quite literally the moment Walt ceases being Walt and full on becomes Heisenberg, is the All mighty "i am the danger, i am the one who knocks" scene and episode, he literally, in that very scene, strips from earth tones in his wardrobe to Crimson red and Black as he scolds Skylar......
Cool detail: The episode where the plane crashes ties in together the titles of the other 4 episodes which also had the cold open of the teddy bear, which, when adjoined, reads : Seven-Thirty-Seven - Down - Over - ABQ, with ABQ being the abbreviation for Albuquerque, and '737' the flight model number of the Boeing that went down.
Something I noticed when rewatching the show, walt actually tilts jane on her back before she starts choking. She was originally on her side. Walt didnt just watch jane die. He killed her.
@@kentuckybruce6816 if I recall correctly, he goes to the house because he is worried for Jesse. He speaks to Jane's father at the bar and they talk about his daughter, and Walt calls Jesse his nephew. They talk about how you can never give up on them. He knows Jesse has gone down a dark path with drugs lately and so he goes to make sure he's okay. I could be remembering it wrong or missing some details, but I'm pretty sure that was the reason Edit to add: I don't think he intended on killing Jane. He didn't want her in Jesse's life or for her to interfere with their meth business. But at the end of the scene, we see that he is okay with her death in the moment. Jane starts to cough and choke, and Walt goes over because he's worried. He feels like a dad. But then he thinks of how she got Jesse using heroin. How she blackmailed him. So he decides to do nothing. However, he does cry. Brian Cranston actually said that when he cried during that scene, he saw his own daughter lying there. But, then Walt decides he needs to put it behind him. In my opinion, this is when Heisenberg stops becoming a business thing for Walt, and actually starts to BE Walt.
I always thought of the eye as a symbol of guilt. It's a small piece of something you did that you can never get rid of it will always follow and haunt you. You can push it aside all you want but it will always be their.
I feel like Janes painting rather resembles the fact she feels tangled up, caught up in her horrible mistakes and feelings, yet innocences looms above her (teddy bear), and the clock sits there, as a reminder of reality or even that she needs to wake up and realise whats going on. imo
Even though I am a person who over analyze everything, such videos make me realize how blankly I watched the show, without seeing any symbolism. I think this was not even my fault. This actually shows how perfectly it was produced (including acting, writing, cinematography, directing etc). I knew something genius is there but without understanding what it is. Everything combined just came over to me as “general feeling”. You would think the show has a slow pace. May sound silly but: you see things you don’t see but somehow still see.
I shed a tear and applauded when breaking bad finished. I ate a hot dog when GOT finished. I needed comfort food. They ran my favorite show to the fucking ground.
It’s interesting that this parallel between Jane and Holly exists because Bryan Cranston actually said acting that scene made him actually picture his own real life daughter which made the emotion very real for him. So when Walt is making that switch in how he sees Jane in that moment, you’re actually probably watching that realisation take place in Bryan Cranstons mind for real
I watched Breaking Bad three times and still discovering new layers of understanding messages hidden in it is truly fascinating. Thank you for the video!
6:25 While Walt is talking to Donald at the bar the Happy Hour sign in front of them has a pink paw on the right (where Donald is sitting) and a white wolf on the left (where Walt is sitting). Thanks Ryan, I wouldn't have caught it without this video!
While at the bar, Jane's father mentions something about not giving up on family. While I'm sure the blackmail was a large part of letting Jane die, it seemed like he also did it to protect Jessie. Like most of the bad things Walt did, it seemed like there were more layers to his choices than just his own ego.
Walt didnt do it for any other reason then CONTROL.. it's the theme of the whole show. Hes not a good guy. Hes a bad guy that justifies his actions. He is awesome though.
8:59 There is another recurring theme throughout the show, and that theme are vengeance and how self-destructive it is. These 3 characters faced the same circumstances - The bad guys killed someone they love so they were on their quest for revenge. Now look at how they handled the situation. Walt and Gus - After a loved one (Hank, Gus’ bf) was killed mid-sentence, They were so committed to revenge that they were willing to wipe out the entire organization of those bad guys but since they took it so personal, they went too far by pursuing their enemies themselves causing them to get killed in the process. Jesse - Todd killed Andrea while Walt killed Jane. Even though, he killed Todd as a revenge for Andrea, he decided not to give in to vengeance in the last moment and let Walt died in his own term. And with the twist of fate, the one who wasn’t fully committed to vengeance is the only one of these three who is alive in the end.
Walt also saves Jesse from fully committing to vengeance. Jesse was about to kill the two guys on the street when Walt ran them over. Every bad deed Walt did was either to protect himself, his family or Jesse. Until Jane. And after that he slowly started to make more decisions to gain control and power.
A theory would be a video based on who Walt was speaking to in the car. Someone pointed out that the keys were an NA keychain. So maybe he thought about Jane constantly, because of the eyeball, and he was speaking to Jane. Then he would get justice for her.
Haven’t seen the video yet, but I like to think that the bear represented the butterfly effect of Walt’s actions, like how his involvement caused the death of combo, Jane, the people on the plane and I think Jane’s father also killed himself iirc. He also caused hank’s mayor injuries. (As far as I’ve seen, I’m currently halfway season 4) And I think that he kept the other eye to at least make himself remember the consequences of his actions
I always enjoy stories within the story and all the hidden Easter eggs people can find. I’ve enjoyed this series a few times now for everything that makes it great. It’s cool to see even more details and perspectives uncovered after all these years.
