What I Can Relate To In “Breaking Bad”

This is “the end” my friend and it was a pretty good end I thought. This was very much a work of fiction, but it was a well written and highly entertaining work of  fiction, I never was routing for Walt as I very early on found him to be a very objectionable character but I still found the story to be very riveting.  Many of the series I have really liked never got an end (i.e. Deadwood, Carnivale) and others had what I consider a fair end (i.e. Sopranos, Lost) and some got it right (i.e Mash, Breaking Bad). It is a good ending to me because it tied up all the questions in the plot with somewhat plausible answers (I do have a problem with how Walt got Ricin in a sealed Stevia packet, but oh well in the grand scheme of things).

The one tragedy that I can relate to in “Breaking Bad” was at the very end, when Walt walks around the “meth lab” that the Nazi ex-cons had set up, and he lovingly touches the equipment and thinks about how that was the one thing he did better than anyone else. Even though this is a highly fictionalized story of someone trying to find themselves I feel like that is the only “true” message this series has. But it is one true message; we all are trying to find that one thing we are good at. We all need to be good at something and hope someone will remember that when we are gone, I think.