Breaking Bad Ending Explained, Part 2: Saving Jesse 

You guys continue to make great content, but Screenprism is a way cooler name than The Take. I get the wordplay, but it really feels like sacrificing authenticity for cleverness.

Love seeing in-depth analysis shows ! Don't really pay attention to this sort of stuff when I watch tv .... subbed.

Methamphetamine is C(10)H(15)N, no Lithium.

There was only one time Walt was ready to end Jesse which was when Hank died. Todd intervened.

Excellent analysis

I forgot about that, good catch. I just loved how ruthlessly he killed Jack.

Walt has pretty much always gotten a habit form the people he kills, mostly after he kills them though. But good catch yeah. ;)

Love

on me bruh

Great, original comment that has been regurgitated a million times since the finale

Ahahaha

@Double Wooosh your username and everything about you makes me cringe

blimped yes

In real life those laser pointers aren’t strong enough to make the red light so sharp to shine on their chests from the distance that they were pointing them.

Jasmine Angie ok.

I agree 100%. And that janitor was a good man. Remember when he gave Walt the gum?

He was a great guy it seemed, that probably ruined his life. Sadly that's how life can go sometimes

They didn’t frame him, he was arrested for holding weed.

Hank never even thought that it could be Walt Even that every thing pointed towards him He had the keys and is a chemist

That was just Walt.

I have some minor complaints but I still loved it.

After breaking bad the only ending i liked of a tv show is death note

The ending for Orphan Black was great. There where times that Season 5 got rushed, but I think that’s more on the part of having to fit more information then they wanted to, with plans to have at 6 Seasons I think.

Breaking Bad is not alone to have a great ending, but I know Lost, The Sopranos, Dexter are example of high ranked shows that failed to rally people on the same opinion in the end. That's why I'm anxious for the ending of Game of Throne...

@@dessfred if you wanna see the best ending to a tv show, check out Six Feet Under!

Moonie iLLmatic I see you got good taste for music mate...nice

Do you mean Jesse or Walt? I feel like that could apply very well to both in different ways.

i think Tony Soprano is as damaged as Walt

The thing is Jesse brought all of it on himself.

Don Draper too.

hes the only character on the crime side who hates when anyone gets hurt

Jesse ratted out Walter. He gets no sympathy!!

@@marlinwalker2971 the person who gets no sympathy is Walter.

@@marlinwalker2971 jack's alt account be like

@@justsomeguywithadogpicture2622 wtf , i agree with him . Jesse is an ass . He keeps betraying and messing things up for Walter , agian and agian. Walter should have killed him.

Knowing jesse's soft spot for younger people, they would've been friends instantly

On of the main issues i had with the show, they never developed walter jr.s character. When first watching the series i was pretty much expecting him to become drug addicted or that he would deal with drugs at school or something.

Walt's son meeting Heisenberg's son? Would have been a good scene

Honestly!

Well I hope El Camino grants you your wish mate

Jose Paucar I know it doesn’t mean much, but what he actually said in the pilot was “I am awake.”

@Justin Cruz 😑🤨 ya ruined the moment

Wow, you're right! What a fantastic serie. There is always something to notice

Woah

But even if he is a scumbag, which he isn’t, Jesse tries to change and his parents block him at every turn. Just like Chuck and Jimmy.

RED Soldier you can’t really blame anyone. They’re both at fault. Jessie is a junkie; and his parents don’t give him a chance. It’s not an easy fix. What we can learn is that there is some bad in every good person

@@henrymartins4549 if his parents would have given him a chance he would have turned out better

I just watched it through again recently and caught when Walt accidentally called Flynn Jessie! Thought it was great

Trevor Schuldiner ok the name flynn is trash i think just call him jr

@@rorowoodsy5166 exactly

I always had this sense that he ended up loving Jesse even more than his own son..or anyone else for that matter. Obviously..eheh.

Wow

Idk.... I didn't like Walt... loved the show but fuck Walt lol

The fact that we connect with walter personally and his inner desire to be free and powerfull makes us like his character, even though and the end of the series he basically becomes a sociopath

He wasn't as big of an annoying idiot as the rest of his family, but I can't say I liked him.

