And I didn’t.” His repetition of the phrase “I watched” – here a deed of active, culpable passivity – finds an analogy in what will probably Walt and Jesse’s final encounter. I watched her overdose and choke to death. As a final, extremely gratuitous bit of revenge for Jesse threatening his family, Walt gets real with his former student: “I watched Jane die. The strategizing genius Todd stays his uncle’s hand Jesse could be the one to bring up the purity of their product in Walt’s absence.
Apparently blaming Jesse for Hank’s death, Walt demands that Jack finish the job he came to do: kill his onetime surrogate son. Yet Walt’s redemption arc takes an unexpected detour. There were eleven million reasons to make Walt into a convenient third body in that hole.)
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(Although I’m not sure that I believed that the ever-practical Jack would leave Walt alive if the latter wasn’t the protagonist of a TV show, Todd’s sentimentality or no. But of course, only unhappy people imagine such radically different futures for themselves, and Jack and his gang are more than ecstatic with their present situation, with $70 million in cash and Jesse, the key to the future of their empire, in their hands. You can do everything. … You can have any future that you want,” Walt spins, ironically foreshadowing the episode’s end. Walt’s desperate plea to give up all $80 million of his fortune to save Hank’s life went a long way toward that redemptive streak. I’ve argued before that the latter-half of the current season has the show making Walt sympathetic again. I predicted Hank and Gomez’s deaths last week, but it was still devastating all the same – the heartbreak compounded by Hank’s refusal to be reduced to the kind of simpering pleading that’s kept Walt alive in the past five seasons (“My name is ASAC Schrader and you can go fuck yourself”), as well as Walt’s delusion that he still had any control over Todd’s uncle. In the same middle of nowhere, a year and change later, Walter watches his own hired guns kill his brother-in-law and bury him in the hole he himself had dug to hide the spoils of his greed and ego. You know Bogdan” spiel might well be Walt’s first cook-related lie to Skyler – a performance he’s perfected through rehearsal and, later, habit. Walt sneers at his former student’s stooping intellect Jesse can’t help rolling his eyes at the older man’s fastidiousness (and not-so-tight, not-so-white manties). In the middle of a picturesque nowhere, the duo is preparing one of their first batches. “Ozymandias” opens with a deceptively calm, even innocent time that also happens to be the beginning of Walt and Jesse’s ends. So many of the events that we’ve long awaited happen in the Moira Walley-Beckett-penned, Rian Johnson-helmed episode that the different layers of catharses are vertiginous, both exhilarating and nauseating. (Between “Ozymandias” and Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” Gilligan sure is rewarding all his viewers with English degrees.) “Ozymandias” will likely be the scene in which God reaches out to Adam. In creating and crafting such an astounding episode of television (not to mention series), though, Gilligan has thrown down the gauntlet to TV critics, historians, audiences, and his peers: Breaking Bad is TV’s version of the Sistine Chapel. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
By his haughty, fearsome decree, “Nothing beside remains. Vince Gilligan evokes Percy Shelly’s famous poem, in which the titular “king of kings” commands future generations, “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” In Shelly’s telling, though, Ozymandias was an accomplished fool.
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The trauma is quite different for Jimmy here, but it's also a series of incidents that lead him to being locked into cartel business, and his Saul Goodman identity.“Ozymandias” has got to be some kind of epic meta-dare. Rather than this being a relief, it causes a rage-filled outburst because he knows he's trapped in the situation. Four Days Out is also a major turning point for Walt - he's nearly made peace with the fact that he's dying (and then he has the "I deserve this" breakdown), and instead he gets good news at the end. Four Days Out may not have had the violence, but there's some similarity in the character interactions, in that two-hander focus. We're not in Ozymandias territory for BCS yet imho. They're all excellent episodes (I weirdly love Four Days Out, it's possible I've seen it more than any other episode of BrBa?), but the intents are not the same. I thought about that episode all throughout this one, and I feel like it isn't fair to draw comparisons to, say, Ozymandias (despite the desert setting and the money).
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