I was alive You might say Walter White gets the Breaking Bad version of a happily ever after as Walt nears the end of his life He enjoys complete control over how he goes. He takes out his enemies He evades the police long enough to run out the clock I don't want that bastard running off the clock he decides at the last minute to save Jesse Pinkman and He accomplishes what he set out to do in the very first episode provide for his family I've done a terrible thing but I did it for a good reason I Did it for us after taking out Jack's gang and letting Jesse go Walt wanders into the meth lab and he passes his final moments in the place that Ultimately meant the most to him the place where he discovered his alter ego Heisenberg proved his genius and realized his full potential as we hear the Badfinger lyrics He departs this life happily dreaming of his muse the blue meth that proved to the world how grossly they Underestimated him the camera pulls out and the look of contentment on Walt's face says that in the end He got what he wanted, but the finale also makes us acutely aware of what this cost him You can either look at it like he won or you can look at it like you lost I mean this guy destroys his entire family as creator Vince Gilligan Put it Walt for years now has been looking through the wrong end of the telescope And we're left asking what it means to get everything you want if you've been chasing after the wrong things all along I won Before we go on we want to tell you a little bit about this video sponsor Movie is a curated film streaming service with a twist you get thirty films per month a new film every day It's a hand-picked selection of movie gems from around the world. We're huge fans of Mubi at screen prism So click the link in our description below to get a full month of movie for free in the show's final episode Felina walt is a dead man walking But this extreme control freak is determined to put his affairs in order the way he wants them This means three things one getting his money to his family Two taking out his enemies And three though He's not conscious of it making good with his partner, Jesse Pinkman Jesse Pinkman you promised they would kill him and you didn't come on So let's take a look at how he gets each of these three things Ever since the first episode Walt has been making sense of his criminal activities with one justification What I do I do for my family, but I will provide for my family I was and am providing for our family Oh sacrifices that I Made for this family, but despite all the millions. He's made getting that money to his family has proven harder than expected They won't take it my wife and son hate me They won't take my money the government won't let them anyway Mike was no dummy But every time he tried to get his nest egg to his granddaughter it ended up in Uncle Sam's pockets and Jack's steals Most of it leaving Walt with only one barrel or about 10 million I'm leaving you a barrel in this episode won't finds a workaround He intimidates his former partners Gretchen and Elliott into creating a trust for Walter jr On my son's 18th birthday, which is 10 months and 2 days from today You will give him his money in the form of an irrevocable trust He pays Skyler one last visit and gives her the bargaining chip She needs to get free of Walt's legal messes the coordinates for where Hanks, and Gomez's bodies are buried now. You trade that for a deal with the prosecutor Get yourself out of this and with his goal of ensuring his family's welfare at last achieved Walt takes one last look at each kid these shots of Walt regarding his wife and children for the last time before leaving to die Capture the tragedy of what Walt has chosen to do with the final chapter of his life for five seasons He focused so intensely on the pretext of providing for his family that he lost that family. I've lost my family Everything that I care about as Gilligan has said for years now He thought if he makes his family Financially sound that's really all he has to do as a man as a provider and as a father but on the other hand The family emotionally is scarred forever. Hank is dead Walter jr And Marie detest Walt Skyler is psychologically damaged from living as a ha in her own home and his baby daughter Holly will grow up in the shadow of her father's notoriety without any real memories of him Incidentally Walt once reveals he lost his father at an early age. My father died when I was six So this is a sad instance of history repeating as much as Walt's words say he's motivated by family love everything that I do everything I Do it to protect this family through his actions. He's actively distancing himself from his family. So buying that car That was protecting your family. He pushes Skyler and Walter jr Away, whenever they reach out to help him gambling addiction is a sickness you listen What is going on with me? Isn't that about some disease? It's about choices choices that I have made Choices, I stand by he defensively protests