Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

One of the great thing about the show is that the show was complete and short enough where you could remember things (and had the same vision from pilot to finale). Did Walt have too much pride in the beginning? When he worked at a car wash to supplement his teacher pay in order to provide for his family? Was it the cancer that was the last straw and he just decided to say f--k it?

 

Another thing I noticed when I watched the finale.

Walt caps Uncle Jack in the head. Walt slides gun to Jesse and implores Jesse to kill him. Of course Jesse drops the gun and tells Walt to it himself.

The gun is left there ... for the cops to scoop up when they arrive with Jesse's prints on it.

They had no knowledge Jesse was there before. They do now and surely Jesse will be even more of a wanted man, even with Walt having been responsible for the lion's share of the compound's carnage.

Pretty sure the writers didn't intend that, but its yet another bleak future for a primary character in an episode that wasn't as redemptive or as "happy" as some think.

 

If someone thinks Jesse was getting any kind of happy ending simply because he drove out of there alive, I'm not really sure what show you watched. I loved that character and even I wanted him to die because there's simply no way a soul that tortured can lead a happy life after that.

Also, Todd surviving absolutely does not go with the tone of the show. The show has a dark tone, yes, but in every single instance of "good vs. evil," Walt has come out on top. Doing it again falls in line with the rest of the show. Probably should be "evil vs. less evil."

 

He shoots himself. I'm assuming that until the last minute decision to save Jesse when he found out that Jesse wasn't a willing participant, Walt never planned on ducking when he set off the M60.

 

Jesse's prints would be all over that place from helping with the meth operation and being held captive there.

 

Hey Bubs, hate to break it to you, but the series is O-V-E-R. There are no cops, there are no finger prints, there are no arrests, there are no bleak futures for any of the characters. The show has reached <30> .

 

Todd, to me, was a force of nature. And in the drug trade, in addiction, in the seedy world Walter White opened his family up to, that force of nature never loses. It never gets choked out. It simply jumps from person to person, group to group, leveling everything in its way.

But Bubbler and others had this show pegged better than I did and recognized the show for what it was — brilliant pulp. Gilligan's vision for the show wasn't the same as mine. I'm okay with that.

On a re-watch, I will say it was a darker ending than I first realized. I think RickStain is right that Walt's after-death plans will all fall through or open his family up to even more trouble. Walt — because he's an asshole — needed to be comforted at the time of his death that he didn't just destroy the lives of hundreds of people for nothing. And there's no way that laser pointer scheme works for more than a few weeks. They're billionaires. They'll hire their own hit men to kill the hit men. And then they'll realize there are no hitmen.

Badger and Skinny Pete do have enough money to buy a lot of pot and churn out even more stellar Star Trek fanfiction, though. There is hope in the world.

 

This. For me, all that stuff was a significant part of the show's allure.

 

Even if Jesse evades arrest, where's he gonna go? He's got no money, his house and all his assets have presumably been seized by the DEA, Saul is in hiding, and he burned his bridges with the vacuum cleaner guy. All he's got are the clothes on his back and whatever gas is left in the tank of that El Camino, or at best a temporary hideoud at Badger or Skinny Pete's house.

Some have theorized that he'd go after Brock, but where is Brock? He's certainly not sitting at his house with the body of his dead mother on the porch. He's either been placed with child protective services or maybe with Andrea's mother. Either way, Jesse probably couldn't get to him.

Also, the cops probably find the DVD confession he made for Hank in the Nazi clubhouse. So yeah, the heat's still on him, big-time.

 

I think they should do a movie.

 

Oh you haven't heard about the sequel? Breaking Bad II: Electric Boogaloo?

In it, Jesse discovers the therapeutic benefits of break-dancing. And by divine circumstance, Turbo and Ozone, now old sages in the game, have adopted the orphan Brock. He's a natural who has a black belt in the wave.

Jesse trains under Turbo and Ozone as he evades the authorities. He's also advised by Ghost Walt, a la, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ghost Walt realized in hell that his scientific talents weren't best used to create blue meth, but would have been best served in creating the most aerodynamic pop-and-lock ever conceived. Ghost Walt implores Jesse not to make the same mistakes he did and to just JAM!

The authorities, led by Marie, who became an avenging DEA super agent in a year's time after discovery of Hank's corpse, close in. Just as they close in, Jesse executes the nearly-impossible worm-to-headspin combo. Entranced by Jesse's transcendent breaking, not only are Jesse's charges dropped, but the DEA joins the dance troupe in a huge dance-off.

A tearful Marie is forgiven by Jesse, who gives her a purple headband as a sign if respect. Marie immediately calls Skyler and tells her to come to the dance-off to escape her depression.

"Why?" Skyler asks. "Because it's hype! Bring all the cardboard you can bring," Marie explains.

Skyler deems that a good enough reason and brings Walt Jr. with her. Upon witnessing the infectious groove of the dance-off, Walt Jr. is immediately cured and begins a celebratory one-handed freeze. Skyler falls in love with Jesse and they stand and holds hands together, joined by Ghost Walt, as they proudly survey the breakdancing they hath wrought.

The end. Guest starring Oran "Juice" Jones and the guys from Robert Plant's In The Mood video.

 

Jesse won. He beat Walt. He outlived Walt. Whatever comes after that is irrelevant.

It occurred to me this morning that they made a bigger point of the ricin than was necessary because there had to be one last bit of weaponized chemistry involved. Again, I'm OK with that.

What a wild ride.