straightforward doesnt mean bad, though. it was a fitting ending, perfect considering the entire run. i mean, if they'd sacrificed that integrity for some last shouts 'WTF!" it would've felt cheapened, to me.

and yet, walt got into their house easily.

know y'all won't believe me, but i called that shit the SECOND the red dots flashed on the schwartzes' tiny chests.

that tiny nod between walter and jesse right at the end was just… i have no words! heart-breaking and uplifting and bad-ass and vindicating and sad and bittersweet….

as someone in her late 30s, i totally understand your point, and i think we were being escapist to a degree: sugar-coating life as it were. i think entertainment was far more 'escape from real life and have a fab time for a few hours' and less 'examine life and humanity and the murky depths of your own complex self…

i feel like my bad-ass estranged uncle just died.

fucking good. thanks!

50? dude, i'd be content with 10. *slinks off to chamber of under-achievers*

you had me till the last bit.

fuck. fuck man, that sounds completely right. that's what will happen. fuck. 

well said. i agree in that if jesse makes it, he'll be stronger and more able to deal with his angsty angst. i think this is a do or die situation for him and if he survives, he might just be able to have some sort of life. 

to put it simplistically, when you step in shit you get covered in it. it doesn't really matter what jesse's intentions or feelings are; what matters is that he's part of a dirty business, he's done his fair share of despicable shit (selling meth to recovering addicts, for example) and his tender heart ain't gonna…

yup. also, what about the fucking dea investigation? somehow i doubt walt can use the media to his advantage at any point.

he was also a douche bag in LOST whose wife got killed by Sun, and then he died a gruesome death.

and the dea investigation?

dave porter is brilliant.. that end scene with the opening credit music riff… genius. and yes, throughout the show he's been stellar. i wanna buy that shit, yo.

so what's going to happen to DA MONEY?!!! will forster take it? or some frozen hobo find it?

seconded. lord crawley would've been a better fucking choice. despite all his scenery chewing earnest hamminess, he would've been a better choice.

yup. having watched about a million and seventeen hundred such scenes, i must admit this actually made me gasp in shock/horror. completely fucking unexpected.

fair point though again, the chances of him watching the elliots specifically were still iffy. eh, i'll give it a pass.