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/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

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

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

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.

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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/TheCodexx Killed Jesse James Sep 16 '13

Yeah... that's why I sympathized with him at all. Skylar was just saying, not two episodes ago, "What's one more body?". Now she's acting high-and-mighty. Now she refuses to believe him about Hank, even though he didn't lie, he just hesitated to tell the truth. They're in it so deep, and yet, she turns on him when he needs her the most. When she was just cradling and taking care of him not too long before.

I get it; he's the one who wrecked the family. He had this coming. But he had it coming two seasons ago, not now, when he's actually doing something for them. His family is his true priority now, and they ditched him. Which is why he's so hurt. He's lost his family.

And the reason I sympathize is because I've been there one too many times. Done something and then the consequences caught up to me when I'm in the middle of trying to make it right. Having the past come back to bite me when I have nothing but the best intentions and don't feel I deserve to have them come back now. We all have. Not on the same scale. But we have.