After being in still complete shock of Breaking Bad's season 4 endings, I cant help but to break everything down to its bare bones. The season was much differently paced than its predecessors, and made it a ground breaking season for television as a whole. With the conflict buried deep with in the highlights of season 3, the fourth season of Breaking Bad has defined all its characters in a new light, as well as a great breathing point. Going into the fifth and final season, I feel that some things need to be emphasized on for their importance to the plot. I will go through some things that I found very crucial to showing the thoughtfulness of the show.
During the second to last episode of the most recent season, which I consider the best, harbored many sub conflicts and tension building scenes. If re-watched, however, a viewer can really see how beautifully written this show really is. First case in point: A scene starts out with Walt sitting in his back yard spinning his gun on the table in front of him. You can tell that Walter White is confused, scared, and most of all; thinking heavily. The first two times Walt spins the gun, it stops rotating pointing at him. This conveys beautifully that suicide is a route, yet he keeps spinning. Walt is looking for something different. The third and final of the scene, the gun points away from him and out towards his yard; a point that instills 'not him' type feel.
After the final episode and some thinking, this is not the actual case however. This fairly minimal scene actually sets the grounds for some of the biggest points made in the show! Walt was looking for something different, he wanted direction on how to get out of the situation, but suicide wasn't an option ever; he's far to proud. The gun keeps spinning, just like his through process, until on that last spin when it points away. If you watch again, however, the gun isn't pointing away at all. The small handgun was pointing directly towards a flower pot with blooming flowers coming from it. This is all I care to elaborate, since you if you're not sure what this means; you'll have to finish the season to figure it out.
The second case I am going to discuss is somewhat more obvious, but still probably fairly over looked. One of the best characters needs to be analyzed at the end of this season. Mike, Gus's side job man. Earlier in the season, Walt tries to convince Mike to team up with him and kill Gus. Mike replies with a punch to the face. However, if Mike was all that loyal to Gus, he would have told him about this altercation. Walt and Mike are semi-similar characters in essence, so how does this fact apply to our current situation? It has not been addressed yet, since Mike was still injured during all this drama. When we comes back, what will his reaction be? Loyal to his old boss? Or find a new one?
