Breaking Bad

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by Acey

Yeah, it's obvious; I wrote a paper on TV ratings so I have an idea of how they were. Simply making a quantity =/= quality remark.

Ohhhhh, that's something I would like to read.....

Great show, I will be re-watching it shortly as the GF has never watched an episode.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

They never answered the question of why Skylar smoked while she was pregnant? And Marie's shoplifting? Why was that stuff in the show? Why dammit?

Skylar smoked to deal with stress and Marie is a basketcase.

[WilderPegasus]

Originally Posted by Jacks

Skylar smoked to deal with stress and Marie is a basketcase.

I thought Skyler's shoplifting led to Hank getting the file on Gale's murder. Without that file he never would have figured out Walt. Maybe they just wanted to show how Hank deals with his wife doing illegal things. Although they might have had some other storyline planned out for Marie's kleptomania but decided to drop it.

[Regulator75]

[edn88]

I started watching the show just as Season 5A was winding down, so binge watched all of the episodes on Netflix, watched season 5A on Itunes, then watched 5B realtime.

Sadly, a lot of the symbolism and color themes were lost on me and for me is was real compelling television - much of the detail that was included seemed to make it more real - to me it felt like real people acting how they really would had they been put in some of those situations, and that made it more fascinating for me.

As for the finale, other than wanting to know what would happen to Jesse and who would be the ricin recipient, I was just along for the ride, curious to see where the journey would go. Like all fiction, a suspension of disbelief was required to enjoy the finale but for me it was about the truth of the actions of the characters, rather than about whether an automated remote control machine gun would work like that. From the Breaking Bad reality, it did work, and there was as much closure as you could expect.

I like that there were lots of little bits left unresolved - kind of like life...

Breaking Bad was the best show on AMC and I miss it already.

[jroc]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

They never answered the question of why Skylar smoked while she was pregnant? And Marie's shoplifting? Why was that stuff in the show? Why dammit?

Screw those questions... Did Todd bang Lydia or not?!?!?!

[trackercowe]

I liked how they were calling Walt Jr. Flynn now, because he no longer wants to be named after his dad (or at least I assume). BB had very solid attention to details throughout the series, and this is just another sign of that.

[InSutterWeTrust]

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[1stLand]

The best show ever made.

I hope this inspires wannabe gangsters and thugs to get an education and read more.

Walter White was a badass gangster not because he did B&E's and acted gangster. He was a badass gangster because he was intelligent.

The Finale was the best episode of the series

[d_phaneuf]

I liked it, the complaint about it being too 'clean' is surprising, it's always been the way the show goes

Walt's plans at the end of seasons have always really worked, the show builds to a crescendo and then just executes it flawlessly

[icecube]

The only show I've loved as much as Seinfeld.

All due respect to The Wire, The Sopranos etc., but for me Breaking Bad is greatest of all time.

[CalgaryFan1988]

One thing I was thinking of today.....

He died in the lab, along with the production of the blue meth. Now nobody would ever think it was someone other than him producing it.

In a way, dying the way he did, it fulfilled his ego one last time.

[MikaelBacklund]

Iunno why but when he was in the lab on the last scene, I was really hoping he would just get suuuuper high off his own supply and understand what the hype was for.

Loved this entire season and it'll go down as one my top 3 shows of all time. Now only 179 days till Game of Thrones is back

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by CalgaryFan1988

One thing I was thinking of today.....

He died in the lab, along with the production of the blue meth. Now nobody would ever think it was someone other than him producing it.

In a way, dying the way he did, it fulfilled his ego one last time.

That's a cool thought, and for a second I was nodding along with you, but there are a bunch of dead nazi's in the compound too, probably just across the lane. The cops are going to know they were involved somehow.

But yeah, he can still look like the mastermind.

Originally Posted by MikaelBacklund

Iunno why but when he was in the lab on the last scene, I was really hoping he would just get suuuuper high off his own supply and understand what the hype was for.

Part of me was thinking that too, but it just wouldn't have been Walt. It did pop into my heads though.

[Wormius]

Streaming of Bad Finger's "Baby Blue" up 9000% according to NME.

[djsFlames]

Walt getting high off his own supply as he died would have been an awesome "no way!" moment to finish it all off. After taking care of everything, he does one more thing that is by far the most out of character for him. Would be almost funny, yet very somber and fitting in a weird way. Would show just how far he's gone off the 'bad' end. Could have been a little twist that wouldn't have altered how cleanly everything wrapped up.

I hope that this idea at least crossed Vince's mind once sitting in the writers room. I'm sure it did.

[KTrain]

It would have been too uncharacteristic of Walt to start smoking meth. Especially in the lab. It was always a sterile environment for Walt. He wouldn't let Jesse smoke a cigarette in there.

[Brannigans Law]

Bryan Cranston did a masterful job in this series. His portrail of Walter White was amazing, in particular in Ozymandias. His anguish and pain when he pleaded for Skylers understanding that he tried to save Hank will, as weird as this sounds because it's just a TV show, always kind of haunt me. In that show Walt truly lost everything. I felt terrible for him.

That's truly great acting and writing when you feel sympathy for a made up character.