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I would not have his money going to his family. That's what he wanted all along and he does not deserve to get what he wanted. Basically, I wish the show was more decisive about its morals. Instead it tries to have its cake & eat it too with respect to showing Walt to be a terrible person but also give him the most redemption allowable by the story corners they wrote themselves into.
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03-17-2014, 11:47 PM | #4671 |
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If reaper had a cult he would have peoples eye's taped open with the ribbon from a specific deep cassette of the metal variety and on a TV would be an episode of the Fly...then there would be an IPA enima going up the butt all the while he dances around in a kilt made of half bearcat flag half Xavior Oman pubes
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03-18-2014, 12:42 AM | #4673 |
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As far as I'm concerned, the only redemption he received was in killing off Jack's boys and finally finding some way to get some money to his family.
In the end, he still died, his family wanted nothing to do with him, got Hank killed, wasn't able to see his toddler daughter grow up, and his legacy (as the good man he was for the first 40 or 50 whatever years he lived) was completely tarnished. |
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As for your second sentence (which I will assume is literal as well), the answer is clearly no, if even just for the ways in which I was very positive towards this show in this thread. A good 90% or more of my posts in this thread were praising the show or defending it from the criticisms of others. |
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03-18-2014, 11:32 AM | #4676 | |
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I just kind of see it as the show is a certain amount of candy. There's a guilty pleasure in watching a meth cook and rooting for him. There's guilty pleasure in hoping he outfoxes Hank, or in watching the other shady characters and scumbags. Even when it's sort of implausible.
That's kind of how it differs from the Wire for me. Not in a good or bad way, just a different approach. Breaking Bad was sort of drama and story for the sake of drama and story. And it did a fantastic job of it. The Wire had a point first and worked the story around that. It was basically didactic. And they did a fantastic job of that. You couldn't end the Wire the way you ended Breaking Bad, but (in my opinion) the ending of Breaking Bad was fine. The audience, I think, wanted things tidy. They want some sort of redemption, in one way or another. Some sort of satisfaction. That was just the nature of the show. I think they did sort of paint themselves into a corner toward the end, but it's nothing that tarnishes the series for me. |
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I watched all 5 seasons about 2 weeks ago.
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