Breaking Bad
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- sarahfailin0
cbass99 posted at the bottom of the previous page a link to Norm McDonald's theory that Walt died in his car and most of the episode is a fantasy. The theory gets a little more traction here:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/…
One qbn-er was scorned for remarking that the finale was too "closure-y" and Nussbaum's critique agrees... It was almost too fantastic. Walt was too competent. Everything went off as perfectly as Walt would have fantasized it. And as Emily Nussbaum points out, all the "genuine evil was off-loaded" onto the Nazis.
For a show whose whole purpose was to make us question and be revolted the motives of this anti-hero, the finale does seem a bit too sunny. And as Norm McDonald points out, the song El Paso (for which the final episode is named) is sung by a man who is already dead.
- Interesting. I'd be just as happy with that outcome I guess.mg33