I feel the burned pink teddy bear is meant to represent Jane, behind the drug use & nasty attitude was an innocent girl, so it makes sense the opening scene is the pink teddy bear as it’s her death that lead to what happened in the finale
Anyone notice how Walter caused Jane's death to begin with? If he weren't pushing Jesse to wake up, she wouldn't have turned face-up, because she was sleeping sideways before Walt broke in.
Ryan & co. continually providing amazing, thoughtful conversation. It's always stimulating to see you discuss something that many ppl either miss or don't think about. I had to stop this several times to go back & rewatch several scenes just to realise how badly I mistook the bear or eye "cameos". Thanks as always for the incredible content! Oh, and favorite episode still & always will be the one with the fly. I don't care if anyone bitches about how "slow" it was. This episode finally worked on building the relationship between Walt & Jesse. I know the almost confession of killing Jane was big, but both opening up about their families & the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" meant a lot to me. I mean, yeah, it was pretty hilarious to see Walt go crazy & exude his controlling nature w/getting the fly. But to see them finally start relating, and more or less start looking out for each other (Walt warning Jesse about skimming, Jesse killing the fly & helping Walt sleep by dosing him.....what a nice guy!!), it gave me closure that both were going to be around & working together for a while. Plus, the new fly at the end, you knew Walt was going to lose it. It felt like a complete episode, no huge cliff hangers, but a start & finish, I was fulfilled.
I was thinking about doing a breakdown of that episode! I saw another channel has done one already, so I'd have to check them out first and make sure we're covering new ground.
@ScreenCrush I know these take a ton of time & effort, so I'm grateful for the one you did! But I'll try to find the one you're talking about, as well. Also, apparently I'm in the minor, but I was totally hoping for Die Hard from that poll. They're all solid choices. But I know you can also silence any doubters that say DH isn't a Xmas movie. Either way, looking forward to the next breakdown! 🙌
if you've ever seen cronenberg's classic body horror movie 'the fly' then you'd know damn well that walt's probably got a point to want to remove the fly. and it's probably best to swat it and kill it first before cooking.
Very good breakdown. I would like to add that since Gilligan made the connection to the eye of God, it's an easy jump to mythology and the nearest equivalent are The Eye of Horus (the left eye) and The Eye of Ra (the right eye), respectively. Considering the fact that the bear is shown with its left eye missing, when the bear s shown it symbolizez The Eye of Ra (the right eye) and when just the bear's eye is shown, The Eye of Horus is symbolized. According to Egyptian myth, Horus lost his left eye in a struggle with Seth. The eye was magically restored by Hathor or Tehuti. When Horus's eye was recovered, he offered it to his father, Osiris, in hopes of restoring his life. Hence, the eye of Horus was often used to symbolise sacrifice, healing, restoration, and protection. In the myth called the Destruction of Mankind, related in the Book of the Heavenly Cow from the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BC), Ra uses the Eye as a weapon against humans who have rebelled against his authority. He sends the Eye-Hathor, in her aggressive manifestation as the lioness goddess Sekhmet-to massacre them. She does so, but after the first day of her rampage, Ra decides to prevent her from killing all humanity. He orders that beer be dyed red and poured out over the land. The Eye goddess drinks the beer, mistaking it for blood, and in her inebriated state returns to Ra without noticing her intended victims. Through her drunkenness she has been returned to a harmless form. It then naturally follows: plane explodes in the sky, the symbol of Walt's destructive nature is shown (the bear with the right eye( etc etc
How meticulously thought out every detail of this series is amazing! I didn't think about it all before. The creators of the series really worked not just on the next series, but on a real masterpiece of cinema. I love learning new things about this show, thank you very much for the video ! 😉
Binged BB 4 times. Your analysis on BB are great testimonials about the best series I’ve ever seen. You just - 08/22/20 - woke up my addiction again to must-see it for the fifth time. Thank you.
I like to see the bears resemblance to be related to Walter. As pink means innocence and also tragedy, I like to look at it like this, the pink side of the bear resembles Walt, an innocent man who was struck with the tragedy to learning that he has lung cancer, that’s doomed to kill him. On the other half of the bear is the black side, resembling death, darkness and evil. Resembling Heisenberg, and how he doesn’t care who he hurts as long as he gets what he wants. I feel like this is the reason Walter was fascinated by it, because it resembles him. Also note that the black side is missing an eye, and Walter keeps the eye, I like to see this as a symbolism that the darkness in Walter is watching him as he grows into becoming more like Heisenberg and less like Walt. Idk that’s just my 2 cents.
It's funny that you mentionned that Walter is seeing his own daughter while watching Jane dies cuz in a very meta moment Bryan Cranston actually said that during the filming of the scene, from a moment he actually saw his real life daughter instead of Kristen Ritter so technically the bear is everyone child and/or childhood at this point.
Wow some really great details brought out in this video that I never knew about - even after rewatching BB about 6 or 7 times. Fantastic analysis here.
