What's new
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

Welcome to Our Forums. Once you've registered and logged in, you're primed to talk football, among other topics, with the sharpest and most experienced fantasy players on the internet.

Breaking Bad on AMC (4 Viewers)

bostonfred said:
2) My thoughts on the final episode:

Walt needs to die. This show wouldn't have a satisfying end with him living happily ever after, and going to prison isn't final enough.

There needs to be some attempt at redemption. He's broken bad, so he may not actually get the redemption he wants. But he needs to try, just like he did when he called his wife on a recorded line, or tried to send money to Walter Jr. He wants revenge, sure, but killing the Nazis isn't a satisfying end to the story. He needs to believe he's helping his family.

There also needs to be a sense that his death was justice. If he loaded the guns into his trunk, but died of complications from his cancer before he could use them, it would be a pretty upsetting end to the story. He may have control over how he dies - like everyone seems to be suggesting with taking the ricin - but it has to feel like he had no other choice than to die.

There are two open ends - the weaponry he buys and the ricin. It seems all but impossible for the show to end without a grand fight with the Nazis, and they need to die. I mean, if they survived, it wouldn't complete Walt's arc as a bad guy, and it would feel like a loose end. There's no closure to their arc that ends with them alive. It seems like it needs to be violent and quick, and it almost certainly involves Walt trying to kill them with a machine gun. That could be a red herring, like the burnt pink teddy bear in the swimming pool, but with one episode left, it seems like a foregone conclusion that this fight is going to happen.

Lydia also needs something bad to happen to her, and we need to close the loop on these European buyers. Maybe they kill her, or maybe the Nazis kill her, or maybe Walt kills her with the ricin. But unlike some of the other characters who need to actually die to have their story end, the most satisfying answer for her may be to end up in cuffs. My guess, though, is that she lives, and ends up being the ultimate mistake, after Mike had her dead to rights and Jesse and Walt called him off. Four things that may pop up = her squeamishness about seeing violence despite wanting everyone killed, her kid, her love of chamomile tea that seems so ripe for a ricin'ing, and this strange arc with Todd being sweet on her also seems to need resolution.

We need closure on Walt's family. Marie sucks, and I don't care what happens to her. She's already played her part in screwing over Walt's family, and she got plenty of comeuppance after Hank called her and she rubbed the news in Skyler's face. If she isn't in the final episode, I would consider it a plus, but the most likely scenario to me is that we see her on the sidelines looking at the wreckage when this is all over. She seems like a likely candidate to parent Holly and Walter Jr if they are literally or figuratively orphaned.

Skyler's pretty screwed right now, but this show doesn't stop at pretty screwed. She could walk away unscathed, but that's not satisfying because she was complicit in the scheme and because Walt wants her to get away unscathed. Something bad needs to happen to her. She may be a sympathetic criminal but she's a criminal and she's something Walter White loves. She needs to be a victim and it needs to be grand. Skyler could die, or she could watch one or both of her kids die, but getting sent to prison wouldn't feel like closure and would be a pretty boring denouement.

Walter Jr. was one of the few innocent people in the show, and he doesn't deserve to die, but that doesn't mean he won't. He can't be made whole - he already refused the money, and it seems like a cop out if he ends up getting it once his father dies. There's very little you can do with his character that makes you feel good at the end. It's hard to imagine a scenario where he lives happily ever after. So I'm kind of leaning towards him either dying, or losing his innocence. I'm kind of thinking the latter - he gets involved in the bloodshed of the final episode when his family is threatened, or he somehow brings Walt down.

The same thing goes for Brock, or whatever his name is. The kid could survive all this, but he's a loose end, and it seems like they don't want any loose ends. What happens to him at the end? He could get killed, or he could get money and live happily ever after, or he could end up with Jesse Pinkman. I don't think he gets killed, but where he was just threatened by the nazis, he still plays a part of some kind.

Jesse had a deal with the feds. He might be able to walk away from this. They have a taped confession, and if it led to Walt's capture and conviction, then he could go free and live happily ever after with Brock. He's been beaten down so much, and tried to hard to stop the rollercoaster, that he may have earned his happy ending.

