I don’t know, if you really look at it a lot of the show is built on massive coincidences. Hank just happened to take Walt on a ride along when they were busting a former student of Walt’s, who just happened to slip out of the DEA net, and just happened to get spotted and recognized by Walt. Walt just happened to belly up to the bar next to Jane’s dad and the subsequent plane crash just happened to be over Walt’s neighborhood. I think probably 1/3 of Saul’s dialog includes the phrase “I just happen to know a guy”.
And I don’t think killing the girl was gratuitous violence. It justifies Jesse remaining a willing prisoner for months, Brock’s safety is very important to him, killing her puts the stakes fully in his mind. Also at this point in the narrative killing a character serves a purpose with the audience, it tells the audience none of the characters are guaranteed to walk out of this, it’s the writers announcing that since this is the end they are under no obligations to be kind to their characters or leave enough behind to continue a story.
I see your point. I guess all fiction is like that. I just thought the GrayMatter interview was really a stretch. But I was disappointed with the whole episode, not just that.
The more I think about it, I think I was hoping for some kind of redemption for one or more of the main characters. I didn’t realize I had those hopes, but now I see that is what I was expecting. But this show is about badness and its consequences, not redemption. I expect the last episode will be awfully sickening and sad, just like this one was.
Honestly, I felt sick throughout the entire episode (except the beginning with Saul — love that character.) The execution on the front porch looked like something one might see online taped by the savages in the Middle East. And Jesse has been through enough. How much more does the guy have to endure? I guess I have a soft spot for the kid, because he has been shown to have such a good heart.
I am sick of Walt however, and his end can’t come fast enough. What a sick and twisted mess he has become.
I want to know who gets to kill Todd. Someone needs to go all Old Yeller on that boy.
When you get right down to it, this whole mess got started because Hank had to be the big shot at a family gathering. Without him showing those DEA videos of meth lab busts, it's unlikely that Walt would've ever connected the dots between meth and his need to provide for his family.
Yep, a federal agent is to blame for all this carnage. Works for me.