As with most drama, the villains help sharply define the protagonist. Gus, Tio, Eladio, Tuco, "Eyebrow" Car Wash Guy, Lydia, Todd, Gretchen/Elliot, and my favorite, Uncle Jack. Wow! So well written and acted. Somehow, I go back to watch the "hit men lasers" scene most often, though. Don't we all wish we could have such a humiliating come-uppance with someone who royally screwed us? In fact, I'm gonna go watch it now!

I admit I rooted for Walt. He was the protagonist of the show after all. The show was written around him. Hell yeah I cheered when he killed Gus (indirectly). The only aspect of Walt I didn't like was him working with that other young kid (can't remember his name), I had always hoped he and Jesse would get back together. That other kid as a POS, and Walt was bad for working with him.

Although people sometimes read it that way it actually wasn’t intended by the writers. Regardless, these videos are really well done.

the "blood meth tears" thing is actually complete nonsense and one of the best examples of how people willingly swallow and memify anything that sounds half plausible and catchy.

Don’t forget to listen to the song “El Paso” by Marty Robbins, which is heard in the beginning of the episode. There’s a girl named Felina in it, and it’s basically the story of Breaking Bad told metaphorically.

the blood meth tears theory is one of the dumbest theories I've ever heard, meth doesn't even contain lithium.

Jonah Goodman Fun fact: it takes a 30 second google search to find out you’re wrong

"You're Goddamn right"

Rat.

100% his acting was amazing

and you are the hero of the comment thread!

I think it's somewhat the opposite. It was Walt who was dealt a shit hand in life. Jesse pretty much screwed himself over from day one

you are the hero of the comment thread +1

@@paulastiles8873 I remember when Jesse applied for a job, that turned out to be dressing as a mascot to attract customers. He very much wanted to go the straight and narrow path, but was blocked. It was very sad for him, to be denied when he really tried so hard.

I can’t fully agree with the Jesse part. Much of what you said is true, like Jesse owning up to his misdeeds, which Walt often refuses to do. But one of Jesse’s major flaws in the beginning of the series is that he usually *didn’t* try. Yes, he wasn’t intellectually gifted like Walt but the vast majority of people aren't. For most things Jesse wasn’t willing to put forth the effort to produce something great or even passable. His mother comments on it, saying she wished he’d devoted as much time to school as to his “ridiculous jumping car.” Walt recognized it as his high school teacher - “apply yourself.” Jesse himself sees it when he talks about how one of the few times he worked hard on something (his wood shop project) ended with him selling it for weed. I think this is one of the reasons Jesse is a relatable and well liked character. A lot of people are like or have been like him. Jesse allows himself to not try because it’s easy. But at the same time he does want to be decent at SOMETHING and achieve SOMETHING. Unfortunately that something is a damaging substance like meth through the encouragement and guidance of a person like Walt. Jesse understands the negative effects of both, but because he’s found a greater feeling of self-worth in having “achieved” something and the only person who knows and fostered that development is Walt, it’s extremely difficult for him to completely remove them from his life. Walt also understands this and uses it as a form of manipulation.

I red someone commenting these two birds as it was him prepared to join Jane

Similar to Mike going down the embankment to look at the water as he died.

I see that as symbolism of the partnership between Walt and Jesse, and a reference to the saying “birds of a feather flock together”. On the other hand this scene occurred just after Hank’s death, and since Jesse was about to get shot after helping Hank, it could be taken as a reference to their relationship in those last few episodes and the saying is instead “birds of a feather get shot together”.

@@quartzking3997 I saw on another post jesse tends to look up in the sky “looking for answers” he does it quite a few times in the show actually

I thought they were vultures circling because they smelled death

Jesse is the son Walt got to choose.

He was, but an abusive father figure. It's actually a great portrayal of an abusive relationship. The way Walter controls Jesse by lying and belittling him.

I always felt he was more of a dad to Jesse than to Walt Jr, even tho it was a highly abusive relationship, Walt ended up looking more after Jesse than his own son

@@mankytoes Yes, Walter White is a sociopath.

@@raymeester7883 no, he's really not

Pyth110 nah it is deep youre probably just too young or dumb to relate.

Wow, I guess you think that fortune cookies are up there with Plato....

It's not exactly t same, knowing one is going to die soon. But all our lives are finite. We are all dieing eventually.

