Breaking Bad

[Chux]

And fuck that nonsense about it being a neat little bow ending. Vince ended it by leaving no stone unturned.

Uh.

Do you understand what a "neat little bow" means?

[Doc Holliday]

When a male prostitute leaves a lipstick ring around your bird?

[Opaque]

He gave the GPS coordinates to Skyler.

I can't think of a nice way to say "no fucking shit Sherlock".

I didn't say we have no idea what will happen with Hank. I watched the episode, I saw the part where he gave her coordinates and explained them. I didn't forget. The point was everyone complaining about this having to much of a closure (as if that's a legitimate complaint in the first place) seem to ignore that most of the things that got addressed didn't get completely finished out in the episode. We didn't see them find Hank and they didn't show us his funeral. We know these things will happen eventually, but they weren't crammed down our throat.

I think they addressed everything that we as fans needed to have some answers about without going all bullshit. If the last twenty minutes had been after Walts death and showed Jesse living a good life with the kid after he adopted him, and Flynn getting the money and graduating and ended with a beautiful shot of Hanks grave after Holy left flowers on it THAT would have been some standard television montage pretty bow on top bullshit. People know where Hank is, Walts family hates him and he's fucking dead. That all makes sense, we have answers and none of them were forced, what more could you ask for?

Furthermore the whole gun thing at the end was maybe the best thing I've seen him do since he blew up that room in season one. It didn't just happen, we've known about the gun for over a year now, we watched him mess with the pieces, we saw him park and the whole time we knew what would happen. He's smart, he knew the way to keep Jack from killing him right then and there was to question his honor. All this stuff has been established for hours of show time. There are movies that last two hours that have crazier closure than this show, but we spend 16 episodes leading up to him killing Jack and deciding to let Jesse go and everyone thinks it's so forced?

[Anthony]

Everything worked out as perfectly as we could have reasonably imagined for walt. I think considering how bleak the show apparently is at times, it was a jarring for many to see everything fit so nicely together in it's own version of a super happy ending.

[aren]

blah blah blah

Smoke some chili p and relax yo.

Agreed with everything you said though. Everything wrapped up that needed to be wrapped up and the things that happen post-Walt we can use our imagination to speculate how it panned out.

[aren]

And there is something to be said about Walt not being killed by the hands of Jesse, Jack, the cancer, or whoever or whatever, but by the hands of his own brilliance.

[Doc Holliday]

I like this lesbian's posts. http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013...-recap-felina/

[Frogacuda]

I definitely get that it was a little too perfect. The convenient Lydia call and Todd surviving to get killed by Todd were pushing it a little bit. Walt's Masterplan in general was great but things like that should be a little messy. The extent to which karma played a part was almost magical.

There were still some things left open though. We don't know what happened to Jesse. Or the money, seeing it go to waste somewhere.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I thought the Lydia thing was the weekest part. So many random variables could have fucked it up.
But in the grand scheme of things, my suspension of disbelief wasn't pressed that hard.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

And I get that she was a schedule oriented person, but if you were involved in what they were involved in, wouldn't scheduled weekly meetings in the same place (table even) be a bit stupid?