Here's my guess. Walt gets a message to Skyler that he is going to kill the nazis. He goes to their camp and a gunfight ensues. Walt is ill prepared for it, but to his surprise, he finds Jesse, who becomes his accomplice one last time. Together, they are losing to the Nazis, when the feds arrive and complicate the gunfight. Jesse has a chance to kill Walt, but turns him in instead. Todd escapes, and goes to talk to Lydia. Seeing that the Nazis are dead, Skyler tells the authorities about Lydia, which brings her down and shakes the European drug syndicate. Todd threatens to kill Holly, but against all odds, Walter Jr. kills Todd by running him over. Walt is taken into custody, but takes the ricin and dies before he goes to jail. Jesse is questioned about Walt's death after he had previously reported a ricin poisoning, but ultimately goes free for providing the evidence that got Walt convicted, and he lives happily ever after with Brock. The money is confiscated by the feds. Jesse's arc ends with redemption after starting bad, getting worse, and turning good. Skyler's arc ends with her life in shambles, and confusion about Walt's final act of selflessness. Walt's arc ends with him dying of his own actions instead of the cancer.
Who there gekko, where's 1)?

 
I haven't posted in this thread and didn't go back and re-read it, so my apologies if I start talking about things that have been covered to death already, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on in this show.

1) All of the main characters changed names. Walt obviously has the Heisenberg persona. Jesse was Captain Cook. Walter Jr. was Flynn. Marie changed names when she went to the open houses and pretended to be different people. Skyler changed her name after Walt left, going back to her maiden name. Even Hank changed his name - in the desert, lying on the ground, he defiantly corrected them and said my name is ATAG Schroeder. People start out as one person, but find power in becoming someone else.

Each character had totally different motivations for it, too. Hank became the super agent, the guy who he had defined himself as. Walter Jr. wanted to carve out his own name. He didn't want to be his father's son. He wanted to be his own man, and that name gave him a certain coolness that Walter Jr. didn't. Marie wanted to be something more than she was - she didn't want to be the boring x ray tech wife of a cop. She invented these crazy personas with incredible accomplishments and told everyone about them at the open houses. Skyler wanted the opposite - she changed her name to hide from who she actually was, because she was ashamed of her involvement, and of her husband, and of everything she had become since she got married. Changing to her maiden name showed just how much she wished she could go back to that earlier time.

Walt named himself after a rare scientist whose name you actually know. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle - that something can be in two states at once - applies in a huge way to Walt, who was simultaneously the victimized protagonist and the budding evil mastermind throughout the show. When he put on the hat, and became Heisenberg, the strong side. He made his drug connection say his name. He told Hank that Heisenberg was too smart to have been caught. Heisenberg was his greatest invention, the empire he had built after Gray Matter - also named after an uncertainty, neither black nor white. Walter White was his weak side. He didn't want cancer treatment, because as he said during his intervention, he felt like he never had control of any of the decisions in his life. He took off his clothes during his first cook, because Walt, the guy in the pale green button down shirt, couldn't cook meth. It had to be Heisenberg. And in the end, it was his initials - W.W. for Walter White - that let Hank find him. Gail loved Walter White because he saw a kindred spirit - a weak man but a brilliant chemist. Heisenberg hated that weakness - he stepped on Gail like an ant, kicking him out of the lab for Jesse, and then later having Jesse kill him - just like he eventually stomped out any remnants of Walter White from his own persona. It wasn't until he moved to New Hampsire and became Mr. Lambert that Heisenberg's power was weakened - even stomping around the safe house, plotting to kill the Nazis and asking Saul for connections. But with Heisenberg's black hat - the cliched costume of the bad guy in storytelling - he left his life as Mr. Lambert and left New Hampshire for whatever out series finale will show.

But while Heisenberg is the most obvious example of the power of names in this show, Jesse Pinkman might have been the most interesting case. He started out as Captain Cook. He even made it his license plate. But he only did that because he wanted to be someone who people loved. Guys like Badger and Skinny Pete loved him for his meth, so that's who he became. But with his little brother, he wanted to be the big brother who still had a few things to teach him. With Walt, he wanted to be his partner, not a loser student meth head. With Mike and Gus, he wanted to be the guy who Gus said he saw something in. With his parents, he wanted to be their son - and when that didn't work, he used anonymity, having Saul Goodman buy his aunt's house back on behalf of a client who had no name at all. He went to alcoholics anonymous - again with the anonymity - and pretended to be in recovery, when he actually went there to find customers to sell drugs to. The only person Jesse ever truly let himself be free with was Jane, and even then, he started out hiding who he was, and only slowly let down his barriers with her. And he started to show her all the different names he'd hidden behind - the comic book characters in his sketch book. And the event that changed this from a hookup with a neighbor to the one true love of his life is when she did the same, leaving a sketch under his door with a picture of herself entitled Apology Girl.

