How would you have ended Breaking Bad?

[thaKEAF]

Realistically there's not much more you could do than what they gave us.

 

[boskey]

This article makes a strong case that the last episode mightve been just Walt's fantasy rahter than actual reality. Especially when contrasted against last week's episode:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/breaking-bad-finale-reviewed.html

From my perspective, at least as I write, shortly after the finale aired, if this episode in fact took place in reality, it was troubling, and yes, disappointing, if only because the story ended by confirming Walt’s most grandiose notions: that he is, in fact, all-powerful, the smartest guy in the room, the one who knocks. Anyone other than Walt becomes a mere reflection of this journey to redemption. (With the exception of Jesse, who had the most mysterious scene: a poetic fugue of his own, in which he created what felt like a small coffin.*) It’s not that Walt needed to suffer, necessarily, for the show’s finale to be challenging, or original, or meaningful: but Walt succeeded with so little true friction—maintaining his legend, reconciling with family, avenging Hank, freeing Jesse, all genuine evil off-loaded onto other, badder bad guys—that it felt quite unlike the destabilizing series that I’d been watching for years. If, instead, we were watching Walt’s compensatory fantasy, it was a fascinating glimpse into the man’s mind—akin to the one in the movie “Mulholland Drive,” a poignant, tragic attempt to fix a life that is unfixable.

In “Granite State,” after all, each of the show’s action-hero fantasies were punctured, then deflated. Walt’s new identity doesn’t leave him safe in the Bahamas, with WiFi, free to plan his comeback. He’s trapped in New Hampshire, paying ten thousand dollars for an hour of poker—alone, powerless, sick. Jesse’s bold attempted escape from Nazi meth slavery doesn’t buy him freedom; it means his ex-girlfriend gets shot, and Brock is left a traumatized orphan. Walter’sclever phone call to Skyler was certainly a fantastic Hail Mary pass, as Saul acknowledges. But, in the aftermath, we can see that this brilliant stratagem doesn’t get Skyler off the hook: instead, she’s under the thumb of the law, working as a taxi dispatcher, her house trashed.

Also, Walt still has cancer. He’s sick. In fact, he seems like he’s dying.

This makes more sense to me than the gibberish psycho-babble you stans have been typing up for the last 8 weeks plus "All he cares about is his family...I mean money...I mean his ego...I mean pink teddybears in every scene"

 

[Jello Biafra]

This article makes a strong case that the last episode mightve been just Walt's fantasy rahter than actual reality. Especially when contrasted against last week's episode:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/breaking-bad-finale-reviewed.html





This makes more sense to me than the gibberish psycho-babble you stans have been typing up for the last 8 weeks plus "All he cares about is his family...I mean money...I mean his ego...I mean pink teddybears in every scene"

That New Yorker article is overthinking a finale that didn't have any hidden meanings or overwrought subtext. It's like the writer has been so conditioned by the shytty final episodes of Shows like The Sopranos and Lost that she can't accept what was so plainly laid out for her by BB's last episode so she needs to impart deeper meaning and misdirection where there was none.

 

[boskey]

That New Yorker article is overthinking a finale that didn't have any hidden meanings or overwrought subtext. It's like the writer has been so conditioned by the shytty final episodes of Shows like The Sopranos and Lost that she can't accept what was so plainly laid out for her by BB's last episode so she needs to impart deeper meaning and misdirection where there was none.

lol you really accuse her of over thinking? This show? With the pink teddybears that symobilze death? Titled after random country music songs? Where every shot is a callback to an episode from 3 years ago full of references to novels, movie posters etc?

But comparing 2 consecutive episodes with obvious contradictions is over thinking?

I disagree

 

[Techniec]

ending should of ended in an orgy, Flynn fukks Marie

and Walt end up tappin Lydia's OCD havin ass

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

lol you really accuse her of over thinking? This show? With the pink teddybears that symobilze death? Titled after random country music songs? Where every shot is a callback to an episode from 3 years ago full of references to novels, movie posters etc?