if they dare to speak about him as the victim of a disease or afraid for his life I am NOT in danger Skyler I am the danger Walter needs to be seen as a big powerful man A guy opens historian gets shot and you think of that of me? No, I Am the one who knocks, but Walt's family doesn't care about seeing him that way They love the old Walt who was a good man a good husband and father Remembering you that way Wouldn't be so bad The bad way to remember you would be the way The way you've been this whole last year Walt doesn't really want to be there with his family you're not moving back in now are you this hasn't ever been About his family these wild accusations They could destroy our family damn wash shit about family One of the most crucial episodes that gives us a window into Walt's inner Psychology is fly in which Walter obsesses over a fly that he says is causing contamination. There's Been a contamination What in this episode we see Walt's two selves wrestling with each other as the repressed old Walter makes a last attempt to surface Very sorry Walt muses that he wishes he'd found that perfect moment to die after he'd made enough money for his family But before they found out about his new life We can see here that on the deepest level Walt knows that spiritually he's lost his family He's no longer the same person. They love I've lived too long You want them to actually miss you Well that goes on to say that the night everything went wrong is the night Jane died So we can see he has a deep guilt about that You might say it's the moment his soul was really lost Just lived right up to that moment And one second the thing he was supposedly doing all this for is out of reach and can't be regained so in the end he says to cook about the contamination And of course here Walt is talking about his own life Throughout the series What's most frustrating about Walt is that he is constantly lying elaborate ornate utterly unnecessary lies In the finale Walt achieves the slightest glimmer of a partial Redemption by doing one very simple thing Telling the truth during his final conversation with Skyler He seems about to start his frequent refrain all the things that I did You need to understand I have to hear one more time That you did this For the family, but then he says I did it for me. I Liked it I Was good at it Skyler's relief is palpable at the end of the pilot. She asked him to be truthful with her Worst thing you can do is shut me out and ever since he's done nothing. But lie dad. Yeah Please can you just tell the truth? This hasn't really been a marriage since the start of the show. Not your wife Your hostage, but for this brief instant We glimpse a small piece of the marriage they once had in Ozymandias, we flashback to Walt and Skyler discussing their new baby's name Behind Walt in this shot is Jesse and the RV his future What's about to pull him away from his family? This flashback happens in the episode where Hank dies So the illusion that he's done this for his family is finally shot dead for good Through the tragic irony of Walt successfully providing for his family and losing their love in the process the show is getting out what it feels like to be a man in the society that tells you you're not one unless you make Bank provides While Walt's new alpha power comes with its share of thrills Becoming that macho provider cost Walt everything his decency himself and most certainly the family He's providing for his cost So we have to ask was it worth it Mr. White He's the devil Waltz plan to finish off. Jack's gang is the wish fulfillment part of the episode Walt gets everything to go his way You know he is he's smarter than you. He's luckier than you whatever you whatever you think supposed to happen I'm telling you the exact reverse Opposite of that he's gonna happen indeed after being more or less possessed by his inner Heisenberg Walt has come to enjoy an almost supernatural level of both cunning and fortune in Felina We see in full effect the Heisenberg that fans love who always has something hidden up his sleeve at the end of the penultimate episode He was all but defeated. I'd like to speak to the agent in charge of the Walter White investigation Then he saw Gretchen and Elliott on TV minimizing his involvement in gray matter This moment snaps him back into action because what fuels Heisenberg's drive and his genius more than anything else is Spite in the pilot. We see Walt looking at the plaque for research from his gray matter days while he exercises later We learn he's been monitoring the company's stock price every week I look it up every week and I sold my share my potential for $5,000. So it's the ultimate satisfaction when his plan to get the money to his family has the added bonus of putting these superior Billionaires in their place. This is where you get to make it right Walt embraces the terror. He now inspires in civilized society All he meets are a couple of laser pointers wielded by badger and skinny Pete to make