Stop being jerks and let Joshua have a moment! Geez. Y'all always debbie downing folks. A lot of people kinda just float thru life. But if you knew you had a limited time, once you accept it...you probably would see life differently and actually LIVE!

@@joerogaine7984 No it's not deep. It's pointing out the obvious. You are obviously too "dumb or too young" to relate. Arrogant moron.

yeah true so he grew more attached to the one he saw as caring about him more

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Felicia: Writers had to get rid of him and have Walt do it, but personally, I thought Mike was too smart to have died that way. I just don't think the character---from what we had learned about him all along---wouldn't have anticipated that since Walt had no more use for him, and he was a possible future "witness", that Walt might try to kill him. I think he would have set up a much better "meet" place or better yet, just have Walt do a "drop" somewhere that he could go by and get the money, etc. I think the writers felt that had to show that Walt was ALWAYS smarter than everyone else so that's why they had him outsmart even Mike. But, frankly, it just didn't work for me. I think Mike would have been much more alert and not be caught off-guard like that.

arx754 It DIDN’t work for me at all.. I was like, than had to remember it’s entertainment.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I get so invested in good writing and acting

Imagine, mike is the one watching / save walt when the assasination in his house and mike get killed by walt, what a ironi

@@arx754 if you thought Mike was too clever to be dead like that, then what about Gus

I took it so personally when he died. I loved Mike

That's how you know its a classic.

LemoNerd GamiNg mainly because of the upcoming movie but yeah it was pretty good

TO THIS DAYYY, TO THIS DAY

Man I just finished watching the show an hour ago. Binged it in 3-4 days.

It makes me happy

What?

I just noticed this when I watched it through the other day and can't believed I missed it before.

@@minifridge8315 the comment's worded poorly. There was a scene where Walter Jr was looking after Walter and Walter called him Jesse.

Kendra Sin I understood it fully first time reading ur just looking for an excuse to comment

@@rhysmeddins1535 someone literally asked what.

That's even better coming from mr. Peanutbutter

It's close to double that in Scotland. @@ephex3094 😂

The short answer is that at the time this show took place was when our economy was in the toilet and that was the typical price for a gallon of gas. Anthony is really reaching

bro in LA thats normal

I am dead

on some fundamental level deep down i can see it

She died because she threatened Walt by saying she might go to the police.

Interesting

Heyden Leekley she crossed him

@tapset47 more than that, she told him he can't be sure she'll keep quiet about him. I think he mostly let her die to save his own identity.

I was happy she died, she deserved it.

Ŵèřęŵøłf • Better Call Saul is the only thing that measures up.

Try rewatching something you loved before ever watching BB. That'll help acclimate you

The Wire

The wire

Ŵèřęŵøłf • --It drove me back to Sopranos😎

And thank God for that fact.

Endind

If you don't mind reading subtitles you should check out the devil judge. Korean series. Epic bromance

Beautiful Brown but they would have subverted our expectations so it would have been fine. /s

Still too soon... 😉

GOT was rushed that bring said the ending was always there and those who were blind sided by it, Ms. Clarke included, wasn't paying attention.

I hope those dumbfxcks never write another story for Hollywood again

Nico Marquez15 No Jesse is Heisenberg’s dog

No, Jesse is Heisenberg’s lover

SSJaye I wasn’t joking it’s the true nature of their relationship

Jesse is the wife of a narcissist gaslighting abusive husband. Jesse fell in love then fell out of love but the chemical DNA love bond prevented them from leaving each other. They're are an abusive marriage.

yeah mr.white is totally gay for jesse yeah right

Well spotted 👌🏼

Rangshina Da Kro boi you must’ve never watched the Wire.

True Detective season 1

@@UnimpressedGoose is that a TV show??

@@DS-es2jt haven't watch yet.

@@UnimpressedGoose I don't share that opinion. I think Breaking Bad is a far superior series.

walt did both, he loved jesse but he also used him

Arxevius Bojack Horseman fan or misspeller?

I think that's the actual sequel to BB. He changed his name, ran out west, only to suffer more abuse from another sociopath.

Breaking Bad & Bojack fans in the same comment section? What is this, a crOSsover episode¿

Yeaahhh Lol

ah a user of culture i see

hope you've watched el camino

He cold bloodedly murdered Gale, he was not as innocent as he wanted to seem..

