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Originally Posted by Wormius
I think that people expected intense episodes every time, and when one got a Iittle too thoughtful or something, people lost it.
Anyway, I am really hoping Badger and Skinny Pete show up.
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I would most certainly say it wasn't because it was too thoughtful.
There's two main reasons the final season of BB wasn't very good.
1. Season 4 and the Gus storyline was so epic. You go from cartels with these imposing bosses in Salamanca and Fring, everything was reaching fever pitch. It was a big deal but not out of control big. Cartel bosses and city/state level bosses seemed like logical growth from the previous season. Then you have lame ass bikers. Incompetent lame ass bikers. And a hilarious multinational conspiracy involving Germans...for some reason. It's like they wanted to make it bigger and crazier but instead it jumped the shark. We''d seen some pretty far fetched storylines on the show before but this felt like they just ran out of ideas (ugh the entire Skyler and Ted and the IRS thing was so dumb. It was nothing more than a lame plot device).
2. The need to have everything be a cliffhanger worked against them. Vince Gilligan has said the machine gun scene was written with no ending in mind. I think he's even expressed regret at the mountain they hinted at climbing and then admitted they had no way to get there. Killing Gus was the logical conclusion of that arc. Final season should have been exclusively Walt vs Hank and the DEA.
I also had problems with how they handled Walt but that's for another time. It's funny too because S5 had a few great episodes and moments. The train episode in particular was great. It just never lived up to the rest of the series.