I loooooove this show!!! Im on a binge of breaking bad video essays. I know the storyline but i gotta say alot skipped my mind. Alot of times i dont necessarily learn alot from video essays done on my fave shows but for breaking bad.....wow!! Color palettes.....the eye and now the bear. Awesome video!!!! After reading the comments, now that i think about it, what was with the fly epsisode?????
The Fly episode was a metaphorical episode. The fly basically represented everything that went wrong in Walt’s story up to this point. Like the guilt he feels for letting Jane die, the guilt he feels for causing the plane crash, and how frustrated he is because his wife found out about everything. Do you know how it is when you feel something just went wrong in your life and you can’t change it no matter what you do? Whether it’s a mistake you made or something went the complete opposite of how you expected it. It’s like your life has been contaminated, you just wish you could change it, you feel it wasn’t supposed to be like that. You live with constant mental torture and regret. You can’t get it out of your mind. Maybe you don’t know, maybe you haven’t made a life altering mistake. In the episode Walt talks about what he thought was the perfect moment for him to die. It was when his daughter had just been born and it was before everything bad happened. But the fact that he kept living just to see everything fall apart keeps bothering him. He never planned to let an innocent girl choke in front of him, he never planned to be the main cause why two planes crashed, he never planned for Skyler to find out about his illegal activities, and he also never planned to technically be a slave for a drug kingpin. In his perfect plan, he was going to make a lot of money for his family and nothing bad would happen, he would have all the control he wanted, no one would ever find out and he would still be the innocent GOOD man he thought himself to be, and he would live happy until his death. All that talk about contamination is actually about Walt’s life, which has been contaminated to the point of no return. It was him seeing the reality of what his life turned out to be. At the end he has to learn to live with it and accept that the fly will always be there, that constant buzzing in his ear, the buzzing that never goes away, constantly reminding him that things didn’t go the way he wanted to. His life is a lost cause, just like a contaminated batch.
@@johnp.smithasimpleman7281 wow!!! Thank you!!! I appreciate it. Means alot. Kinda want to watch the episode again. Or the whole series with you!!! Thanks!!! I'm a long paragraph writer myself too!!!!
Like many, I've wondered just who exactly owns the pink teddy. Just a potential spoiler warning from a likely crazy fan! Given recent developments regarding Gus' superlab, with the BCS and BB worlds ever colliding, what if the reason Kim isn't in BB, is because she bought a toy on the way, or at the airport - a certain pink Teddy. I'd be devastated.
4:25 on the left kinda of looks like heisenberg hat, to signify that Walt was the one who was ultimately responsible for her death. Also when she died lying on her back he was standing to the left of her when he watched her die
I love watching these. There's no other show that goes this deep. Better Call Saul is even more layered. If you think of both of them as one big story, it really is a work of genius.
One thing i thing i think you missed is connection sky asked walt to go buy diapers for holly at the same time jane was blackmailing him and he was trying to make his decision on if he should give the money or not he got his excuse to go out and meet donald margolis at the bar and make his final decision to go talk to jesse and mistakenly bump jane to cause her OD later he tried to figure out the odds of him going to that bar on that night and your right it was holly and janes connection
I remember binging this show with my girlfriend and we we're so confused when it came to it and all of this buildup was to a plane crash. I felt like we had been duped. Like this bear meant nothing truly and the eye wasn't major. Well I was definitely wrong.
This video is amazing I’ve never felt so invested in a video quite like this before, to understand the significance between the pink bear and the eye which makes multiple reappearances in The Breaking Bad series , as a whole i loved this video and i loved how you pieced everything together what an Amazing video
Before watching the video, im going to say its symbolic of Walts guilt. He holds onto one of the bears eyes, which is often made to look as if its staring at him. I also felt that when Walt tries to comfort Jesse on how he couldnt predict how Janes accidental death could lead to a plane full of people being destroyed, he is really trying to comfort himself as he knows that he is also accidentally responsible for her death in numerous ways, notably he accidentally rolls her over when she is about to vomit when he is trying to wake Jesse up. I also took Walt watching her choke on her own vomit as a moment of shock and not really knowing what to do on his part, rather than him wanting to kill her. Walt also gets to know her father before the accident, and I think this is the moment that he realises what he does doesnt just ruin the lives of drugees and awful people, but also people not directly connected to those sorts of things as Jane and her father were both innocent people. I think youve also heard of this before but Walt also takes on characteristics of the people he kills, again i think this shows that he never makes peace with killing people but rather tries to keep it bottled up. Edit: similarly i also think Jesse picks up some of walts characteristics throughout the show, such as his refusal to involve children, although i think this was already a part of Jesses character. Walt eventually becomes able to stand it after Todd kills the kid, Walts reaction is relatively calm even if he is unhappy, whereas Jesse is absolutely furious.
Damn, the scene of the bear's POV falling until it splashdown into the pool is amazing. Maybe one of the best scenes ever filmed in a TV Series or a Film.
