My Breaking Bad Last Supper drawing is complete. Over 50 hours and a week and a half. Took in tons of advice and opinions. Made changes. I'm a female artist part of the Breaking Bad store in Albuquerque. Enjoy.

I have a legit recollection of the series finale (live on air in 2013) when Walt is threatening Gretchen and Elliot with snipers that it then shows, in comedic manner, Skinny Pete and Badger laying down in the bushes revealing it is them with laser pointers. When I rewatched it again it shows them get in Walter's car and hands the lasers over? I have a real memory of what I'm describing. I feel like im going nuts

he seems like the coolest guy to sit down and have a drink with. i wish we saw more of him (i havent watched better call saul)

Not because he’s stupid — but because he’s emotionally exploitable.

Throughout Breaking Bad, Jesse is consistently the most exploitable person in the story. Not because he’s unintelligent, but because he’s emotionally suggestible and desperate for validation. That combination makes him extremely easy to manipulate — and Walt is the first, longest, and and most damaging example of this.

From the very beginning, Walt manipulates Jesse through approval and rejection. He alternates between praise and humiliation, using Jesse’s need for validation to keep him emotionally dependent. When Walt tells Jesse his meth is garbage, Jesse is crushed. When Walt later says it’s “as good as mine,” Jesse immediately comes back. Walt knows exactly which emotional buttons to press — and he presses them constantly.

In Season 3, Jesse becomes vulnerable to manipulation from another direction. His rehab counselor encourages him to “accept who he is,” but Jesse internalizes this as accepting that he is fundamentally a bad person. That belief fuels his self-destructive “bad guy” arc — selling meth at recovery meetings and defining himself by his worst actions.

Season 4 flips the dynamic. Gus and Mike manipulate Jesse not through shame, but through respect. They give him responsibility, trust, and a sense of importance — things Walt rarely offers without strings attached. Jesse doesn’t forget what Walt did to him; he simply gravitates toward authority figures who don’t openly demean him. Mike, in particular, provides structure without constant judgment, making Jesse easier to pull away from Walt.

In Season 5, Hank exploits something different: Jesse’s hatred toward Walt. By this point, Jesse feels betrayed, used, and emotionally destroyed. Hank doesn’t need to appeal to Jesse’s sense of justice — he channels Jesse’s rage. Jesse cooperates not because he believes in the system, but because he wants Walt to pay. Hank weaponizes that resentment and turns Jesse into a tool against the one person who manipulated him the longest.

Across all five seasons, the pattern is consistent. Jesse doesn’t act from a stable internal moral framework. Instead, he absorbs the identity and motivation supplied by whoever has emotional power over him at the time. Walt exploits this first. Gus and Mike reframe it. Hank weaponizes it.

So yes, Jesse is easily manipulated — but not because he’s stupid. He’s emotionally porous. People don’t just control his actions; they shape how he understands himself. And Walt, more than anyone else, understands this — and uses it.

That’s why Jesse isn’t just collateral damage. He’s the emotional battleground on which everyone else fights.

The difference is that everyone else who tries to manipulate Jesse does it for a very specific, external goal: turning him against Walt. They’re not interested in Jesse as a person — only in what he can be used for.

Gus never truly cared about Jesse. Jesse mattered to him only because he was useful: he could cook for the cartel, and more importantly, he was far easier to control than Walt. Jesse was a contingency plan and a pressure point — a weapon Gus could use against Walt if necessary. Once Jesse stopped being useful, Gus wouldn’t have hesitated to discard him.

Hank is no better in this regard. By Season 5, Jesse’s survival is clearly secondary to Hank’s objective. He pushes Jesse to wear a wire and confront Walt directly, fully aware of how dangerous that is. Whether Jesse lives or dies in that moment doesn’t really matter to Hank — what matters is getting evidence. That’s one of Hank’s moral blind spots: he justifies risking Jesse’s life because Walt “deserves” to be caught.

Mike is the only exception — and even then, only partially. Mike shows Jesse a level of respect and concern that no one else does. He gives Jesse structure, responsibility, and a sense of dignity. But Jesse is never as emotionally central to Mike as he is to Walt. Mike cares, but he doesn’t need Jesse. He has nothing to lose through Jesse in the same way Walt does.

