Let me start by saying Breaking Bad is the best show on television, ever, and it is safe to say nothing will ever live up to the awesomeness of it. Like, you can say the writing on Game of Thrones is great, but it's based on a book. You can say the cinematography on Hannibal is beautiful (I watched like one episode, I thought it was great) but is it better than Breaking Bad? No. You can say the details on Sherlock are pretty accurate, but do they pay enough attention as the makers of Breaking Bad do? No. Breaking Bad is story-telling on television at it's best. There is no doubt about it. It's a show I will tell future generations to watch, and it will live forever in our hearts. There is a Breaking Bad sized hole in my soul and nothing will ever fill it. When I say it's my favorite television show of all time, I mean it in the way I say The Avengers is my favorite superhero movie of all time, and the Harry Potters are my favorite series. It's just...perfect. I honestly don't understand how people can be not into it. If you are reading this, I demand that you get into it.
SPOILERS AHEAD
So the finale. What a finale it was. It was epic in the true sense of the world. I loved the part where Walt's in the gas station, and he takes off his watch and leaves it there, because he knows his time is up.(Or will be up in a few hours). I honestly thought Walt was going to kill the Schwartz's. But when he gave them the money, it all made sense. And although I kind of saw the whole Badger and Skinny Pete thing coming, I still gasped, it still made me laugh a little bit because it was a big joke.
Then Walt sneaks up on Todd and Lydia at the cafe, but we know that he was there earlier, because he puts the ricin in the Stevia. As soon as they zoomed in on her pouring it into her tea, I was like THE RICIN IS IN THERE SHE GON' DIE. I like that when he was building the gun thing in the desert, he was humming Felina, and like how the singer in the song goes back for his lover or something, and he goes back for Jesse. Also, Felina is an anagram of Finale. And Also Fe+Li+Na means Iron+Lithium+Sodium, which signifies Blood, Meth and Tears (Which is a phrase I hope to get tattooed on me someday. Yes, I want the word Meth tattooed on me, okay?) See what I mean about details? I especially loved the scene where he goes back to see his family one last time, and he tells Skyler he "did it for me". And that he was good at it. And he was alive. I could see where he was coming from. As a show driven mostly by lies and pride, it was great that he admitted why did he did what he did.
He then goes to the Nazis, and he aligns the car against the shed thing, and I honestly thought he was doing it as an act of defiance. As a proud person, he finds Jack's weak spot, his pride, and targets it, accusing him of partnering with Jesse. Although Walt's original plan was to bring Jesse in, so he can kill him with the rest of them, seeing him like this, like a slave, held against his will, he decides otherwise and "tackles" him to the ground, and sets the gun robot into motion, and it starts firing. I'm not going to lie, I screamed YEAH BITCH when that happened. When the shooting finally stops, Walt, Jesse, Todd and Jack are alive, but everyone else is dead. And then Jesse chokes Todd with his manacles, and I was so happy I teared up a little bit. Then Walt shoots Jack and blood splatters onto the camera and that was pretty cool, in my opinion. Then there's a bit with Jesse and Walt where Walt asks Jesse to shoot him, but Jesse refuses, and tells him to do it himself if he wants it so much. (Also he notices that Walt is hurt and is bleeding out.) He is finally in control of what he can and cannot do and that's beautiful. As they're both walking out, Todd's phone rings. It's Lydia. How do we know? His ringtone is a song with her name in it. Todd is creepy as hell, okay? Applause for Jesse Plemons for acting. Wow.
So Walt picks up the phone and tells Lydia everyone is dead, and tells her she's going to die, so that's that. Then, just as Jesse's getting into a car, Walt and Jesse look at each other and nod. They know this will be the last time the see each other and they acknowledge that it was a good (well, not really) run. Then Jesse gets in the car, crashes into the chainlink fence and speeds off, crying with happiness. (This is the moment where I started crying because Jesse was finally happy and free and everything was perfect in the world) Walt then makes his way to the meth lab where Jesse has been cooking for all these months and looks at everything and takes in the science. He then falls down and dies with a smile on his face and tears in his eyes, in a place where he felt the most alive he has ever felt; a meth lab, with Baby Blue by Badfinger playing in the background.(which I thought was perfect) It comes full circle. The Great Heisenberg was born in a meth lab, and he dies in a meth lab. (I was still crying, and then the AMC thanks you thing came on and I cried harder)
Basically, that was the most satisfying finale in the history of television and it gave me so much closure. All the loose ends were tied up (well, the ones I cared about). It was beautiful. It was amazing. It was awesome. It was classic Breaking Bad, but also it was happy, which is not very Breaking Bad at all. But still. Wow. I'm going to go watch it again or something.
