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(5,141 posts)Amazing story telling. No loose ends.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)They left Huell sitting in the house. No one ever told him he could leave.
Jimmy Kimmel brought that up at the Q&A after the finale screening event.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Poor Huell, I wonder how long he'll sit there waiting for Hank and Gomie to come back?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Maybe Jesse can adopt him. Or Huell.
hlthe2b
(102,581 posts)thank Gawd, there was no lame Soprano, Dexter, or similar finale.
I always thought Six Feet Under was the pillar to meet, but this was truly phenomenal.
Vince Gilligan is on my all time favorite list. Kudos, sir!
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)Makes perfect sense - Tony was whacked and everything went black
hlthe2b
(102,581 posts)I didn't think it (Sopranos) was a "BAD" finale--just not one of my favorites. I also appreciate that different shows are going to need to end with different sense of clarity in the finale. I didn't really like the Dexter finale much, but it MAY have been the more appropriate way for that show to end...
I do think Breaking Bad now has surpassed Six Feet Under--my former favorite ending of a show. But, it is close.
mattclearing
(10,091 posts)It was subtle, but the implication was clear.
JustAnotherGen
(32,069 posts)All of a sudden - it went dark and we couldn't tell Tony's secrets anymore . . .
calimary
(81,612 posts)But it makes sense!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)It's all in the editing.
Once you read this, it will make sense...
https://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/
Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)whopis01
(3,535 posts)Breaking Bad is my favorite for closing the story but from an artistic point of view I love the ending of Six Feet Under.
When I first saw it is was a moment before I caught on to what they were doing - then was blown away by it. So sad and beautiful all at the same time.
Paladin
(28,290 posts)The three best TV series endings ever, as far as I'm concerned.....
kairos12
(12,906 posts)Paladin
(28,290 posts)scarletlib
(3,420 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)trublu992
(489 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)And Lydia... LOL..slow death.
valerief
(53,235 posts)on edit
A minute after I typed this Jimmy Kimmel basically said the same thing about stevia on Talking Bad!
Why couldn't it have been one of the artificial sweeteners?
pitbullgirl1965
(564 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)lol
valerief
(53,235 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)and still Jesse always goes back to meth. He's been given a million opportunities to change his life and has never even gotten close.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)Clever SOB..
Perfect song for the ending.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)They knew when to end it.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)unless you cough up stuff.
shame on you.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)"I won."
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)... was that a flash back, a dream, or a reference to something - what the heck was it ?
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Edited to add...
Found this on Twitter: " ... call back to the scene in AA where he talks about how he sold the one he made for his mom to buy weed "
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Also found this on the web...
"Is that the best you can do?" Is what his HS shop teacher told Jesse when he wanted to skate through by just doing the minimum. Jesse says those words made him keep trying and applying himself, until he finished the project perfectly. Then he admits he eventually traded the wooden box he worked so hard on, for an ounce of weed.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Jesse is an artist, a craftsman, really. It explains why he threw out the mediocre meth he cooked with Badger.
I would have liked to see Jesse's little brother (who planted pot in his room to get him thrown out the house again) come back in. But jesse is craft. He's childhood. He's a little kid drawing comic book characters. His whole attraction to Mr. White was the craft angle, which is why he was always happier in the earlier episodes, before their process got industrialized. He's the embodiment of a craft ethos, so of course his character arc ends with a craft vignette: Jesse Pinkman, woodworker. Could just as easily have been woodwork as meth. He's a maker. (The wood box also featured earlier - maybe season 1 or 2 - it was his initial fall: he ditched his precious box for drug cash).
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)And the gun in the trunk! Awesome!
samsingh
(17,607 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)The turret, the lottery ticket, that was brilliant. And the music at the end - perfect song!
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)I don't know what I was expecting. There was a sense of justice and closure. A whole lot of truth. I'll take it. It's better than being disgruntled over it.
I had read a lot of people hoping Lydia would get the ricin. So that was nice.
dsc
(52,175 posts)Lydia the Tattooed Lady, won't ever think of that song the same again.
xoom
(322 posts)I was on the edge of my seat the whole time!
Now bring on the Walking Dead
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I love both BB and WD.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)It was cool. They showed the pilot/premiere episode then the finale and had a Q&A led by Jimmy Kimmel at the end.
When everyone was waiting in line down the street to get it, I heard everyone cheering and yelling in line behind me and looked up and it was Aaron Paul leaning out of a window of a car driving by cheering on the crowd. That was nice of him.
And it was a fundraiser for KIND, which is run by Paul's wife and friend, and they will get $1.8mn from this, so that's good. They had the RV there with a blue sky back drop for people to get pics taken with it. We didn't do it since the line was so long and I had to get home.
