Breaking Bad (CONTAINS SPOILERS)

[DexterTCN]

...I did guess the ricin was in the sweetener as soon as she stirred her tea...

Thing is..Lydia always takes a window seat...but Walt wouldn't have known which one...there were a few. I bet all of them had a ricin sweetener.

 

[dogmatique]

And so it ends.

 

[Ranbay]

Thing is..Lydia always takes a window seat...but Walt wouldn't have known which one...there were a few. I bet all of them had a ricin sweetener.

Nah he wouldn't have hurt anyone else! when she sat in her seat there was only one in the tray.

 

[DexterTCN]

Nah he wouldn't have hurt anyone else! ...

em...he blew up a bomb in an old peoples' home

 

[SpookyFrank]

Badger and Skinny Pete. Hitmen yo.

When he said 'the two best hitmen west of the Misissippi' I somehow knew it would be those two. Glad they got a curtain call, shame Huell didn't

 

[madamv]

Nice. Nice round off.

Thanks good people of urban for helping me see into the programme rather than just watching it. I've really enjoyed it with you all.

 

[spacemonkey]

Nice. Nice round off.

Thanks good people of urban for helping me see into the programme rather than just watching it. I've really enjoyed it with you all.

I love big TV series shown in parallel with the States. It's like a group experience, I've enjoyed speculating about BB on here and other places as much as the show itself.

Netflix really pulled it out of the bag showing it next day. Felt good to be able to watch it legally (and support the makers of the show) without hunting torrent sites. HBO I'm looking at you.

 

[trabuquera]

Disclaimer: it was brilliant of course. deeply satisfying on a dramatic level, some absolutely awesome camera/cinematography/lighting work, pace never slacked and it let you catch up with everyone you cared at all about. (*except maybe Huell of course.)

Now for the obligatory urban bunfight gratuitous beef heretical thought: it was too kindhearted by half. I was expecting/hoping for something with much more bite and a snap of that good old blackhearted malice and mischief which you get at other moments. (and that doesn't have to mean gore or gunplay, either.) It could have thrown in some absolutely outrageous twist, or gone fullbore social satire, or done a more marxist (or maybe wire-like genius) montage showing how the wheels of industry keep grinding away. Instead we ended up rooting for Walt, and walt got to have a final goodbye to skyler and caress holly's little head; jesse got away in one piece rather than (more likely) dying of torture/malnutrition/neglect/despair, and to reconcile with Walt .

My 'least likely ending' prediction was group hugs, learning and reconciliation and that's more or less what happened dammit!

detail I liked best of all: walt spying on walt jr through the laundry block and it looks pretty much like they are living in the projects. oh the middle-class horror. especially when set up against the glitzy polished marble walls of the ex's 1%er blingpad bought (possibly) with walt's genius inventions....

 

[Doctor Carrot]

I for one am glad there's no ambiguity and 'what does it all mean' chin scratching guff. I'm sick of post modern toss like that, this was just brilliant, intelligent in a non wanky way, fun, practically forced you to get involved and think about all the characters and story and then wrapped it up beautifully at the end. The ending was absolutely perfect for me and I'm so thankful there wasn't a fucking montage!

 

[DexterTCN]

One thought that just occurred, maybe the scene with Jesse making his box was a flashforward rather than a daydream. Either way, I like the ambiguity of it.

I think it was a story he told other addicts while they were in the circle in rehab. Series 3?

 

[Clair De Lune]

Arghh it's over. I will miss it, even if some episodes left me feeling morbidly contemplative and morose. What a journey! That was artful

 

[neonwilderness]

I was kinda expecting Walt's trousers to feature somewhere again. Maybe they should have cut to them still out in the desert after the credits

 

[electroplated]

he told story of how he made the box and sold it to buy weed early on didn't he?

 

[Doctor Carrot]

he told story of how he made the box and sold it to buy weed early on didn't he?

