First thoughts on Ozymandias
I just watched Ozymandias for the first time. It’s hyped up as one of the most legendary episodes of any TV show and it lived up to that for me. I’ll start with what I thought about Hank’s death. I love Hank as a character, he knew how dangerous Walt was after seeing what he did to Gus, Mike and everyone else, but he still made it his main mission to lock him up. I think ragebaiting Jack while being held at gunpoint was pretty dumb because I think he might’ve taken Walt’s money, but it was exactly what I expected from Hank. Gomey’s death hit me hard too. He put his life and job on the line to help his friend protect his family and serve justice and he does for it. I’ve also loved his character from the first time he was on screen, he js has a lot of funny moments and he’s a loyal friend to Hank. Then Walt escapes and he has to push the barrel through the desert, that song that plays (idk what it’s called) but the lyrics match the events of what happened to Walt so perfectly, and it adds the repetition of “never seeing them again” or whatever it says really makes it very emotional. I’m not saying I feel bad for Walt, but it makes you think how horrible it is that they turned such a seemingly nice guy into this monster. I was very excited to watch the episode because I knew how many memes come from it, then they showed up and I didn’t even think about them, even though I’ve loved all those memes years before I watched the show, and they’re kind of the only reason I did. Another scene I liked was when Walt Jr learns the truth. I feel like a lot of people don’t think about Jr when watching it, they only really think of him for the breakfast meme (which I think is hilarious) but I really like him as a character since he’s one of the few ones who’s kind of relatable. As someone who has divorced parents and didnt know why until years later, I loved the scenes that show him getting pissed off at his parents for not telling him about the drama he was so involved in. It’s also horrible how Skylar let him unwillingly respect and admire such a horrible person. Another very satisfying scene was Skylar finally standing up to Walt. I know a lot of people hate her but I feel like she is the main victim of Walt aside from maybe Jesse. She hated him yet Walt kept her locked up with him, putting everyone in danger and having Skylar keep so many terrible secrets, her standing up to him finally felt great unlike what followed after. Even towards the end of the show, Walt has kept one respectable attribute and that is he values his family over everything, even his own life. Him attacking Skylar was a hard watch since he basically just removed the last good attribute he had, he broke bad as much as he could, and him taking Holly and leaving her in the truck after calling Skylar, telling her she’s a bitch and ragebaiting for no reason was also a very emotional scene. W Walt Jr for defending Skylar even without his crutches though. Oh yeah and Jesse. For me it took me longer than most people to realize Walt did not care about Jesse. You can argue all the bad things he did LIKE TRYING TO KILL HIM were for self defense or making sure he wouldn’t get caught, but nah he genuinely hated this mf. He had no reason to tell Jesse he watched Jane die other than pure hatred and ragebait. When he’s talking to Skylar in an earlier episode he says “he’s never hurt anybody” he just views him as a weak nobody that will do anything for him. He’s shot Gale, beat up Saul, he would’ve killed Walt if he knew he poisoned Brock earlier and if Hank hadn’t stopped him he would’ve burnt his house down. Not saying Jesse is evil, he didn’t deserve anything that happened to him but I’m just proving that Walt doesn’t even view him as human, let alone value him. Watching him suffer after being taken from Todd was tough. Before the intro you get a glimpse of before he truly broke bad, and by the end you see him finally lose all respectable qualities which is the whole point of the show in the span of like 47 minutes. I knew it would be a sad episode so I planned to count the number of tears I shed but I lost count after 2 :(