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The ending

posted 6 years ago by ncandlena (66)
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I loved the show but I really didn't like the ending. I feel like Jesse and walt should have made up, talked it through. It made me so sad.

[–] Caliblack (47) 6 years ago

Yeah....no. They were never really compatible or friends. Their partnership was a means to an end.

[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 6 years ago

Agree with that.

[–] Ace_Spade (9574) 6 years ago

It's funny, because I always think of them as having this great father/son/best friends dynamic that gets foiled every now and again, but then on re-watching the show, they're almost never cordial and sometimes they're barely even (or not even at all) on the same "team".

It's such great writing and performances that create such a polarized bond between these two.

[–] spurtle467 (1549) 5 years ago

I thought the ending between these 2 was fine. An ending where they become buddies isn't particularly in keeping with the destructive and immoral paths that they've taken in making and selling meth, and the lives they've destroyed in the process. It's fitting that it's destroyed their own relationship too. Having said that, I think they leave on as good terms as can be expected. Walter saved Jesse and Jesse probably forgives Walter. They no longer have the bond they once did but it seems like the animosity between them is at least over.

[–] momur (107) 5 years ago

Their partnership from start to finish was basically a textbook abusive relationship without the romantic element. Walt had crossed too many lines for them to have ever been able to make up - choosing to spare Jesse's life at the last minute (Walt's original plan, until he actually saw what Jack's gang had done to him, was for Jesse to die in that clubhouse along with Jack and Todd and the rest of them) still wouldn't erase all the stuff Jesse knew Walt had put him through in the past 2 years of the show, including selling him to Jack's gang in the first place.