What? Walt had his test tubes, his bunsun burners! His 6 quart beakers! Did you see him stroke that big silvery metal thing before he fell to the floor with the smile on his face.
The final episode was not particularly satisfying. I didn’t feel like it really did much beside tie up loose ends, in a half-hearted way. Compared to series that have been taken off the air without a definitive ending, I’d say it is more satisfying to me to have no ending.
In addition to the religious undertones, I’d like to point out the anti-sugar stance taken by having Lydia use stevia repeatedly. Why did they do this? ;)
garin
2043
Her predilection for Stevia is what led to her death, so if anything I think the show was pro-sugar.
Armiger
2044
True, Walter once even asked if anyone would want to live in a world without Classic Coke. We had to assume he meant made with real sugar.
That was a pretty good postmortem.
I LOVED that - that shows (logically) that Walt truly does not care about the money now that his family is taken care of.
I disagree that this shows she was in on it. All she has to say is - He came by, held a gun on me, and gave me this information about Hank.
Or, better yet - say that SHE had the lottery ticket the whole time, that he told her it was special and to hold on to it, but that he had called her and told her the truth.
There are several explanations that don’t condemn her to being ‘in on it’
I disagree. The wife has spent all this time swearing she had nothing to do with it, nothing to ‘trade’ even with prison staring her in the face. Suddenly, she pops up with the most wanted bit of information(the location of the agents’ bodies) to trade for walking away free only and she comes out still looking innocent? If her husband gave her an odd item that he stressed she needed to save, wouldn’t she think of that item when it turned out he was a wanted drug dealer/murderer? Would YOU buy that if someone tried to pass off that story to you? I wouldn’t.
It would look to me like she was in it the whole time, tried to lie her way out, then when her husband is dead she pops up with her get out of jail free card. With her husband dead it means she, and only she, can tell them where those bodies are. So it’s at that point she has the most leverage. That’s why she didn’t play that card sooner.
Either that or Walt was just really tired of Uncle Jack’s shit.
Yeah, let’s just say Skylar is tainted now. But I’m okay with it. She fucked Ted, gave him all Walt’s money, and then requested the murder of Jesse. All things considered, she made out better than Walt.
Or Walt just didn’t feel like driving back out to Gretchen and Elliot’s place.
JFrazer
2051
In real life, Skylar would be able to spin her “Walt’s victim” position into a tour of the talk-show circut followed by a Lifetime movie and a tell-all book.
However, I would expect that the police would have spoken to Ted (close connection to Skylar, his IRS debt was magically paid off, already caught cooking the books. Would probably be looked at as a possible money launderer for Walt’s operation). With Walt dead, there isn’t a lot to stop Ted from coming clean and saying that it wasn’t an accident and tell the whole story. Pretty well proves that Skylar was more than just an innocent victim in the Heisenberg empire
“Gretchen, can you get that please? I don’t want any of it getting lost under the furniture.”
“You don’t have to stack it. Just put it on top.”
wumpus
2056
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_rite/
Critical consensus: Anthony Hopkins is as excellent as ever, but he’s no match for The Rite’s dawdling pace and lack of chills – or Colin O’Donoghue’s tentative performance in the leading role.
I just think it’s especially insane for you to go out of your way to diss Breaking Bad for bad acting. I don’t think I can find anyone else on the whole Internet who also believes Breaking Bad was anywhere, anyhow, anyway remotely an example of bad acting. I’d also like to hear what evidence you have for this absurdist, “imma get all contrarian on you guys because, well, just because” position.
Plus: Anthony Hopkins said it was the best acting he had ever seen. What the FUCK does that guy know about acting, amirite?
Or, as Sir Anthony Hopkins once said about Tom Chick, “Screw 'im!”
Just now hit episode 511, going to watch the rest tonight, wife and I started last week, for some reason we never watched it when it was on. What a god damn amazing show. Episode after episode just filled with quality. I kept away from any spoilers to thank god. The show is so damn good, im a bit depressed I only have 5 more episodes to watch tonight
Bump because the show is awesome and I refused to read anything about it until now so it was a clean watch for me.
Nothing too insightful to say but I feel like Walt, Gus, and Mike are giants roaming the desert and I am a tiny mortal just dreaming about them and scared to cross their paths. Jesse, Hank, Skyler you are both rooting for and frustrated with… but even their flaws have layers and the show remarkably avoids blatant character tropes.
I guess what I’m saying is that I appreciate Hopkin’s take that it is positively a Shakespearian tragedy. The acting, plot, and pacing - even the slow-paced episodes that make you feel impatient just fit.
The whole show was a masterpiece, the like of which is not seen often.