When i saw the first episode from the season i just knew this will be symbolic, and then when i saw that Walt has a pink sweather i started to put things together. It was about the descent of Walt into madness and beginning of chaos. By killing Jane he lost part of his innocence, which is why the plushie had it's other part burned and why at the end you see two body bags. He didn't only kill Jane but also his good side. Edit: Jane pretty much was the cause of her own death, you say she represents innocence, but didn't you forget she's the one who got Jesse into stronger drugs, and she didn't kept her word either, also blackmailed Walt. Walt pretty much did it to protect both, now i'm not saying Walt is innocent, but i like how the show gives two perspectives and lets you decide which one is bad and good, but in this none weren't.
The scene of Walt and Jane’s dad talking is Breaking Bad’s glint of sci-fi, since ‘turning Mars to a gas station’ exceeds the tech of our time. Does this glint of sci-fi relate to Jane’s bedroom painting, where she’s floating through space?
What was the moment Walt became damned?
When he got the news he had cancer.
@@tripttwe damn straight
quite literally the moment Walt ceases being Walt and full on becomes Heisenberg, is the All mighty "i am the danger, i am the one who knocks" scene and episode, he literally, in that very scene, strips from earth tones in his wardrobe to Crimson red and Black as he scolds Skylar......
Killing Krazy 8
Crawl Space
Cool detail: The episode where the plane crashes ties in together the titles of the other 4 episodes which also had the cold open of the teddy bear, which, when adjoined, reads : Seven-Thirty-Seven - Down - Over - ABQ, with ABQ being the abbreviation for Albuquerque, and '737' the flight model number of the Boeing that went down.
good math🙃👍🏿
WHAT!?
ok
I knew this and it's so cool. It's my favorite little piece of trivia about the show
i thought that abq was the albuquerque airport code. thanks for verifying
Something I noticed when rewatching the show, walt actually tilts jane on her back before she starts choking. She was originally on her side. Walt didnt just watch jane die. He killed her.
We he moved Jesse, and thus Jane so kinda
@@koldgold9733 na he braced the hand next to her which made her do that
Why did Walter go to jesse’s house the second time anyway? Did he always intend on killing jane but she died without too much interference?
@@kentuckybruce6816 if I recall correctly, he goes to the house because he is worried for Jesse. He speaks to Jane's father at the bar and they talk about his daughter, and Walt calls Jesse his nephew. They talk about how you can never give up on them. He knows Jesse has gone down a dark path with drugs lately and so he goes to make sure he's okay.
I could be remembering it wrong or missing some details, but I'm pretty sure that was the reason
Edit to add:
I don't think he intended on killing Jane. He didn't want her in Jesse's life or for her to interfere with their meth business. But at the end of the scene, we see that he is okay with her death in the moment.
Jane starts to cough and choke, and Walt goes over because he's worried. He feels like a dad. But then he thinks of how she got Jesse using heroin. How she blackmailed him. So he decides to do nothing. However, he does cry. Brian Cranston actually said that when he cried during that scene, he saw his own daughter lying there. But, then Walt decides he needs to put it behind him. In my opinion, this is when Heisenberg stops becoming a business thing for Walt, and actually starts to BE Walt.
@@salomahoney2675 thanks for the reply!
I always thought of the eye as a symbol of guilt. It's a small piece of something you did that you can never get rid of it will always follow and haunt you. You can push it aside all you want but it will always be their.
Did walt even know what it was from tho?
My dumbass thought it was a camera which would record the conversation walter had and will bring his downfall
@@kingrojin8009 yes he did
Their what?
*there
their = possessive
they're = contraction of "THEY aRE"
there: for all other uses
I feel like Janes painting rather resembles the fact she feels tangled up, caught up in her horrible mistakes and feelings, yet innocences looms above her (teddy bear), and the clock sits there, as a reminder of reality or even that she needs to wake up and realise whats going on. imo
it can be all of that depending what part of the story you're in
Even though I am a person who over analyze everything, such videos make me realize how blankly I watched the show, without seeing any symbolism. I think this was not even my fault. This actually shows how perfectly it was produced (including acting, writing, cinematography, directing etc). I knew something genius is there but without understanding what it is. Everything combined just came over to me as “general feeling”. You would think the show has a slow pace.
May sound silly but: you see things you don’t see but somehow still see.
Cope
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ong i just be watching the show only thinking "bald guy cook meth with junkie"
GOT : We are the greatest TV series ever made.
Breaking Bad : Hold my Meth
One of these shows stuck the landing. The other went full "dragon lady bad now."
Sorry The Sopranos was the greatest TV series ever - GOT not even close and not only because of the final season.
@@ScreenCrush hahaha, thats literally true
GoT: I rule.
TWD: No, me.
Breaking Bad: Say my name.
I shed a tear and applauded when breaking bad finished.
I ate a hot dog when GOT finished. I needed comfort food. They ran my favorite show to the fucking ground.
I liked to think that the bear symbolized Gus's death, and the eye was Gus always watching him and usually being two steps ahead of walt.
Don’t think so
The eye never appears after season 4 when Gus was dead
Like a preview to a foreshadow.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 ive never noticed that
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 That’s exactly it. When he died he stopped watching.
It’s interesting that this parallel between Jane and Holly exists because Bryan Cranston actually said acting that scene made him actually picture his own real life daughter which made the emotion very real for him. So when Walt is making that switch in how he sees Jane in that moment, you’re actually probably watching that realisation take place in Bryan Cranstons mind for real
You missed commenting on the Pink Fibreglass the money Walt was showing Holly was behind. The first person in his family he shared it with.
