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Old 09-30-2013, 10:47 PM   #4277
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I thought the ending was pretty great. Was it perfect? No, but is anything? A number of things had to go pretty much impossibly perfect at the end for Walt to get the conclusion he wanted...he had to doctor that sweetener package so that no one saw him do it, and Lydia, but also no one but Lydia took it...he had to park to car on one try just right so that the machine gun in the trunk was lined up perfectly to take everyone standing in the room out...hell, he had to determine a horizontal sweep for the gun ahead of time that was perfect for the size of a building he'd never seen...on and on.

But I was OK with all of that. Part of the "secret" of the show's success is that they got us to buy Walt as an Everyman even as they imbued him with superhuman intelligence, skill, and just plain luck. I was willing to go along with that.

The one thing in the last episode that felt forced...and still does on second viewing...is when the skinhead uncle gets so incensed at Walt's accusation the he had "partnered" with Pinkman that he stops right in the middle of executing Walt to send for Jesse. That felt really forced. Everything in the uncle's persona to that point portrayed him as a calculating, deliberate person. Not one to suddenly ge hopped up over some point of honor dispute with a guy he planned to kill anyway. It feels awkward, false, not right. In a better world they could have done a better job there. But it was still a hell of an ending.
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