Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

That seems like a really strange way to look at all this. Jesse is completely destroyed. Outliving a cancer-ridden 52-year-old who has been putting his life on the line for two years and stopped taking chemotherapy and radiation treatments isn't some grand accomplishment.

 

It is if you consider that Walt supposedly sent Jesse to his death two episodes prior and that until the robot gun Jesse was a chained up slave.

 

It's interesting to me how many people ultimately watched the show through the prism of Jesse.

Nothing wrong with that, but the show was about Walt. It's why I think some of the criticism I've seen about the relative lack of Jesse scenes in the finale is off the mark.

 

Nobody won. That's the point.

 

Ultimately - and quite literally - Walt was killed by his own device, his own machinations - how fitting is that?

 

how about this guy?

 

For those who don't want to figure out what Buck was trying to link to:

 

thank, Vers

 

I think I would have liked to seen Walt Jr. get hooked on meth while Walt was away in New Hampshire and have died of an overdose before Walt made it back to New Mexico.

Anyone else?

 

Could've been a decent plotline earlier in the show, but not at the end. Too much to delve into in a single episode, for one thing. For another, it wouldn't jibe with Walt Jr.'s character at all. He'd never been anywhere near that world, as far as we know. His DEA uncle, who he adored, was just murdered by his drug dealing father -- who also betrayed everything he'd ever taught his son about morality.
Walt Jr. likely went to some dark places in processing all of that, but I can't see drug use being one of them. Drugs destroyed his family. He's never touching the stuff.

 

Walt Jr. already has his own addictions. Like breakfast.

 

This idea is why you didn't get to be a writer on the series ;D

I watched the finale twice and I found it almost absolutely perfect. It was about redemption. The thing that struck me was Walter White was physically diminished. He shuffled through the entire episode but it was clear he wanted to make things right. The lighting was dark, almost on every scene.

I miss this show but it's over. Run.