Jane makes a point to not lay on your back to Jesse the first time they shoot up. When Walt comes, he lays Jane on her back. He's somewhat responsible
He didn't lay her on her back, she rolled over onto her back due to Walt trying to wake Jesse up by shaking him.
@@BlyGuy she wouldn’t have rolled over though had walt not been there, even if it wasn’t his intention he did sorta cause her death
@@cotapillar7802 yea, if Walt doesn't try waking Jesse up, Jane doesn't roll over and then suffocate on her vomit. 100% on Walt that Jane died.
You lot forget Walt is responsible for her death nonetheless, he didn’t save her when he easily could have by turning her.
I watched Breaking Bad three times and still discovering new layers of understanding messages hidden in it is truly fascinating. Thank you for the video!
same here, every time I watch it I always notice something new! So far i’ve seen it 8 times 😅
@@Lunajbunni wow that's incredible! Be careful though, you may break bad yourself 😈
6:25 While Walt is talking to Donald at the bar the Happy Hour sign in front of them has a pink paw on the right (where Donald is sitting) and a white wolf on the left (where Walt is sitting). Thanks Ryan, I wouldn't have caught it without this video!
Nice catch would've never found that
While at the bar, Jane's father mentions something about not giving up on family. While I'm sure the blackmail was a large part of letting Jane die, it seemed like he also did it to protect Jessie. Like most of the bad things Walt did, it seemed like there were more layers to his choices than just his own ego.
Donald tragically gave Walt the advice to value Jesse's life over his own daughter's.
Walt didnt do it for any other reason then CONTROL.. it's the theme of the whole show. Hes not a good guy. Hes a bad guy that justifies his actions. He is awesome though.
@@karenamyx2205 nah, he actually cared about jesse, obviously walt wanted him just to himself, but he saw him as his son too and wanted to protect him
@@benjapizarro981 Bruh, caring about somebody else doesnt make you good in any way.
@@gandalf_thegrey agreed, he showed his love in a strange way
I had no idea this show was full of so many metaphors and symbolism. I'm going to have to rewatch breaking bad as soon as I finish Better Call Saul.
The car keys that fall are attached to an NA keychain, symbolizing Jane
Say what? I did not notice that. That's incredible.
What is NA?
@@salomahoney2675 Narcotics Anonymous
@@salomahoney2675 North America
@@salomahoney2675 Not Avaliable 💀
8:59 There is another recurring theme throughout the show, and that theme are vengeance and how self-destructive it is.
These 3 characters faced the same circumstances - The bad guys killed someone they love so they were on their quest for revenge. Now look at how they handled the situation.
Walt and Gus - After a loved one (Hank, Gus’ bf) was killed mid-sentence, They were so committed to revenge that they were willing to wipe out the entire organization of those bad guys but since they took it so personal, they went too far by pursuing their enemies themselves causing them to get killed in the process.
Jesse - Todd killed Andrea while Walt killed Jane. Even though, he killed Todd as a revenge for Andrea, he decided not to give in to vengeance in the last moment and let Walt died in his own term. And with the twist of fate, the one who wasn’t fully committed to vengeance is the only one of these three who is alive in the end.
Yeah but Walt didn't kill Jane, he wasn't even supposed to be there. She would die even if he wasn't there
@@tomasbar1101 He did. She was sleeping on her side until Walt broke in and shook Jesse, which flipped on her back
Oh sorry, you're right, I completly forgor about that 💀
Walt also saves Jesse from fully committing to vengeance. Jesse was about to kill the two guys on the street when Walt ran them over.
Every bad deed Walt did was either to protect himself, his family or Jesse.
Until Jane. And after that he slowly started to make more decisions to gain control and power.
@@hannanah8036 i feel like he did it to protect jesse and have it be rock bottom or a wake up call for jesse to sober up.
ooooo new breaking bad theories in 2020. this should be good
Not exactly a theory
A theory would be a video based on who Walt was speaking to in the car. Someone pointed out that the keys were an NA keychain. So maybe he thought about Jane constantly, because of the eyeball, and he was speaking to Jane. Then he would get justice for her.
@@ScreenCrush I'm pretty sure in Felina, Walt was way past regretting Jane's death.
Haven’t seen the video yet, but I like to think that the bear represented the butterfly effect of Walt’s actions, like how his involvement caused the death of combo, Jane, the people on the plane and I think Jane’s father also killed himself iirc. He also caused hank’s mayor injuries. (As far as I’ve seen, I’m currently halfway season 4)
And I think that he kept the other eye to at least make himself remember the consequences of his actions
they only ever say he attempted to kill himself, and was rushed to the hospital, i don't believe it's ever said that he died or not.
@@austindolan7182doesn’t really matter, he’ll never recover from janess death, but I assume he would have died anyway.
Wow. Just.... wow. The depth of this show, and the way you break it down and illustrate all that is going on here. Outstanding! Thank you!
I just love these Breaking Bad videos. I'm getting so much more out of the series now with your analysis.
I always enjoy stories within the story and all the hidden Easter eggs people can find. I’ve enjoyed this series a few times now for everything that makes it great. It’s cool to see even more details and perspectives uncovered after all these years.
