Wow...Breaking Bad ending...Spoiler.

[trumad]

Perfect ending....just perfect.

[dorkzilla]

1. Awesome

Amazing story telling. No loose ends.

[cui bono]

32. Yes, there was one loose end.

They left Huell sitting in the house. No one ever told him he could leave.

Jimmy Kimmel brought that up at the Q&A after the finale screening event.

[dorkzilla]

38. Oh crap, you're right! LOL!!

Poor Huell, I wonder how long he'll sit there waiting for Hank and Gomie to come back?

[Warren DeMontague]

76. Yeah, and Brock is an orphan.

Maybe Jesse can adopt him. Or Huell.

[hlthe2b]

2. I LOVED it...

thank Gawd, there was no lame Soprano, Dexter, or similar finale.

I always thought Six Feet Under was the pillar to meet, but this was truly phenomenal.

Vince Gilligan is on my all time favorite list. Kudos, sir!

[ZombieHorde]

28. I liked the ending of Dexter. nt

[Taverner]

52. I liked the ending of The Sopranos

Makes perfect sense - Tony was whacked and everything went black

[hlthe2b]

53. I think the proportion of those who assume as you that Tony was "whacked" was about 50/50

I didn't think it (Sopranos) was a "BAD" finale--just not one of my favorites. I also appreciate that different shows are going to need to end with different sense of clarity in the finale. I didn't really like the Dexter finale much, but it MAY have been the more appropriate way for that show to end...

I do think Breaking Bad now has surpassed Six Feet Under--my former favorite ending of a show. But, it is close.

[mattclearing]

54. Not really an assumption, as the cut to black was foreshadowed earlier in the season.

It was subtle, but the implication was clear.

[JustAnotherGen]

59. I thought we got whacked

All of a sudden - it went dark and we couldn't tell Tony's secrets anymore . . .

[calimary]

61. Now THAT is an interesting view! I never thought of that one.

But it makes sense!

[zappaman]

66. Tony got shot.

It's all in the editing.
Once you read this, it will make sense...

https://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/

[Efilroft Sul]

73. That was a great read. Thanks!

[whopis01]

74. Six Feet Under was amazing

Breaking Bad is my favorite for closing the story but from an artistic point of view I love the ending of Six Feet Under.

When I first saw it is was a moment before I caught on to what they were doing - then was blown away by it. So sad and beautiful all at the same time.

[Paladin]

75. "Breaking Bad," "Six Feet Under," "Friday Night Lights"

The three best TV series endings ever, as far as I'm concerned.....

[kairos12]

77. Those are the best programs ever.

[Paladin]

79. You have good taste in TV shows.

[scarletlib]

3. Absolutely agree with you.

[Codeine]

4. Makes last week's Dexter finale look twice as bad as it already did. nt

[trublu992]

5. Oh Walt how you've changed us!!!!

[valerief]

6. I'm glad Jesse got to live at the end. nt

[trumad]

7. choked creepy Todd out as well.

And Lydia... LOL..slow death.

[valerief]

8. Yeah, perfect for Lydia, except it gives stevia a bad rap and I love stevia!

on edit
A minute after I typed this Jimmy Kimmel basically said the same thing about stevia on Talking Bad!

[shanti]

27. I know!

Why couldn't it have been one of the artificial sweeteners?

[pitbullgirl1965]

15. That was epic! n/t

[cbdo2007]

43. Yeah, he's got so much to live for....now he can go back to doing drugs again.

lol

[valerief]

60. I guess you missed the woodworking scene. And you forgot about Brock. nt

[cbdo2007]

68. Yep, brock's been around the whole time....and the woodworking thing as well....

and still Jesse always goes back to meth. He's been given a million opportunities to change his life and has never even gotten close.

[kentuck]

9. Baby Blue...

Clever SOB..

[trumad]

12. Badfinger

Perfect song for the ending.

[kentuck]

18. Very well done.

They knew when to end it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. are you kidding? this is no spoiler. this SUCKS

unless you cough up stuff.
shame on you.

[trumad]

14. well...the thread coughs up plenty.

[Tx4obama]

11. Perfect ending !!!

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. "Walt, was this you? What happened?"

"I won."

[Tx4obama]

16. What was up with the 'wood working'

... was that a flash back, a dream, or a reference to something - what the heck was it ?

----------

Edited to add...

Found this on Twitter: " ... call back to the scene in AA where he talks about how he sold the one he made for his mom to buy weed "

---

Also found this on the web...