Yeah he did. I thought at first when he told the story he was using the box as a metaphor for his meth and the uptight teacher he talked about giving it a poor mark was Walt. That may still be the case and Jesse was just daydreaming, it was mentioned in talking bad and Aaron Paul did say it was a daydream and because Jesse sees himself as an artist. Either way it doesn't matter really but it was a nice touch.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

So what's everyone's favourite scene from the whole thing? For me it's this, for my money this is one of the finest scenes ever to be witnessed on the big or small screen and that's largely down to the cinematography of it, particularly at the end of it when the camera is lifting up it captures so much in that slow moving shot and it just looks amazing. Simple shots like that are usually the most powerful IMO.

 

[keybored]

I was kinda expecting Walt's trousers to feature somewhere again. Maybe they should have cut to them still out in the desert after the credits

Been done, when he's rolling the barrel in the desert after his Chrysler breaks down he passes the trousers.

Edit: Hold on, did you mean a third time?

 

[keybored]

So what's everyone's favourite scene from the whole thing? For me it's this, for my money this is one of the finest scenes ever to be witnessed on the big or small screen and that's largely down to the cinematography of it, particularly at the end of it when the camera is lifting up it captures so much in that slow moving shot and it just looks amazing. Simple shots like that are usually the most powerful IMO.

Heisenberg dies in the same pose on the floor of the meth lab that Walter White died in the crawlspace :'(

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Heisenberg dies in the same pose on the floor of the meth lab that Walter White died in the crawlspace :'(

Damn good point I hadn't thought of that, it just makes that scene even better now!

 

[neonwilderness]

Been done, when he's rolling the barrel in the desert after his Chrysler breaks down he passes the trousers.

Edit: Hold on, did you mean a third time?

I was thinking more a "life goes on" type of shot after the main ending

 

[Fez909]

Heisenberg dies in the same pose on the floor of the meth lab that Walter White died in the crawlspace :'(

Nice. I hadn't thought of it like that, but watching that scene again, you're right. That's when WW died. And the crawl space looks a bit like the hole in the ground for a burial. And that kind of shot is sometimes used to zoom out on a coffin when funerals are shown in films.

 

[keybored]

Thing is..Lydia always takes a window seat...but Walt wouldn't have known which one...there were a few. I bet all of them had a ricin sweetener.

It was always the same table.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Yeah the foreshadowing throughout has been superb. This is another fine example of it.

 

[Ted Striker]

So what's everyone's favourite scene from the whole thing?

Really it's the end of S4 when Gus exits Salamancar's room, though I'm gonna say the day Walt explains to Gale how he can't cook with him, before Jessie enters the Fring superlab for the first time...

 

[Jon-of-arc]

personal fave was hank interviewing mike, telling him about his money they've managed to trace. Learned a lot about mike and his background, Hank was on top form, fuckin wit his suspect, although Mike was clearly not intimidated.

Not a particularly important scene, but thoroughly entertaining and really well written. Smart, sharp, funny, imaginative dialogue.

 

[Smyz]

Also, why did Walt kill Lydia? I can't think of anything she did to him (that he knew about - obvi there was Todd and co threatening Skyler, but Walt found out about this after he'd done the deed...).

Skyler told him about the Nazis visiting and threatening her to keep quiet about Lydia. He knew Skyler wouldn't be safe whilst she could implicate Lydia. Remember her telling Todd that threatening her for silence wasn't enough?

 

[Smyz]

I thought it was more to be in the place of his proudest achievement, but that's a nice thought.

brilliant. Fantastic series and I like it being neatly wrapped up for the most part. I don't need to know what Jessie does, he's happy to be alive and that's enough for me.
Never found out who Gus was and why the cartel didn't kill him in the flashback either.

It is hinted that Gus has high up political connections in Chile in the cartel flashback scene.

 

[Smyz]

Heisenberg dies in the same pose on the floor of the meth lab that Walter White died in the crawlspace :'(

And also the same spinning shot used on the CT scanner for his cancer.

 

[BigTom]

It is hinted that Gus has high up political connections in Chile in the cartel flashback scene.

Yes, that was what I was referring to, and we never got to find out what that was.

 

[Mumbles274]

 

[Badgers]

Good end. Not a massive plot twist or shock but wrapped it up nicely I thought.

Hopefully Jesse will feature in the Saul spin off programme.