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[frelling_tralk]

10.3 million for the Breaking Bad finale, and that was after the fourth season only got 1.9 million for its finale. The word of mouth and netflix has REALLY made a difference in people catching up at the last minute!

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/30/breaking-bad-series-finale-ratings/

Flawless ending. Flawless show :D

I wish the deluxe box set (which is eek out of stock already on amazon.co.uk) came with a t-shirt instead of an apron that I will never wear through lol, I've just ordered a Heisenberg t-shirt to wear :bounces: Breaking Bad is huge in the UK just from people finding it on Netflix, it doesn't air on any other channel over here, yet nearly all of the top sellers in film and tv on amazon.co.uk are Breaking Bad DVDs

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[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

That's why they're critics and not filmmakers. :P

I think it took a lot of guts for Vince and Co. to NOT go down the hyper-moralistic (and totally unrealistic) crime doesn't pay/"get what you deserve" path. It's just so tired and childish.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Vince talks about it a bit here

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/30/breaking-bad-finale-vince-gilligan/

There was a version we kicked around where Walt is the only one who survives, and he’s standing among the wreckage and his whole family is destroyed. That would be a very powerful ending but very much a kick-in-the-teeth kind of ending for the viewers. We talked about a version where Jesse kills Walt. We talked about a version where Walt more or less gets away with it...I guess our gut told us that it would feel satisfying for Walt to at least begin to make amends for his life and for all the sadness and misery wrought upon his family and his friends. Walt is never going to redeem himself. He’s just too far down the road to damnation. But at least he takes a few steps along that path.

And

They’re rolling in with the sirens going and the lights flashing and he just doesn’t give a damn. He’s patting his Precious, in Lord of the Rings terms. He’s with the thing he seems to love the most in the world, which is his work and his meth lab and he just doesn’t care about being caught because he knows he’s on the way out. So it could be argued that he pays for his sins at the end or it could just as easily be argued that he gets away with it.”

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

Yup. He talks a bit about it on the podcast, too. Along with other dropped plotlines. I guess originally they might have killed Walt Jr. in S1 or 2 (this was after Jesse's death in S1). Skyler might have run away with Walt and killed herself.

I don't know if I like knowing this stuff or not. LOL

ETA: Myself, I just hate the idea of redemption arcs and the inherent quality therein that there is some scale that along the way balances someones actions.

Watched it again. Liked it more the second time.