US: Breaking Bad Season 5 Part II - The finale.

I've just finished the last episode. I hated the whole of this last series, because they left me nobody to sympathise with and dragged me into near depression with the manipulative script. But I still ended up having a bit of a blub as it all came to a conclusion.

Maybe I was just relieved it's all over... in which case I may have to grudgingly give them credit for making a great series rather than a gratuitous and rather unbelievable one, which is definitely how I felt for much of the series.
 
My sympathy for Walt died along with Jane but it picked up again in the final when he tried to help Hank, tie up loose ends and do the right thing. I still sympathise with Jesse and still worry about him to this day!

Vince is a genius the way he changed the characters during the show making us constantly reassess how we feel about them. I never cared for Hank and Marie but towards the end I really did.
 
pumaz said:
Vince is a genius the way he changed the characters during the show making us constantly reassess how we feel about them.
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For me they crossed a line very early and were clearly manipulating us with plots which stretched credibility beyond breaking point. They were constantly setting us up for the next wave of the emotional roller coaster and although it worked, and was sometimes quite clever, that manipulation was too transparent to keep me immersed in the characters for long.

I still couldn't stop watching though! I wanted to, but I couldn't. So I guess they won the battle for my attention. I feel like I've had an emotional enema though; an artificial purging of all sorts of nasty stuff which I shouldn't have eaten in the first place. :-)
 
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One of the few things I've watched where I wouldn't change a thing about the ending. Possibly my favourite show of all time. Certainly up there with The Wire.
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Agreed, I think it was the perfect ending. Walt was always going to die from the very first episode and I'm glad it was in a blaze of glory rather than a slow lingering exit. It's also nice to think that Jesse is out there somewhere!
 
Just watched the 2 YT clips above, and again, its bought it all back to me, such a brilliant brilliant show.
 
joey1211 said:
Didn't enjoy the last couple of episodes. They felt rushed and tried to cram too much in.

The scene where Walter kills the entire gang with the M60 was just plain stupid. Spoiled the whole thing.
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there were a fair few parts in the series that were a bit fantastical. having that bit of free reign made it such a stand out though. but yeah at times you're just wondering why on earth have the police not turned up by now, or whatever :p

anyways, I finished the last episode last night. amazing series 10/10. don't delay if you've not seen it

I couldn't stop thinking about it nearing the end, you get really into it :)
 
Hmmm, just finished it today.

Disappointed to be honest...
Jesse as a character never developed and was just an utterly depressing mess. The ENTIRE thing was pointless in the end for Walt and Jesse and so just makes for a soul destroying journey. At least Lost was a reasonably happy ending that made everything ok in the end!

Lost is definitely the better of the two series. Despite the insane plot twists that it tipped towards.

Also,
who are the 2 bodies in the black bags in the intro to one of the plane crash episodes? It's clearly Walt's glasses being put in an evidence bag, but this is never touched on again?
 
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?? drugs empire ends badly is probably what i was expecting every episode. Jesse driving off is your happy ever after. Walt was an evil mojo, callous and twisted. So I would mark it up as feel good as the most evil characters wiped each other out.
The saddest part (not finale) of the whole series was in Jonathan Banks, I thought that was the series pinnacle because how the hell did they make me feel bad for a hitman. Walt is like jeckyl and hyde, Lost was not superior and definitely not in its ending. Totally that series was more feel good though, montages aplenty

ENTIRE thing was pointless
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Walt was clearly deranged, it was never making sense. he could have made more (or least been better off, considering he kept so little) if he had just worked for the company - which went public - which would have given him stock options, etc

who pinned the drawing of walter/heisenberg in the shrine?
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The twins who came to kill him for betraying Tuco
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/faq#.2.1.6

Noticed breaking bad collided with community somehow as JB has replaced Chevy Chase and VG was on there
 
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"Jesse driving off is your happy ever after."

I can't see that as happy ever after considering he'd had to do / see such messed up things and had practically everyone he'd cared about murdered.


"Walt was an evil mojo, callous and twisted."

So should Walt be seen as the bad guy throughout the whole thing? So really it's all about how crime doesn't pay for these types of people?

I'd have kind of been alright with it if Walt and Jesse had made good again by the end and were happy leaving together or something similiar, but Jesse hated him anyway, making for the whole "Jesse seen as a son to Walt" as an utterly tragic storyline.
 
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Wow, I can't believe you'd put Lost above BB just because it doesn't end happily?

It doesn't for a lot of people who stumble into that life I'd imagine, but it also felt like a complete and cohesive story, if obviously far fetched.....

I loved Lost for a while, but it definitely felt like whatever the original story was they ripped it up when it went ballistically successful, put a crap load of padding in there and then finished it by giving themselves a catch all "out" because nothing was real anyway.
 
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