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It's weird. I really love Breaking Bad but I don't know how much I'm clamoring for us to return to Jesse's character. He ended up horribly traumatized, his life in shambles, but...with a little bit of ambiguous hope at the end of the show. I don't how much I really need to see him struggling to survive anymore - because as the trailer shows and what the most plausible scenario for him here on out and is on constant run from the cops and his life.
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pospysyl posted:There were a lot of good moments, but ultimately it casts one of Pinkman's defining qualities - his reluctance to kill - and casts it as a weakness. His final conversation with Kate lays out the core message: seize control over your own destiny, don't let anyone determine it for you. El Camino is the story of how Pinkman wasn't willing to murder Todd to free himself, he wasn't able to break his bonds during the bet, but after his journey he's able to kill those welders and claim his own destiny. That this is the same guy who stepped away from millions of dollars over a single dead kid and was deeply traumatized and ashamed by his murder of Gail is ridiculous. This is right on. It really muddles something about Jesse, who, from mid-series on, was in many ways the moral center of BB (disregarding Hank, perhaps). Jesse's growing maturity and humanity is a big part of the show, and this movie doesn't really do much on that, other than perhaps showing that Jesse has become more desensitized to committing violence, which is actually a step back. But, it was fun seeing all these characters again, even though I'm not sure what the purpose of some of the scenes were (What were we suppose to get out of the Walt cameo?). I gotta get onto watching Better Call Saul I guess.
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