yeah, you are totally right. the show is a piece of capitalism and it is basically a really really brilliant story about capitalism at its most extreme and savage. the whole show is about this product that is extra special and that causes people to go crazy, kill and die for.

but we live in that world and that system and the reality of BB is pretty close to the reality of the drug trade. which happens. you can say that we should censor any representations of this from our culture to make us feel better or you can say we need to brutally depict these truths to people.

of course there will be idiots who dont get that its a show, or rather, who think that because its a show its giving some sort of green light to these things. who think that because its just a show, you can dip your toes into that world and the consequences will be derealized in some way.

the best you can say for BB is that its a very high quality drama for your sick society to produce about itself.

if BB was blatantly saying that you can be like walt and become a heroic badass who gets away with it and fuck the consequences, then it would be idiotic. It's very clear not saying that, its closer to an examination of the possible avenues people can go down. The realism of the show is that these avenues end in death and chaos, which is always what happens in reality.

i mean, if there WERE walter whites who get into that business and get through it without losing anything, without getting killed, and maintain a sort of civility, then the show would be justified in depicting them. but there ain't.

the only people who benefit from the meth trade in the end are the rich people who have zero connection to it apart from having the profits funneled to them for them to launder or scrub. maybe saul and IRL rich people and the cia and i assume republican party politicians.

you have to ask yourself - blue candy meth, if some mother said to her son - thats disgusting, dont eat that, thats sick that they would make a candy based on something so dangerous - is the son going to be like "you're totally right mom" - because im pretty sure thats what jesse's mom would have said and he'd have turned out the same.

Want one more final finale hint? Here is a cryptic two-word tease, courtesy of Paul: “Massage chair.”

also its pretty clear from the cast members use of the word "explosive" over and over again that walt is gonna blow him up some nazis!

i can see that you're a college graduate.

you remind me of students writing "theory" papers about books they haven't actually read.

I think I might watch this episode. and then you know....never watch it probably.

That shit sucked.

ENDING was great

people are complaining but i dont know what more you want, story was concluded

YES

i loved it.

and you were right about the song, ha haha.

you win a prize.

i'm a little sad now with that show gone. same feeling i get when i finish a good book (it's been ages since that's happened).

damn.

quiet 5s

a 10 is speaking

Walter White swatted Dexter the fly with his homemade fly swatter.

hahahaha that was amazing! mindblowing!!

I might want to add that this was the only episode of breaking bad I have ever seen.

misdirection.

Well...that was just brilliant.

I've not read anything about people complaining but I can't think what they've to complain about.

It's a good ending.

hey, ain't no one forcing anyone to smoke meth.

awesome. saw it last night. Great ending. tense an crazy and full o killins

I agree --- it was perfect!

I'm a little curious about Lydia and the ricin. If Lydia would have been on board with Walt's new plan, would Walt still have allowed Lydia to to mix the ricin in her coffee?

Lydia is a cold bitch and would never ever be on board with anything WW was up to.

there was no "walt's new plan" except to clean up what he could before he croaked

oh man, i wasnt paying full attention and missed the scene with Lydia + ricin.
that makes it even better.
yes, good ending. also lol at the images on previous page! 'meanwhile..' LOL.

Well, maybe I typed it wrong: Walt's new way of cooking without Methylamine.

right, there was no such thing. it was just a ploy to talk to them, poison lydia, and get an appointment at the nazis.

there was this talk of the "heisenberg personality" taking over but no.

in the end walter white "won". not the greedy "empire business" but the good decent guy trying to make things right. like the one who ran over the drug dealers with his aztek and who got into shit with someone as huge as gus for trying to protect jesse the fuckup.

once he was rejected by his family he was going to turn himself in. then he saw the interview and everyone thought "oh, now pride is going to turn him into a beast" but it wasn't pride-- it was i think gretchen's statement to charlie rose that the "sweet, brilliant man" that they knew was gone.

but he wasn't gone. there weren't 2 personalities, only one complicated man. so he in the end finds a way to "do the right thing" by a) giving money to his family through different channels, b) giving something to skyler to get rid of the DEA, c) getting rid of the blue meth by killing lydia who is the brains of the operation, d) killing the nazis who killed hank and are threatening skyler, e) freeing the poor stupid gimp as a bonus, f) dying in a lab surrounded by the tools he loved.

at the end all wraps up nicely like a fucking bonbon of death.

Feleena knelt near him to hold and to hear him
When she felt the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his side
He raised to kiss her and she heard him whisper
"Never forget me, Feleena it's over, goodbye"

Walt sitting wasn't required to poison Lydia. He had already inserted the ricin package at the table. However, I guess it was necessary to let the nazis know he was back in town.

right, she needed "more stevia" meaning the only envelope was the one w/ the ricin (ha ha). or did he plant it at the table when he sat down? i've recorded it, i should rewatch.

anyway yea.

what a great show. television has become the new literature. who would have imagined?

(i would: classic XIX century novels were serially published in newspapers)

 

yes ha ha ha. i heard about that in the local news the other day. it's a real obituary! ha haha.

awesome.

Reps to Bytor, since this place does a fantastic job at keeping track of who you repped last!

I binged them all, and I... obtained... the last episodes that Netflix didn't have. I almost perfectly synced up my watching of them, so that I finished when the show actually ended. I was only a couple of days late, which required me to pretty much not watch any TV for a couple of days, since everyone was talking about it.

I can only binge watch a show like this. Maybe I'm spoiled, because I never got into a show that I couldn't binge watch (meaning that I was forced to wait each week for the next episode), but I don't know how people do it. The week long wait, the huge gap between seasons, even the commercials peppering each episode... I don't know how people watch regular TV at all really.

Rewatching the series. Completely forgot how great Tuco was.

Two Austin Lawyers Arrested In alleged Meth & Cocaine Ring

They've already released some of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqM72em1dA

Has anyone watched: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie?

The last we see of Pinkman in BB is Jessie speeding off busting through the gates of the compound......this is where El Camino begins!

The Breaking Bad Enchanted recap

After watching El Camino, I’ve gone back and re-watched the last season of BB

Other than “Fat Todd,” everything is pretty much spot on. The El Camino “flashbacks” are odd when seeing them for the first time, but I plan to watch it again.

This didn’t make the movie, notice the pictures of Hank & Gomie above the water cooler.