alex_hall91•7d agoProlific Poster

Rewatched Breaking Bad's finale after 5 years and saw it completely different

First time I watched it I thought Walter White won. He got the money to his family, took out the neo-nazis, died on his own terms. But last month I sat through it again after my own business almost went under. This time I noticed every single thing he touched turned to ash. Jesse screaming in the car, Skyler's empty face, that house with the graffiti. The guy didn't win anything, he just burned everything down and called it a victory. Anybody else have a finale flip on them like that after some life experience?

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richard_sanchez437d ago

The scene where he watches Gretchen and Elliott on TV and calls it "his money" hit completely different for me the second time. He even admits to Skyler that he did it for himself, not for the family. That's the part I missed the first time (or maybe I just didn't want to see it). The whole thing is just a guy who couldn't handle feeling small, so he made himself huge by breaking everything.

noah9147d ago

@richard_sanchez43 It clicked for me the same way on a rewatch. Admitting it was all for his own ego, not his family, is when the whole show really made sense.