@avclub-59f95282cf4c78cc53cc7add06c46a78:disqus I have! Which is why I referenced the movie. I like both endings but think Burgess is sort of a prat about how much he hated the movie version.

@avclub-d542a3419c3ad57206a96bcc86155ebc:disqus what really got me was her look to Walter when he made the very Walter suggestion of using those bodies to make a deal with the DEA. Disbelief and sadness, she knows these bodies, not bargaining chips.

@avclub-4f18f486a356810b3ef8008243bcba7a:disqus sorry! The show is both old and fairly obvious about where it's going, though, so I felt OK dropping that.

Indeed they are. Thanks for the insight and outstanding writing, Donna.

"It would have been pandering to those people who tuned into this power
fantasy for 6 years and then wanted more "punishment", almost as some
sort of comfort. I'm sorry, but I just think there is some sort of
hypocrisy in that sort of thinking."

Well said. I think the call from Lydia was less about letting us know that she was going to die and more about letting us revel in it and her be horrified by it. Walter was surely pleased to have her know who is responsible for her death.

Hmm, and we also have the hero and his significant other holding each other and pointedly not looking at the cause of the carnage being rained down on the Nazis. I take this to be Vince Gilligan's theological metaphor that the "God" contained within the Ark of the Covenant is a pitiless killing machine, no loving…

Oh, grade bitching threads! I'll miss you most of all…

Added thanks: Thanks, Donna, for all the great reviews.

That gas station was the one where Jesse sells meth to the young female clerk, right?

My favorite Mike line, when he's pulling the bug from Walter's house and Walter is getting high and mighty and pissy about it: "You're not that important, Walter." In one sentence he gets at Walter's pride and undermines it beautifully.

Yeah, he flipped out the previous episode when he saw footage of Jesse being a rat, I'm OK with him defending his honor.

HE IS WAL-TER WHITE!

It took a minute into that scene for me to realize why she looked so weird. White? What the hell, Marie?

Well said. This is why the happiness of the ending is an illusion, Walter finally embraces his evil.

Mentioned this above, but that last shot gave me huge Cowboy Bebop vibes.

Walter absolutely had a Mike vibe with the knife line. Quiet contempt is always more badass than bluster.

Immediately where my mind went to during the Todd garotting. Fewer scuffmarks and insane homicidal glares in this one, though.

"I don't know if he thinks it does or not, but I don't think the show does."

I bet he doesn't go out to eat before noon for the next decade or so.