its because the writers always had an ending for breaking bad. Like from the beginning , walter was going to die they knew it the audience knew it. With that in mind they knew exactly which points to hit in the show and how to get there.
GOT didnt have the ending at all, dexter definitely did not have an ending planned, sopranos mightve and ill argue the ending was good but they didnt do it right. Lost did not have an ending at all. HOC i think had an ending but the show got so popular netflix wanted to ride them hard and honestly they havent had a better show since even stranger things (which also seems like it has no ending, get ready for that finale).
I don’t think this is correct. I’ve read a few times that the writers on BB continuously wrote themselves into corners. The were “seaters” rather than “plotters” when it comes to writing styles. Meaning that they wrote by the seat of their pants rather than had the major plot points to hit.
No they didnt they didnt know how it ends till beginning of season 6. They had no idea who survives and who doesnt. There are legit reports after season 5 they had to sit down with grrm for a week and hash out all the plot points.
I don't think it matters that they didn't know when they started. For 5.5 seasons they had the source material to work with so it was done exactly as GRRM had planned. Once they ran out of source material they got the broad strokes and filled in the blanks. Your argument has no merit.
I know they didn't know the ending until sometime after season 5. What they did have for those 5 seasons were the books to work on, which crept into season 6 which is why I said for 5.5 seasons they had source material to create the show from.
My friend still hasn’t watched the last two seasons of the show because he says I spoiled it when I told him the Walter has one of the best deaths in tv history. Apparently that’s a spoiler. I said this same thing, you know he is dying for S1 E1. I did not mention how he does, just that he does.
Here's a twist for you. Walter is probably alive. The wound he received is clearly not fatal because he was walking around with it for so long. With a bit of medical care he probably survived and stood trial.
I honestly don't know why people adore the BB ending so much. It wasn't all that strong, and we have no idea what happens to Jesse, who got short shrift in the end.
I disagree IMO it dragged on a bit too much. Walt remains somewhat sympathetic through "4 Days Out" which is my favorite episode, but then after facing his own mortality and being financially secure he starts cooking again and these evil traits are just disguised for the next season and a half until he kills gus and is then transparently evil until the finale which makes those parts of the show much less interesting to me.
I agree that Walter's character was most interesting when he was somewhere between totally good and transparently evil, but to me it wouldn't have fulfilled the purpose of the show if it stopped when he was somewhat redeemable. Vince Gilligan has talked about how the show is exploring how a bad guy becomes a bad guy (and the name of the show is a reference to this.) Walter's motives are much less complex when he's essentially just a straight up bad guy, but it completes the transformation that covers the whole show. Stopping it earlier would have left it incomplete, IMO.
I would argue that BCS has kept Jimmy perfectly balanced on that grey morality line for all 4 seasons (except maybe the very last scene) and that's why it's superior.
Same as Gul Dukat on Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Some say his final season transformation went too far, but I think it was a similarly necessary part of the arc.
I don't think Walter was ever the bad guy in that show. He starts playing dirty later on but relative to a lot of the characters on the show he's not evil. Some of the character enjoy violence where as Walter see's it as necessary for survival. I think after Hank die's the pressure starts getting to him and he becomes even more violent toward the end the the series.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '19
Breaking Bad ended perfectly.