Ignore Pack. This is for some reason deeply personal to him. So stop questioning the remake you parody of an AV Club commenter and intolerant, selfish American!

You sound like a parody of someone who likes to suck his/her father's cock every day.

Yeah, I mean Weeds had a very similar premise (although it was nowhere near as good or ambitious). Breaking Bad certainly doesn't own its premise. But that's the thing right? Of course they can take the concept and spin it their own way-Vince Gilligan doesn't own the core idea that began the series. But they can just…

For a second I thought that was Josh Radnor.

I guess I just don't understand a pure remake. I assume they're keeping the same exact story (if they have a new spin on the material, I retract this comment). What's the point?

Shot for shot remakes are pretty much useless, especially if the source material is already great. If they have a new spin on it, great. If it's substantively the same: read subtitles you lazy fucks!

Why is the voiceover in English? It's not aimed at an English market. Why tell us that it's going to captivate Hispanic audiences? I'm hispanic and couldn't give less of a fuck, I doubt other English speakers do, considering the original is in that language.

Oh let's give a little love to Oz-if HBO hadn't popped its drama cherry on Oz, they wouldn't have picked up The Sopranos. The Sopranos were important commercially but Oz was also big creatively.

For this I got a Breaking Bad notification? You guys aren't milking it quite as much as other outlets, but…you're coming close.

But…Jesse *did* call him out in at least the slightest way, in his refusal to kill him. That counts. That sums up a pretty integral part of the Walt/Jesse relationship and Jesse moving past being Walt's bitch. It wasn't the soliloquy many Jesse lovers wanted but it was still huge.

I'd also say that terrorizing and manipulating Gretchen and Eliot instead of murdering them was a huge character moment. It must have taken a lot of pride swallowing-the money will be seen as charity, and he will get no credit for it.

I can't feel too bad for Saul, since he's pretty much the definition of a slimebag with or without Walt-and even *before* Walt actively threatened him and forced him to remain his lawyer, he was setting him up with drug dealers (I know a guy who knows a guy…who knows a guy) and helping him launder money. Even though…

Also, Walt Jr is going to think his trust fund is charity, not his father's money. You know that kills Walt.

Yeah, I feel like that type of ending belongs more in a movie like Animal House than a serious drama. Just felt way too saccharine

@avclub-cd01e5786d65f27654ca570edef28c69:disqus Agreed. Whatever your opinion of the last two episodes, they weren't intended to be climactic. Some wanted it to go out with an Ozymandias bang, some wanted the low of Granite State. Those would have worked, albeit much differently, and I'm happy with the denouement.

@department_of_toad:disqus Exactly right on the charity thing. It was also a really nice callback to Walt Jr's online donations scheme (and how Saul originally used it to launder the drug money). It absolutely killed Walt that his son was basically given credit for all of his work (on the news and everything).

@avclub-c1bac1d55ebcc415d61552acbfbb219d:disqus Walt's manipulation of Gretchen/Eliot was sort of a double-edged sword. He totally bent them to his will, *but* his son/daughter are going to end up thinking it's charity: you know that no matter how awesomely he pwned them, that realization makes him die a little inside.

I felt like Six Feet Under's finale was *too much* denouement and wrapping up. It was a good finale, and it was poignant, but my god is it overrated. "Where did everyone end up" endings belong in movies like Animal House, not serious dramas.

One thing I loved about this show was how short the opening credits were. It wasn't long, drawn out, indulgent, like Dexter (which was cool, but got old). It wasn't a minute of some stupid song. It was just under 20 seconds-BOOM, back to the show.

One thing I'm really gonna miss about this show, that I hope others will take heed of: how *short* the opening credits are. Boom-nice and punchy, then right back into the show. I hate long, indulgent opening sequences-like Dexter's. It was cool the first season, but I don't want to sit through/fast forward. that shit…