wtf was that ****

i really just cannot fathom why they would ever end it like this. How do you even get the IDEA to end it like that. sooooo many possible endings that make sense and aren't completely unfathomable. but no, somehow this unstable air-traffic controller (who walt is connected to no less) is able to resume his fairly important position, crash two planes into each other and two bodies fall presumably on Walt's car. really? realllllyyyy?

i mean the fortuitous breaks with Tuco and what not are OK, not great but i can live with them. But to have something that wouldn't even happen on 24 just pisses me off. If the plane fell on walter jr. then fine, at least it forwards the story and creates depth, but all this did was blue ball the **** out of the viewers.


/rant

edit: seriously, Gus has clear motive to **** up walt or his family but noooooooooooooooooooooooo we have to crash two ****ing planes and have a doll land in walt's ****ing pool. i have no idea about physics, but that crash appeared to be right over walt, with wind and the speed of the plane, how does the doll fall straight down

double edit : the rest was pretty good though

I think it's showing how many lives will be affected by Walt deciding to embark on the life of a druglord, even in ways he would never imagine. If Walt never starts making Meth he never meets Jesse and Jesse never gets kicked out of his house and gets that apartment and meets that girl and ODs on Heroin causing her father to have a mental lapse while controlling the air traffic causing hundreds to die. And it's not really a deux ex machina unless like some parts fell out of the sky and killed Skylar and Walt Junior.

You guys might enjoy this:

http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2009/0...igan-post.html

It made me feel at least a little bit better about the ending.

LOL I was like WTF with the ending too. This show takes a methodical approach. So, I am not too surprised that the Gus story line was introduced and not expanded on. Geez it took how long for all of Walt's lies to come back to bite him in the ass with Skyler or is it Schuyler.

I still can not wait for next season. There are so many places for this show to go, they just threw a red herring into the mix. I suppose they thought it was more entertaining to do that then a huge cliff hanger...... must be a remnant from his X-Files days. Still thought the last episode was mostly great.

His wife was finally passionate about something. Jesus, from Deadwood through the end of season 2 she was like a freaking corpse, I just do not like her acting much. (Anna Gunn) I think out of the 30 odd characters in Deadwood she is the only one I didn't think was interesting at all.

I don't get all the hate on Skylar. I think she's great. Jane's dad is probably the only bad actor on the show. Daughter dies, and he seems normal? Come on. This episode sucked and the ending was just wtf? Probably the only episode I've ever been disappointed with so far in the series. Also, master drug lord black guy seeing Hank, and just in general that guy, is awesome.

well seeing as there is almost no possible way to predict what will happen in this show, i'm gonna start thinking out of the box.

Walt stops cooking meth, becomes a mormon, finds 10 wives, starts cooking meth to provide for ten wife's, kills 9 wives, plane lands on 10th wife, walt remarries Skylar, everyone is addicted to meth and we learn our lesson about the danger of airplanes. The End

I wish I could think on the level that these people do. I guess with enough time we could, but some of the responses and stuff in that interview are amazing.


Also, it was addressed in the interview but I want to bring it out to the thread. Gus didn't really learn anything "new" about Walt did he. If I recall right when Gus decides not to work with Walt he says "you have a brother in the DEA" --- maybe he didn't know his brother specifically dealt with Meth, or that Hank was dying, but he atleast knew that Walt had a brother in the DEA right?

loved the episode, didn't have any problem with the ending because unlike most people (at least in this thread) i wasn't obsessing over the body bag scenes from earlier episodes...i think you guys are all disappointed because you hyped that stuff up way too much, i mean christ there are probably 100+ posts itt where people are speculating about the body bags.

don't remember the scene but its probably a pretty good assumption that a guy like Gus isn't getting involved in a huge deal like that without throughly checking out Walt

Thank you ..... A. Sepinwall is the best tv writer there is.

Agreed, and I kinda like the off the wall plane crash.

I do have a problem with a 160 IQ'd super secret drug kingpen letting the "cyber-beg" cover go so far as a Barbara Walters interview, c'mon.

i don't get this at all. a lot of people who are really smart about stuff like science don't know **** about people.

the nerdy professor who is brilliant but knows nothing about people is a freaking archetype.

Will we see Jane's dad go of the deep-end? The way he was in the meetings with her, it seemed he was also in recovery.

Perhaps he will come after Jesse and Walt will have to intervene.

Although Walt needs a place to rent, I doubt he moves into Jane's old place.

Don't think Gus ever mentioned DEA with Walt.

What kind of lie does Walt spin for Skyler?

Can't wait for next season!!!

The ending was flat out horrible. At least they didn't do anything with Walt touching the needle though.

The first 55 minutes were very good.

is it just me or did walt jr get more ******ed? i don't remember him stuttering too much in the first season. now every time he talks i want to hit something.

Skylar and Walt Junior are getting progressively more annoying so that the audience will experience a gigantic nut bust when they finally die.

ha i was thinking the same thing

You don't consider intentionally crashing two passenger jets and killing scores/hundreds of innocent people "going off the deep end"?

The writers will never let him go full ******. Nobody goes full ******.



Also, I agree with AC_Slater, they must be setting him up to die.

I must need to watch this again.

Pretty sure it's not possible to intentionally crash two planes into each other in mid-air by only giving bad/faulty coordinates. Planes are pretty small in comparison to the space they fly in and the speed and angles they move at make it seem like you would basically have to coordination between two pilots to have this happen. Any pilots/air traffic controllers feel free to correct me. I think it was the result of an accidental mishap the happened because Jane's dad was under stress.

After reading the interview I'm a little more accepting of the ending. It's not completely satisfying though but I guess it wasn't supposed to be.

I could be way off. I'd watch it again too but I accidentally deleted it from my DVR.

Edit: Just watched that part again online and it does look like the guy is just stressed out and screws up. My bad.

I think the pilots probably misheard some of the Jane/Jessica call-signals that Jane's dad was giving out (i.e. he usually says "Jane XXX" but now said "Jessica XXX" and this threw off the pilots or w/e). I could be wrong because I was on the phone during this part of the show. Answering the phone during this good of a show was in poor judgment.

Wat. Level? Pretty sure he was just in traumatic shock. If he was acting "normal" he would have punched Jesse in the face or at least yell at him/accuse him of being responsible for his daughter's death.