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He was arrogant and very proud of himself, but nowhere is just a piece of history.

(**) The baby playing Holly said it unprompted during filming – among the more important improvisations in TV history, right alongside Johnny Carson reacting to Ed Ames' errant tomahawk throw – and Bryan Cranston, pro's pro that he is, went along with it. * From the moment Walt watched Jane die choking on her own vomit – an event that he inadvertently caused, by the way, by pushing on the mattress until she rolled onto her back – near the end of season 2, I've been waiting for Jesse to find out.

Why couldn't the damn cancer have just taken him on the night he talked about with Jesse back in “Fly”? I love this poem. Watched again three months later under more sober and healthy conditions, it is no less shattering. This June, as we observe LGBTQ Pride—the annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning communities—we... A picture book edition of the poem. * The song playing as Walt rolls the barrel through the desert – and note that you can spot Walt's khaki pants from the pilot episode lying in the background – is Eddy Arnold's “Time's A Gettin' Hard,” and its tale of a man who has lost everything could not seem more apropos for the moment, even as we know how much cash is in that barrel.

Individually, any of these events would be enough to make for one of the darkest “Breaking Bads” ever; all together, we're hurled into a bottomless pit, left feeling somewhere in between the catatonic look on Walt's face after Jack shoots Hank and the hysterical one on Skyler's when Walt drives off with their daughter.

Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”. These things have always been about Walter White, not his family.

This ambiguous ode carries between its folds heaps of philosophical matters. Start by marking “Ozymandias” as Want to Read: Error rating book. "Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair.". He thought he could keep his hands clean of Jesse's murder – which, really, is the cause of so much of what happens here, since if he hadn't needed to outsource this particular murder, Hank would still be alive and Walt would be behind bars – and thought he could talk his way out of any situation, up to and including convincing a stone killer like Uncle Jack to let Hank live.

1999 Every part of it has been a lie, and bit by bit he's been forced to reckon with that.

!… We're a family.” -Walter White.

Read 66 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Fame, power, money...all are temporary.

I was so surprised that I didn't remember this name. Back in mid-September, “Breaking Bad” gave us its best episode ever in “Ozymandias, on the exact same day I wound up in the hospital with a burst appendix and a bad infection. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” I can't promise it won't be colored by things that happened in the ensuing “Granite State” or “Felina,” so if you happen to be coming to this review years from now as a person lucky enough to be watching “Breaking Bad” for the first time, you may want to read the semi-coherent original review and return to this later. This is the climax to Walter White's story, and it's as masterful as we could have possibly hoped for.

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In the end, Jesse is a slave to the Nazis, Holly is safe at a fire station, and Walt is sitting in front of the dam that looks like a graveyard, waiting to be picked up by Saul's relocation specialist, alongside the only thing he has left: the one barrel of cash Jack left him as a sop to his Walt-admiring nephew. game, but Jesse's predicament is among the more visceral in its hopelessness.

This is a poem with true universal value. Walt remains deluded about what he can talk people into, where Hank sees the situation for exactly what it is. Now he's alone with the fruits of his labor, just as it should be. Reread this last night for the 5th time maybe. He could have sold the moment even without the cries of “Mama,” but they unintentionally took the power of the moment to another level. The one great king's proud words "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, Look upon my work, ye mighty and despair" has been ironically disproved. Ozymandias works and might have crumbled to pieces. It is unmerciful in what it does to Walt, what it does to Hank and Skyler and Flynn and Marie, and what it does to us. Walt's capacity for self-deception is so enormous that even after Skyler intuits what happened in the desert, even after she pulls a very large carving knife on him and shrieks at him to leave the house, he is still convinced he can talk her out of it. Nothing beside remains. How about Ozymandias and the Romantics? It’s a horror show. Ozymandias is a simple homage to human power, to human corruption and to human ruling. ,,My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. And after she cuts his palm, after they wrestle on the floor and Flynn – who only minutes earlier was directing all his anger at the situation towards Skyler – has tackled him and positioned himself as his mother's human shield, Walt somehow still thinks he's being the only reasonable party.

(*) The brilliance of that lingering shot of the phone resting next to the kitchen knives comes from our knowledge that Skyler has called the authorities (or family) for help with Walt in the past; we know just as well as she does that it doesn't work. Ozymandias thought that he was the king of kings that nobody like him in the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language.
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Shelley isn't my favorite Romantic, but Ozymandias is killer. Short and because of that, and its inherent value, worth reading a couple times in succession. Fame, power, money...all are temporary. A picture book edition of the poem. They're not his final words (Jack shoots him in mid-sentence a moment later), but “You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see he made up his mind 10 minutes ago” is the most incisive possible summary of the difference between how the two brothers-in-law saw the world. I wish I could find it and post it! The poet uses a shattered statue to highlight the ephemeral nature of fame, vanity and power. 10. Be the first to ask a question about Ozymandias. Mixed/neutral reviews (none) Negative reviews (none) What do you think?

In an episode full of metaphorical stabs to the gut (and one literal slash of Walt's hand), none resonated more with me that night, or in the months after it (nor will, I suspect, in the future) than those seven seconds at the end of Walt and Skyler's fight. Last week’s episode was a Leone movie, I saw someone remark on Twitter—outsized drama, heightened style, breathless suspense, posturing galore. 16h …

But I’m scared. This poem shows that even the powerful people such as Ozymandias, after they died nothing will remain round. Short, but mesmerizing poem... great example that nothing stands against time, nor power, nor fame, nor money. BEAUTIFUL, JUST BEAUTIFUL.

of the Who Suffered the Most? Man is insignificant before the power of time. Anybody with two minutes to spare and a smart phone. Anyone want to join me?
!” he bellows. It is also the most terrible. The theme of this sonnet is the decline of all leaders of all the empires they built. What Does It Take To Reopen A Hotel During The Pandemic?

The poem, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare To conclude, power has a limit, has a period and nothing is immortal. That it's also such an emotionally devastating hour is the point. “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?

Walt steals baby Holly, leaving a wrecked Skyler kneeling in the street.