@@sy_dianne5224 he was forced. he did it to save walter and they loved and cared for each other. he also had ptsd throughout the whole series to do with gales murder and cant talk on it without crying. he did not'cold bloodedly' murder gale.

@@user-jx8xf2pk5c he still killed him. He isn’t innocent. Not as bad as Walter, but not innocent.

He dishonored his seemingly good parents. I feel nothing for him.

Todd was just a genuine psychopath. He couldn’t feel emotions. No remorse, no guilt, no joy or sadness. Everything Todd did was done with himself at the forefront, such as killing the kid to save the heist or keeping Jesse as a slave to make more meth money so he could keep seeing Lydia. Even in El Camino, Todd acts like Jesse is a friend but treats him like a servant.

Pretty shitty dad paying for their son to be killed

@@wilabanodeniro9780 no one said he was a good dad just that he cared for him lol

Yeah, as an abusive father to his poor son.

I'm not saying that the things Walt did were good, or that he wasn't selfish because let's face it, near the end he became greedy and he became addicted to the power. It's just seen throughout the episodes that Walt somewhat cared for Jesse, maybe because he was literally his partner in crime. It's in his mannerisms in the episodes. There were many times he could have killed Jesse himself but he didn't. But I respect that everyone has their own opinion on the matter 🤷‍♀️

I think you are close there, but I would contend the better analogy would be more towards the homoerotic-- not that Walt or Jesse consciously wanted sex with each other-- but often Walt and Jesse bicker with and snipe at each other like many head-strong couples in a dysfunctional marriage. In the midst of it all is a mentoring role (Walt) and a longing-for-approval role (Jesse) that goes back in Occidental culture to the pederasty of ancient Greece, and can also be seen in many 1940s-50s Hollywood Westerns; wherein a retired/reformed/good-hearted former gunslinger mentors a boy or teenager, but the gunslinger is compelled by circumstance to pay for past failures with his life (the Shootist) or a hasty departure (Shane) and the mentoring is in the end exposed as how NOT to live a satisfactory life.

i feel like to a small degree jesse forgave walt a bit at the end too

I'm not so sure that's true. Walt is definitely written to be the bad guy in this story. Yeah, you can trace a path to how he gets there, but that doesn't mean his actions were justifiable -- even to himself. He must have felt some amount of regret to even come back. I think he really went "point of no return" when he decided to kill an innocent person (Gale) instead of going to the police.

@@miguelzavaleta1911 Agreed. A good characters who's steps you can understand doesn't need to be good...

Jesse's not an asshole. Walt def is a big one

@@truecolors51 Jesse's definitely no saint. He deliberately seeked out junkies to get them back on drugs. He got his crazy ass girlfriend back on drugs after she was on rehab. His mom the day they kicked him out of the house looked beaten. Like they gave him tons of chances to turn his life around and he just squandered it. He had some redeeming moments but that's it. Also he started the bus and walt beef by totally disregarding the consequences of going after the 2 drug dealers that killed the kid. Yeah, its morally right to hate on the the 2 kid killers, but he didnt even consider that walt and his family might suffer the consequences of him going after those guys.

Ski Matt Walter never tried to kill Brock, he poisoned him with a non lethal dose just to get Jesse to help him. And yes, it may be wrong and I don't agree with his actions, he had a valid reason for doing it because he thought it was his only option.

This is actually what makes the Coens' Buster Scruggs so great. It's a classic hero cowboy portrayed in a way that makes it very clear that he's a monster. It kinda just shows how much power filmmakers have to manipulate us.

But you'll have people still saying "no man walt was a good guy trying to provide for his family"......did you even finish the fucking series?

Motherfucking Cocksucking Magnificent this is the funniest comment I’ve seen possibly ever I love ur username

mizuhonova --Nothing like a well timed/well planned multiple prison murders for building loyalty🤗

mizuhonova personally I still think that storyline really worked, with Todd even mentioning his uncle when we first meet him at the beginning of season 5 and the ending needing to have a third party antagonist to work - however it does feel quite abrupt versus the very slow burn over multiple seasons that was the Gus storyline

It would take more time to get close with a cartel leader like Gus than it would take to get close to a Nazi gang with prison connections and after Gus died they had to act quickly to tie up any loose ends left from his organization, that leads to using the best options available.