Just one of the many themese I find fascinating in this show.
 
I haven't posted in this thread and didn't go back and re-read it, so my apologies if I start talking about things that have been covered to death already, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on in this show.

1) All of the main characters changed names. Walt obviously has the Heisenberg persona. Jesse was Captain Cook. Walter Jr. was Flynn. Marie changed names when she went to the open houses and pretended to be different people. Skyler changed her name after Walt left, going back to her maiden name. Even Hank changed his name - in the desert, lying on the ground, he defiantly corrected them and said my name is ATAG Schroeder. People start out as one person, but find power in becoming someone else.

Each character had totally different motivations for it, too. Hank became the super agent, the guy who he had defined himself as. Walter Jr. wanted to carve out his own name. He didn't want to be his father's son. He wanted to be his own man, and that name gave him a certain coolness that Walter Jr. didn't. Marie wanted to be something more than she was - she didn't want to be the boring x ray tech wife of a cop. She invented these crazy personas with incredible accomplishments and told everyone about them at the open houses. Skyler wanted the opposite - she changed her name to hide from who she actually was, because she was ashamed of her involvement, and of her husband, and of everything she had become since she got married. Changing to her maiden name showed just how much she wished she could go back to that earlier time.

Walt named himself after a rare scientist whose name you actually know. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle - that something can be in two states at once - applies in a huge way to Walt, who was simultaneously the victimized protagonist and the budding evil mastermind throughout the show. When he put on the hat, and became Heisenberg, the strong side. He made his drug connection say his name. He told Hank that Heisenberg was too smart to have been caught. Heisenberg was his greatest invention, the empire he had built after Gray Matter - also named after an uncertainty, neither black nor white. Walter White was his weak side. He didn't want cancer treatment, because as he said during his intervention, he felt like he never had control of any of the decisions in his life. He took off his clothes during his first cook, because Walt, the guy in the pale green button down shirt, couldn't cook meth. It had to be Heisenberg. And in the end, it was his initials - W.W. for Walter White - that let Hank find him. Gail loved Walter White because he saw a kindred spirit - a weak man but a brilliant chemist. Heisenberg hated that weakness - he stepped on Gail like an ant, kicking him out of the lab for Jesse, and then later having Jesse kill him - just like he eventually stomped out any remnants of Walter White from his own persona. It wasn't until he moved to New Hampsire and became Mr. Lambert that Heisenberg's power was weakened - even stomping around the safe house, plotting to kill the Nazis and asking Saul for connections. But with Heisenberg's black hat - the cliched costume of the bad guy in storytelling - he left his life as Mr. Lambert and left New Hampshire for whatever out series finale will show.

But while Heisenberg is the most obvious example of the power of names in this show, Jesse Pinkman might have been the most interesting case. He started out as Captain Cook. He even made it his license plate. But he only did that because he wanted to be someone who people loved. Guys like Badger and Skinny Pete loved him for his meth, so that's who he became. But with his little brother, he wanted to be the big brother who still had a few things to teach him. With Walt, he wanted to be his partner, not a loser student meth head. With Mike and Gus, he wanted to be the guy who Gus said he saw something in. With his parents, he wanted to be their son - and when that didn't work, he used anonymity, having Saul Goodman buy his aunt's house back on behalf of a client who had no name at all. He went to alcoholics anonymous - again with the anonymity - and pretended to be in recovery, when he actually went there to find customers to sell drugs to. The only person Jesse ever truly let himself be free with was Jane, and even then, he started out hiding who he was, and only slowly let down his barriers with her. And he started to show her all the different names he'd hidden behind - the comic book characters in his sketch book. And the event that changed this from a hookup with a neighbor to the one true love of his life is when she did the same, leaving a sketch under his door with a picture of herself entitled Apology Girl.

Just one of the many themese I find fascinating in this show.
 
I haven't posted in this thread and didn't go back and re-read it, so my apologies if I start talking about things that have been covered to death already, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on in this show.

