Jesse did a lot of shitty things that a lot of people like to overlook. Yeah the character could be a lot of fun and showed remorse but the guy was a murderer and produced just as much meth as Walter, which arguably is worse than murder because you're directly contributing to all the crime and general human misery that gets amplified by drugs. The writers apparently didn't kill him off (which is probably how I would have ended it) because they felt like enough bad things had happened to him... he is in the end some dumb ass kid who got manipulated into a lot of what he did.
I don't understand how you could say they did a complete 180 with Walter though. He threatened death upon Elliot and Gretchen. He poisoned Lydia who will die painfully and leave her child alone and given how much of a rookie she was her crimes will likely come to light, making the child's life shitty. He massacred an entire room full of people. Deserving or not, those are still acts that could only be made by an evil person. He did all these evil things, just like the rest of the series, to satisfy his own ego. Don't forget the thing that convinced him to leave the bar and not turn himself in was the Schartz's interview. Walter was never doing plainly evil shit because he had a screw loose like Tuco, he was doing it because of his ego. That didn't change in the last episode. The only thing that changed was he didn't have a plan to save his own ass at the end of it.
Him dying alone in the cabin would have been an INCREDIBLY shitty ending. It's perhaps what he deserves but it's not what happens in interesting stories. The show needed closure because it was a specific story about specific people and leaving the characters up in the air is something shitty writers do.
I don't understand how you could say they did a complete 180 with Walter though. He threatened death upon Elliot and Gretchen. He poisoned Lydia who will die painfully and leave her child alone and given how much of a rookie she was her crimes will likely come to light, making the child's life shitty. He massacred an entire room full of people. Deserving or not, those are still acts that could only be made by an evil person. He did all these evil things, just like the rest of the series, to satisfy his own ego. Don't forget the thing that convinced him to leave the bar and not turn himself in was the Schartz's interview. Walter was never doing plainly evil shit because he had a screw loose like Tuco, he was doing it because of his ego. That didn't change in the last episode. The only thing that changed was he didn't have a plan to save his own ass at the end of it.
Him dying alone in the cabin would have been an INCREDIBLY shitty ending. It's perhaps what he deserves but it's not what happens in interesting stories. The show needed closure because it was a specific story about specific people and leaving the characters up in the air is something shitty writers do.
