As glad as I am for the cast and crew of the show to go out with such buzz and 10 million viewers at the same time I almost wish it was just the 2 or 3 milli who watched the season 4 finale. There is no way for a show to win in its series finale unless its something like the Shield, FNL, The Wire where the only people watching are the fans. There is just no way to truly satisfy the majority of the people when the show is supposed to produce surprises, tie up loose ends, leave some things opened ended cause life is not perfectly wrapped up and so on and so on. See Sopranos/BB/Lost
A few points on the actual episode
Much like The Sopranos/Wire finale its really going to play better when viewed with the episode prior to it. This would only happen at HBO, cause the other non-subscriber channels are greedy, as evident by the onslaught of commercials last night, or incompetent (Showtime), but if I was wanting to construct the perfect finale it should be a 2 hour episode.
I'm still baffled by the notion this was a happy ending or a Hollywood ending...Yes, Walt does solve all "family business" and his plan works almost flawlessly, at the same time look where the characters end up from where they started.
Marie A widow who will always blame Skyler for not acting against Walt and telling Hank as soon as she found out. The sight of Flynn or Holly will be an eternal reminder of her loss.
Skyler A guilty conscience for sure that will plague her for the rest of her days...A son/aunt who will always partially blame her... She will always be known as the meth kingpin's wife...And the show left it open ended as far as her legal troubles... We know she has an inept public defender, whose to say she doesn't get thrown under the jail even with the info of Hank's body.
Jr. Gets it the worse of any1. Again its open ended as far as what the Shwartz's to do with the $ Walt gave them. As soon as they find out what happened to Walt what reason do they have to think the assassins just don't take the 200k and say fukk it, or just go to the police and hire some bodyguards. Jr has the 4 closest people to him in his life end up dead, in jail, or mentally fukked up. He will also live with the White name haunting him and wondering why the fukk his father did this to them.
Holly I guess has a chance to be normal, but at the same time she will eventually find out she was fathered by the great criminal Heisenberg and what kind of parenting can she expect... It's not gonna be a very happy home that's for sure.
Jesse gets a chance at freedom and as a fan of the character I'd like to think the cops dig up Hank find the cell pic and presume Jesse was killed at some point before the events in the desert and there isn't a search for em. It is more likely he gets picked up and has to face some serious charges, or he escapes and gets back into drugs to null the pain. The odds are not great for him, at least he gets a shot I suppose.
Walt could have gone out without a great fight to the cancer and he would never fulfilled his potential and had a ton of regrets, but he would have been surrounded by his family who loved him and he could of died with the belief they would go on to live happy lives while cherishing his memory. No one loves Walt at the end...His last words from his son/Marie/Hank were full of hatred...Skyler's anger at him subsides for a moment as it turns to pity as he is about to die.. His daughter will never know him as a person only as a monster... Jesse gives him a slight nod of thanks for helping to free him, but he will forever curse the day he didn't tell Walt to fukk off when he approached him to cook that 1st time.
Walt's plan works, but he dies surrounded by neo-Nazi white trash murderers and in a meth lab. What a happy ending, what redemption
A few points on the actual episode
Much like The Sopranos/Wire finale its really going to play better when viewed with the episode prior to it. This would only happen at HBO, cause the other non-subscriber channels are greedy, as evident by the onslaught of commercials last night, or incompetent (Showtime), but if I was wanting to construct the perfect finale it should be a 2 hour episode.
I'm still baffled by the notion this was a happy ending or a Hollywood ending...Yes, Walt does solve all "family business" and his plan works almost flawlessly, at the same time look where the characters end up from where they started.
Marie A widow who will always blame Skyler for not acting against Walt and telling Hank as soon as she found out. The sight of Flynn or Holly will be an eternal reminder of her loss.
Skyler A guilty conscience for sure that will plague her for the rest of her days...A son/aunt who will always partially blame her... She will always be known as the meth kingpin's wife...And the show left it open ended as far as her legal troubles... We know she has an inept public defender, whose to say she doesn't get thrown under the jail even with the info of Hank's body.
Jr. Gets it the worse of any1. Again its open ended as far as what the Shwartz's to do with the $ Walt gave them. As soon as they find out what happened to Walt what reason do they have to think the assassins just don't take the 200k and say fukk it, or just go to the police and hire some bodyguards. Jr has the 4 closest people to him in his life end up dead, in jail, or mentally fukked up. He will also live with the White name haunting him and wondering why the fukk his father did this to them.
Holly I guess has a chance to be normal, but at the same time she will eventually find out she was fathered by the great criminal Heisenberg and what kind of parenting can she expect... It's not gonna be a very happy home that's for sure.
Jesse gets a chance at freedom and as a fan of the character I'd like to think the cops dig up Hank find the cell pic and presume Jesse was killed at some point before the events in the desert and there isn't a search for em. It is more likely he gets picked up and has to face some serious charges, or he escapes and gets back into drugs to null the pain. The odds are not great for him, at least he gets a shot I suppose.
Walt could have gone out without a great fight to the cancer and he would never fulfilled his potential and had a ton of regrets, but he would have been surrounded by his family who loved him and he could of died with the belief they would go on to live happy lives while cherishing his memory. No one loves Walt at the end...His last words from his son/Marie/Hank were full of hatred...Skyler's anger at him subsides for a moment as it turns to pity as he is about to die.. His daughter will never know him as a person only as a monster... Jesse gives him a slight nod of thanks for helping to free him, but he will forever curse the day he didn't tell Walt to fukk off when he approached him to cook that 1st time.
Walt's plan works, but he dies surrounded by neo-Nazi white trash murderers and in a meth lab. What a happy ending, what redemption
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