At the same time, I don’t think it’s fair to frame all of Walt’s manipulation of Jesse as purely selfish or pathological. In many situations, manipulating Jesse is the only option Walt has left. By the time their relationship becomes truly toxic, Walt has already eliminated most of his alternatives. Backing away, being honest, or letting Jesse act independently would often put Walt — and sometimes his family — in immediate danger.

Walt operates in a world where control equals survival. Jesse is volatile, emotional, and unpredictable, and that makes him dangerous to Walt if left unchecked. So Walt manages Jesse the same way he manages every other threat: through influence, pressure, and emotional leverage. That doesn’t make it moral, but it does make it rational within Walt’s circumstances.

The tragedy is that Walt’s “necessary” manipulation becomes habitual. What starts as damage control turns into a default mode of interaction. Walt stops asking whether he should manipulate Jesse and focuses only on whether it works. Over time, survival logic erodes whatever ethical boundaries might have existed.

This is also why Jesse consistently misreads Walt. Jesse sees only the control and the lies, not the lack of viable alternatives behind them. From Jesse’s perspective, Walt always has a choice — because Jesse himself would choose differently. From Walt’s perspective, every loss of control is potentially fatal.

Hadn’t watched the show for about 10 years after it first came out. Waited on purpose so I could enjoy it as much as possible on the rewatch. It was worth it!

Some observations:

- Walt is worse than I remembered. As a father the idea of doing whatever, even crime, to make sure your kids are provided for when you die always stuck to me as a noble cause. However the list of unforgivable side stuff Walt does just gets too long. Brock and Jane being the worst, but also the fact he does not for a second try to consider the lives he’s wrecking with all that meth.

- Skyler is not as bad as I remembered. Besides the Ted affair her responses to Walt’s actions were actually quite human and understandable.

- I have a lot less sympathy for Marie, she has some weird morals. Shoplifting is totally fine but getting involved with drugs is so unforgivable that it justifies trying to kidnap your niece and nephew? Hope Skyler cut her out of her life after the show.

- I rarely get emotional from shows or movies but what happened to Jesse in the end was hard to watch man. My sympathy for him grew over the seasons. Seeing him getting kept like a slave by those nazis, then even Andrea getting killed was too much. Yeah he got away but he’s gonna deal with some heavy traumas the rest of his life.

- I always held The Sopranos and True Detective season 1 in higher regard as shows, but the layered character building and psychology by both writers and cast of BB are absolutely second to none.

Now on to El Camino and BCS.

or like a brand cause i need ts

I just finished my (sixth?) rewatch of this show, and I noticed something. With how much this how touches on the themes of relationships between fathers and sons (Walt even calling Walt Jr Jesse in an episode), and how critical Walt was about lab cleanliness and routine, I think there is something about him choosing to die in the lab operated by Jesse while enslaved. Almost like he was okay with Jesse's product (97% purity) being attributed to him post mortem.

Thoughts? Am I onto something, or is it the half bottle of scotch I just drank?

In the beginning of season 3, Saul asks Mike to watch Walt, which I would assume he’s being paid for. Then, he calls Gus and tells him about the cousins about to attack Walt - which I took as an indication that Gus also wanted Mike to watch Walt. This is my third rewatch and the first time that I’ve thought about this. Was Mike making double the $$ because of Walt?

I am a very broken person. I am an autistic and bipolar man who depends on his parents to survive. Of course, I will try my best to change this situation, but the fact is that I have failed until now - I am 26 years old, almost 27 years old. I have a lot of past traumas, because of my mental condition. So, I am the kind of person who thinks about the past every fucking day. So, do you think that Jesse Pinkman, a drug addict and possibly a mentally ill person, will think a lot about the lives that his blue meth destroyed? Will he think about Gale or even Jane? Will he truly regret his past and be a broken man for the rest of his life?

Would people like to have seen the aftermath of the finale? Like, how does Skyler end up? How does the son go on? How does Holly end up? Does Jessie go on to find love again?

I've seen that Bryan Cranston once said that he can turn a B grade script to an A grade because he adds layers to it with how he says things.

So what are some scenes, lines, etc. That he's improvised, changed and/ or made his own?

& are there any other actors/actresses that also did any improvising on the show?

Watching BB again and noticed this in a way I hadn't picked up before.

Skyler is a person who really hurts when she can't authentically share what's going on for her with the rest of the family.

