You're probably not reading this anymore, but wanted to add that as I think about it more, I wonder if I'm discounting the effect his phone call with Flynn had on him. And that the phone call allowed us to have Walt back for the end, and that's who we saw putting things right, not Heisenberg.
That's a great point. I think of him as such a complete sociopath at this point though that even him "knowing they loved him" feels like a perverse wish of his. Like, his idea of that is much different than a "regular" person's.
I just read this on EW - pretty amazing:
For the grand series finale Sunday night, Breaking Bad hit 10.3 million viewers, with 6.7 million adults 18-49.
Let me explain how crazy that is. Do you know what the fourth season finale of Breaking Bad delivered a mere two years ago? That was the gripping “Face Off” episode that capped Walter vs. Gus’ deadly season-long chess game. Go on, guess…
The fourth season finale delivered only 1.9 million viewers. And at the time, that rating was actually considered good news. Because that was up 23 percent from season three. So two years and only 16 episodes later (since the fifth season was split into two runs of eight episodes each), Breaking Bad viewership has skyrocketed an astounding 442 percent.
I hear you. I cried when he said goodbye to Holly (even though I had very mixed feelings about it) and especially when he watched Flynn from afar. It was gut-wrenching. I just believe there is no way that Walt's actions wouldn't have caused the death of one of his immediate family members, and if that had happened, or if, at the very least, Jesse had died, I feel like it would have sent a greater message (to the audience) that there were grave repercussions for his decisions. Hank's death hurt him, but not like it would have had it been Skyler, Flynn, or Holly. And did he lose, really? Because the whole point was for him to get money to his family so they would be taken care of after he died, and he achieved that. He also admits that he enjoyed the wrath he caused along the way. Considering the pain and deaths of so many other innocent people (ABQ, the boy in the desert, etc.) he was responsible for, he got off too easy.
HOLLY RANT: Something else I realized after watching some of the marathon was that besides building a meth empire was that Walt and Skylar were pretty horrible parents to Holly all the way along. Smoking in her room and then picking her up? Blankets in her crib? Skylar singing a song half-assed to her in the car because she doesn't really give a shit? Letting her ride around on a little toy car next to the pool? WTF?!!
That stuff bugged me more than a lot of the more obvious faults they both had, because BE BETTER TO YOUR BABY! And then Skylar lets Walt see her? After he KIDNAPPED her? Ah, the endless wonders of codependency. Maybe the lack of care for Holly throughout was a subtle way of VG telling us, "Don't forget - these people are selfish dicks who only care about themselves."
I'm one of the people who thinks it ended too neatly, but then I wonder how I would be feeling if it hadn't. I feel like not everything should have gone Walt's way in the end, because what a fucking asshole, but then things going his way meant things would be better for everyone else, so...I don't know. I think part of me wishes there would have been more loss for Walt only because it would show that no, you can't do/be this and have everything fall into place (as much as that's possible in this case) in the end.
I'm so late, but saw that Kelly is going to go over these this weekend, so here goes:
1. Kelly is the best.
2. Someone please teach me how to post clip art on here.
3. Stay sweet, Kelly. Don't ever change.
4. A way to correct our typos/misspellings, but it shows that we edited our comment maybe? Not good for obsessive thinkers like myself, so maybe ignore this one.
5. More random open threads throughout the week.
6. TLA, Kelly.
7. A new Videogum segment that I can write so that I can work virtually and stay home with my son.
8. Babies.
Hi badideajeans! You were right about last night - whoa. Okay - I think Jesse's going to blow up the meth lab to kill all of them, including himself :(
Here's the thing, though, and I'm totally ready to be downvoted for this. I'm sort of glad this show is ending, because I can't take any more. I'm kind of depressed today, and it's because of this show. It's brilliant, but so dismal, and it bums me out that I'm not at my best for my kid this morning because I'm replaying the images of fictional Todd killing fictional Andrea and of Todd et al. in black masks standing over Holly's crib. That image was REALLY upsetting for me. All of the stuff is upsetting, but Holly in particular for me. LEAVE HOLLY ALONE!!!! It's so brilliant and I've enjoyed the ride, but it's like I ate too much before I got on the ride and didn't realize it was going to be so long and definitely didn't think it was going to get stuck and leave me in the air for 7 more days.
Possibly the worst moment of the night for me was when the people behind Rose Byrne kept looking at her because he hadn't thanked her yet. Tgis sort of glee-filled anxiety.
I'm here late, so sorry if you guys already covered this, but poor NPH. To see him shine at the Tony's this year and then be held captive by CBS - proves that CBS can take the fun out of anything. Geez, I'm just full of sunshine right now!
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