But comparing 2 consecutive episodes with obvious contradictions is over thinking?

I disagree

There's no contradictions.

Coli posters are mad that Walt didnt achieve supreme victory or go out like a murderous psychopath

NY Times writers are mad that he didnt suffer a soulcrushing and pointless death and shouldve been punished more.

Neither of those scenarios would've made sense if you were following the show. Like the song said, everyone got what they deserved.

 

[Jello Biafra]

lol you really accuse her of over thinking? This show? With the pink teddybears that symobilze death? Titled after random country music songs? Where every shot is a callback to an episode from 3 years ago full of references to novels, movie posters etc?

But comparing 2 consecutive episodes with obvious contradictions is over thinking?

I disagree

She is overthinking the living fukk out of this final episode if she thinks it was all one big Walt fantasy.
Also there were no contradictions...nothing Walt did in this finale is out if the realm of possibility based on past events on this show.
And even her main gripe makes no sense. Say what you will about Walt's multitude of flaws but he was always the smartest guy in the room. That wasn't a grandiose notion, that was just a fact.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

Also it would have been cool showing a quick lil montage at the end showing Jesse getting his life back to normal, showing Grey Matter presenting Walt Jr with trust and maybe showing Huell finally leaving the safe house for a lil comic relief at the end....

It would be:
-Junior getting his Trust during the HS Graduation
-Sky being cleared of the Charges
-Hank & Gomie being Buried
-Jessie in Rehab and he picks up Brock from the Group Home
-Saul being Promoted to MGR in Cinnabon
-Walts body is Zipped up in the Morgue

LOST

 

[boskey]

There's no contradictions.
.

One week the guy can't make it 5 miles into town and is getting chemo in a log cabin. He's so lonely that he has to pay 10,000 dollars for a guy to play cards with him

The next week he's finding the keys to abandoned cars and driving across the country to buy the worlds strongest gun...and he meets all of his old friends along the way...

Thats not a contradiction? I didn't even mean contradiction in a bad way,I just meant very obvious differences in the themes.But no middle ground with you fanatics....


cool show tho. Really. I've been watching since Episode 1...

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

One week the guy can't make it 5 miles into town and is getting chemo in a log cabin. He's so lonely that he has to pay 10,000 dollars for a guy to play cards with him

The next week he's finding the keys to abandoned cars and driving across the country to buy the worlds strongest gun...and he meets all of his old friends along the way...

Thats not a contradiction?

 

[jadillac]

I think the show has ended on near/certain death cliffhangers so many times that this ending is kinda soft.....like I would fully expect to turn my tv on AMC next week and see Walt wake up and somehow get back to things.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

@Boesky makin good points tho.

That's the problem with shows like these. At the end of the day they become victims to their own "intelligence." How can you NOT overanalyze a finale when everything else thus far has been open to analyzing all minutia within prior episodes.

For the record I really like BB as a series. It's an all time great. But criticism for the finale is fair. It was exciting and a good episode but it had some flaws. To deny that is being a stan. Great show, good ending. I'm gonna miss it.

 

[MenacingMonk]

One week the guy can't make it 5 miles into town and is getting chemo in a log cabin. He's so lonely that he has to pay 10,000 dollars for a guy to play cards with him

The next week he's finding the keys to abandoned cars and driving across the country to buy the worlds strongest gun...and he meets all of his old friends along the way...

Thats not a contradiction? I didn't even mean contradiction in a bad way,I just meant very obvious differences in the themes.But no middle ground with you fanatics....


cool show tho. Really. I've been watching since Episode 1...

Those are weak choices to pick. Breh, a lot of time could of passed since those 2 scenarios. Plus he was out of the log cabin before driving back home. He also had a motivational factor.

 

[Ethnic Cleansing]

Can someone help me out with this question: What was Walt's motivation for killing Lydia?

 

[MenacingMonk]

Can someone help me out with this question: What was Walt's motivation for killing Lydia?

-No loose ends.
-Hit on Skylar.
-Obviously he knew she'd put a hit on him.
-Cause he can.