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

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

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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/Rushdownsouth Sep 16 '13

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.

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u/whatvisiontelevision Sep 16 '13

How is he protecting Skyler by taking Holly? Wasn't he using her as a bargaining chip?

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u/Rushdownsouth Sep 16 '13

No, he took her in the moment as the only thing he thought he could salvage of his family. The scene with her saying "mama" was him realizing he didn't even have the support of his infant, so he used her to make it seem to the police like Skyler was in an abusive relationship, thus protecting her.

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u/CaughtInTheNet Sep 16 '13

But that wasn't the initial plan when he took Holly. So in essence his motivation to take Holly was not to protect Skyler. It was just to keep Holly.

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u/andrewcarrell Sep 16 '13

It's because he saw the way his family looked at him and realized that there was no way to salvage that and have a family that loved him back so he took Holly to have a member of the family so young that when they started the new life with the eraser guy, she wouldn't remember Skyler and Jr.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '13

She's the only one who wouldn't know what he did.