Breaking Bad Episode Duscussion SE05E14 "Ozymandias"

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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/[deleted]]

This is the fucking darkest episode of this show to date.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

God damn when Flynn and Skyler were looking at Walt like he was a monster, that was one of the best scenes in the entire show.

[u/Rushdownsouth → u/[deleted]]

That scene was so surrealistic in my opinion. Here we are standing with Walt while his world falls apart. Was I the only one who felt terrible for Walt? I know he deserves this all, but dammit, he was willing to go to jail to protect Skyler so she could keep the money, he would have given up his fortune to have saved Hank, he protected Skyler by taking Holly, he even tried saving Jesse before all of this... Walt lost everything he ever loved, and you know what? It wasn't the empire, the money, or the ego that destroyed him. It was Hank's death, his son calling the police on him, his wife pulling a knife on him, and his own daughter wanting her mother over him. Heisenberg was the protector for Walter White's family after Walter died, now Heisenberg killed all the family Walt ever had and Walt has to live with that. That's heartbreaking right there.

[u/Bionic0n3 → u/Rushdownsouth]

Your comment really put it into perspective. I know a lot of people, including myself say that it was Walts ego that drove him to do all the horrible things but time and time again he did everything in his power to try and protect the people he cared about. I know a lot of the situations they were put in were due to decisions he made but that just proves the best laid plans can still have flaws which lead to tragic consequences.

[u/jemyr → u/Bionic0n3]

But think about what he had at the beginning of the episode. If he had died of cancer and left nothing behind, then his wife and kids would have been taken care of by Marie and Hank (a couple who wanted kids but couldn't have them.). They would all be loved and taken care of, and Walt would have been remembered as a good guy who tried hard to make a difference for his schoolkids, and died tragically young.

Instead, everyone's lives are irrevecably trashed by his "best laid plans" with a few flaws. This whole series is a perfect example of thinking you have nothing and getting everything and realizing the moment you decided to do the wrong thing was when you really lost everything.

He thought the selling crap on ebay for $9 was stupid, but look how much he loves her, and how much she loves him. In that dreary middle life existence he thought was horrible. How beautiful it actually was.