Plane Crash
The plane crash was a fantastic use of symbolism. It was the perfect culmination of the downward spiral everyone's life was taking: crash and burn. The little stuffed animal was the perfect use to symbolize the loss of innocence. This show is FANTASTIC!
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Ok, someone has to ask who is in the 2 body bags next th Hal's car after the plane crash???
What do you think?
I'm gonna have to disagree with what you saw. Granted the 2nd season was a beautiful tragedy and beuty is in the eye of the beholder.
From the first scene of the season you see this teddy bear in the pool, and as it progresses its obvious that there has been an explosion at Walt's home.
The entire season i dreaded it, i knew it, something had happened to Walt's family, to Walt's newborn daughter. I believe that is the direction intended by the imagrey of the pink teddy bear, to lead you into fearing for Walt's family, but then you see outside of that box, and understand that another family, hundreds of families even have been affected by Walt.
His whole personna is changed in the last 2 episodes, my perception of him was blown away at the last minute, and i saw him as the selfish bastard that he is. Sure he did all this for his family, but remember, HIS family. Consider the lives ruined outside of the plane crash, the addicts he's feuled.
The first season was all shits and giggles, but from the get-go season two has been a tragedy.
thank the heavens for everyone involved in this show, a terriffic all around cast, and obviously a killer set of writers behind it
And allow me to extend a personal thank you for whoever at AMC had the balls to run it
Ok, I am a dumb a.. I wrote who is in the body bags next to (Hal's) car after the plane crash.
I am still thinking of Hal on Malcom in the Middle, I can hear his wife say it.
I mean, who do you think is in the 2 body bag's next to Walt's car after the plane crash..
Chell, I think they're just random passengers (or at least parts of them) from one of the planes.
So is this plane crash a homage to the real midair collsion the real Walter White caused ???
http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/talk/2009/06/is-ep-13-a-homa.php
After all there has only been one midair collsion of planes in US in the last 30 years and it was caused by an ATC named Walter White.
I actually rather hated the whole plane crash ending. Placing a tragedy upon a father who just lost his daughter - not to mention that we'll probably never see from that character or hear of the event again and also not to mention the unimportance of this character .......all for symbolism. Doesn't fit the show at all...not the plot...not the way the previous episodes are written..etc. Distasteful imo.
And yes... the body bags are supposed to contain victims from the plane collision - don't expect those to come back next season.
What I was expecting the foreshadowing scenes to be a result of was Hal's...or eerr Walter's... handyman work... It would have been the most logical and plausible event. If you don't know what I'm talking about - I'm getting at his no plumber, do it himself installation of the high end gas water heater. Gas leak and small explosion... bing bang boom. Oh well.
I think the plane crash ending was very important and meaningful. In an obvious sense, it was about consequences for not making the right choice, the decent choice. But looking a little deeper, it was about how our actions have consequences, sometimes far greater than we can imagine. It shows how interconnected we all really are. Our actions, good or bad, really can and do effect others around us.
I already posted this theory in another post, but this is what I think:
I think that the body bags in the drive-way of the home could be Walt Jr and Hank. Skyler left with the baby, and told Walt that Hank would be stopping by to pick Walt Jr up after school. Walt was in the backyard by the pool when the plane crashed. Maybe Hank was there to pick up Walt Jr when the plane crashed and fell down on the house causing a fire and explosion, possibly killing Walt Jr and Hank in the process. I know it sounds far fetched, but here is why it would work:
It more than likely could bring Skyler and Walt back together. After the loss of a child, they would need to be there to comfort one another, thus making Walts "lies" unimportant for the moment. Especially since they now also have a baby to take care of. Not to mention, it would sort of be an ironic "karma" - Walt let Jane die, and then Jane's father would have unknowingly caused Walt's sons death.
As for killing off Hank, it would throw off the drug investigation. hank was the one who was most adamant about "Heisenberg" still being out on the street. If Hank were to die, since he was most invested in the investigation, it would possibly slow down the trail of of the blue ice leading toward Walt or Jesse.
Not to mention, the killing off of two vital characters from the show, would definitely throw the viewers for a loop. I'm not saying that is definitely what happened of course, but that was the first thing that came into my mind while watching the finale a few weeks ago.
If they did return with some stunt trying to say that important characters were killed from the b.s., for symbolism plane collision - I'd call shennanigans and would quit watching the show because it'd be obvious that the writers started giving a shit about realism. They already went to shit throwing in some bullshit scene of a plane collision just so they could be like Ooohhhh symbolic lesson. ...To then go and say that main characters were killed in an event that really doesn't fit the story at all would just be... amazing.
Do we know where Skyler went when she left with the baby? Is it possible SHE was on that plane and that the pink teddy bear belonged to the baby? I can think of a dozen storylines emanating from that turn of events!
I still going with the pilot and copilot. One of them landed on the windsheild of Walts car.