Wow. Speechless. They absolutely, completely nailed the finale.
And now I’m going to miss the cruel insane greatness of Breaking Bad. applause
Fuck yes.
I’m so glad Lydia got it, it would have sucked if she walked.
ETA - love, love, LOVE that Jessie got to finish that douche Todd
I thought he was hit by a piece of shrapnel, and not an actual bullet.
Whew! It’s been 40 miles of bad road, and damned if we didn’t enjoy (almost) every bump along the way, but it’s over.
And it is good.
But why did he have to tell her about the ricin? Can’t she now just call 911 and get the antidote? Obviously she would have to answer a lot of questions about how she got poisoned, but she doesn’t have to die, right?
Glad to see Todd get his, though. Fitting.
That last shot of Walt echoed that crazy last shot (with Walt laughing hysterically as the camera went up and away from him) in “Crawlspace”- I think at least one Doper predicted that. The camera moved away from him the same way and then with the cage it looked like he was in the center of crosshairs.
He said he felt alive making meth and he died in a meth lab. I guess that fits. Hoo man. I’m glad Jesse got away and I enjoyed, maybe a little too much, Jesse strangling Todd. I’ve been rooting for that since the first time we saw Jesse chained up. But I think the thing that’s going to stick with me the most is how sad this one was. The scenes with Walt and Skyler in particular, but a lot of the others, too. He looked forlorn and pathetic in a way he hasn’t since the very beginning of the series. A couple of times the glasses distorted his eyes in a very particular way that was very sad.
Dumb question: The early scene of Jesse in the woodshop; was that a flashback to him in high school?
And Vince said in the Talking Bad program that he deliberately wanted to tie up all the loose ends. I wish other television show writers would follow his example.
Gilligan wrote & directed this great episode . Wow. Loved the scene with Walt & Hollly. Loved Jesse’s last scenes. What a release. Glad Walt gave skyler the coordinates. Loved that ending song. Just loved the ending. So emotional
No antidote exists.
I think it was a rehab where he made a wooden box.
Loved it. Completely satisfied.
AFAIK, there is no real antidote. They can provide supportive care and hope you get through it, but that’s about it.
I agree that they totally stuck the landing.
Ricin has no antidote. I’m guessing that Hank new that by that time it was too late, she was already as good as dead.
During one of his NA meetings, Jesse told the story of the time he hand-crafted a wooden jewelry box in shop, intending to give it to his mother as a gift, but ended up selling it to buy drugs.
Walt. Not Hank.
High school. The one thing he did that he worked hard at and was proud. And sold it for drugs.
Does Jesse walk away with any money or is he back to broke with nothing to show for all of this?
I suppose it depends on how much he gave her, but it’s possible. I’ve looked this up several times in the last few weeks and I hope it doesn’t get me into trouble with the NSA, but ricin usually takes three to five days to kill and she’d been poisoned about a day and a half earlier. If you like, and I think I like, you can tell yourself she was calling Todd because she wants to go to the hospital and she’s too sick to get herself there. Maybe by the time an ambulance arrives it’ll be too late. But hey, she gets to die at home so her daughter doesn’t think she abandoned her.
Oh. In that case she’ll die miserably and it’s no less than she deserves.
No, there’s no money. And he suffered some unimaginable trauma over the course of the show, but no more Walt and no more meth, at least.
I’m no doctor, but I think Lydia is fucking toast.
Wow. Shakespeare lost - by that I mean Walt was given the chance to redeem himself at the end of the story. I expected Jesse to die and Walt to pay for his hubris a lot more.
It worked, but not in a classic tragedy way. Gotta ponder that…