I agree I think binged watching it has that affect cause I felt the same way, and I am not a fan of the ending seemed like they wanted to wrap it up fast

I think it reflected the chaos well. Everything came to a head

Except for the fact that there is no lithium in meth

Ummm. The take.

@@jonanderson4474 ...by ScreenPrism

Leon Juergens Lithium is added in intermediate steps but isn’t in the final product

I think Walter resented having a disabled son.

@@NayimKay I never got this impression

@@sy_dianne5224 In the pilot after dropping his son off to school he angrily put away the disabled tag in his car. And in another episode he started getting angry that his son wasn't driving normally. Just a couple examples that came to mind.

@@NayimKayA lot of parents get angry because of their kid's driving..

@@sy_dianne5224 the driving was different because of his disability. Also the anger at the disabled badge

After what Walt done to Jesse, it wouldn't make sense for them to hug.

@@PolishGod1234 And after what Jesse had done to Walt.

i feel like it would have only felt right after they found out brock was safe in "Face off" but it wouldn't have fit in felina

@@aniketbhat4962 what did Jesse really do to walt as bad as letting his gf die infront him bc he wanted control

jesse messed things up because of his lack of control for his impulses, which affects walt. on the other hand, walt carefully planned his lies to manipulate jesse to stay on his side

Joe Rogaine --He had every intention of having Jesse die with his ‘partners’ till he sees that it’s Jesse who was the one enslaved, making him remember how much Walter had cared for him, this ‘lost son’ gets saved, unlike Jr.

Judy Wright wow I never knew that. Still an amazing show with astoundingly complex characters. I can see Walt in a lot of people in real life. I'd most definitely be a Walt if I grew up with that many regrets

Joe Rogaine yeah I always got that feeling as well, as if it was what he intended on doing there

I too believed that Walt wanted to kill Jesse but changed his mind after seeing him. Mainly because he made a deal with Jack to have Jesse killed because of Hank's death, so it would make sense that after finding out Jesse was alive he still wanted to kill him. But when he realised Jesse was being used and enslaved, his protectiveness over Jesse came back and made him change his mind. That was my take on it as I watched the final episodes :)

@@judywright4241 I don't agree. Making that journey just to kill Jesse would have been a waste of so many things: resources, energy, and time that he was running out of. Walt may have been drunk on power and money, but by that point of his life he knew he didn't have long left and was just depleted. Therefore to make the trip just to kill would not have been logical especially by Walt's standards. I agree with OP - that journey was always made with the expressed intent to save Jesse. Walt made that trip to tie all loose ends, and would have viewed saving Jesse as a final good he could do, especially knowing how he felt about the kid deep down.

That would have been cheesy but nice lol

Yeah I just wanted them to hug

Ooo that's a great detail

pretty sure many people, like his eyebrow boss at the car wash were like HOLY SMOKES

who says otherwise?

I think the partner line was to piss off jack so that jack brings out Jesse from where he was locked up I think he did it to make sure Jesse does not accidentally gets hurt I think the moment he heard blue meth is in the market again he knew Jesse was being captive by Jack because he didn't get angry or jealous like the time hank thought gale as Heisenberg he went full concerned about Jesse

Eeeee I can see it both ways. Keep in mind he blames jesse for HANK dying.

whostolecarlosrox that’s exactly what I thought as well!

@@andrewhoyle1521 it didnt show much about his time alone, but he was definitely not going to kill Jesse. His time alone made him powerless, he became less of a psycho and more rational. He already accepted blame to Skyler, therefore he must've accepted the same for Hank and realised none was Jesse's fault

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I think Jesse was probably the type of son that Walt always wanted but never really got with Walter Jr.

Let’s not forget the time Walter actually calls Walter jr, Jesse. Sure he was high on painkillers after his and Jesse’s big fight, but still :) And the scene before that where Walter breaks down actually crying while jr tries to comfort him saying everything’s ok and walt’s reply that it’s not. Watching that scene hearing the following where he slips up and calls his son Jesse is very nicely done. So much can be read into that. As many other scenes in this spactacular masterpiece of a show

Yes.

Mee