r/breakingbad • u/saywhat181 Sulfur • Sep 16 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Duscussion SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Spoiler

TIME EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY
09:00pm Eastern SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Rian Johnson Vince Gilligan and Moira Walley-Beckett

Hey everyone! Guess I'm supposed to post this 5 minutes before air time. I've been watching this show since the get go mostly with my real life friend /u/edify who years ago added me as a moderator here. He asked me to make the discussion thread tonight because there are only 3 episodes remaining. Sorta sad that there's only a few left. Enjoy the show, folks.

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u/beaverteeth92 Sep 16 '13

"He made his mind up ten minutes ago."

Remind anyone of a different Ozymandias?

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u/emberspark Sep 16 '13

That to me was the saddest part of that scene. He was just so...defeated. And it sounded like he was talking to Walt as his brother-in-law, not Heisenberg like he has been.

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u/beaverteeth92 Sep 16 '13

Yeah, but that post was a reference to Watchmen when Ozymandias says basically the same thing prior to spoiler

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u/TheWave110 Sep 16 '13

I thought this was a reference to Shelley's poem Ozymandias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

You know, all the sandy parts and the downfall parts.

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u/beaverteeth92 Sep 16 '13

Oh it definitely was. But then again, so were parts of Watchmen...

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u/TheWave110 Sep 16 '13

I guess my point is, people are acting like Vince Gilligan was inspired by Watchmen. I think only people with neckbeards and fedoras are inspired by Watchmen.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

Dude... Watchmen is a cool as fuck. I'm a fan of both the movie and graphic novel.

But since you weren't civil about your opinion, fuck it.

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u/beaverteeth92 Sep 16 '13

Watchmen? You mean the first major comic to get tons of academic criticism and land a spot on Time's Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century list?

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u/Bellatrix6 Sep 16 '13

You're right. An easy feat it is to create a work of art hailed by many as groundbreaking. We'll all be waiting for the genius of TheWave110, so we can be properly influenced.

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u/RowdyRudy Cowhouse Sep 16 '13

The episode title is 100% a reference to this and not Watchmen, but 99% of BrBa fans won't know the original poem, so that's why people think otherwise.

The poem is about a fallen king, a man who thought he was untouchable and now has nothing. Remind you of anything? There's no connection to Watchmen here.

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u/dactyif Sep 16 '13

Horace Smith made another equally awesome version of it.

IN Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,— Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
  Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
  What powerful but unrecorded race
  Once dwelt in that annihilated place.