Is that a question?

It's terrible, yet somehow I kind of love it.

Yeah, if only all of us were so lucky to have a father figure who'd kill our first girlfriend, convince us to break up with the second after poisoning her kid, emotionally blackmail us into murdering an innocent person, and eventually replace us with a child-killing nazi.

Hit him in the side, like the singer in "El Paso."

Was that directed at me or @avclub-07f2d8dbef3b2aeca9cb258091bc3dba:disqus ? Not being sarcastic, legitimate question.

I can tell you've got the makings of a wonderful father.

The danger?

*Goliath straightens tie, collapses*

Better Call Riggle!

Gilligan has been clear that Walt is wrong, but he's not saying that he's evil incarnate. He's a sympathetic man who does evil things and slowly reveals his darker urges. That's the point of the show! Someone who was a good guy on the outside becomes a bad guy on the outside, but underneath he's a mix of the two, just…

My issue is not with the idea that there is a definite good and evil- for the most part I agree with that. My problem is that he said that Walt was 'the devil', which is a gross oversimplification of an incredibly complex character. He was basically saying Walt was pure evil.

It was about how actions had consequences, yes, but that's not the same as saying that one wrong action makes you irrevocably evil. Walt is not the devil- especially given that Gus and Uncle Jack did far worse things than he did. If Walt is the devil, what are they?

@avclub-85bd06050f1868adf468605465df26f8:disqus Yes, because when an elderly hitman who kills people to provide for his granddaughter says something, we know he's speaking for everyone writing the show he's on.

The writer of this article seems to want the show to pass a clear-cut judgement on Walt and Jesse, which it doesn't, and that's part of its greatness.

This was a pretty shitty article, though. Breaking Bad is a show about moral ambiguity, not clear-cut good and evil. There would be no damn point to the show if it were about clear-cut good and evil. It would just be "good guy suddenly transforms into bad guy, then he's the devil." It's not that simple.

True. But… as unrealistic as it is, I'm just gonna go with the idea that he escaped and found a good therapist.

Jesse's suffered enough. He wanted to be punished for his sins- well, he has been. I think he deserves a break.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus It ain't easy being White…

There was no real way the show would end on a happy note. But it ended on a satisfying one. That's something.

I think Jesse will have a good life now. He's earned it. He's been sufficiently "punished" for his crimes, and he's gone through hell, so I think now that he's come out the other side he'll have a nice quiet life as a carpenter or something. With a good therapist, hopefully.