Breaking Bad Finale “Felina”

If you haven’t seen the show, I don’t know what the fuck you are doing with your life. However, this is your spoiler alert.

Quick recap from Sunday, now that I’ve had 24 hours to process the information: Walt’s dead, Uncle Jack and the Nazi’s are gone, Lydia = deceased, and of course Jesse killed Todd, and lived. How we arrived at this point is the important part. God I’m going to miss this show.

The previous episode, Mr. Lambert (Walter White), is living in New Hampshire and crying in a bar after his son, Flynn tells him to “hurry up and die”. Flynn refused to take Walt’s money. Up to this point, Walt is living in a shack in New Hampshire. No visitors. No communication to the outside world. And the reason why he started this Meth caper, for his family, has finally crumbled to pieces. This was the nail in the coffin for Walt to see the damage he has caused. Instantly this changes from sadness to anger upon seeing Elliot and Gretchen Schwartz.

Walt believes he was cheated out of his fair share of the company, Grey Matter, even though he sold his portion of the company for $5,000. Walt needed the money as a young married man expecting a baby. The company went on to become a multi-billion dollar tech company. Walt became a chemistry teacher with cancer, making $43,000, and working part-time at a car wash. With a genius IQ, he underachieved. He knew he underachieved. What’s worse, he reminded himself everyday by checking on the company’s stock prices….this is what fuels Walt during his ascension from “drug dealer” to “kingpin in the empire business”. He was able to do something, albeit illegal but still something, exceptionally well and in his realm of expertise, chemistry.

His skills at making meth and his need for the money, proved to be a dangerous combination towards rebuilding his broken self-esteem. When he saw the Grey Matter couple on TV, he realized two things: he wanted “revenge” on the couple, and his family, especially his son, was going to take his money. Living in New Hampshire with $11M dollars and nothing to share it with or do with the money, wasn’t his idea of living. In true Heisenberg arrogance, he calls the police on himself, posing as an informant, and makes his way for New Mexico. Acting as a New York Times reporter, he receives the address for the Schwartz family, and decides to pay them a visit. Walt tells them they will deliver $9M to Walt Jr. in the form of a trust upon his 18^th birthday (Walt is able to get revenge on his son in this manner by FORCING his son to take his money). Vince Gilligan threw the fans a bone by having Skinny Pete and Badger back in the finale, acting as hired snipers to insure fear in the Grey Matter couple.  For that, I am thankful.

Walt stops by to see Skylar (who was warned by Marie) and Holly and finally reveals to his wife that he did this for himself. He was good at it. The lie he eventually talked himself into believing, long after he had made his money, was a lie he could no longer tell. This revelation is when Skylar definitely knew her husband would soon die.

At this point, Walt begins to cover any loose ends that could potentially come back and harm his family. He poisons Lydia. Rigging a machine gun to the trunk of his car, he kills Uncle Jack and the Nazi’s by the only method fitting for the show, science.  Another Gilligan bone throw is Jesse choking the life out of Todd. His main nemesis the final season. Shoutout to @WilshireRoyalty

The most important relationship Walt has had the last two years has been with Jesse Pinkman. After blackmailing him into a meth partnership, Walt has been the father figure Jesse should’ve never had. The final scene between them shows Walt staring down Jesse. Jesse ready for death. Shackled like a 1670’s Black man. Only to be saved by the man who left him to die in the desert. In the end, Jesse remained true to his word and backed up his previous declaration to Walt over the phone stating “I’m not doing anything else for you. You want something done, do it yourself.” Jesse, seeing Walt literally take a bullet for him, leaves him to die after giving him a head nod and refusing to kill him. Walt dies in peace. Surrounded by beakers, a makeshift meth lab, and the one thing that made him feel alive and give him an identity for the last two years of his life.

So where does this leave us….For one, I can’t complain with how the show ended. Granted, while this is the happiest possible ending for all parties involved, it also makes the most sense, given Vince Gilligan’s nature for closure. For this, I thank him. We did not have to experience another Sopranos or Seinfeld ambiguous finale. Gilligan crossed all t’s, and dotted all i’s. The protagonist/antagonist of the show is a chemist. Exact closure is to be expected and mandatory. For this, the finale did not surprise. It simply informed the bottom line of what was going to occur.  Walt was going to die. This what evident to me the episode where he was watching Scarface with his children and says “everyone in this movie dies.” But to die peacefully in the meth lab, it felt a little too perfect. And this is the making of a great show, with everyone expecting one thing, Gilligan gave us another. Same score. He knew what would work, and this was consistent with the show leading up to this moment. In the season 4 finale, Walt was able to poison Brock, kill Gus, Hector Salamanca, and Tyrus, and save his life and Jesse’s. The story is: Walt will always win, even in death.  

