I read the New Yorker article yesterday or the day before and really wish it were true that it was all some sort of fever dream. Most people would have hated it, but I would have loved if the last shot of the series went from the shot we have now of the camera rising from Walt's dead body as cops walk past it to his body in the same position in the cabin and Saul's fixer standing over him. People would hate it, but for me I would have given Gilligan a ton of credit and held this show in even higher esteem than I really do. I think @
gator_king had said how last episode was one of his favorite of the series and I share that sentiment. Walt using that money that he worked so hard for to pay a stranger for a little bit of his time was the best scene of the series to me. We saw him irreversibly broken in that cabin. People would hate it because they didn't get a finale that was tidy and full of resolution, but for a show that's tried to be emotionally impactful so many times, seeing that Walt died a weak, lonely old man that was never given a chance to right his wrongs would have been the most emotional thing this show has ever done. Gilligan would never escape questions about what happened to this character or that character but the answer to what happened to the only important character on the show would have been answered in a powerful way that few if any of his contemporaries would have had the balls to do.
That would've actually been dope....I thought "The Sopranos" ending was dope. People would've killed Vince Gilligan though man. You know they would. Look at how the "Sopranos" ending was received.
I think the show ended sufficiently dark. If that makes sense.
The finale on it's own is upbeat....Walt is winning at every turn, his family gets the money, and he dies without ever spending a day in jail. But Walt only got a happy ending if you disregard the rest of the series. Nothing that happened in "Felina" erased "Granite State" or "Ozymandias". Or any other episode prior to that. Hell, truth be told, every single character on the show would've been better off if he died from cancer 2 years ago instead of getting chemo/an operation. Yes his family would be in debt, but now they have $9 mill and....
1. Everyone Walt has ever known or loved hates him.
2. His children will grow up without a father. Their entire lives will be colored by "oh, it's Heisenberg's kids".
3. Hank died, Marie is a widow.
4. Lydia died, her daughter is an orphan.
5. Andrea died, her son is an orphan.
6. Todd died...."I'm sorry for your loss".
7. Skyler will most likely still go to jail, since the charges seem to be racketeering (money laundering and tax evasion). They don't need Walt to convict her of those.
And that's just this season. Tomas, Drew Sharp, Gale, Jane, Combo....think about every single bad thing that had to happen, for Walt to get this victory lap.
Walt won....the last ep is Heisenberg
but everyone else had to pay for it. The only downside to him dying alone, the ending you said, would be we wouldn't have that nice contrast of him winning at the expense of everyone else.
Fred.
People are so happy the ending wasn't terrible that they think that makes it
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the whole thread on your own. Please voice your criticism.
, thought it was gonna be a Mexican version, was ready to see 
with a heisenberg hat and a luchador mask
