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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
He dies knowing he got to say goodbye to his kid, to leave Walt Jr. well off, and to let Skylar off the hook. I really do not like that angle for the final episode and could have done without it. It felt like a really insincere attempt to set up a hero's ending.
Again... Jesse killing Todd, that felt like raw, sincere redemption. Walt conveniently patching every loose end up and dying with everything tidy and neat, it just didn't do it for me. No real conflict in today's episode. He cleaned up a lot of messes in a short episode, which feels too James Bond for me.
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All right, we get it. You didn't like the episode, or at least you didn't like how Walt was able to win and gain redemption so easily. I guess your definition of "easy" is different from mine. Walt spent the last several months of his life as a pathetic hermit, dying of loneliness, guilt-ridden over Hank's death, completely despised and HATED by his family, completely disgraced publicly, and dying from cancer. He had nothing to occupy his time except to sit and think about how badly he'd destroyed his entire life and the lives of everyone he cared about. He didn't have a television or a radio to distract him. All he had was the stack of newspapers Ed would bring every couple of weeks. He was so pathetic and lonely that he offered to pay Ed $10,000 just to stay for an hour or two after dropping off his supplies.
Well, he did have two copies of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, so there's that.
Walter White was smart enough to make meth better than anyone else in the world, build the bomb that killed Gus, build a battery out in the desert, and build an explosive crystal that detonated when he threw it to the floor. But because he was able to rig a machine gun to autofire when he pushed a button, and because he put together a plan that he executed perfectly, "he was James Bond" and the episode seemed unrealistic to you. The "James Bond" ending was actually completely consistent with the character that Vince Gilligan has developed over the last 5 years.
At the end of the day,
it's still a television show. Did Vince Gilligan require you to suspend your disbelief just a little bit in order to enjoy the emotionally satisfying ending that he delivered? Probably. But I wouldn't have had it any other way. I much prefer an emotionally satisfying ending to an ambiguous ending that satisfies the nit-pickers who refuse to just sit back and enjoy the ride.
I guess this just shows that no matter how brilliantly a series ends, somebody is going to complain about it.