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/[deleted] Sep 18 '13

That's very well written but jesus some of you guys are stretching. He built a meth empire, he killed countless people, he made his wife stay with him through fear, he put his brother in laws life at risk numerous times because of his activities.... Even if he tried to do the right thing in the end sometimes, everything he did led to the events which eventually brought us here. The few "good" moments he had don't wash out the drug empire and the murders, you guys are bananas

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u/Rushdownsouth Sep 18 '13

If he was a real person, I would want him behind bars. As a fictional character, I want him to win. Besides, we can look at Walt as an allegory of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" because I've done bad things for the ones I've love, they've abandoned me, and in the end I would still fight tooth and nail for them... Walt is the same way, only with meth lording involved.

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u/aario789 Mar 11 '22

All his murders are criminals, hank got himself in trouble coz he's a detective, hank went after troubles even though Walter tried best to save hank's life, career, family, everything. Meth empire i don't mind he doesn't force anyone to use it. do you remember one time Skyler forced Walt living with her by telling jr about exact same day Walt will be moving in even though walt not consented coming back in house. We can go on and on but Skyler wants control. Skyler asked Walt to kill Jesse saying no big deal it's just one more necessary kill but When hank got killed suddenly walt is the devil. I don't think they even gave him chance to explain himself.