Breaking bad - Final Season (Contains aired episode spoilers)

Hi Breaking Bad thread. We've not met. Until a month ago I had never seen a single episode. Well, after being laid off with work with a bad back I thought I'd give it a try and today I just finished every episode bar the one that is being aired tonight. smurf me.

What a transformation. Absolutely loving that dorky science teacher who is in over his head, those two gangsters to start, then Tuco, Gus, Mike, and welp, he truly is the Danger, smurf this guy. smurf me, Hank. Nice Fortune comment Del, I dig it. Unless they somehow smurf it up spectacularly, this is such the antithesis of how Dexter went which ended up being a disappointment. I pity poor Walt now.

Can't wait to see how it ends!

Oh yeah, and are we all agreed the random Mariachi band at the start of an episode for no apparent reason whatsoever remains the best moment? Cool, thanks.

I started binge watching and had never even heard of the series until around mid August.

Won't be long now!

I loved the finale, but my only pick is how did Walt know she liked Stevia? When did he have tea with her? Also "My Way" would've also been a fitting end song.

Even though it was all predictable, it was still a good watch. Great shots. Reminded a lot of Pulp Fiction.

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Originally Posted by Shiny

I loved the finale, but my only pick is how did Walt know she liked Stevia? When did he have tea with her? Also "My Way" would've also been a fitting end song.

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he met with her a lot in the same cafe didn't he
and i dont think my way would've been good
especially a sinatra version
walt's not that kind of classy.

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Originally Posted by Shiny

I loved the finale, but my only pick is how did Walt know she liked Stevia? When did he have tea with her? Also "My Way" would've also been a fitting end song.

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He explicitly said he met her there every Tuesday at 10am when they were working together. I swear to god, Shiny, sometimes--

Finale wrapped everything up nicely but lacked the wtf moments that made this show great.

I liked it a lot, but I'll have to do a re-watch tomorrow some time. I was expecting something more, but I don't really know what. Everything was tied up nicely, and I can't really complain. Guess it's time to find another show now.

I was very happy with how this show ended.

Del: I kind of felt that the show set itself up in a way that whatever happened, no matter how extreme, was never going to be a real shock.

Maybe, but what actually happened felt very vanilla and basically checked off all the boxes with nothing more. However, it was done in a well-written way. Let's put it this way, there's nothing about the finale that I have the desire to rewatch, unlike much of the rest of the show.

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Originally Posted by Shiny

I loved the finale, but my only pick is how did Walt know she liked Stevia? When did he have tea with her? Also "My Way" would've also been a fitting end song.

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He explicitly said he met her there every Tuesday at 10am when they were working together. I swear to god, Shiny, sometimes--

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I was asking because I couldn't remember you grumpy gint. I was also multi tasking while I was watching this episode. It moved really slowly. Season four is still the best season, but I am very satisfied with how things turned out.

Also My Way is awesome for Walt. Look up a video on YouTube featuring Walt and the song. I am on my mobile so can't link properly at the moment.

I thought it was very conventional. I mean, it was fine. It wrapped most stuff up.

But it was disappointing to me. I thought there would have been at least one jaw dropping moment, and there wasn't. I thought they would have done something with Walt Jr. and they didn't, I thought Walt's end would come about in a more dramatic way. Everyone knew that Walt was gonna take out the Nazis so that wasn't very exciting. Even the ricin's use at the end was kinda boring. Jessie's "resolution" of getting away from the compound was the most disappointing of all the storylines I think although Skyler's was pretty meh too.

That being said, there was nothing bad about the finale. It checked all the boxes and wrapped up the series like it was supposed to. And I did appreciate Walt saying goodbye to the meth lab and his admission finally that it was all for him.

I can see why they did it this way though. This way, while almost everything is wrapped up, they left a LOT of room for viewers to come up with their own ideas of how everyone ended up.

I guess I kinda wanted to see them do something more ballsy and maybe even rage inducing. :p To do a ending that made people feel excited or angry or utterly depressed, or insanely happy. Some sort of extreme reaction.

I liked the ending. I feel that if they tried to so something twisty or whatever, it really would have come off as pandering or trying too hard. After what Walt has been through his behavior and planning made a lot of sense. It was how the show should have ended.

The jack-in-a-box-smurf-you-Nazis was delicious. No problems whatsoever with it. Not everything needs a twist.

I agree with Miriel's points on some level, but I still really liked it this way. It wasn't extraordinary but it was a solid ending that I still really enjoyed.