Posted on 09/29/2013 7:16:26 PM PDT by vladimir998
So what did you think (if you watched the show)?
The ending of the supranos was WAY too subtle for people to get it.
Tony Soprano had talked once about how when you get hit there is just a blackness that comes over you... you don’t see it coming or hear it.
So... when the blackness overcame him and it just ..ended... no one got it.
If there would have been some reaction from one of his family members THEN the sudden blackness, it would not have been so subtle
But this ending was awesome!! I kept waiting to be disappointed, but I wasn’t. Especially with Walt just dying the way he did rather than have some dramatic death. I was expecting the meth tanks to blow up.
There was a little suspension of disbelief that you had to do, but otherwise it was great.
For example- how did Walt manipulate Todd’s uncle into bringing Jesse up there... that was a little weak.
He could have blown the whole thing if they just shot him instead of let him get his keys back. I guess that added to the suspense but it was iffy for a while there, if things had not gone exactly by Walt’s plan.
you know what? that ending did not discount that possibility!!!
Walt could claim he was kidnapped and forced to do those things
yea- the Badfinger song was awesome!!
“I guess I got what I deserved..”
I guess he got what he deserved. When the song broke out I was laughing with relief.
Eliot and Gretchen were never haunted by the fact that it was Walt’s work that put the company on the map in the first place. Not really.
Now they have a conscience, and it is pointed out that most people only have one at the point of a gun.
I’m still trying to figure out the dream sequence in which Jesse’s making a box with his hands, and then it cuts to his reality as a meth cook slave.
Or Breaking Confused, Jesse finds his brain on drugs can’t do anything but live in the streets.
That should have been a 2 hour ending... they did wrap things up pretty good though, in one episode.
I would like to have seen the Schwarz’s get more payback - if it was not for them, Walt would never have needed to go bad.
I didn’t feel like I had to suspend disbelief. Jack worked on a handshake. He had no problem murdering people, or taking money for it, but don’t call him a liar, or a cheat.
The entire ending was an exercise in making all of the warped moralities of all the characters somewhat orthogonal.
Even the final phone call to Lydia, done outside where Jesse could here it, so he could know that nobody would be coming after him.
Jesse was completely free, IF HE CHOSE TO REMAIN SO. This may have explained the woodworking sequence. Jesse had no idea how smart and talented he was, or how resilient he could be. He could have crafted tongue in groove woodcrafts, but instead he’s the world’s finest meth cook.
It will be interesting to see if there is a spinoff.
Bryan Cranston’s acting (especially in that scene) is going to be award winning for this episode!!!!!
I suspect a lot of them will be
You nailed it, I think. I talked myself into the same conclusion a moment after you posted.
I was watching the show last night with my teenaged son, and that was the exact quote I said as Jesse dragged his chains across the yard from his prison pit to the meeting with Jack and Walt.
Other than that, I'm clueless.
I liked the vertical beam that they put between Skyler and Walt in the middle of the frame. It emphasized how separate they were at that point.
He never needed to go bad. They offered to pay for his care, they offered to take care of his family after he died, they offered to bring him back into the company. He walked away from them for some ego reason (probably revolving around Gretchen “switching” to be with Eliot), I doubt they every really understood his anger, they might not have even known he was angry with them since he always came by for birthdays.
I missed what the Grey-matter company stuff was all about (I don’t know how) so I may not be the right person to discuss their involvement in his downfall
Anyone here have a synopsis of what the grey-matter people did to Walt? I think it would help a lot of us
Nobody really knows, it’s all very vague. We know Walt and Schwartz and Gretchen started the company, we know Walt was with Gretchen at some point, we know Walt was excited about their future buying the house and a Porche, and we know left the company for a $5000 buyout. That’s what we know about the then, in the “now” (season 1) portion we know he’s obsessed with their stock price and really bitter about the whole thing, but he keeps the bitterness private and is very friendly with them still going to social events at their house, and they seem very friendly with him, offering to bring him back, when they find out he’s sick offering to pay for his care, and saying he wouldn’t have to worry about his family, and he always refuses. It’s one of those secret anger things, my mom is fond of that, she’ll be mad at people for years without them ever knowing that she is much less why.
Things were always going to go by Heisenberg’s plan.
That is just the way of things ^^
As far as the Sopranos goes, I find that I really did not enjoy much of anything past season 2.
Season 3 was okay, but the last two just angered me, and the ending angered me too.
It just was not reaching me any more I think.
The Brits like to talk about that -- about letting a television show just die a natural death, rather than prolonging it unnecessarily -- but then they just bring the same stuff back with another name.
Here's hoping Gilligan & crew find something really new and exciting to amaze us with in the future.
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