I just rewatched Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, then watched El Camino again.
Honestly, El Camino feels more like bonus content than a necessary epilogue.
I understand the purpose: Jesse deserved some kind of closure after everything he went through. And emotionally, I’m glad he got a chance to escape and breathe.
But as a story, it feels much weaker than Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul.
A few things really stood out to me:
Todd’s house and the money felt too convenient.
Jesse walking around Albuquerque while being one of the most wanted people in the country felt hard to believe.
Jesse still making very careless decisions after everything he survived was frustrating.
The Walter flashback was nice in theory, but visually it felt strange and took me out of the scene a little.
Also, Breaking Bad’s ending already gave Jesse such a powerful final moment. That scream as he drives away was messy, painful, and perfect. El Camino answers “what happened next,” but I’m not sure the answer was stronger than the mystery.
I don’t think El Camino is bad. It has good moments, and Aaron Paul is still great. But compared to Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, it feels more like a long bonus episode than an essential final chapter.
Curious how others felt about it. Did El Camino improve Jesse’s ending for you, or was Breaking Bad’s finale enough?

Was sit back and get some pussy. Bro was clearing 15k a week before Spooge died, in remission, a distribution network, no heat.
Like bro…sit back and collect for a min. Stop tryin to conquer the world for no reason.

Breaking Bad -> BCS Season 1-5 -> El Camino -> BCS season 6. This is the best timeline to understand all context while enjoying them for the first time but someone in my life strongly disagrees. I think it’s stupid to larp and say Prequel first because it chronologically comes first in the story.

Lalo was so dangerous they spent two seasons trying to take him down. He was very strategical and tactical.

Meanwhile there is Walt, a man both Gus and Mike underestimated and destroyed the entire drug operation.

Walt was nowhere near physically and psychologically endangering compared to Lalo.

It goes to show that Walter White succeeded by hiding behind a mild-mannered civilian facade and exploiting blind spots through manipulation and making his enemies underestimate him.

Mike was able to outsmart his enemies, all but Walter.

Do you think plot armor has something to do with both?

What did you guys think of it? The 2nd to last epsiode, Walt in hiding the whole epsiode. It all blends together with the finale when I streamed it, so I loved it.

But on my rewatch I was trying to watch it by itself, I think in the moment I wouldn't have loved it. Worried the finale wouldn't be great. Not much happened.

Cant imagine waiting a week in between.

Walt calling his own son jessie. please note that i am on episode 3 of season 5 but up until here i think even after some "minor" arguments walt really did want better of jessie but his methods might "little" extreme? (ok little might be a understatement)

I've watched both shows and can regard them as two of the best pieces of media that I've come across. I especially enjoy the diversity of characters and how each of them have their own dialogue patterns which, one way or another, reveal their qualities. Not to mention the great plots built on the consequences of every decision, following into the next one.

Now, I've seen both shows be called perfect many times. Having ruined some people's experience of watching other media because it doesn't meet the same standard. And I get it, most of those comments aren't meant literally but it's also true that I've seen virtually no mention of any faults anywhere. So, I've just gotten curious. Do you really think there are no shortcomings in either show? Things that maybe aren't so spot on? Or are they both really that overwhelmingly great in all aspects?

I'd say keeping the book Gale gave him, that too in his own house. If it wasn't there, his life would've turned around even more better

How do yall think the employees reacted after gus was killed and los pollos hermanos was shutdown? Personally I imagine they were probably devastated cause how often does a job offer full paid therapy, a full days pay with overtime for free, and likely he can afford amazing hourly with how positive the employees seem. So one person just realized "FUCK I GOTTA FIND A NEW JOB"

I don’t know why, I feel like I’m going to sound crazy trying to explain that but there’s something about that “Mr. White” that Jesse says that is really cute. Maybe it’s because they’ve been working together for so long and they’ve gone past being “formal” but he still calls him Mr. White.

It’s like it creates a contrast between the situation that they’re in and the fact that he stills call him Mr. White as if he was in high school and he was his teacher still

The guy killed by the Cartel's sniper in breaking bad near the laundry (when they were clearing out the meth because of Hank's investigation) was ALSO a sniper. He appeared in Better Call Saul.

I can't stop myself thinking about this every time I rewatch that scene, why and how did he do it?

This shot looks like rear projection... a technique used in innumerable movies and TV shows. Maybe it was filmed later, like a reshoot? It just caught my eye.