Did the Breaking Bad ending prove how genius the Sopranos ending really was?

[the cac mamba]

i cant be the only one who was underhwlemed by BB. not because it was bad, but...idk. its kinda hard to explain

i think tony got killed because literally no one out of his crew, made it out of the life. pauly was the sole dude at the end who made it out alive, lookin . so i think tony def got killed. but that fade to black is, imo, a much better scene than walter dyin on the floor

thoughts? its crazy how badly we anticipated these shyts but i was thnkin about how fukkin hard it must have been to end both of these series

 

[Sonny Corinthos]

Emphasized how bullshyt it was


Sopranos finale emding will go down as a great thought but just a bs ending. It never felt finished since nobody can say for sure what happened.

 

[sfgiants]

posted this before. long read but if u got time its worth it

http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/

if i hadnt read this i'd be among the ppl that hated the sopranos ending. i've changed my mind since; with that said, i was thoroughly satisfied with the bb ending

 

[sfgiants]

@op- i think most people missed how complex it was, including myself. i saw the show from beginning to end, people just wanted a definitive ending, they dont want any loose ends or 'what ifs' or want to speculate on anything, they just want to know for certain if the characters died or not

that analysis was so thorough tho, after i was like
ive tried to explain it to some of my friends but they're not tryna hear it. they said it was "lazy"

 

[AkaDemiK]

you're trippin....when baby blue started playing with walt walking around looking at his true love then getting to touch her one last time before dying is beautiful..

 

[MenacingMonk]

I'd rather have a definite ending then left

 

[Pimp]

Tony didn't get killed.. By who? Johnny sac was dead, Phil was dead, carmine was dead.. Who put the hit on tony? Smh people don't think..

 

[NZA]

different shows need different endings. i did not like the sopranos ending, but of the two shows, it was the one that dealt with the consciousness of the main character the most, so having an ending that implies it is the ending of the main character's existence at least can make some sense. you cant do that with BB, so comparing the two is kinda pointless. BB was more traditionally depicted, so it had to have a normal finale compared to sopranos

and i too was a bit underwhelmed by BB's finale, but the style of the episode is the only one i can see fitting the series. walt gets in over his head, walt outsmarts some folks, walt discovers another layer of consequences he did not predict, but gets kinda lucky anyway. the only element missing from the finale that was a constant throughout the series was walt's decisions costing everyone around him. in the finale, walt started making some things better (to the best of his abilities) instead of giving the people in his life new problems. any BB finale that doesnt stay grounded in this style would just feel like a stunt that came out of nowhere

 

[I-Hate-You]

Enjoyed both endings a lot :hulkshrug:

 

[bangbreh]

Tony didn't get killed.. By who? Johnny sac was dead, Phil was dead, carmine was dead.. Who put the hit on tony? Smh people don't think..

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are you serious ??

 

[Torrential]

you're trippin....when baby blue started playing with walt walking around looking at his true love then getting to touch her one last time before dying is beautiful..

solidified it as the goat show

 

[AkaDemiK]

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are you serious ??

beef with mob bosses and think shyt is sweet, brehs

 

[Piff Perkins]

I thought it was pretty obvious Tony got killed in the finale. Earlier when he was talking to Bobby, and Bobby mentioned when you die you probably don't even notice, everything just goes black...that's what happened to Tony. He got shot in the back of the head as his daughter entered the restaurant.

Breaking Bad...I enjoyed the finale, I remember thinking oh man Walt is a badass, even though I found him to be a distasteful character. But in hindsight to me, the problem with the finale is that everything worked out exactly as Walt planned. He got his money to his family, he became a national story, his rail gun killed all the bad guys, he saved Jesse...it felt like a pro Walt fan fiction. Compare the ending to the ending of most major shows, like The Sopranos or The Wire or The Shield...it just felt like a comic book to me.

 

[bangbreh]

[quoshyt.te="AkaDemiK, post: 6198182, member: 136"]beef with mob bosses and think shyt is sweet, brehs[/quote]

walt was never in that kinda shyt, tho.

 

[Pimp]

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are you serious ??

100% sure. Didn't see a gun or anything so there's no reason to think it. Dude was sitting at a table with his wife and kids... What kind of retard are you? Sure go back to the time on the boat when bobby said "you probably don't even hear it when it happens" if u didn't see it, it didn't happen. Too bad he died in real life. They would have made a movie eventually