Breaking Bad Finale (Spoilers)
 

Loved the ending!

Jessie always was a loose end and remains one

Walt finds a way to get money to his family with no credit for doing it and goes out on his own terms

Great episode.

Whole thing was well done, i wish season 3 & 4 were as good as season 1 and 5.

Perfect ending to a perfect show.

An amazing journey.

He still did things his way and ended up getting all that he wanted.

Great ending was not what i expected and was still good everything fell it to place very well

Also the Tod and Jessie scene was great

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Never saw a single episode of Breaking Bad...Cliffnotes? :)

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ADG

It would have been cool if jessie got a barrel of money at least

but i loved the show.

fucking bad ass

Unexpected ending. But a good one.

One of the greatest written shows ever.

Can't wait for Justified next seasons :pimp

This was a great ending. I think someone in the "prediction" thread called it.

Either way, this ending was much better than the damn Dexter finale.


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I liked it a lot. It was well done, wrapped up all the loose endings and we got to see Walt finish his journey.

I especially liked it when he came clean with Skylar and finally told her that he did it because he liked it and he was good at it. That was pretty powerful.

Badger and Skinny Pete as the 'hitmen' - that whole part was excellent.

Agreed, didn't think there would be any ending with Walt's death that would leave me satisfied, but this finale accomplished that.

I think she wanted and needed to hear that to absolve herself of any guilt she was feeling.

Jesse didn't want the money. He realized his life turned to shit the second he got it.

What happened to brock

Likely either living with a foster family or a relative.

I think he told her that partly to make her feel good and help her deal with her guilt, but I think he meant it as well.

BB was a great show, and this ending makes me sad but still great finale also...

THIS!!

I actually jumped out of my seat and cheered when I saw Jessie was going to kill Todd!

Loved when uncle jack starts saying Walt can't kill him or he'll lose the rest of the 80M forever and Walt doesn't even let him finish the sentence before blowing his brains out. Walt was finally beyond greed, beyond money, beyond worldly concerns. The same cancer that had trapped him originally is what set him free in the end. Finally ready to rest in peace, as that last ascending camera shot of his face showed. The exact opposite of the frantic death Lydia earned, laying in bed with her humidifier going full blast and finding out it isn't just a head cold.

Brilliant writing...

Well said! :thumbsup

Kudos to Akkad47 for his Breaking Bad Finale prediction

The Ending of Breaking Bad did not disappoint, that ending was as good as the finale of The Wire.

Let me guess, he was a ghost right?

Here's my prediction (sep 24) from the other Breaking Bad thread. Nailed it!!!! -- almost except for the "forgive" part. It was more of a mutual agreement to go their separate ways.


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I think Walt will find a way to get the drop on the nazi's, and in what I'm hoping will be an epic scene --- mow down the entire crew with that M60.

He will rescue Jesse, and they will both forgive each other and move on.
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What was the show called that was on after it? Some sort of recap show?

Talking Bad.... it wasn't very insightful.

Missed your post, good job :thumbsup

Great episode. Very appropriate final chapter.

this is why you can't compare the two.. breaking bad's writing was a continual story, even when the seasons ended the story continued. Dexter, on the other hand, practically RESET every season and was done more like chapters in a serial series. So ending something like that is always more messy because the characters aren't really designed to be wrapped up. They normally find silly ways to get out of jams and crap like that. Where you get shows like BB and the Wire the shows continue and progress until it ends like a novel. Or a really long movie with an intended conclusion.

Same here, seems to be a good show. Maybe I'll pick up the series and try it out.

The rare moment where I have no complaints about a final episode.

When the gun came out of the trunk I said 'awesome' out loud several time. Walt killed himself with his own genius.

The eyebrows line nearly always where the people I have introduced to the show start to feel the show.

I think he planned to stay standing and mow himself down with it, until he saw what happened to Jessie and decided to knock him down below the firing line to save him. If that bullet hadn't hit him I wonder what he would have done next. Walt doesn't seem the type to be able to shoot himself in the head with a handgun... and I can't see him really turning himself in to anyone. When he was walking around the lab I figured he had rigged it to explode... as a way to end his own life and take all his toys with him.

The at peace ending they filmed was so much better than any explosions would have been. Sort of the exact opposite of the Crawl Space episode emotionally but with the same ascending camera angles.

I agree. He was making it clear to Skyler that he wasn't coming back from where he was going.

For a moment, I thought he was doing to die cooking a last batch.

Stephen Colbert is having Vince on the show to do nothing but talk about the series. Last week, he told people not to tune in if they haven't watched the final because they were going to spoil everything.

Thats pretty much what I was expecting too. He didn't have any other weapon with him, but did he assume the Aryans would have a stock pile he could access? When he walked into the lab and flicked the dials, I thought for sure something would go BOOM, but nothing.

It was great how he jumped on Jesse to save him, almost like saying "sorry to get you into this," but nothing beat how he took down Todd. What a dick, I had Todd. Hes not even a tough guy, just a loser with connections :1orglaugh

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.

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.

I was somewhat right in my prediction of the final episode, I did think that if Walt didn't take the ricin himself he would give it to Lidia. But Walt did ultimately redeem himself as he said on the talk show, I think it was Jimmy Kimmel where he said it.

Pretty much everything I had hoped for in the ending, great show, great end, and they ended it before it was played out. all thumbs up

haha, I was in bed, but the sentiment was the same :thumbsup

Season finale was not the best espisode of the series, thats for sure. I found it pretty boring at times and was surfing internet during parts of it.

And how come so many people call it unexpected? Most probable and "safe"-boring way to end a show. At least more expected than all the bullshit in prediction thread about Junior or Skylar being killed etc :)

About the money - do you think it would make any sense that gray matter would give 10 million dollars to Junior? Walt explained that it may be justified for public because they already donated to meth charity, but thats completely different thing. Why would they donate 10 million to son of king pin? That would be unexplainable.

Smarter move would have been - Walt asks them to pay for school (like grant some special scholarship or whatever), then hire him in a good position in Gray matter and Junior would be set for life.

Yeah, I thought that he would start finishing that batch of Jesse.. Would have been symbolical. I wonder if writers thought about this idea.

Pffftt 4 was almost the best season. It was an epic study in tension that didn't have some of the messy writing 5 did.

The finale was good, besides the whole not checking the trunk thing and bad guy exposition to bring Jesse into the room to prove he's not a liar etc (rather than just taking walt out to jesse and shooting him over the edge of the cage hole like they obviously would as they needed to take walt outside anyways, but hey relatively smaller issues) it summed everything up ok and wasn't TOO predictable.. and showcased 3 separate instances of "heisenberg cleverness" (the stevia, the gun, the lasers) which was largely the payoff in general episodes. So very satisfying.. even if not awesomely amazeballs. I did think for a moment he'd do a last cook and hit 100% and die extra happy. Or even the non-methlamine cook just as a "fuck you I could do it even though it sounded bullshit, because I'm awesome but don't care or need it anymore"

I think it's pretty obvious he wanted nothing to do with the money.