But about the finale... I loved the end but did have a little feeling of "that's it?" when it was over. I think it might have been the uneventful way Walt died.
trumad
(41,692 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)Some people were waiting since early morning! We got there an hour before doors but it took forever to get everyone inside. Then we had to walk all the way to the other side of the cemetery in the dark. It was funny. They screen movies there every summer but I've never gone. I was wondering what people who have family members buried there think about it.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)about the way Walt died. I wish it had been more eventful or meaningful, than him just getting hit by one of his own stray bullets....all the other drug kingpins died at the hands of someone else, but not Walt....they had to make it almost peaceful for him, which is nice I guess but not very realistic in context of the rest of the series. I think it would have been perfect if Jesse killed him, especially after he just saved Jesse's life, but Jesse still would have done it to make sure he was truly free.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I adored Breaking Bad. Walt will be missed. And, Jesse, too, of course.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)GOOD GOD WHAT ABOUT HUELL?!?!?!?!
trumad
(41,692 posts)I think that makes it even more perfect.
I don't thing Gillian forgot.
Beaverhausen
(24,476 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)I hated it.
But I appreciate it for the brilliance that it was.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)The OP alone isn't a spoiler but the responses might be, etc.
trumad
(41,692 posts)it's appropriate to add the word spoiler---simply because it will ultimately be a spoiler.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)Everyone ended up where they should. Having Gretchen and Elliot launder Walt's money so Flynn could get it was a stroke of genius. It's hard to cheer a brutal violent death, but goddamn it seeing Jesse take out Todd was so satisfying. Die, Nazi! And I just knew Lydia was going to get a little ricin in her Stevia.
Walt had a good death, too - we knew he had to go, and the way it was set up was very fitting. It wasn't over until Heisenberg said it was over.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)somebody would have killed walt, rather than him dying by his own gunshot....just seems like that should have been how it went down, and how it happens for everyone in the world of drug dealers, but overall it was good.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)He's been in control the whole time of a situation that has been proven by everyone else before him that you can't control - all along the line the other drug kingpins were in control of their situation and were just as narcissistic as Walt, until someone comes along and blows them up or put a bullet in their head.
No matter how narcissistic you are, in the real world you really have very little power, as Walt proved time and time again to the other drug dealers on the show. I get the symbolism, but would have appreciated it being a more realistic outcome....he survives the gunshot wound but Lydia or Marie or Flynn or somebody puts a bullet in his brain for all the harm he's caused them.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)There were no WTF moments (Dexter). Everything in the story got tied up. No loose end was left unturned. Jesse got his freedom (though I really wanted him to say one final "yeah bitch!!!" as he mowed down that fence). But what made it truly awesome was that Walt died as he lived - putting his hands on the equipment and checking the levels, just like in the underground lab, in the RV, in the pest control terminal, etc. And the music at the end - Vince Gilligan couldn't have picked a more appropriate song.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)I was glad too. Jesse seems like the one redeeming character since he was actually tortured by what he and Walt had done, all those deaths. And though he got away alive, he will remain tortured by it for the rest of his life since he actually had a conscience.
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)I could talk BB for hours. Fun, sad, tragic, and often felt like rubbernecking the tracks for the train wreck you knew was coming.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)I got my daughter to give me a run through re. its general plot line this morning - she'd guessed the outcome whatever it was being generally accurate at such things.
All seasons are out in one pack in November - I'll buy the set and watch it across Christmas.
mountain grammy
(26,677 posts)as Jesse was strangling "Opie dead eyes" Todd, I was yelling "don't let go, Jesse, don't let go!" My blood pressure went up during every Breaking Bad season so, for the sake of my health, I'm glad it's over.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)What I was not expecting was Todd to die. I expected Jesse to die, but Todd with his dead eyes and sociopathic mentality to live on.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)was I had been hoping we'd learn a little more about why Walt abruptly dumped Gretchen way-back-when.
They alluded to it once (I forget the season, but it was when Walt says "Fuck you" to her). I think she had said something about him aburptly leaving her after meeting her father and she never understood what happened.
I always imagined it had something to do with class snobbery...perhaps her father didn't think Walt was good enough for her, despite how brilliant Walt was.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)threads on it
Paladin
(28,290 posts)texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Seems like 5 years is best time for a show to last.
I watched all the seasons in just a few days.
I am taking today off.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I've hated to fall in love with shows every since the heartbreak of Deadwood's cancellation, so I'm glad I saw something through to the end and it was perfect.
I knew that Walt would somehow free Jesse. It was like a trip down into the underworld of hell to free the lost soul, and trade your own life for the redemption of another.
I'm glad they left it there and not dragged out with sappy resolutions of other story-lines.
madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)Do you have a taterguy exception??
Kablooie
(18,648 posts)At least she'll be able to learn a lot about her dad by watching the DVDs of the show.