Love the analysis! The deeper meaning is what makes this show beyond amazing!
This show has so much foreshadowing and symbolism. I also love how the title of the episodes is said in the show.
I feel the burned pink teddy bear is meant to represent Jane, behind the drug use & nasty attitude was an innocent girl, so it makes sense the opening scene is the pink teddy bear as it’s her death that lead to what happened in the finale
At 6:27 there’s a pink teddy bear paw on the board at the bar
I Don’t see it :(
@@habitsofmyheart on the happy hour board!
@@anmolkirtunia9065 thank you 🥰
Dude I’ve been refreshing y’all’s page for 2weeks. Thank goodness we’re gifted with more breaking bad talk
Anyone notice how Walter caused Jane's death to begin with? If he weren't pushing Jesse to wake up, she wouldn't have turned face-up, because she was sleeping sideways before Walt broke in.
So good! Very interesting video! I think I'm gonna watch this show all over again very soon!
You should! I'm going to do Better Call Saul again soon
Ryan & co. continually providing amazing, thoughtful conversation. It's always stimulating to see you discuss something that many ppl either miss or don't think about. I had to stop this several times to go back & rewatch several scenes just to realise how badly I mistook the bear or eye "cameos". Thanks as always for the incredible content!
Oh, and favorite episode still & always will be the one with the fly. I don't care if anyone bitches about how "slow" it was. This episode finally worked on building the relationship between Walt & Jesse. I know the almost confession of killing Jane was big, but both opening up about their families & the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" meant a lot to me. I mean, yeah, it was pretty hilarious to see Walt go crazy & exude his controlling nature w/getting the fly. But to see them finally start relating, and more or less start looking out for each other (Walt warning Jesse about skimming, Jesse killing the fly & helping Walt sleep by dosing him.....what a nice guy!!), it gave me closure that both were going to be around & working together for a while. Plus, the new fly at the end, you knew Walt was going to lose it. It felt like a complete episode, no huge cliff hangers, but a start & finish, I was fulfilled.
I was thinking about doing a breakdown of that episode! I saw another channel has done one already, so I'd have to check them out first and make sure we're covering new ground.
@ScreenCrush I know these take a ton of time & effort, so I'm grateful for the one you did! But I'll try to find the one you're talking about, as well.
Also, apparently I'm in the minor, but I was totally hoping for Die Hard from that poll. They're all solid choices. But I know you can also silence any doubters that say DH isn't a Xmas movie. Either way, looking forward to the next breakdown! 🙌
if you've ever seen cronenberg's classic body horror movie 'the fly' then you'd know damn well that walt's probably got a point to want to remove the fly. and it's probably best to swat it and kill it first before cooking.
Very good breakdown. I would like to add that since Gilligan made the connection to the eye of God, it's an easy jump to mythology and the nearest equivalent are The Eye of Horus (the left eye) and The Eye of Ra (the right eye), respectively. Considering the fact that the bear is shown with its left eye missing, when the bear s shown it symbolizez The Eye of Ra (the right eye) and when just the bear's eye is shown, The Eye of Horus is symbolized.
According to Egyptian myth, Horus lost his left eye in a struggle with Seth. The eye was magically restored by Hathor or Tehuti. When Horus's eye was recovered, he offered it to his father, Osiris, in hopes of restoring his life. Hence, the eye of Horus was often used to symbolise sacrifice, healing, restoration, and protection.
In the myth called the Destruction of Mankind, related in the Book of the Heavenly Cow from the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BC), Ra uses the Eye as a weapon against humans who have rebelled against his authority. He sends the Eye-Hathor, in her aggressive manifestation as the lioness goddess Sekhmet-to massacre them. She does so, but after the first day of her rampage, Ra decides to prevent her from killing all humanity. He orders that beer be dyed red and poured out over the land. The Eye goddess drinks the beer, mistaking it for blood, and in her inebriated state returns to Ra without noticing her intended victims. Through her drunkenness she has been returned to a harmless form.
It then naturally follows: plane explodes in the sky, the symbol of Walt's destructive nature is shown (the bear with the right eye( etc etc
It's cool to see that everything directly, or indirectly, connects back to Walt's actions
Omg this was fascinating. This show is a masterpiece. Years later and I’m still learning about it.
For a while. I always thought the pink bear represented Pinkman. Like a foreshadow of what’s to become of him.
I love effort you made in the making of this video. I would never in numerous years come up with this line of sight. I love it!
Never stop making breaking bad content please!!!
How meticulously thought out every detail of this series is amazing! I didn't think about it all before. The creators of the series really worked not just on the next series, but on a real masterpiece of cinema. I love learning new things about this show, thank you very much for the video ! 😉
Brilliant video. I'm not gonna lie I almost shed a tear 😭 breaking bad is so amazing and so is your channel.
Same 😢
Binged BB 4 times. Your analysis on BB are great testimonials about the best series I’ve ever seen. You just - 08/22/20 - woke up my addiction again to must-see it for the fifth time. Thank you.
