Walt killing Lydia over the blue meth makes no sense because he taught Todd how to cook it EXACTLY how he did it and part of his deal to make the meth with Wolverine was to give him his method of cooking it. Why would he care about it now, after he left the game?
He probably decided to kill Lydia after speaking with Skylar and realizing she sent those goons to his house to hurt his family on her behest. She is so inconsequential to his overall plot because she’s covered in just as much shit as he is.
This is a cop-out. There’s no reason for him to care at all. The only reason he shows any signs of really giving a fuck is because he knew Todd couldn’t recreate the product perfectly (because they asked him to cook once more) and comes to the conclusion that Jesse is still alive. That’s it. At the end all he cared about was getting his little remaining money over to his family and killing those responsible for killing Hank.
Walt got rid of Lydia because she always had been a liability, she was selling blue-meth without his blessing and to top it off she got him booted out of the operation when he (faking of course) tried to “get back”. Also don’t forget that she tried to erase Skysky and the family, she had to GO.
And somewhere in Belize Mike is smiling that finally someone offed that bitch.
This is completely false. Have you watched the show at all or taking a wild stab in the dark? Walt KNEW SINCE LEAVING THE BUSINESS that Lydia and Wolverine were selling his meth. He no longer cared. When she came back to see him it’s because the quality of the meth kept dropping and she couldn’t pass it off to the Czechs any longer.
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He leave them a viable operation with his consent, then he got out to manage his cash and the carwash. Then comes Lydia and tries to get him back when they can’t cook to his level and Wolverine opts out and began his own operation again, with no Lydia nor Todd. Flash forward to when he watched in the TV that somehow there’s still blue meth and that pissed him off. The point is that he no longer wanted his product to be made by no one, she had to go along with her accomplices.
He was not upset at the product being sold. The blue meth being back on the street just lets him know Jesse is alive. He’s the only other person to cook on his level so that narrows down who the fuck is cooking the meth. Again, he gives absolutely zero fucks about it being sold since he left both WOLVERINE AND GODDAMN LYDIA his operation. There was no consent necessary, he sold off his business like he planned.
Lydia wanted 11 guys dead, Mike refuses, then Lydia hires 1 of them to kill the rest and also kill Mike, chow ends up dead, hitman fails to kill mike, etc etc eventually walt n lydia team up n they kill the rest, walt knows Lydia would kill anyone in order to feel safe
It was a good ending to the series. I didn’t enjoy it as much as The Wire’s finale (same for the series overall), but it was still satisfying. Walt wasn’t going to win with terminal cancer, but he played for the draw and got it.
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It was great seeing one last Walt / Heisenberg bluff with the “sniper lasers.” As much as I liked seeing the Schwartz get owned, I have to agree with jimmy2000 that it’s a reach to think that they would ever follow through and Flynn will get that money.
Walt’s last meeting with Skylar was very satisfying. I loved the cinematography and Walt’s admittance that he did it for himself. The final silent goodbye was perfect.
The deaths of the nazis was a bit underwhelming. Seeing Walt build the device ruined any sort of surprise, but I guess not seeing him build it would be too big of a plot hole. I was hoping for something on the level of the “This is not meth” scene. And when you think about it, the stars have to align for that plan to work. The shot of Jack’s death was awesome though.
Using the ricin on Lydia was a nice way to send her off. Rigging her sweetener packet is up there with Huel being a master pick pocket in terms of pushing my suspension of disbelief, but whatever. My beef is that he actually told her he used ricin on her. Someone please correct me, but I thought Walt said it actually takes a couple days for it to kill you? I feel she could still go to a doctor and tell him how to treat her poisoning.
That’s the vibe I got from watching Low Winter Sun. It’s probably the same level of melodrama, but it comes off as way more absurd than Breaking Bad.
The deal with the ricin, I thought, was that it does take a couple days–but that includes a lengthy period of no symptoms. By the time we see Lydia, she’s clearly already sick.
It may have taken a couple of days even though Walt said that night. Remember, he was fiddling with the M60, he could have made other moves behind the scenes.
Walt may have also given her a lot more than was necessary, you don’t know with that kind of thing, different people could react to it differently as well.
Just on this, there is the potential that Jesse knew where the skinheads had their stash. You don’t know what he’s observed. That’s wishful thinking though. Jesse is in a pretty bad place he’s still a missing part of the investigation with nothing to trade like Skyler. He’s got more than a lot of people in the show though.
The BB wikia on ricin says a bunch of stuff fwiw. It’s lethal in large doses, but curable if treated early. But it’s the same vial they planned on using before, so I think it’s debatable if her fate was sealed. Anyway, it’s tv science so whatever. It’s clear she’s meant to be a goner. It just felt a bit silly to hear Walt say it out loud.
I don’t think it is a cop-out. I think Walt was reaching the end of his mortality, and he really started to reconsider what he was leaving for posterity. When Walt’s family and the Schwartz’s reject him completely, he realizes how people will view him in posterity. He doesn’t want someone as unlikeable as Lydia to benefit from his hard work while he dies of cancer, alone and unloved. He never liked Lydia.