I loved it. I think the question this finale asks, to some extent, is what is freedom?

He is also a shitty brewer. Exploding bottles should not happen, even as a scary “is it gunshots?” moment.

Yup! Couldn’t agree more. I don’t know how Gomez put up with him those first two seasons.

Nah, Jesse was the same thing. His memory of Walt was a guy so self-absorbed and arrogant he assumed that Jesse dropped out of high school, even though Walt was on stage for Jesse’s graduation. 

There is a period of time between him negotiating the plea agreement and the courtroom scene, remember. 

Right, Saul never had the warm or even two-sided relationship with Walt that Jessie experienced. It was largely threats and intimidation from the start. And even in their softer interactions, insults were constant. Saul worked closest with Walt when he was at his absolute worst, post-Gus.

The thing to remember is, Jimmy is the bad guy. Him getting caught and confessing to his crimes isn’t defeatist, it’s what should happen in a just world. And I don’t think it should be surprising to anyone watching the show that Jimmy, or any character in a Vince Gilligan show, has a lot of conflicting impulses and…

I think it’s more like Kim was probably the only person that could inspire Jimmy to return to some semblance of the good man he used to be.

He really was smug. I also thought he was in a lot of denial too. Just because Jilly was pulling scams early on doesn’t make Walter some better person. He had A LOT of people murdered not to mention a kid killed. And he just kept going.

I thought it was fitting. Basically everyone in the BB/BCS universe either died or is on the lam. Someone actually had to wind up in prison at some point.

I don't blame this person for vanishing after posting this dopey comment.

Which makes the fact that, even in his big redemptive moment, Jimmy makes it clear that the Great and Mighty Heisenberg was actually, for the most part, haplessly out of his depth and would have wound up dead in a ditch or in a jail cell if not for Saul Goodman. One last little fuck you to Walter, it seems.

Oh, could be. By “take Walt’s side on everything” I was thinking more of how much shit Skyler (and Anna Gunn) seemed to always get from some of the more toxic members of the fandom.

In reading many of those interviews, where Gould and Gilligan kind of shame the audience for rooting for Walt, I feel like they may have miscalculated there. Because as awful as many of Walt’s actions are, they also made him an invincible badass who is constantly pulling off thrilling capers. Are you really not meant…

The fact that he kept tinkering with the water heater, making a mild nuisance into an unbearable racket is classic Walter White.

It’s kind of nice that, as it turns out, what is almost certainly our last glimpse of Walter White in this world isn’t the Nazi-killer super-scientist managing to effortlessly outwit his enemies one last time, but the pompous, bitter and frustrated pedant who can’t even let a harmless thought experiment about time…

What a wonderful finale to an amazing show. I think this was the happiest ending Jimmy could have gotten. One without heartache. I love that he chose a lifetime in prison, and still having a place in Kim’s heart, over a life of freedom (minus 7 years), and having no place in her life at all. I think this is one of the…

Another note - when Jimmy asked Walt about regrets, Walt looked at the watch Jesse gave him on his birthday (implying Walt probably regretted handing Jesse over to Jack). 

“You never know with good behavior.” No matter how many wrong, selfish decisions one has made in their life, there is always room for growth. You have to accept the repercussions of your past, of course, but what solace comes out of any situation if you don’t see the opportunity for growth in it. Some people never…

He turned the clock back to being Jimmy, by turning 7 years into 86. He really did it: he built a time machine.