. Sometimes its so much better to just leave those things to the audiences imagination.
And as far some of the other things you mentioned, I could see some of them working, but what do you cut from the episode to add those and not have the finale feel overstuffed?
So the only thing they didn't really resolve was why Walt left Gray Matter (and Gretchen), right? I guess it's not essential to the overall story, but it's interesting they didn't really explain it.
I would hate all of these things added with the exception of knowing more about grey matter
CycloneErik
Well-Known Member
ABQ Police Department was getting played by someone much smarter, even though he had a couple of yokels doing the groundwork. They needed to be running around, doing their job, but out of the way, for Walt's revenge thing to work.
I would have liked to see Lydia die in front of Todd but it would have ruined the whole episode since they would have known Walt wasn't really trying to get back in.
I thought they did when Walt told Jesse about it, but I don't really remember. Honestly, it probably works better left ambiguous. Was he really screwed out of a fortune, or was he always just deluded and bitter. It works so well for his character.
Make it a two hour episode? And some of the things that were left in the last episode were very drawn out in my opinion.
Huell....
You literally would've hated all of them? Some of them would've been bad given the way the episode was laid out but ALL of them? Come on man... you didn't wanna see Jesse seeing Brock?
Obviously it wasn't written in the ****** but think back to May when the Boston Bomber was on the loose... they shut down a whole city, many times larger than Albequerque to find him. I feel like they would do the same when a man who is responsible for more deaths than that Boston Bomber guy.
