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Originally Posted by Pestilence
How would you have had it go down in the end?
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I'm no writer, so I'm not going to make up plot lines and pass them off as creative.
First, this should have been a 2-hour episode. They tried to cram WAY too much in an hour and the setups were so quick that it felt like there was a commercial interruption every 5 minutes. The setups to me felt a little forced, sometimes predictable, and sometimes a little sloppy or way too neat. =I get that this is fiction, but I don't feel like it's typical for Breaking Bad to layer in so many conveniences. Not ruling out that Gilligan maybe did that on purpose.
Secondly, I would have liked to see more development of the situations Walt was trying to redeem. Walt's redemptions couldn't compare to the raw emotion of Jesse killing Todd. Again, maybe that was Gilligan's point.
Reading the AVClub review, thought that was brilliant. Maybe the brilliance was in the simplicity of the whole thing. I just feel like the show went from being really careful about blurring the line between good/evil to creating a Bond like movie with an infallible hero and clear villains.