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What did you want to see that you didn't see...?

posted 5 years ago by bohemianroxie (2478)
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I liked it and the more I sit on it the more I do.
But I think the thing I wanted to see that I didn't see was more of Jesse's conflict about his mentor/father figure Walt.

The complex relationship between these two was the oil that fueled the engine that was Breaking Bad and I always saw Jesse as surviving with those polarizing feelings toward Walt as a huge burden he'd have to come to terms with.
We already know that Jesse will always feel he has to atone for his own past actions...but what about his feelings toward his mentor, friend, enemy, father figure, manipulator.... The man that he saved and betrayed and that sold him out to be tortured and killed, blaming him for everything... only to save him in his last moments of atonement..

I guess those things are part of Jesse's less than happy ever after that he'll have to deal with as he builds a new life in Alaska.
But it seems, in the end, captivity made him a stronger man.

[–] Riverstale (8) 5 years ago

I know that this is a Jesse centric movie, but I would like to see what happened to Skyler, Holly and jr.

[–] bohemianroxie (2478) 5 years ago

Yes, I wondered about that too..
But since this was supposedly something like 2 days following the shoot out and Jesse's escape I guess we can imagine that they were probably shocked and covered up by media and police.

After the Breaking Bad finale I had an idea of a grown Holly getting a private detective and tracking down Jesse in Alaska to learn something about a father she only knows from sensational newspaper clippings.
I figured Skyler and Walt Jr would end up being close mouthed about discussing Walt at all.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

That’s brilliant, I would absolutely love to see that

[–] Bulldog79 (0) 5 years ago

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[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 5 years ago

but I would like to see what happened to Skyler, Holly and jr.

I would've liked to see that too, but the actor who played Walt Jr. looks very different now. Same face, but chiseled, taller, almost somewhat muscular and looking like Brandon Routh from Superman Returns.

It could be explained if El Camino took place 10 years later. But considering the movie takes place soon after the events of BB, it would be too startling to believer Walt Jr. had such a dramatic growth spurt in less than 2-3 months.

[–] winslow (1318) 5 years ago

I think before he left in the finale, they had that last look at each other, and it was like they were even.

[–] AP (5288) 5 years ago

I think Walt and Jesse’s conflict had a satisfactory conclusion at the end of the series. Nothing more needed to be said regarding them.

I would have liked to have seen how Jesse and Walt Jr would react to one another but it didn’t fit this particular plot.

[–] rootvegetables (1668) 5 years ago

- Huell sitting in the “safe house,” waiting for Hank and Gomez to come back and tell him the coast is clear.

- Junior eating breakfast.

- Bogdan’s eyebrows getting superpowers from overexposure to car-wash chemicals.

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