Breaking Bad Ending Explained, Part 1: Did Walt Win or Lose?

I was alive

You might say Walter White gets the Breaking Bad version of a happily ever after as Walt nears the end of his life

He enjoys complete control over how he goes. He takes out his enemies

He evades the police long enough to run out the clock I don't want that bastard running off the clock

he decides at the last minute to save Jesse Pinkman and

He accomplishes what he set out to do in the very first episode provide for his family I've done a terrible thing

but I did it for a good reason I

Did it for us

after taking out Jack's gang and letting Jesse go Walt wanders into the meth lab and he passes his final moments in the place that

Ultimately meant the most to him the place where he discovered his alter ego

Heisenberg proved his genius and realized his full potential as we hear the Badfinger lyrics

He departs this life happily dreaming of his muse the blue meth that proved to the world how grossly they

Underestimated him the camera pulls out and the look of contentment on Walt's face says that in the end

He got what he wanted, but the finale also makes us acutely aware of what this cost him

You can either look at it like he won or you can look at it like you lost

I mean this guy destroys his entire family as creator Vince Gilligan

Put it Walt for years now has been looking through the wrong end of the telescope

And we're left asking what it means to get everything you want if you've been chasing after the wrong things all along I won

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Felina walt is a dead man walking

But this extreme control freak is determined to put his affairs in order the way he wants them

This means three things one getting his money to his family

Two taking out his enemies

And

three though

He's not conscious of it making good with his partner, Jesse Pinkman

Jesse Pinkman you promised they would kill him and you didn't come on

So let's take a look at how he gets each of these three things

Ever since the first episode Walt has been making sense of his criminal activities with one justification

What I do I do for my family, but I will provide for my family

I was and am

providing for our family Oh

sacrifices that I

Made for this family, but despite all the millions. He's made getting that money to his family has proven harder than expected

They won't take it my wife and son hate me

They won't take my money the government won't let them anyway

Mike was no dummy

But every time he tried to get his nest egg to his granddaughter it ended up in Uncle Sam's pockets and Jack's steals

Most of it leaving Walt with only one barrel or about 10 million

I'm leaving you a barrel in this episode won't finds a workaround

He intimidates his former partners Gretchen and Elliott into creating a trust for Walter jr

On my son's 18th birthday, which is 10 months and 2 days from today

You will give him his money in the form of an irrevocable trust

He pays Skyler one last visit and gives her the bargaining chip