1) All of the main characters changed names. Walt obviously has the Heisenberg persona. Jesse was Captain Cook. Walter Jr. was Flynn. Marie changed names when she went to the open houses and pretended to be different people. Skyler changed her name after Walt left, going back to her maiden name. Even Hank changed his name - in the desert, lying on the ground, he defiantly corrected them and said my name is ATAG Schroeder. People start out as one person, but find power in becoming someone else.

Each character had totally different motivations for it, too. Hank became the super agent, the guy who he had defined himself as. Walter Jr. wanted to carve out his own name. He didn't want to be his father's son. He wanted to be his own man, and that name gave him a certain coolness that Walter Jr. didn't. Marie wanted to be something more than she was - she didn't want to be the boring x ray tech wife of a cop. She invented these crazy personas with incredible accomplishments and told everyone about them at the open houses. Skyler wanted the opposite - she changed her name to hide from who she actually was, because she was ashamed of her involvement, and of her husband, and of everything she had become since she got married. Changing to her maiden name showed just how much she wished she could go back to that earlier time.

Walt named himself after a rare scientist whose name you actually know. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle - that something can be in two states at once - applies in a huge way to Walt, who was simultaneously the victimized protagonist and the budding evil mastermind throughout the show. When he put on the hat, and became Heisenberg, the strong side. He made his drug connection say his name. He told Hank that Heisenberg was too smart to have been caught. Heisenberg was his greatest invention, the empire he had built after Gray Matter - also named after an uncertainty, neither black nor white. Walter White was his weak side. He didn't want cancer treatment, because as he said during his intervention, he felt like he never had control of any of the decisions in his life. He took off his clothes during his first cook, because Walt, the guy in the pale green button down shirt, couldn't cook meth. It had to be Heisenberg. And in the end, it was his initials - W.W. for Walter White - that let Hank find him. Gail loved Walter White because he saw a kindred spirit - a weak man but a brilliant chemist. Heisenberg hated that weakness - he stepped on Gail like an ant, kicking him out of the lab for Jesse, and then later having Jesse kill him - just like he eventually stomped out any remnants of Walter White from his own persona. It wasn't until he moved to New Hampsire and became Mr. Lambert that Heisenberg's power was weakened - even stomping around the safe house, plotting to kill the Nazis and asking Saul for connections. But with Heisenberg's black hat - the cliched costume of the bad guy in storytelling - he left his life as Mr. Lambert and left New Hampshire for whatever out series finale will show.

But while Heisenberg is the most obvious example of the power of names in this show, Jesse Pinkman might have been the most interesting case. He started out as Captain Cook. He even made it his license plate. But he only did that because he wanted to be someone who people loved. Guys like Badger and Skinny Pete loved him for his meth, so that's who he became. But with his little brother, he wanted to be the big brother who still had a few things to teach him. With Walt, he wanted to be his partner, not a loser student meth head. With Mike and Gus, he wanted to be the guy who Gus said he saw something in. With his parents, he wanted to be their son - and when that didn't work, he used anonymity, having Saul Goodman buy his aunt's house back on behalf of a client who had no name at all. He went to alcoholics anonymous - again with the anonymity - and pretended to be in recovery, when he actually went there to find customers to sell drugs to. The only person Jesse ever truly let himself be free with was Jane, and even then, he started out hiding who he was, and only slowly let down his barriers with her. And he started to show her all the different names he'd hidden behind - the comic book characters in his sketch book. And the event that changed this from a hookup with a neighbor to the one true love of his life is when she did the same, leaving a sketch under his door with a picture of herself entitled Apology Girl.

Just one of the many themese I find fascinating in this show.
 
putting it in a spoiler so people who don't want to know wont click.

POSSIBLE NEXT EPISDOE SPOILERS BELOW

it's a picture from the next episode of Walt back in New Hampshire by the gate near the shack which leads me to speculate he "wins" and goes back for his money.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
putting it in a spoiler so people who don't want to know wont click.

POSSIBLE NEXT EPISDOE SPOILERS BELOW

it's a picture from the next episode of Walt back in New Hampshire by the gate near the shack which leads me to speculate he "wins" and goes back for his money.
maybe he heads back there before he goes to New Mexico? Not really spoilerish.
 
putting it in a spoiler so people who don't want to know wont click.