Gretchen and Elliott believe they're being monitored by expert hitmen Whatever happens to me tomorrow They'll still be out there meanwhile Walt scores a meeting at Jack's by crashing Todd's and Lydia's meeting making up a fake story that he wants to sell them a new recipe a new method that Requires no methylamine. We don't know yet What Walt's real plan is when he walks into Jack's place, but the camera shows him paying special attention to his car keys Well, you don't before shaving Yes, and sure enough, he's rigged his trunk with an m60 to take out Jack's entire gang through the wall After the bloodbath Walt answers Todd's phone Has he gone and we find out that the cherry on top of the plan was poisoning Lydia Kind of under the weather Like you've got the flu That would be the ricin I gave you so Walt gets the final Satisfaction of wrapping up all his loose ends and even being the one to tell Lydia how he played her This is a classic Heisenberg Ian plan, he tricked Lydia into thinking he was a liability and an easy target I Need the money even hamming up his COFF Jesus did you look at him? You'd be doing him a favor when in fact he was using his knowledge of her character against her her predictability 10:00 a.m. Every Tuesday morning you and I met here your other Schedule oriented her extreme caution, which surpasses even her greed right now not worse we're not doing business with him her willingness to have people killed as in Mike's words a Prophylactic measure but here in the real world We don't kill 11 people with some kind of prophylactic measure and of course her addiction to her favorite sweetener And I'm assuming you don't have stevia Never mind And I'll make more stevia Gilligan has compared the Ricin to check offs gun the playwright's famous idea that if you show us a gun at some point it has to go off We've heard a lot about this. Ricin cigarette won't want a Jesse to use it to poison Gus Jesse thought it was used by Walt or by Gus to poison Brock but no one has Actually been poisoned by the ricin. So the writer is managed to get their Chekhov's gun to fire just before the end The first line of baby blue tells us And Walt probably has got what he deserved for better and for worse But when we met Walt he was very much not getting what he deserved. He's been dealt a pretty rotten hand in life This is a guy who gets lung cancer without ever having smoked mister. Why are you a smoker? Breaking Bad gets us on Walt's side in the pilot by introducing us to a bad broken world one. That is first and foremost Unjust so it's easy to want beaten down Walt to fight back even play a little dirty against this bunch of people who are mean nasty unlikable and undeserving There's a theme going throughout the show of the grave error of under estimating people another person Walt But you wouldn't know criminal if he was close enough to check you for a hernia Wanted you guys And the Walter White we meet has been underestimated all his life But how wrong they all were to write him off You're goddamn right so the biggest satisfaction of the finale is that everyone else gets what they deserve - Trust me This woman deserves to die as much as any man I've ever met Jack's gang Todd and Lydia very much Had it coming billionaires Gretchen and Elliott get taken down a peg while the innocents catch a break Felina creates that feeling that in the end Walt achieved some version of justice. We want to live in a moral universe I want to believe that there is some sort of Justice, and it's one of the greatest things humankind is created for itself Walt's final chapter benefits from if not total moral justice then a kind of poetic one if the universe is indeed chaotic if this is The one small way I can exert some control over it in the fiction that I write. Maybe that's why I Am drawn to writing in the first place. There is a there is a shape to it. That is Perhaps neither happy nor sad but at least pleasing as Gilligan has said Walt is never going to redeem himself He's just too far down the road to damnation. 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Walt won and lost at the same time.
S1E1: reality was the cancer was not going to be beatable. His goal becomes to provide for the family.
S5E16: he accomplished that goal by having gretchen and elliot supply his family with money and Walts fate remained the same. So he technically accomplished his goal: provide for the family.
However, look at all the destruction it brought to reach that point of success. Was it really worth it?
What it took for Walt to provide for the family cost many people their lies and Destroy his entire family's lives.
I love how this show really highlights how greed can screw things up. Like if Walter just been content to make some money and get out, you may have been able to accomplish that goal without too much bloodshed. But he gets greedy and it's never enough because of his ego and so he never accepts a point of being finished. And he pushes it until things get way out of hand.