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Breaking Bad: El Camino
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Originally posted by cutmymilk View PostI am struggling to think of the loose ends you are talking about.
I acknowledge the tv show was complete at the end of season 5 but I like this closure on the 'what happened to Jesse' factor.
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I just watched it. I liked it. It wasn't a 'movie', more a double-length ep that caps everything off fairly neatly, in a manner.
It made me sad, tbh. Sad because all you're doing throughout is missing the buddiness of Walt n' Jesse from the old BB days but it's the aftermath, now, and you're getting a scarred, PTSD Jesse with no Walt and not much humour with a vibe very much tainted by the grimness of the final season. Luckily, it still has some *very* tight moments and still feels very BB. Still goooooood.
And for what is was, I liked the ending, the peace and irony of it. Great send-off for Robert Forster, too, what a touch of class he adds.
It's a very strange one because it just seems like another ep of BB to me but it basically made me miss Breaking Bad and feel actually sad.
The only thing that made it different was they used the F-bomb a coupla times.
Apartment bit was *tight*, bitches.
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Originally posted by cutmymilk View PostOh right haha. I was thinking more along the lines of fixing plotholes. Wonder if he becomes a lumberjack like Dexter.
Lumberjack, wtf???!!!!
Hmmmm.
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I watched this last night and almost wished I hadn’t. It’s not bad by any means and does what it does well. It’s more that it became really clear quite early on into it that, actually, I had closure on the show and I wasn’t invested in this in the slightest. The show was amazing but the secondary character featured in this who had held Jesse captive was in the bunch of my least favourite characters in the series (even though the actor is great) and reminded me that, last few eps aside, I felt the show had gone down rather than up in the final season mostly due to exactly those people - instead of the empire climbing we had to that point, the final season was facing off against a bunch of smalltime hicks and seemed almost beneath Walter at that point. And yet I had such a sense of finality when the show ended that this follow up had nothing to say. At least, to me.
So I never really got into it at any point in the story and, when it ended, I didn’t feel it had added a thing to the Breaking Bad story. Stark contrast to Better Call Saul for me, which managed to tie into Breaking Bad while still always delivering something different.
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It's definitely not in the same league as Saul. But the BB fan in me just loved a couple more hours in the world of the show. A good week after watching I feel maybe it added little but it also took absolutely nothing away. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
As for those characters from the final season, I thought they showed that, however despicable Walt had got, there were still worse/less honourable people around with absolutely no humanity at all (little league or not).
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Originally posted by Atticus View PostAs for those characters from the final season, I thought they showed that, however despicable Walt had got, there were still worse/less honourable people around with absolutely no humanity at all (little league or not).
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I just think, in the end, it exemplified that old concept, "the law of diminishing returns". Jesse just got very lucky with the odds.
It was....kinda grim n' realistic. Like the last season was. But this gave a big ray of light to the last season. I hated that ginger guy as well. In a way he was *perfect*.
But I agree, maybe he was too weird, I think he kinda contaminated the last series, in a sense, like some dark bacterium.
But an EXCELLENT performance. But he always feels like Philip Seymour Hoffman playing a greasy paed0. Absolutely unlikeable. Unlike pretty much all characters in BB.
We all loved Tuco. We all loved Gus. We all loved Ted Beneke. Ginger bloke was just a blast of dark weird nobody wants in their life.
I think El Camino did a decent job. In my view it was too dark throughout (visually, primarily) but they had to straddle a fine line between absolute grimness and fan-pleasing funnies but they did alright.
But now I want MORE!!!!!
RED METH!!!!!!!!!!!
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