Now, I can focus on basketball and football season. But, cheer up, beautiful people….this where you get to make it right © Walt……the show lives on via NetFlix.

Whose Going to kill Walt Update (spoilers)

Last week I posted a list on who honestly is going to send Walt to Hades at the end of Season 5 of Breaking Bad. Granted I posted it three days before AMC dropped a bomb shell of an episode last night, and I kinda of have to do some revisions. Last couple of weeks have been rising action, tension building, filler that is trying to catapult us to the final climax of the story. Its all important on the grand scheme of things, but it does feel like chess pieces being moved on the board. I was half watching yesterdays over a friends house, noticed the pattern, and half dismissed the episode, until the final 2 minutes. And man were they a hit to the gut. Last week I posted that in order for Jesse to kill Walt (they got this sudo-father, older brother, best friend, arch enemy thing happening) allot needs to come to come to the surface. And by allot I mean about 2 seasons worth of bullshit Walt did to Jesse and Jesse's friends and family but has remained relatively hidden. Whelp that rickety dam broke, and Jesse found out the pretty much everything. And I mean everything. Last shot is Jesse rampaging through Walt's house pouring gasoline. Jesse finally snapped and he gives no-fucks at this point.

Whose going to kill Walt? After yesterday Walt and Jesse are on a collision course towards each other for a final showdown. I put Jesse as this is the mother fucker whose going to do it, unless Walt gets to him first.

Breaking Bad: Honestly who's going to kill Walt? (Spoilers out the ass)

 

Episode nine had some foreboding shots, with Walt stepping into his dilapidated house and Heisenberg is  spray painted on the walls. And after watching episode 10 recently my thoughts are racing to the inevitable. Walt is going to die. He knows it, AMC knows it, and fuck we all know it. But who's going to be the one? Who's going to pull that fatal trigger that’s finally going to put this tightly whitey wearing, wife-raping, girl friend killing, little kid poisoning, train robbing, evil ass hole in the ground. These are Optimus Negro's personal biases and thoughts and do not represent the rest of 5ivebruhs. I'm sure the rest of them have their own opinions. But I'm probably right.

Skyler

 

Over the last two seasons she has been a train wreck waiting to happen. I would have pegged her as pretty likely to pop Walt until last Sunday when Hank confronted her and she became ride or die. She didn't give up Walt! That's huge, figuring for the last season and half if she had been waiting for him to die a slow and painful death. Now she could be saving her ass. She would go down to if Walt was ever brought to court, but I think Skler still loves Walt. The chances that Skylar will kill Walt now, pretty unlikely. Sigh, white people.

Hank

Man, when Hank figured Walt out, I thought he was going to kill the mother fucker right then and there. I officially became a Hank fan for the first time in 5 seasons. I mean the dude has been pretty dense until two weeks ago. Two of the biggest meth dealers in the country are living within ten miles of you and you know both of them personally.  However, Hank at the end of the day is a cop, and a good one. He wants to bury Walt under the jail. Hank is going to do everything he can try to bust Walt. Hank would really need to crack or Walt needs to try to kill Hank before Hank even thinks about going punisher on Walt. The chance Hank kills Walt, very big maybe.

Jesse- 

Jesse has lost it. Dude’s not sleeping and throwing millions of dollars around Arizona. He’s almost a non-player at this point. Sad thing about Jesse is he’s probably the last good person in Walt’s life. Looking at it symbolically, Jesse is Walt’s conscious. Well right now, he’s a sniveling shell of a thing with a frozen expression on his face. All the death Walt has caused seems to sit right on Jesse’s soul. Jesse is my favorite pick for killing Walt. It would be perfect poetry and validating. Very Shakespearean. But there are some big things that need to happen before Jesse will man up. First Jesse has to get out of Hank’s clutches. Second, Jesse needs to find out everything: the kid poisoning, the death of his girl friend, Mike, everything. Third, Jesse has to really snap. Break out of this sleeping beauty thing, and go HAM. That’s going to be pretty difficult considering he looks like the above most of the time.

A Big maybe, Bitch!

Lyda- 

Oh I hate Lyda. I hate her so much! Lyda is potentially the craziest person on the show at this point. With all her shaking, and crying, and that annoying wobbling voice thing is making some power plays. Remember Mike said that woman was trouble and she’s proving it. Lyda is getting people killed all to keep her international investment going. Everyone, me included, under estimates her at every turn. After watching Episode 10, Lyda is just ruthless enough to try to take out Walt just because he doesn’t do what she wants him to. And she's getting desperate. Desperate meant that 9 people died. Likely.

