TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[MrSaigon]

I've never seen Talking Bad. If anyone strongly recommends this last one with Gilligan to me I might watch it. I watch the show nefariously without commercials. I was talking about the little blurb from AMC directly following the credits. First they thanked everyone behind the show and the fans, then asked me to tweet my gratitude to hash tag thankingbad--but it came off more awkwardly than I'm making it sound here. Struck me very oddly, perhaps because I do watch without commercials.

[thrill]

I like Talking Dead because Walking Dead is a dumb show where that "OH MY GOD THAT WAS COOL WHOA!" Chris Hardwick enthusiasm works. I watched a little bit of Talking Bad and it was just boring somber Hardwick, which isn't very compelling. Breaking Bad is a show I'd rather think about than react to. Don't want to be pretentious, but it's great art and great art doesn't need hash tags, live call-in audience questions and jokes.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I simply don't think you could have made an episode any more intense or 'great' than Ozymandias. Simply one of the best shows ever. So, comparatively this episode was lame.

That said, it did a great job of ending everything.

[SHOW]

Walter White became that perfect mix of Heisenberg and family man that everyone came to root for to make the best of what he had done. Money gets to WJ, Jesse freed, Nazis killed, meth production ended, Hank uncovered, Skyler absolved. Going into the final episode, things could have worked out much, much different and much darker than what happened. I for one would have been upset if the money never found its way to his family and Jesse had remained in the custody of the Nazis.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

[SHOW]

Also, as an aside, I'm really glad he reconciled as best he could with Skyler. That would have been horrible had they left the phone call as the last interaction between the two. he admits he did it for himself/power and acknowledges his faults.

[thrill]

Also that [expletive] song choice. So good.

Yep. LOTS of great song choices throughout the season, and series really. The theme song last week at the end of the episode was bonerific.

That was indeed a great song choice for the final scene, however it was not the best song choice for the final scene.

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[JL21]

Bwaaahahaha

We now live in a Breaking Bad-less world.

[Fat Strat]

[SHOW]

I thought the finale was very, very well done and also somewhat anti-climactic. But, it was done that way by design. The real "climax" built over the whole season, probably peaking when Hank was shot. It's been falling action ever since.

They wrapped everything up nicely. They were even able to pull in some of what made the show great -- Walt coming up with ingenious ways to get something done. No one predicted that scene the Grey Matter people. Brilliant. And attaching the M-60 to a freaking garage door opener... brilliant. Bringing back Stinky and his friend with the laser pens... incredible.

I thought they also did a great job of satisfying the viewers while allowing everyone to stay in character. Lydia's Stevia, Jesse and Todd, and the Uncle's odd understanding of pride and the value of his "word". I thought it was very appropriate that in the end Jesse didn't kill Walt, saying, "you do it". It was subtle, but a great way of illustrating how much Jesse had changed and what his future will be like.


Lastly, I think the finale will feel better when I go back and watch the last season in a marathon. I really prefer to watch shows in long chunks, rather than in weekly bites. I really like that immersive experience.

[Valpo Cardinal Fan]

I got this note from the whole Breaking Bad production crew that they have a new creation that has entered their lives all at once.

[SHOW]

[go birds]

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anyone else notice Jessie speeding off at the end of breaking bad right on into the Need For Speed movie??

[Cole Burns]

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I loved the scene with the garage door opener. Walt gets it all set up, then crawls down beside it and messes with the timing to slow it down. It's like Vince saying, "We're going to slow the pace of this show down now, almost to a stand still in each scene." And it felt like it. The whole 3rd act was just a slow walk to the end. And I loved it!