eh guess they cant do endings. i dont think theyre incentivized to make final seasons you dislike
They wanted to be done with Breaking Bad, and so they put a bow on it where someone paid for all the bad that happened in the world, and someone felt some guilt who should have felt some guilt. They picked the exact wrong fucking character to do it with I think, and did it in the least legitimate way possible, and arrived there in the dumbest way possible, but I don't
I had on Breaking Bad as background noise and an interaction made the ol gear's spin. Season 3 Episode 12 of Breaking Bad is all about Jessey wanting to get revenge. It is also how Jessie gets on Gus's radar aside from just Walt. I just found it interesting that Mike was recruited for similar reasons and Jessie was as well, heck, if things worked out, Mike and Jessie would have been a fun show.
I think the shows had a real lack of courage in some respects in how they dealt with their characters. They were afraid of upsetting the balance of the show, and so Walt dying before the show ended was never a question for them. I think the show would have legitimately been better if Walt died in his efforts to kill Gus, but was still successful in killing him via Hector. Season 5 was repetitive thematically and in terms of character. Walt just kept doing the same shit. How many problems can Walt's giant fucking brain get him out of? All of them. How lucky is Walt? Perfectly. What will he do to keep getting meth money and keep his dick up? Literally anything. How much money is enough for Walt? There is no number. How bad does Jesse feel? Pretty fucking bad. How fucked is Mike? Extremely. Will Hank be a good cop and catch Walt? Yeah probably.
Walt kept making bad decisions and getting away with it in a way that strains credulity with successive watches. It's not a bad show, S5 is still ok even if the plotline is considerably more retarded than it should have been. What if, instead of Walt getting vindicated time and again, and outsmarting and being luckier people who are clearly at least as ruthless and vicious and paranoid as him, he lost? Wouldn't Skyler have been a much more tolerable character if Walt just ate shit, and she was
right? And the show believed that as well? What if S5 was about Jesse and Mike desperately trying to hold shit together as the wheels all truly came off? Gus dead, Walt dead, Walt's family in tatters, Jesse feeling bad about that and having to piece together how the fuck Brock got poisoned without Walt's obvious bullshit incriminating himself? The Mike and Jesse show would have been very interesting compared to the Walt always wins show, there would have been something a bit more dramatically interesting with Walt's family for once. Killing off Walt in the late seasons would have probably been a commercially dumb move, but it could have probably kept or exceeded hype for S5, and let us avoid the boring shit that was El Camino. The biggest problem BB has is that it killed off its best antagonist in S4, and failed to create any for S5 that were worth the time. Walt keeps getting away with it is an interesting angle but he had no credible foil anymore, so there was a lot less drama until the very end when his bad decisions inevitably bit him in the ass.
Hell, this would have spared us some of the 'guilt' that ended up destroying BCS' coda episodes and retroactively pissing on the entire experience.
