"All BAD Things Must Come to an End" - Breaking Bad Season 5: Part 2 Official Thread (SPOILERS)

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http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-the-end-of-breaking-bad-doesnt-and-does-matter,101411/

Great article about the fate of Walter White.

Walter White has eight episodes left. Right now, only a small group of people know what happens at the end of Breaking Bad’s final season, but Walt’s basic fate is obvious to anyone who watches the show. It was obvious in the flash-forward at the start of the fifth season, which jumped a year ahead to show us a Heisenberg without the swagger, a shell of a man going through the motions, taking comfort from the machine gun in the trunk of his car. It was obvious over the course of the episodes that followed, as Walt, having defeated his most dangerous foe, luxuriated in his power, opened his arms wide, and watched the blood flow. But really, it was obvious before that. It was obvious in the fourth season, as Walt, forced into impotence by an enemy who was always two steps ahead, railed against that impotence, and poisoned a child; obvious in the third season, as Walt saw the increasingly painful toll of his work and decided to keep digging anyway; obvious in the second season, as Walt’s greed led him to betrayal after betrayal; obvious in the first season, as Walt took a bad decision and somehow kept finding ways to make it worse. You could argue it was obvious in the very first scene of the show: Walter White in his underwear, offering goodbyes to a video camera but making sure to insist, “This is not an admission of guilt.”

Walter White is doomed. There was never any doubt. And in a sense, that certainty means the final eight episodes don’t really matter.
 

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Walt actually believing he could just retire and stay in the same place is just :heh:

It's either death, jail, snitching, or disappearing.

The moment he decided to leave the game was the moment he should have made the call to disappear.
Thats the thing I don't understand about Walt. EVERYBODY knows where this dude lives. The twins, Mike, and Fring's hitmen have even been in the place and it don't seen to bother him one bit.
 

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It was only implied he quit, he is the boss and I'm sure he would still get a slice of the cake from Todd and his crew, he just turned over a huge empire to them. Money to run the prisons and anything else they had going. I'm positive he knew it wouldn't last , he is dying still so no matter what he was going out. Deep down I think he wants one last war to show that he could outsmart and out think any enemy.


i clearly spend to much cotdamn time in the battlezone; i read Todd as beein TODD(johnjohn) and thought wtf he gotta do with brba
 

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Thats the thing I don't understand about Walt. EVERYBODY knows where this dude lives. The twins, Mike, and Fring's hitmen have even been in the place and it don't seen to bother him one bit.

His ego is on another level, especially after he killed Gus. It doesn't bother him because he thinks he can handle anybody and anything. Obviously he can't, and I'm sure he'll catch an L because of it in the long run.

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What is he really facing? Only Hank and Skylar? He got 2 billion dollars in storage, they have to do flash fowards because there is not a SINGLE threat lurking any where. He out smarted them all getting his McGyver on. I would respect Vince if he at least gives Walter White a car from Knight Industries. Season 1 was decent and that's the only season I've rewatched, Season 2 made the show, everything else was popcorn tv and very unrealistic.
 

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What is he really facing? Only Hank and Skylar? He got 2 billion dollars in storage, they have to do flash fowards because there is not a SINGLE threat lurking any where. He out smarted them all getting his McGyver on. I would respect Vince if he at least gives Walter White a car from Knight Industries. Season 1 was decent and that's the only season I've rewatched, Season 2 made the show, everything else was popcorn tv and very unrealistic.

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Before you grace this moron with a response I'd like to point out that he considers "Dexter" a top 5 show and said it should go on for a few more seasons.

Fred.
 

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What is he really facing? Only Hank and Skylar? He got 2 billion dollars in storage, they have to do flash fowards because there is not a SINGLE threat lurking any where. He out smarted them all getting his McGyver on. I would respect Vince if he at least gives Walter White a car from Knight Industries. Season 1 was decent and that's the only season I've rewatched, Season 2 made the show, everything else was popcorn tv and very unrealistic.

You don't think the Feds are a threat? Or a new drug kingpin wanting territory? Remember, Walt has no muscle.
 

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@phillycavsfan

Before you grace this moron with a response I'd like to point out that he considers "Dexter" a top 5 show and said it should go on for a few more seasons.

Fred.

This nikka said Dexter was top 5 and had the audacity to criticize something for being popcorn tv

:banderas: :russ: :laff:
 
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Antihero?

Walter stop being a sympathetic character after he decided to stay in the game after his lick.

Dude has been a villain IMO for 90% of the series

Dude don't care about nobody, but, himself, Skylar, Jr and baby. And its debatable if he really cares for his fam,
 

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Antihero?

Walter stop being a sympathetic character after he decided to stay in the game after his lick.

Dude has been a villain IMO for 90% of the series

Dude don't care about nobody, but, himself, Skylar, Jr and baby. And its debatable if he really cares for his fam,

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