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Pitt_Clone said:
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.
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Walt left Gretchen because of his inferiority complex about rich people/poor people. Something happened at that trip to her family's estate, in something that was said, or the way that they acted that touched his nerve about handouts.

This carries through his character and interaction with her - that he doesn't want their money - don't want any handouts - don't use any of your money to set up the trust fund. This is also why he thinks of "him" versus "the family" because he would have taken their money if he was thinking of the family.
 
twistedredbird said:
Walt left Gretchen because of his inferiority complex about rich people/poor people. Something happened at that trip to her family's estate, in something that was said, or the way that they acted that touched his nerve about handouts.

This carries through his character and interaction with her - that he doesn't want their money - don't want any handouts - don't use any of your money to set up the trust fund. This is also why he thinks of "him" versus "the family" because he would have taken their money if he was thinking of the family.
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And that is all speculation. Probably pretty accurate but we have no idea. Something happened on the family trip and that's all we know.
 
ISUCyclones2015 said:
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.
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In the real world, sure. In this world where Walter White confounded them at every turn, this is pretty realistic.


I would have liked seeing Jesse and Brock myself, but somebody was pretty effective earlier pointing out that there's no way Jesse's going to have custody of the boy. Only way something like that happens involves essentially a kidnapping and an Amber Alert version of Jesse's happy ending.
 
ISUCyclones2015 said:
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.
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Gilligan is on record saying he turned down AMC's offer to make the final episode longer, and I think that was the right choice. Trying to chase down what happened to the Brocks and Huells of the Breaking Bad universe would have been fan-service filler, imo.
 
1100011CS said:
No it's not. VG said that himself.
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I don't like listening to writers talk about something they didn't write in the skript. (Misspelled because of the filter) If they wanted it to be known, then they should've put it on the show.
 
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Pitt_Clone said:
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.
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Sorry I don't have a link but the actress that played Gretchen, Jessica Hecht, explained it in an interview. I've been looking for the article but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, one day on set Vince Gilligan pulled her and Bryan Cranston to the side so he could explain what happened between them in order to set the mood before they filmed a scene. She said it was something along the lines of Gretchen takes Walt to her parents house on a vacation and I guess Gretchen's family is filthy rich. Walt essentially gets mad about how they're rich and he isn't so he leaves their house and the company.
 
CycloneErik said:
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.
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I loved the little tidbit that Marie dropped in that they have had multiple reported sitings of Walt - and that they knew some of them had to be fake. But Walt deliberately talking to his neighbor who would be a reliable source and the car being found makes the situation real, so the police/DEA had to be busy chasing down every lead - which all of which were probably fake.
 
I can't find it now, either, but I excerpted that part from the interview with Hecht in a post last week:

Die4Cy said:
It never HAS been said on the show, although the actress who plays Gretchen Schwartz told an interviewer that she questioned her motivation in a scene where Walter White curses her offer to pay for his treatment, and executive producer Vince Gilligan provided the backstory:

"Q: What’s it like have Bryan Cranston curse at you?
A: Oh man, he’s a good actor. But it was easy because Vince Gilligan told us exactly what went down between the characters off screen: We were very much in love and we were to get married. And he came home and met my family, and I come from this really successful, wealthy family, and that knocks him on his side. He couldn’t deal with this inferiority he felt — this lack of connection to privilege. It made him terrified, and he literally just left me, and I was devastated. Walt is fighting his way out of going back to that emotional place, so he says, “F— you.â€￾
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One element that I don't see enough conversation on is the remainder of Walt's money. He shot Jack before he could say, obviously because he doesn't care anymore; it doesn't matter. But it's probably the one piece I've been chewing over in my head since last night.
 
dcxme1183 said:
One element that I don't see enough conversation on is the remainder of Walt's money. He shot Jack before he could say, obviously because he doesn't care anymore; it doesn't matter. But it's probably the one piece I've been chewing over in my head since last night.
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The DEA will find it and that's that.
 
dcxme1183 said:
One element that I don't see enough conversation on is the remainder of Walt's money. He shot Jack before he could say, obviously because he doesn't care anymore; it doesn't matter. But it's probably the one piece I've been chewing over in my head since last night.
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He knew he would not be getting it anyway. And 10M is enough for a family to live on and not have to worry anymore. In the end, he did what he needed to do to take care of his family. Walt won.
 
I thought there were a lot of parallels to the Marty Robins song El Paso and these last episodes. Felina is the blue meth, Walt leaves town, returns to it knowing he would die. In the end he gets that bullet in the side and dies by his true love.

MARTY ROBBINS - EL PASO LYRICS
 
brianhos said:
He knew he would not be getting it anyway. And 10M is enough for a family to live on and not have to worry anymore. In the end, he did what he needed to do to take care of his family. Walt won.
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I thought it was going to end like this....

[video=youtube;3ADgb_s6ZSY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADgb_s6ZSY[/video]
 
MNCyGuy said:
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?
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Was Jesse building the box a flash forward? I interpreted it as him imagining making the box while actually making the meth. At the end he hated making the meth and didn't want to do it at all. I figured this was his escape he manufactured in his head in order to do the work, thus keeping Brock alive.
 
CyOps said:
I thought there were a lot of parallels to the Marty Robins song El Paso and these last episodes. Felina is the blue meth, Walt leaves town, returns to it knowing he would die. In the end he gets that bullet in the side and dies by his true love.

MARTY ROBBINS - EL PASO LYRICS
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My dad is a big fan of Marty Robbins, so he used to play that all the time when I was a kid. When he pulled the tape out of the glove box, I almost knew what would be playing, and it was so well placed it gave me chills.
 
BKLYNCyclone said:
Was Jesse building the box a flash forward? I interpreted it as him imagining making the box while actually making the meth. At the end he hated making the meth and didn't want to do it at all. I figured this was his escape he manufactured in his head in order to do the work, thus keeping Brock alive.
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It was a flashback of the box he made for his aunt, but later sold it to buy drugs.
 
BKLYNCyclone said:
Was Jesse building the box a flash forward? I interpreted it as him imagining making the box while actually making the meth. At the end he hated making the meth and didn't want to do it at all. I figured this was his escape he manufactured in his head in order to do the work, thus keeping Brock alive.
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He made a box like that in woodworking class in HS, but then sold it for an ounce of weed. It was one of the things he was most proud of. I am guessing it was his happy place.
 
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