POSSIBLE NEXT EPISDOE SPOILERS BELOW

it's a picture from the next episode of Walt back in New Hampshire by the gate near the shack which leads me to speculate he "wins" and goes back for his money.
maybe he heads back there before he goes to New Mexico? Not really spoilerish.
his head was shaved so that's not it. other possibility is its a flashback from when he first arrived but I don't know what possible revelation there could be with showing that.
 
wow that wave Hank gives him going over the lab notes for the first time, same wave he gives Walt when on the phone with Marie after he slapped the cuffs on Walt.

 
Just ordered these two shirts

http://www.redbubble.com/people/kiwicrash/works/10534394-breaking-bad-logo?body_color=black&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens

http://www.redbubble.com/people/olipop/works/9384861-heisenberg-crystal-meth

There are some cool shirts on this site.

By the way, would any of you feel "uncomfortable" about wearing a shirt that says "99.1% Pure Crystal Meth" on it?
I like this one. http://www.redbubble.com/people/nefos/works/10768832-keep-calm-#####?body_color=white&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens

 
Not clicking anything.

In fact, I'm gonna drop a :blackdot: right here and pick up the thread from this point on Monday.

XYZZY

 
Just ordered these two shirts

http://www.redbubble.com/people/kiwicrash/works/10534394-breaking-bad-logo?body_color=black&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens

http://www.redbubble.com/people/olipop/works/9384861-heisenberg-crystal-meth

There are some cool shirts on this site.

By the way, would any of you feel "uncomfortable" about wearing a shirt that says "99.1% Pure Crystal Meth" on it?
They should have left it "99.1% Pure".

 
Just ordered these two shirts

http://www.redbubble.com/people/kiwicrash/works/10534394-breaking-bad-logo?body_color=black&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens

http://www.redbubble.com/people/olipop/works/9384861-heisenberg-crystal-meth

There are some cool shirts on this site.

By the way, would any of you feel "uncomfortable" about wearing a shirt that says "99.1% Pure Crystal Meth" on it?
I like this one. http://www.redbubble.com/people/nefos/works/10768832-keep-calm-#####?body_color=white&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens
I gotta get my hands on one of them tan Kenny Rogers T-shirts.

 
who here thinks that they will be satisfied with the ending?

You know, in a I just listened to a new album from my favorite band and I need to process it for while before giving a meaningful answer sort of way.

I'm starting to wonder if they can pull it off.

 
who here thinks that they will be satisfied with the ending?

You know, in a I just listened to a new album from my favorite band and I need to process it for while before giving a meaningful answer sort of way.

I'm starting to wonder if they can pull it off.
I think the ebding will be great. Just because it might not be what im hoping for doesn't mean it can't be great.

 
who here thinks that they will be satisfied with the ending?

You know, in a I just listened to a new album from my favorite band and I need to process it for while before giving a meaningful answer sort of way.

I'm starting to wonder if they can pull it off.
I'm not expecting them to end it any certain way. This is one of those shows where it's been about the ride, not the destination, anyway. I'm pretty sure it'll be another quality episode in what's been an incredible run of storytelling via television series.

 
who here thinks that they will be satisfied with the ending?

You know, in a I just listened to a new album from my favorite band and I need to process it for while before giving a meaningful answer sort of way.

I'm starting to wonder if they can pull it off.
I will not and it's only because the show is over and it's gonna be hard for me to wrap my head around that for a while.

 
I haven't posted in this thread and didn't go back and re-read it, so my apologies if I start talking about things that have been covered to death already, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on in this show.

1) All of the main characters changed names. Walt obviously has the Heisenberg persona. Jesse was Captain Cook. Walter Jr. was Flynn. Marie changed names when she went to the open houses and pretended to be different people. Skyler changed her name after Walt left, going back to her maiden name. Even Hank changed his name - in the desert, lying on the ground, he defiantly corrected them and said my name is ATAG Schroeder. People start out as one person, but find power in becoming someone else.