I like to see the bears resemblance to be related to Walter. As pink means innocence and also tragedy, I like to look at it like this, the pink side of the bear resembles Walt, an innocent man who was struck with the tragedy to learning that he has lung cancer, that’s doomed to kill him. On the other half of the bear is the black side, resembling death, darkness and evil. Resembling Heisenberg, and how he doesn’t care who he hurts as long as he gets what he wants. I feel like this is the reason Walter was fascinated by it, because it resembles him. Also note that the black side is missing an eye, and Walter keeps the eye, I like to see this as a symbolism that the darkness in Walter is watching him as he grows into becoming more like Heisenberg and less like Walt.
Idk that’s just my 2 cents.
Hello my friend, I'm from Brazil, I really liked your video. Keep up the good work.
Screen Crush is by far the best channel of its kind on RUclips. Fantastic work as always Ryan!
Thanks Eric!
You always do great work...but man this one was really damn good. You guys should show a behind the scenes video one day!
I love these videos. Hopefully you can more videos like these for breaking bad
Definitely! I could talk about any aspect of this show for hours.
Next episode would be like:
Lost- ending explained.
I'd have to watch the show first
@@ScreenCrush haha me too, thats why i couldnt find something more acurate about it. Btw just kidding, we still love watching bb theories. ❤️
What's your favorite episode of Breaking Bad?
Ozymandias
Felina
Top 3
1. Ozymandias
2. Felina
3. Face Off
Face off
Ozymandias, Felina, Face off, Granite State, Gliding over all
Breaking Bad: wins the oscar for most pink bears in a television series
I love this channel, and loved this video essay in particular. Well done. A lot to think about.
I legit youtubed the meaning of the eye yesterday, found nothing then this pops into my feed, phenomenal
Its called.. Law of attraction
ScreenCrush is hands down the best movie/series analysis channel in RUclips. Ryan you're the man! Thx for such amazing content!
It's actually crazy how much thought Gilllagen really put into this show. Masterpiece.
This attention to detail is out of this world. This is the reason this show is the greatest piece of fiction ever made.
It's funny that you mentionned that Walter is seeing his own daughter while watching Jane dies cuz in a very meta moment Bryan Cranston actually said that during the filming of the scene, from a moment he actually saw his real life daughter instead of Kristen Ritter so technically the bear is everyone child and/or childhood at this point.
My god, everything in breaking bad has a meaning and everything is hidden, I would’ve never picked up on these. Great video!
"The season 6 episode, rabid dog"
Man, I wish there were 6 seasons
This is clearly the best video about Breaking Bad
Awesome video 👌
Wow some really great details brought out in this video that I never knew about - even after rewatching BB about 6 or 7 times. Fantastic analysis here.
This is very emotionally insightful! Excellent!
great video as always
Thanks again!
I loooooove this show!!!
Im on a binge of breaking bad video essays.
I know the storyline but i gotta say alot skipped my mind. Alot of times i dont necessarily learn alot from video essays done on my fave shows but for breaking bad.....wow!!
Color palettes.....the eye and now the bear.
Awesome video!!!!
After reading the comments, now that i think about it, what was with the fly epsisode?????
The Fly episode was a metaphorical episode. The fly basically represented everything that went wrong in Walt’s story up to this point. Like the guilt he feels for letting Jane die, the guilt he feels for causing the plane crash, and how frustrated he is because his wife found out about everything. Do you know how it is when you feel something just went wrong in your life and you can’t change it no matter what you do? Whether it’s a mistake you made or something went the complete opposite of how you expected it. It’s like your life has been contaminated, you just wish you could change it, you feel it wasn’t supposed to be like that. You live with constant mental torture and regret. You can’t get it out of your mind. Maybe you don’t know, maybe you haven’t made a life altering mistake.
In the episode Walt talks about what he thought was the perfect moment for him to die. It was when his daughter had just been born and it was before everything bad happened. But the fact that he kept living just to see everything fall apart keeps bothering him. He never planned to let an innocent girl choke in front of him, he never planned to be the main cause why two planes crashed, he never planned for Skyler to find out about his illegal activities, and he also never planned to technically be a slave for a drug kingpin. In his perfect plan, he was going to make a lot of money for his family and nothing bad would happen, he would have all the control he wanted, no one would ever find out and he would still be the innocent GOOD man he thought himself to be, and he would live happy until his death. All that talk about contamination is actually about Walt’s life, which has been contaminated to the point of no return. It was him seeing the reality of what his life turned out to be. At the end he has to learn to live with it and accept that the fly will always be there, that constant buzzing in his ear, the buzzing that never goes away, constantly reminding him that things didn’t go the way he wanted to. His life is a lost cause, just like a contaminated batch.
Sorry for the huge paragraph. Just trying to explain the overall meaning of the Fly. Hope you understood something
@@johnp.smithasimpleman7281 wow!!! Thank you!!! I appreciate it. Means alot. Kinda want to watch the episode again. Or the whole series with you!!!
Thanks!!! I'm a long paragraph writer myself too!!!!
@@Melanierose21122 Haha I’m glad you appreciated it!! :)
Brilliant show. Brilliant video
That "how we gonna get this on VH1?" Line is so 2000s
Whaaat 4:40 I can't believe I've never noticed the pink teddy bear in the tree here that's really interesting
I can’t believe I pasted over this show for years until I watch one episode and the rest is history, arguably the best TV show ever. IJS
man, what an analysis!
