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Originally Posted by Victor Cruz
I don't think it would have been fine. It would have turned the entire series into Walt failing to achieve the catharsis that was designed for him from the beginning. I mean, I guess that would be "fine" but it would make a ton of the episodes look ******ed in retrospect. I'm all for lolling at Walt because he did a lot of stupid ****, but minimizing his "achievements" to that level would have been really bad.
Disagree strongly with this. It wouldn't minimize anything that has happened. Not even sure what you mean by minimizing his achievements. It would, in the sense that outside of his own head, they weren't achievements at all. There's no prize for being the best meth Lord. Only death and destruction. This is how tuco went out. This is how scarface went out. This is how Pablo escobar went out. Not on top.
Walt didn't "deserve" any sort of catharsis. If the show was about truly breaking bad, an ending in which Walt is poor, lonely, miserable, and dying with no closure to all the devastation he's caused would be perfectly reasonable.
I'm playing a bit of devil's advocate here, because I liked the ending, but this isn't the only ending that could exist to do the show justice. And some of the criticism regarding too happy an ending is legit imo. But it was so well done and so pleasing as a story that I don't care.
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A show giving the audience what it wants isn't objectively a bad thing. It can be, but if done properly it can be the best ending while at the same time giving the audience what it wanted. I think that was VG's goal and he nailed it.
Don't disagree.