Each character had totally different motivations for it, too. Hank became the super agent, the guy who he had defined himself as. Walter Jr. wanted to carve out his own name. He didn't want to be his father's son. He wanted to be his own man, and that name gave him a certain coolness that Walter Jr. didn't. Marie wanted to be something more than she was - she didn't want to be the boring x ray tech wife of a cop. She invented these crazy personas with incredible accomplishments and told everyone about them at the open houses. Skyler wanted the opposite - she changed her name to hide from who she actually was, because she was ashamed of her involvement, and of her husband, and of everything she had become since she got married. Changing to her maiden name showed just how much she wished she could go back to that earlier time.

Walt named himself after a rare scientist whose name you actually know. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle - that something can be in two states at once - applies in a huge way to Walt, who was simultaneously the victimized protagonist and the budding evil mastermind throughout the show. When he put on the hat, and became Heisenberg, the strong side. He made his drug connection say his name. He told Hank that Heisenberg was too smart to have been caught. Heisenberg was his greatest invention, the empire he had built after Gray Matter - also named after an uncertainty, neither black nor white. Walter White was his weak side. He didn't want cancer treatment, because as he said during his intervention, he felt like he never had control of any of the decisions in his life. He took off his clothes during his first cook, because Walt, the guy in the pale green button down shirt, couldn't cook meth. It had to be Heisenberg. And in the end, it was his initials - W.W. for Walter White - that let Hank find him. Gail loved Walter White because he saw a kindred spirit - a weak man but a brilliant chemist. Heisenberg hated that weakness - he stepped on Gail like an ant, kicking him out of the lab for Jesse, and then later having Jesse kill him - just like he eventually stomped out any remnants of Walter White from his own persona. It wasn't until he moved to New Hampsire and became Mr. Lambert that Heisenberg's power was weakened - even stomping around the safe house, plotting to kill the Nazis and asking Saul for connections. But with Heisenberg's black hat - the cliched costume of the bad guy in storytelling - he left his life as Mr. Lambert and left New Hampshire for whatever out series finale will show.

But while Heisenberg is the most obvious example of the power of names in this show, Jesse Pinkman might have been the most interesting case. He started out as Captain Cook. He even made it his license plate. But he only did that because he wanted to be someone who people loved. Guys like Badger and Skinny Pete loved him for his meth, so that's who he became. But with his little brother, he wanted to be the big brother who still had a few things to teach him. With Walt, he wanted to be his partner, not a loser student meth head. With Mike and Gus, he wanted to be the guy who Gus said he saw something in. With his parents, he wanted to be their son - and when that didn't work, he used anonymity, having Saul Goodman buy his aunt's house back on behalf of a client who had no name at all. He went to alcoholics anonymous - again with the anonymity - and pretended to be in recovery, when he actually went there to find customers to sell drugs to. The only person Jesse ever truly let himself be free with was Jane, and even then, he started out hiding who he was, and only slowly let down his barriers with her. And he started to show her all the different names he'd hidden behind - the comic book characters in his sketch book. And the event that changed this from a hookup with a neighbor to the one true love of his life is when she did the same, leaving a sketch under his door with a picture of herself entitled Apology Girl.

Just one of the many themese I find fascinating in this show.
This is really good. Nice post.

 
who here thinks that they will be satisfied with the ending?

You know, in a I just listened to a new album from my favorite band and I need to process it for while before giving a meaningful answer sort of way.

I'm starting to wonder if they can pull it off.
I fully expect to be satisfied. This show show has been brilliant 99% of the time and 100% of the time during the final season. Even if it's not the ending I would write, I'm sure it'll work.

 
who here thinks that they will be satisfied with the ending?

You know, in a I just listened to a new album from my favorite band and I need to process it for while before giving a meaningful answer sort of way.

I'm starting to wonder if they can pull it off.
I fully expect to be satisfied. This show show has been brilliant 99% of the time and 100% of the time during the final season. Even if it's not the ending I would write, I'm sure it'll work.
This. Total faith in Gilligan and co.

 
One thing that strikes me aboutthe series, looking back:

In the early seasons, even though he felt like a chump and not really respected, is seeing how respected and loved he truly was by his family, students etc. He gained all the money in the world, but it burned every bridge and he was just a lonely guy living in a hut in the middle of nowhere. By becoming rich, he became poor.

 
Cranston said an interesting thing on Talking Bad.

He talked about this journey having really opened up/exposed this whole emotional side of Walt. You can really see it in how he acts out, and it makes him vulnerable to hus pride, greed etc

 

Users who are viewing this thread

Top