[bad ending]
Rhys Darby makes a musical about how he saved everyone in Breaking Bad by making a musical.
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Couldn’t read 7 pages of thread but I thought this episode was good but not great. It feels like we’ve had 3 episodes of Jesse brooding at the camera and those around him the entire time, barely moving his storyline forward. I realize he’s had a couple of key plays this season, but I generally find myself getting bored when he is on screen lately.
The confessional DVD was pretty well done though.
My guess for how it ends:
The opening scenes last season of Walt getting badass guns and shit are because Todd and his Uncle are going to kidnap Jr, the baby or Skyler (or all of them) to try to force Walt to start cooking again. I think Jesse will be in on it somehow. He’s going to go down in a hail of gun fire trying to rescue them. Skyler will die too and the kids will move in with Hank and Marie and the series will end with Hank and Marie not telling Jr. what his parents did and raising the kids. Hank will medically retire without a formal Heisenberg bust but knowing Walt is dead.
Walt gives Hank the wrong DVD.
I can’t figure out how to navigate to these from the home page. Got a hint?
p.s. How about a link to screencaps?
Hmm. Not sure I can help you–the link goes directly to the Facebook recap. Here’s the address:
http://happyplace.someecards.com/25941/if-breaking-bad-took-place-entirely-on-facebook-season-5-episode-11
Comments on other posts I’ve seen:
I don’t think we’ll see Gus’ Chile connections come into play. Gus died months ago in the show, enough time for that to have played out. His connection was likely only relevant during the Pinochet reign (when the flashback of a young Gus meeting with the cartel is most likely to have happened).
Likely wont see cartel either, they’re pretty much all dead.
Not sure how large Declan’s crew is/was. You’d think someone will be pissed that the meth operation and the boss got wiped out. Then again, I also get the feeling that it was a way for the writers to neatly tie off a less than important loose end. (Lydia hadn’t thought things through there either. Something tells me the Aryan Nation was going to kill everyone no matter what Declan said about Todd.)
I’m not sure if it’s been discussed, but Walt and Lydia are largely the same. Both are highly intelligent, neurotic, anxious people at heart who view what they do as a business. They’re both completely fine with having to ‘fire’ some employees, but neither is completely comfortable with the reality of it. I think Walt’s just much better at compartmentalizing the disposal of ‘organic waste’ from his dealings.
I think that recording that confession was idiotic and giving a copy to Hank even more so. The smarter play would have been to calmly act it out for Hank in the diner (“If you don’t relent, I’ll go to the DEA, no I’ll go to the FBI and tell them etc.”). There is no way that that video doesn’t leak, get lost, viewed by an unintended third party (Walt Jr) or turned into the DEA by Hank himself.
One thing I have to keep in mind when thinking about the ending is that just about everyone involved has said that (Being safe, but it’s only a spoiler if you haven’t heard Gilligan say anything about the show ever.)there is no redemption for Walt. When thinking about how the M60 comes into play I keep going down the path of something happening and Walt has to shoot up someone to save Holly/Jesse/Walt Jr/everyone. But that would be redeeming. It’s much more likely that many of them are going to testify against him and he’s planning an ambush on the caravan or court house.
Cue Caribbean drum music as the camera pans across a white sand beach to the view of Kuby standing on the deck of a yacht, arm around a gorgeous woman, and Huell on the beach, reclining next to another: “Looking good, Huell.” “Feeling good, Kuby.”
I’d had the same thought. I watched the scenes again for any familiar cars, but didn’t see any. The camera work when Jesse gets to Walt’s leaves it as a possibility.
Oslo, your video is the winner. I was in tears from laughing so hard.
I kind of liked the concept, but thought the makeup could have been better and that Keith’s death came across as cartoonish. Some of the earlier episodes that season, though, rival BB as some of the greatest TV ever.
As LawMonkey said, the interiour scenes are shot not in the actual house but on a studio set that has been made to look like the inside of the house, down to painting dirty fingerprints near light switches etc. But that could still be expensive to redo, unless they could shoot different parts of the season out of order. That is, in chronological order but out of production order.
Here’s how I would end it.
Hank and Jesse team up to nail Walt. Walt finally realizes that while Hank is alive he’ll never be free so he kills Hank. Marie murders Walt in revenge, then she realizes that with Hank and Walt both dead the entire story will eventually come out and ruin her life. So Marie murders Jesse and frames him for Walt and Hank’s death.
Skyler and Marie live happily ever after with the kids but no drug money (lost forever in the desert) Then Saul drops by with a million dollar pain and suffering settlement from the airline explosion… fade to back.
I think we can rule that out, at least. Not to discourage you from becoming a criminal mastermind, but it’s a terrible plan that would never work. More importantly there’s no reason to think Walt is on trial. If he were on trial for running a drug empire and killing 10 people, he’d be in jail. It looks for all the world like he’s been hiding out in New Hampshire - presumably because of the Hoover guy, but maybe not - so if he’s escaped, it makes no sense for him to come back just to stop a trial. I think there has to be some kind of threat to his family, or if not that, a threat to his ability to get away with his crimes.
I didn’t word that clearly enough. I was saying that in the reality of the show, Jesse could have set the fire and the Whites could have replaced whatever he burned. But that’s probably not what happens.
AFA the video is concerned, I think it would have sounded more plausible if Walt was to claim Hank was just his enforcer and mole in the DEA. Walt could have cited info he gleaned from the bug in Hank’s office and claimed it came directly from Hank.
Everyone should click on that Funny or Die video - the one where Dean Norris ‘spills the ending’. Hilarious.
The scene in the desert was heartbreaking. The DVD made me hate Walt more than I thought possible.
However the show ends, it won’t be good for Skyler either. I don’t see Hank or Marie forgiving her & once Walt jr finds out, all she has let is holly. Unless they are separated by prison of course.
I get what you are saying now, Marley. Could be right, if they caught the fire early enough (no way the FF depicts a brand new house, not even a ransacked one).
I don’t think it is because of the Hoover guy, simply because he’s using his wife’s maiden name. I would think that a professional wouldn’t allow him to use a name that could so easily be linked to his real identity.
And apparently kept his real birthday.
Last one, I promise: Hank and Marie - Bacon edition.
Not their irreplaceable items, like Walt Jr. and the lottery ticket.
Just going by the forthcoming episode titles, my guess is that Jesse destroys the lottery ticket and Flynn. Hank loses it and decides to take care of Walt outside the confines of his law enforcement duties, holding him captive much like Walt held Krazy 8, and Walt defeats Hank like Krazy 8 tried to defeat Walt. Walt kills Marie just as Skyler stumbles into the scene, and Skyler proceeds to kill Holly and herself. Hank survives.
Walt, now left with nothing, searches the Navajo reservation a bit trying to find where he buried the barrels of cash because his only reference (the lottery ticket) was destroyed in Jesse’s fire. Alone and with nothing, Walt hides out in New Hampshire, and through research or pondering realizes that he was never the king, but an expendable pawn of Madrigal all along. He goes back to Albuquerque to say goodbye to the house and retrieve the ricin for himself in case he is taken alive, and buys the M60 to take to Houston in order to shoot up the Madrigal headquarters. Hank is present and takes Walt down, but not out.
Final scene: Walt, sitting alone in a cell, slowly and painfully works the ricin vial out from under his skin, where he has inserted it. He bites down into the glass, and with a barely noticeable smirk unfastens the second button on his shirt…
OMG - my stomach hurts from suppressed laughter!