Todd- 

Second on my most hated list is Todd. The retard that killed that kid who just wave at him. Waved at him! He talks like Forest Gump on mushrooms. He Looks like Captain American and a Hitler Youth had a love child and produced an inbred goof ball. But like Lyda, you can't underestimate Todd. He’s a psychopath. Doesn’t blink at killing anyone. Even makes jokes about it. I would give him a Maybe but only if he gets his…

Crazy Nazi Hit Squad- 

The crew that took out 9 men in jail in two minutes. These guys are ninjas, and brutal, and give no fucks. They need to be paid; so Walt is dead if someone pays them or if nobody pays them and they take it out on Walt. Also the foreboding future scenes seen throughout this season has their stamp on it. Likely.

Some Czech Hit Man- 

This is a long shot but there still could be an unnamed player in this. Walt's been selling to the Czechs all season until he abruptly stops. Eastern European stereotypes are not to be fucked with, and Walt’s been fucking with them. Case in point, Lita’s crazy ass is making power moves trying to get them their product. We still have a couple of episodes left, enough time to introduce some ultimate international assassin. Maybe.

Cancer- 

Walt’s cancers back, and he’s got 6 months to live. But honestly I think it’s a plot device used to increase the stakes of the show. When Walt had Cancer earlier he was desperate, and being desperate made him make rash and bold moves. Now that he has his Cancer again were going to get the same level of desperation that we did earlier in the show. The likely hood Walt is going to make it through these six months is slim. But then again, for Walt to go quietly into the night might be the character’s last big fuck you, and is a perfect way to end the season. Maybe but only if none of the above get him first.

The Ghost of Gus and Zombie Mike- 

Hey maybe Breaking Bad is the prologue to Walking Dead. That would blow your little nerd minds wouldn’t it? Not likely.

breaking bad

breaking bad is in 5 days.

you need to understand that whatever you thought was important in your life on 8/11 is irrelevant. the 2^nd best show in television history (the wire is king) begins its series finale. this post is for people who watch the show. if you do not watch the show, go to netflix and run through the first five seasons. (seriously, what the fuck ya'll been doing (c) pusha t) tons of spoilers coming. here are my quick theories on how the show ends.

first off, hank remembers that his previous boss was fired for not knowing that gus fring was a drug kingpin. his last story to hank and gomez was him having gus over for sea bass…all the while, gus was living two separate lives. that moment stuck with hank. so when hank realizes that that “w.w” is walter white, while remembering the previous moment were they read gale’s walt whitman book, hank knows he could lose his job for not knowing walt’s real occupation. it was right under Hank’s nose the entire time; he almost died because of walt. hank is going to corner walt and kill him. then he’s going to kill skylar... they both got their hands dirty full of blue meth, they gotta catch the llama. hank uses their bodies in the next fire accident in albuquerque. hank takes care of walter jr. and holly, and makes them believe their mother and father died in a fire. he never tells a soul about their real death.

OR

jesse goes to walt’s house once hank starts investigating the decrease in blue meth production in albuquerque. jesse sees the lilly of the valley plant in walt’s backyard near the pool and realizes walt was the person who poisoned brock, which was his first suspicion. instead of immediately confronting walt, he waits until hank begins to close in on the investigation. jesse remembers mike’s words stating “if you had any brains, you’d realize walt is a timebomb. you’ll take your money and leave town.” at this time, jesse and todd kill walt. dip him in the acid, and flee the country.

to be honest, both of those are really shitty theories. i have no idea what’s going to happen in the show, and that’s the beauty of it. unlike the wire which was a collective of characters, you know the final straw is going to have to be resolved with walt either dying from his own relative (hank or skylar) or from his closest associate (jesse). either way, walt is going to die. the beauty in the show isn’t in the end result; it’s in the journey along the way. the writing doesn’t cut corners, and explains each step along the way of how and why walt and jesse struggled/prospered, and what makes their relationship tick. for the record, optimus negro could do a much better job of explaining this than me. 

for example, jesse was a junkie fuckup the first three seasons. season four, between his scholastic training from walt, and his hitman training from mike, jesse is a vital part of the operation. when walt and jesse are preparing to rob the train of the methylamine, jesse explains how it’s able to work based on the weights of the train and liquid and other science jargon. in season one, jesse didn’t give a fuck about science. now he’s robbing trains and using magnets to stay in the game. walt taught him. they had each other’s back through tuco, gus,  crazy eight, mike….they have the weirdest relationship, and they’ve seen some shit. i can’t wait.