Jesse told a woodworking story at the AA meeting---
"Is that the best you can do?" Is what his HS shop teacher told Jesse when he wanted to skate through by just doing the minimum. Jesse says those words made him keep trying and applying himself, until he finished the project perfectly. Then he admits he eventually traded the wooden box he worked so hard on, for an ounce of weed.

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. It was a cool flashback

Jesse is an artist, a craftsman, really. It explains why he threw out the mediocre meth he cooked with Badger.

I would have liked to see Jesse's little brother (who planted pot in his room to get him thrown out the house again) come back in. But jesse is craft. He's childhood. He's a little kid drawing comic book characters. His whole attraction to Mr. White was the craft angle, which is why he was always happier in the earlier episodes, before their process got industrialized. He's the embodiment of a craft ethos, so of course his character arc ends with a craft vignette: Jesse Pinkman, woodworker. Could just as easily have been woodwork as meth. He's a maker. (The wood box also featured earlier - maybe season 1 or 2 - it was his initial fall: he ditched his precious box for drug cash).

[Tx4obama]

20. Thanks. I also found an answer on Twitter. I've added it to Comment #16

[tammywammy]

17. I was so glad that Jesse got to kill Todd.

And the gun in the trunk! Awesome!

[samsingh]

21. me too

[Initech]

50. Todd definitely got what he deserved.

The turret, the lottery ticket, that was brilliant. And the music at the end - perfect song!

[Generic Brad]

22. It was satisfying

I don't know what I was expecting. There was a sense of justice and closure. A whole lot of truth. I'll take it. It's better than being disgruntled over it.

I had read a lot of people hoping Lydia would get the ricin. So that was nice.

[dsc]

23. the choral group I am in sang

Lydia the Tattooed Lady, won't ever think of that song the same again.

[xoom]

24. Just great!!!!

I was on the edge of my seat the whole time!

Now bring on the Walking Dead

[Politicalboi]

25. 2 more weeks

I love both BB and WD.

[Comrade Grumpy]

26. Now what am I going to do for great television?

[ZombieHorde]

29. Walking Dead! nt

[cui bono]

30. Just got back from the Finale event at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery!

It was cool. They showed the pilot/premiere episode then the finale and had a Q&A led by Jimmy Kimmel at the end.
When everyone was waiting in line down the street to get it, I heard everyone cheering and yelling in line behind me and looked up and it was Aaron Paul leaning out of a window of a car driving by cheering on the crowd. That was nice of him.

And it was a fundraiser for KIND, which is run by Paul's wife and friend, and they will get $1.8mn from this, so that's good. They had the RV there with a blue sky back drop for people to get pics taken with it. We didn't do it since the line was so long and I had to get home.

But about the finale... I loved the end but did have a little feeling of "that's it?" when it was over. I think it might have been the uneventful way Walt died.

[trumad]

39. Wow! That must have been great fun.

[cui bono]

56. Yeah it was fun. A loooong wait to get in.

Some people were waiting since early morning! We got there an hour before doors but it took forever to get everyone inside. Then we had to walk all the way to the other side of the cemetery in the dark. It was funny. They screen movies there every summer but I've never gone. I was wondering what people who have family members buried there think about it.

[zappaman]

67. here ya go

http://laist.com/2013/09/30/photos_breaking_bad_cast_celebrates.php

[cbdo2007]

46. agree....

about the way Walt died. I wish it had been more eventful or meaningful, than him just getting hit by one of his own stray bullets....all the other drug kingpins died at the hands of someone else, but not Walt....they had to make it almost peaceful for him, which is nice I guess but not very realistic in context of the rest of the series. I think it would have been perfect if Jesse killed him, especially after he just saved Jesse's life, but Jesse still would have done it to make sure he was truly free.

[cui bono]

57. Yeah, although reading others' thoughts it makes sense that he died by his own hand/hubris. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Perfect ending to a perfect TV series.

I adored Breaking Bad. Walt will be missed. And, Jesse, too, of course.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. HUELL IS STILL IN THE MOTEL ROOM!

GOOD GOD WHAT ABOUT HUELL?!?!?!?!

[trumad]

34. LOL

I think that makes it even more perfect.

I don't thing Gillian forgot.

[Beaverhausen]

62. Wow!!! Forgot about him.

[joshcryer]

35. It was my Sopranos ending.

I hated it.

But I appreciate it for the brilliance that it was.

[scheming daemons]

36. where's the spoiler in the OP?

[joshcryer]

37. OP probably wanted a spoiler thread.

The OP alone isn't a spoiler but the responses might be, etc.

[trumad]

40. Anytime you post an Op like this---

it's appropriate to add the word spoiler---simply because it will ultimately be a spoiler.