Dude this video is amazing
Like many, I've wondered just who exactly owns the pink teddy.
Just a potential spoiler warning from a likely crazy fan!
Given recent developments regarding Gus' superlab, with the BCS and BB worlds ever colliding, what if the reason Kim isn't in BB, is because she bought a toy on the way, or at the airport - a certain pink Teddy. I'd be devastated.
Yup. I was crazy and very wrong. Thank goodness.
Your BB videos are amazing! Plz make more🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks! I've got lots of ideas.
4:25 on the left kinda of looks like heisenberg hat, to signify that Walt was the one who was ultimately responsible for her death. Also when she died lying on her back he was standing to the left of her when he watched her die
Oh wow that's deep
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Imagine thinking that BrBa isn't the best show out there 😳
@Ryan Akwar The Sopranos and The Wire?? :)
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great analysis
Bryan Cranston is such a brilliant actor he is so good he is probably the best
Great analisys!
Hello hello from Japan another awesome video
Hello there! and thanks!
As many times as i have watched this show, i missed many of those bears. Well done
I love watching these. There's no other show that goes this deep. Better Call Saul is even more layered. If you think of both of them as one big story, it really is a work of genius.
wow this video is truly beautiful thank you for making this❤
When you mentioned Schindlers List I immediately hoped that you wouldn’t show the dead girl. You showed the dead girl. Makes me cry every time
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One thing i thing i think you missed is connection sky asked walt to go buy diapers for holly at the same time jane was blackmailing him and he was trying to make his decision on if he should give the money or not he got his excuse to go out and meet donald margolis at the bar and make his final decision to go talk to jesse and mistakenly bump jane to cause her OD later he tried to figure out the odds of him going to that bar on that night and your right it was holly and janes connection
BRILLIANT RYAN!!!
Thanks!
Best show ever made 😍
Completed yesterday......
The Beauty Of Art .Open Interpretation.
Bruh, the fact that I just decided to look this up for no reason and this video was made 4 days ago haha
Very good video! Its insane to see this connection betreen this symbols.
You know a show is good when people start looking for meaning behind characters most inner thoughts.I even sometimes forget they aren’t real people.
I remember binging this show with my girlfriend and we we're so confused when it came to it and all of this buildup was to a plane crash. I felt like we had been duped. Like this bear meant nothing truly and the eye wasn't major. Well I was definitely wrong.
This video is amazing I’ve never felt so invested in a video quite like this before, to understand the significance between the pink bear and the eye which makes multiple reappearances in The Breaking Bad series , as a whole i loved this video and i loved how you pieced everything together what an Amazing video
Before watching the video, im going to say its symbolic of Walts guilt. He holds onto one of the bears eyes, which is often made to look as if its staring at him.
I also felt that when Walt tries to comfort Jesse on how he couldnt predict how Janes accidental death could lead to a plane full of people being destroyed, he is really trying to comfort himself as he knows that he is also accidentally responsible for her death in numerous ways, notably he accidentally rolls her over when she is about to vomit when he is trying to wake Jesse up. I also took Walt watching her choke on her own vomit as a moment of shock and not really knowing what to do on his part, rather than him wanting to kill her. Walt also gets to know her father before the accident, and I think this is the moment that he realises what he does doesnt just ruin the lives of drugees and awful people, but also people not directly connected to those sorts of things as Jane and her father were both innocent people.
I think youve also heard of this before but Walt also takes on characteristics of the people he kills, again i think this shows that he never makes peace with killing people but rather tries to keep it bottled up.
Edit: similarly i also think Jesse picks up some of walts characteristics throughout the show, such as his refusal to involve children, although i think this was already a part of Jesses character. Walt eventually becomes able to stand it after Todd kills the kid, Walts reaction is relatively calm even if he is unhappy, whereas Jesse is absolutely furious.
Great vid !
The moment Walter let Jane die, he became Heisenberg
Oh my my! These spectacular observations
I don’t think a bear will ever have a bigger significance in a show other than breaking bad
Always love these vids
Damn, the scene of the bear's POV falling until it splashdown into the pool is amazing. Maybe one of the best scenes ever filmed in a TV Series or a Film.
boy did all these things fly over my head
When i saw the first episode from the season i just knew this will be symbolic, and then when i saw that Walt has a pink sweather i started to put things together. It was about the descent of Walt into madness and beginning of chaos. By killing Jane he lost part of his innocence, which is why the plushie had it's other part burned and why at the end you see two body bags. He didn't only kill Jane but also his good side.
Edit: Jane pretty much was the cause of her own death, you say she represents innocence, but didn't you forget she's the one who got Jesse into stronger drugs, and she didn't kept her word either, also blackmailed Walt. Walt pretty much did it to protect both, now i'm not saying Walt is innocent, but i like how the show gives two perspectives and lets you decide which one is bad and good, but in this none weren't.
The scene of Walt and Jane’s dad talking is Breaking Bad’s glint of sci-fi, since ‘turning Mars to a gas station’ exceeds the tech of our time.
Does this glint of sci-fi relate to Jane’s bedroom painting, where she’s floating through space?
This was bad ass
Thanks Hillberry