{"id":352,"date":"2013-12-06T21:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T21:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlecharbinger.wordpress.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2013-12-06T21:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T21:21:59","slug":"looking-back-at-breaking-bad-by-amanda-delgado-and-christian-steiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mlecharbinger.org\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at Breaking Bad by Amanda Delgado and Christian Steiner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The TV phenomenon Breaking Bad<\/i> has ended for good.\u00a0 With a record breaking 10.3 million viewers, it became the highest viewed finale of all time on basic cable.<\/p>\n

Within its five year running time, the show gained a dedicated, and growing, fan base. But even diehard fans didn\u2019t catch the small, symbolic details the writers had hidden in the show.<\/p>\n

It started off with Walter White\u2019s surprise 50th<\/sup> birthday party, during which he watches a local report about a methamphetamine drug bust and is impressed by the money recovered by the dealers. The next day, he is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and is told he has two years to live.\u00a0 Because of his financial situation (his job as a chemistry teacher doesn\u2019t provide enough money so he has to take up a second job in a car wash), he secretly considers cooking meth to provide money for his family.<\/p>\n

He joins his DEA brother-in-law, Hank Schrader, in a drug bust against \u201cCap\u2019n Cook.\u201d While waiting in the car, White sees a former student, Jesse Pinkman, fleeing out of a window, and successfully comes to the conclusion that he is the dealer the DEA is looking for. Using school records, White tracks Pinkman down and blackmails him in order to join the drug trade.<\/p>\n

The two then develop a partnership where Walt cooks the meth and Pinkman distributes it. They begin to encounter issues with their distributors and have to resort to killing each of them in order to survive. \u00a0This is just one of the ways they were \u201cbreaking bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The symbolism is clear right off the bat when you notice that each character has a designated color that reflected their mood or personality, which changed along with the characters as they developed, so Marie\u2019s constant usage of purple actually means something.<\/p>\n

Walter wears green to show his greed and craze with money. At first, Jesse wore a lot of yellow to symbolize his cowardice but after his first murder, with Gale as his victim, he begins to wear red to represent blood and violence.<\/p>\n

The colors in Walter and Jesse\u2019s last names pay homage to Reservoir Dog<\/i>s, and they even have a standoff that comes straight from the movie. The \u2018white\u2019 in Walter White is suppose to stand for innocence, since they start off as a good, clean family; however, white is also the easiest color to stain.<\/p>\n

The \u2018pink\u2019 in Pinkman is used to represent how na\u00efve and young he was in the beginning of the show; Holly White, Walter\u2019s baby daughter, can also be seen wearing pink numerous times.<\/p>\n

Further symbolism derives from one of the stranger episodes, \u201cThe Fly.\u201d In this episode, Walter and Jesse attempt to get rid of a fly that is \u201ccontaminating\u201d their lab.\u00a0 Many people quickly dismissed this episode as merely filler and pointless.<\/p>\n

However, the episode actually holds more meaning than believed.<\/p>\n

The fly is an archetype in the show as a sword of Damocles, showing that Walter and Jesse are always in imminent danger and something bad can happen at any time. It\u2019s also been theorized that the fly is really Jane; it\u2019s constantly watching them after her death in season 2. Much like his guilt for not saving Jane, Walter can never escape or get rid of the fly.<\/p>\n

After two years of lies, deception, and manipulation, it ended with the inevitable: Walter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-kingpin\u2019s regime finally came to an end.<\/p>\n

The bloodbath that took care of the neo-Nazis allowed White to avenge Hank and left him face to face with his former partner, Pinkman. Upon seeing his wound (a bullet to the stomach), Jesse allowed him to live, refusing to kill White, something he was so willing to do, especially after finding out he was the one who gave Brock ricin.<\/p>\n

As stated, \u201cAll bad things must come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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