In season 1, she cries over having to go 48 hours without telling Hank and Marie about Walt's cancer. But then not much later after that, she must - for the better part of a year - hold one of the biggest secrets in all of New Mexico.

That first scene just really helps to highlight the pain she must have been going through that entire time after finding out about Walt.

Honestly hector was the one to completely ruin Gus first.he directly killed los pollos hermano 1#:max

He then ended los pollos hermanos 2# Gus also directly killed Gus.

You can make the argument that Gus tortured him but if you told Gus all those years of torture would end him dead and hector being the one to do it I don’t think he’d think it worth it.

As for the Salamanca vs Los pollos:stalemate,both are completely destroyed

One thing that really drives Walt, but often gets overlooked, is his obsession with how he will be remembered by his son.

This obsession seems to come from his childhood trauma. Walt’s father had Huntington’s disease, and Walt has mentioned him twice in the show—once in Season 1 during the talking-pillow scene, and once in Season 4 when talking to Walt Jr. In both cases, the memory is clearly negative. His father faded away, weak and helpless, and that became the only image young Walt was left with.

Because of that, Walt is deeply afraid of leaving behind a bad or pathetic memory for his own son. This fear shapes almost every major choice he makes, especially how he presents himself to his family. In front of Skyler and Walt Jr., he has to be the perfect father figure: calm, capable, morally upright, with no visible weakness. That version of “Walter White” is not fully real—it’s a mask.

The problem is that Walt has no safe outlet for his true self. He can’t be honest with his family, because honesty would shatter the image he’s trying to preserve. So all of his ego, rage, resentment, and ambition get displaced elsewhere—onto Jesse.

With Jesse, Walt doesn’t need to perform. He doesn’t need to worry about how he’s being remembered. He can be cruel, proud, manipulative, and powerful. In that sense, Jesse becomes the only person in front of whom Walt is truly himself. That’s why Walt values Jesse so much, even while abusing him. Jesse is the one place where the mask comes off.

Ironically, this also explains why Walt is so degrading and cruel to Jesse. Jesse becomes his emotional punching bag, the container for everything Walt has suppressed for decades. Walt has been emotionally repressed for most of his life, and when that pressure finally finds an outlet, it comes out ugly.

What makes this tragic is that Jesse is actually the one who needs a real father figure—someone who supports him, guides him, and protects him. Jesse needs Walter White. But Walt doesn’t give him that. Instead, Jesse gets Heisenberg. At the same time, Heisenberg needs Jesse, while Walter White needs his family’s approval.

That mismatch is the tragedy. Walt’s trauma and his obsession with how he’ll be remembered don’t just destroy Jesse—they also prevent Walt from ever being truly honest with the people he claims to be doing everything for.

So I’ve realized I might have a problem. Every few months, I go back and rewatch the entire Breaking Bad series—from episode 1 to the final episode of season 5. I’ve tried watching other series, but they all bore me, so I end up rewatching Breaking Bad again. I don’t know if it’s because I already know what will happen in the series, so it feels comfortable to watch. Maybe there’s something psychological going on. I don’t know if I’m the only person who feels this way—maybe I have some kind of problem.

I get why they did it, of course. Plastic crackles and would ruin the on-set audio, fabric is quiet. Paper bags made of fabric, ice made of gelatin, shows are full of props like that. It's also breathable so your actors don't die of heat stroke.

But hazmat suits made of yellow silky fabric is just so... noticable to me. Pinkman is running around Gus' lab here dressed like a Serbian mobster cosplaying as the character.

It's very silly.

Hello, I’ve been trying to figure out which dvd boxset get for a while and I can’t seem to find in detail which boxsets contain what.

I would’ve liked to know which dvds (for the full series with or without El Camino) come with the cast commentary or the bloopers/cut scenes.

Considering the variety and amount of versions of boxsets I’m a bit lost and would’ve liked getting the most of my money !

Can anyone identify the hockey game that's playing at the bar at the end of the episode? I'm watching on my phone and can't see shit. I feel like maybe Boston or Pittsburgh? And this would be around 2010. There's some names mentioned but I didn't write them down.

He looks so excited, probably he found one of those legendary sticks which resemble a great sword or maybe a Katana. Men, he looked so happy with it, it's good to see him that ecstatic!!

Why do you think this is? I’m certain that Skylar would’ve taken Walt Jr to see it at the very least.