The ending f-cking sucked.
It possibly ruined the entire series.
shareI wouldn't say ruined, but I think it's going to hamper my rewatches a bit.
I'm now thinking a more ambiguous ending might have been better.
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I was thoroughly disappointed by it, it was underwhelming as hell. All that really happened is he just gave himself up.
shareI liked it.
I was disappointed on how he pushed Kim after signing the papers but the ending put all that in a different light.
After all he got what he deserved …
Ending was well written and awesome.
shareThe second half of the last season was boring as hell. Would you actually sit and rewatch those episodes? I had a hard time getting through them the first time. And Carol Burnett added nothing. Stunt casting for no reason. Zero stars.
shareI disagree to the boredom. I loved the mall scheme and prep, the drama of him falling in the aisle, and all of the scenes with Carol Burnett.
shareCarol Burnett didn't added nothing? Are you fucking blind or just low IQ sad bastard?
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What else were you expecting? I mean where else could they have gone with it and have it work, because I don't think any of the alternatives would have. Gene dying or escaping does nothing for his character arc. Sailing off into the sunset with Kim? Nah. He needed to be both punished (by going to prison) and make up with Kim at the same time to give it a logical and satisfying conclusion to his character, and that's what happened.
The ending was friggin’ beautiful. If people were underwhelmed by it they obviously don’t see how different of a show from Breaking Bad it was at it’s core.
shareHe should have done something crazy just as a lawyer not as a drug dealer. Simply giving himself up is beyond disappointing. I was totally on board with the season until the last episode
shareI agree. Talking his way down to 7 years was in-character with Saul. He threw all that away. Him coming clean is totally out-of-character, and we have NEVER seen Saul exhibit that kind of behavior. Even Walter White said it, you've always been like this! (unlike Walt, who as we know, BROKE BAD at age 40).
shareRight, and we only saw worse and worse behavior leading up to this "redemption" moment. We are given basically nothing to make sense of what caused this dramatic shift... except Kim confessing. Has to be some of the weakest character development I've seen in a show. Not only is it contrary to what any rational human being would do, it's absolutely contrary to what Jimmy/Saul/Gene would do.
shareHe didn't want to let Kim take the fall so he took it instead.
Kim was his weakness and his good point.
It was very in character ...
Yep. It's not unlike Denzel Washington's critical moment in the movie Flight. He's in a bad way, snowballing. But finally, the tipping point was that he would not let someone else take the fall for him, esp someone he cared about.
shareI agree. I think what was at stake the whole way along was Saul's soul and the choice was between his own freedom and success, vs what was good for Kim and his relationship with Kim. The time jump with him having a life of wealth and luxury and many women, was to show that it wasn't making him happy, because it was his bond with Kim that made his life worthwhile. So when he had a chance to save that relationship, he took it, because it was worth more to him than his freedom.
I think this choice was telegraphed all along the way, but it was very subtle. At one point in an earlier season, he says something like, he could stand anything as long as he knows his relationship with Kim is good. So I saw the ending coming and I was really happy he made that choice rather than the selfish choice.
Probably one of my favorite shows ever.
coming clean is totally out-of-character, and we have NEVER seen Saul exhibit that kind of behavior.
Out of character for "Saul", yes. But not for Jimmy, who had sabotaged the early Sandpiper settlement by exposing himself in the Irene Landry scam, which tanked his reputation in Elder law. share
you've always been like this!...that does sum up Saul.
shareIt was fine and fitting. Enjoy the journey and don't get fixated on the destination.
shareBack in 2013 as a joke on IMDB we were coming up with the dumbest endings they could possibly come up with for Breaking Bad. My idea is actually quite similar to what we actually got with BCS.
I wouldn’t say it ruined the whole season but it was a letdown.
Man those were the days on the IMDB boards, with over 2 pages of posts per new episode, and even real-time "blogging" almost, during the episodes themselves. I got tired of the trolls and idiots (What is Walt Jr. Having for breakfast?), who just wanted to see their name on the Internet, but I mostly enjoyed the level of activity compared to here.
shareI still can’t believe they brought Marie back and didn’t kill her. I so wanted her to die when I saw her. She should be in the ground along with her fat pig of a husband.
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