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the funny thing is when people do discourse about fandom ruining stories or the audience needing the moral lesson spelled out like babies its always aimed at whatever gay teenagers are watching but for me the poster child example is still the final episode of breaking bad

no one ever brings it up in these convos because it's serious stories for adult men but the scene where walter white gives a power point presentation to camera addressing the themes of the show and how he has absolutely learned his lesson is This to a T

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Breaking Bad is not my favorite "prestige TV" show (that's a coin-toss between Deadwood and The Sopranos), but I will always appreciate how easily digestible Vince & co. made it. It's such an endlessly rewatchable show and it feels like they went through pains to make it so, and it paid off big.

He was cracking at the meth thing, every other element of being a criminal though? He Mr. Beaned his way through the criminal underworld while thinking he was Tony Montana

it is awesome how much he fucking sucked he could not work with and cruise by working with the mythical unicorn that is gus the only ever actually smart competent big criminal boss because he is a really cringe pathetic asshole who thinks killing a few no names makes him the ultimate bad ass

In fairness I think this was moreso intended as closure for Skylar as opposed to spelling out Walt's arc to the audience, though it does do that too tbh. Better Call Saul's finale though? 😬