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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
He has to die? I'm not sure I agree with that.
This show has been about what? Walt's transformation. From episode one to where we are now, it's amazing how much his character has changed, and that's been the best part of the show. He's done a complete 180 and what he did to Brock in S4might have been his "low" point. Does he continue to turn and maybe that 180 turns into a 360? I don't know, but I don't think he has to die to make the conclusion of this show any better.
Spoiler of ending of The Shield
Spoiler!
not sure if you watched the Shield, but the show's main character, Vic Mackey(a cop) did some awful things. He killed a cop in his group, he covered up numerous crimes, he stole money from an Aremnian money laundering ring, he disposed of bodies, and he betrayed his friends. He was a pretty awful person, but we as the viewer enjoyed watching him do it.
At the end of the show, Vic doesn't die, but he needed to pay for the crimes he committed and the writers made him pay in a beautiful way. He was forced off the streets for his new job and on a desk, wearing a suit and this was his own personal hell. He lost all his friends, lost all the respect he once had from his fellow officers and his family was out of his life as well. It was an awesome ending, one of the better endings I have seen. There are more details that I'm missing as well.
Vic probably deserved to die as much as Walt does, but the writers don't need to kill off a character to make the conclusion better. There are ways to make a perfect ending besides the obvious.
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There's a literary rule (I forget the name) about characters who get away with too much and use their powers (IE Walt's chemistry genius) for bad/evil. As well, they've set him up to die since day one for the audience (terminal lung cancer). Finally, like you said, we continue seeing a darker and darker side of him. The thing with Brock may have been the worst, but he's been sliding the whole time and I don't see any reason why he'd turn back now. Even in the flashbacks we see how he's always had some of these character flaws that he's running with now.
Walt HAS to be punished somehow, and generally it's with death. Even his character wants it, He just wants to leave the money to his family and be done with it. He's been struggling with his pain and growing guilt for a while now.
They may come up with something very creative, or they may cheat and try to make everything really happy in the end, but Walt has been set up to die from episode one, and most characters in similar situations in book and film bite it.