[Sheldon Cooper]

41. I thought it was a great finale. SPOILERS!

Everyone ended up where they should. Having Gretchen and Elliot launder Walt's money so Flynn could get it was a stroke of genius. It's hard to cheer a brutal violent death, but goddamn it seeing Jesse take out Todd was so satisfying. Die, Nazi! And I just knew Lydia was going to get a little ricin in her Stevia.

Walt had a good death, too - we knew he had to go, and the way it was set up was very fitting. It wasn't over until Heisenberg said it was over.

[cbdo2007]

44. I wish....

somebody would have killed walt, rather than him dying by his own gunshot....just seems like that should have been how it went down, and how it happens for everyone in the world of drug dealers, but overall it was good.

[msanthrope]

48. Symbolic of his own hubris. nt

[cbdo2007]

69. That's exactly why it shouldn't have worked....

He's been in control the whole time of a situation that has been proven by everyone else before him that you can't control - all along the line the other drug kingpins were in control of their situation and were just as narcissistic as Walt, until someone comes along and blows them up or put a bullet in their head.

No matter how narcissistic you are, in the real world you really have very little power, as Walt proved time and time again to the other drug dealers on the show. I get the symbolism, but would have appreciated it being a more realistic outcome....he survives the gunshot wound but Lydia or Marie or Flynn or somebody puts a bullet in his brain for all the harm he's caused them.

[msanthrope]

71. That would have been justice--and thus, unrealistic. nt

[Initech]

51. That's what I loved about this finale.

There were no WTF moments (Dexter). Everything in the story got tied up. No loose end was left unturned. Jesse got his freedom (though I really wanted him to say one final "yeah bitch!!!" as he mowed down that fence). But what made it truly awesome was that Walt died as he lived - putting his hands on the equipment and checking the levels, just like in the underground lab, in the RV, in the pest control terminal, etc. And the music at the end - Vince Gilligan couldn't have picked a more appropriate song.

[cui bono]

55. I saw it with about 1,000 other people and the crowd went wild with cheering when Jesse killed Todd.

I was glad too. Jesse seems like the one redeeming character since he was actually tortured by what he and Walt had done, all those deaths. And though he got away alive, he will remain tortured by it for the rest of his life since he actually had a conscience.

[Solly Mack]

42. It's over. :(

I could talk BB for hours. Fun, sad, tragic, and often felt like rubbernecking the tracks for the train wreck you knew was coming.

[dipsydoodle]

45. I'd never watched it.

I got my daughter to give me a run through re. its general plot line this morning - she'd guessed the outcome whatever it was being generally accurate at such things.

All seasons are out in one pack in November - I'll buy the set and watch it across Christmas.

[mountain grammy]

47. It was a great ending..

as Jesse was strangling "Opie dead eyes" Todd, I was yelling "don't let go, Jesse, don't let go!" My blood pressure went up during every Breaking Bad season so, for the sake of my health, I'm glad it's over.

[msanthrope]

49. I won a bet---who gets the ricin and how? I guessed Lydia and the stevia.

What I was not expecting was Todd to die. I expected Jesse to die, but Todd with his dead eyes and sociopathic mentality to live on.

[deutsey]

58. The only thing that disappointed me

was I had been hoping we'd learn a little more about why Walt abruptly dumped Gretchen way-back-when.

They alluded to it once (I forget the season, but it was when Walt says "Fuck you" to her). I think she had said something about him aburptly leaving her after meeting her father and she never understood what happened.

I always imagined it had something to do with class snobbery...perhaps her father didn't think Walt was good enough for her, despite how brilliant Walt was.

[snooper2]

63. So the show is over, no more?

threads on it

[Paladin]

64. Outstanding ending to a great show. I'll miss it. (nt)

[texanwitch]

65. The show didn't drag on so many do.

Seems like 5 years is best time for a show to last.

I watched all the seasons in just a few days.

I am taking today off.

[Starry Messenger]

70. I'm bummed out it is over, but it was an excellent finish.

I've hated to fall in love with shows every since the heartbreak of Deadwood's cancellation, so I'm glad I saw something through to the end and it was perfect.

I knew that Walt would somehow free Jesse. It was like a trip down into the underworld of hell to free the lost soul, and trade your own life for the redemption of another.

I'm glad they left it there and not dragged out with sappy resolutions of other story-lines.

[madinmaryland]

72. A teevee/entertainment thread in GD??

Do you have a taterguy exception??

[Kablooie]

78. Has anyone thought about what Holly will be when she grows up?

At least she'll be able to learn a lot about her dad by watching the DVDs of the show.