When this first came out, I saw the promo stuff and thought, "OooKkk..." Hard to believe what this ended up becoming. Masterful. I wonder how many people (like me) are further blown away knowing that we're experiencing a very different version of "Malcolm's Dad..." That context has been pretty evident in my experience of Walter as a character, fwiw... any doubts about his acting ability... well, yeah. DBC
Compare this with Dexter, a show with arguably the worst final season committed to screen. If the Dexter writers were writing this show, Hank would have simply forgotten his discovery, Walt randomly meets some incompetent new drug lord, contemplates running away with the hot high school principal, Holly would have had an accident on the treadmill, basically nothing of consequence after years of story.
LOL Thanks for making my day, arta! Can't wait for the last two episodes. I'm wondering what that rifle Walt bought in the first episode of season five was for? At least we know that he'll make it to his 52nd birthday...
In this latest episode... Todd tells the woman business partner that his meth was 92% yet later he tells Jesse it's 96%. Is this a mistake or some kind of plot point?
Wasn't the scene with Lydia before the scene with Jesse? I assumed that Todd was referring to that day's batch, which would have been after he had met with Lydia. Anyway, another awesome episode -- maybe not quite as thrilling as the last two, but you can tell it's setting up a whale of a finale. Best. Show. Ever.
It is done. That's how you pay off 5 seasons. Everything tied up nicely (especially the lottery ticket, Skinny Pete, Badger and the Gray Matter couple in a way I never saw coming), the rescue, and FINALLY ending with an antihero dead while accomplishing what he set out to do in the first place. He got what he deserved and redemption. This finale finally gave me what I wanted from a series ending over these years - something that ties up all the loose ends and brings all character arcs to a conclusion. - Not an ambiguous ending where the audience has to make up their own ending. - Not a "the cycle will continue" ending - Not a "well the hero/ antihero/ villain has to dwell on his actions, so that's his character arc, I guess" ending. - Not a "we lost the ####ing plot but here's the characters hugging, it's about the characters dude" ending. No, both PLOT and CHARACTER were resolved, without copping or on either. Nitpicks? I personally could have done with a little more conversation between Jesse and Walt, and the needledrop songs were a bit on the nose (I got what I deserve), but I guess Vince Gilligan has earned the right to hammer his points home. He wanted to end the series with NO DOUBTS as to what the themes were about and took no half measures. :salute: So yeah, while as a standalone episode it might not have the show stopping moments of Full Measure and Face Off, this was a near perfect episode to cap of the series.
Just watched the finale was afraid to look in this thread until I did but a great if somewhat predictable ending to an epic show I'm going to miss it. Definitely a show near the top if not the very top of my most liked list.
I thought the ending was just average - which is to say, disappointing. Granted I'm not a fan of closure and neat tying up of loose ends, but even so the execution is still everything, and here it simply wasn't up to the standards the show had set previously on multiple occasions.
Quite frankly I'm glad its over. No, I'm not saying its bad, personally I can't judge it as I won't watch any American programmes but I am rather tired of hearing people talking about it all the time.
Finale broke 10 million viewers. To compare, the S4 finale had 1.9 million, and Game of Thrones season 3 finale had 6 million viewers. http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/30/breaking-bad-series-finale-ratings/
