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Originally Posted by bossku69
From what I read about Vince, he's kind of a straight forward writer, likes to wrap things up... which is nice, but also is fun to tease the audience a bit with an open ending.
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For me, that was one of the two key things in the finale that made it so great.
The first was that in the opening segment you find out Walt's money is going to get to his family - so you can watch the rest with that question already answered in your mind. That was the 'win' at the end of the story of Walter White, and the rest was really the epilogue of what happened to everyone else.
The second was the fact that Jessie lives, and leaves with the audience having no intelligent way to figure out 'what's next for Jessie.' Does he go back to Brock somehow? Does he leave for Alaska like he mentioned? Does he just go back to his bad habits and overdose on pain and drugs? Jessie was the loose end during the entire story and any finality would have spoiled that uneasy feeling. If you know 'Jessie dies at the end', rewatching old episodes wouldn't be as enjoyable because no matter how off course he gets, you always have the final coordinates in your mind. This way, his future stays vague and it fits his character's story arc beautifully. One of the only loose ends too screwy to ever be tied up.