I could barely sleep last night because of the final episode. I kept repeating it over and over in my head.
I felt so incredibly sad for Jesse. In the end, he's a good kid. He's made bad choices, but he ended up tortured, his second girlfriend shot in front of him, and forced to cook meth for about a year (not entirely sure of the time lime but it seems like about a year). In the end he gets out, but what is he going to do? He's got no money left, God only knows what happened to his house. Jesse is the one character I genuinely feel bad for and I think suffered the most because of the decisions Walter made. His first girlfriend died because of Walter, Brock was poisoned because of him. I found it particularly hartbreaking when Walt calmly informs Jesse he saw Jane die and didn't do anything about it. Flipping eck.
Having said that, I find it really interesting how in he first few season, I found Hank and Marie the "bad" characters (Hank with his behavior and Marie with her shop lifting) but they actually turn out to be decent people, especially in the last season. I saw Hank dying coming as soon as he made that phone call to Marie and he said he loved her and he'd be home as soon as he can. But damn, that was hard.
And Walt... What a brilliant actor but I hated Walter at the end of the show. He's despicable. You so desperately want to see him as a decent guy looking after his family, but the further you get into it, the further you realise Walt really is a criminal, and one of the worst ones as well. The way he shouts at Flynn when Skylar pulls the knife on Walt made my blood boil. "What are you doing, we're supposed to be a family?!". Excuse me Walt, you just killed your brother in law. You threatened your wife and son. You need to fuck off. The moment Walter broke bad for me was when he let Jane die. And it just went downhill from there. When he killed Mike, I just wanted to strangle him. The way he tried to justify to Mike why he killed him makes it even worse. "Just let me die in peace". Oh Mike.
That's one thing that intrigued me as well. Mike and Walt are very similar, yet I loved Mike and hated Walt. Mike still has a moral compass. He's still a human. Walt doesn't care who he hurts or kills, as long as he gets what he wants. Mike tries to do the best he can in a difficult life.
I'm undecided about Skylar. I don't understand why she didn't just leave Walter as soon as she found out, but I also think she knew Walter was very dangerous and thought he'd hurt her if she did. I don't understand the hate towards Skylar on this sub. Her giving the money to Ted was incredibly stupid, and she made stupid mistakes. But she never did anything as bad as Walter did. She tried to ignore how bad her husband had become, but in the end she realised and she was the one that paid for it.
What a show. I'm so glad my boyfriend just turned the first episode on and I was hooked in the first 15 minutes. Can't believe I never watched it.
Onto Better Call Saul next!
Submitted January 29, 2019 at 12:33PM by Exhilario http://bit.ly/2BciuXE
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