Episode Commentary: Felina
And that’s a wrap. Breaking Bad is over.
While everything was tied up in a pretty little bow, it was a fitting end for an amazing show.
What everyone wanted to happen, does. Walt finds a way to give his money to his children, in a brilliant way to involve Gretchen and Elliot. He also finally admits the truth to Skylar about his purpose of being the evil King Pin drug dealer. We find out who the ricin is for and finally get to see the Machine gun in action.
Talk about a blaze of glory.
This episode opens up with Walt in a snow covered car and an intense moment as you see the sirens reflecting inside. While Walt drives back to Albuquerque, he has some unfinished business and his first stop is to Gretchen and Elliot’s new home. While Walt takes care of his final errands you get the sense that throughout this episode, his final journey- and the relief we get as fans of the show is a sigh of relief that Heisenberg comes out on top, no matter what the circumstances.
What is so great about this show is how Vince Gilligan continued to toy with the audience in making you love Walt one moment then hate him then love him again. Another sigh of relief involved Jessie as he gets his redemption and also comes out on top. Although you feel sorry for him because he has been through hell and back, his story ends the way it should.
A great moment in this episode involved Walt and Skylar as he is about to tell her and his family the “I did this for my family “speech; he pulls a complete 360 and finally tells her the truth. He did this for him, because he was good at it, and because it made him feel alive. That particular scene was not only shot well, but it was also a proper good bye between two characters that had great chemistry on the big screen.
The most anticipated moment of this finale was John Rambo’s machine gun that Walt carried in the trunk of his Caddy. It was certain that Heisenberg was going to go out with guns blazing and he certainly did that his way. While Walt heads over to Uncle Jack’s place where Todd and the rest of the crew are as well, Walt’s new business offer is turned down and he is threatened to be killed by Uncle Jack. Walt talks his way out for a brief moment as Jessie is presented to him. One of several questions that were answered is what was Walt’s purpose for going to Uncle Jack’s? Was it to go and kill Jessie? Or was it to go and Kill the Nazis and save Jessie? The answer was clear when Jessie was presented to Walt while looking like he had been held captive. Walt’s purpose was to save Jessie and by doing so he set up a contraption in the trunk of his car to control the M-60 machine gun to wipe out almost everyone in the room.
After the smoke was settled and the bullets had stopped flying, the only people left standing were Walt, Jessie, Todd and Uncle Jack, sort of. Jessie strangles Todd with the chain of his handcuffs, while Walt shoots a badly wounded Uncle Jack in the head. Finally Walt and Jessie are head to head and Walt tells Jessie to kill him. Jessie refuses and tells Walt to basically kill himself. While Jessie rides off with tears of joy, Walt walks through Uncle Jack’s Meth lab where it is revealed that he has been shot. As Walt puts his hand over one of the tables in the meth lab like he is touching a new car, it shows that cooking meth was his baby. While the cops head over to the Meth Lab, Walt collapses on the floor and dies.
With that, closing the curtain on one of the greatest television series of all time.
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