It’s been over 13 years since the series ended.Breaking Bad‘, but his influence and legacy in pop culture is still present more than a decade later, and this week it has been demonstrated again with a “battle” that his fans have carried out with those of ‘Game of Thrones‘, or rather with those of ‘The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘.
And this has caused ‘Breaking Bad’ to lose one of the records it held until now, that of having one of its last episodes with a perfect score and holding the title of best episode in the history of television.
‘Ozymandias’, broadcast on September 15, 2013, is the 14th episode of the fifth and final season of the series created by Vince Gilligan and starring Walter White. This episode left good feelings among its fans, which is why it held a 10 for a long time on platforms such as IMDb.
Currently its score has dropped to 9.6 and that has made it surpassed by episodes from the same series such as ‘One minute’, ‘Full measure’, ‘Salud’, ‘Crawl Space’, ‘Face off’, ‘Dead Freight’ or ‘Say my name’, among others. And the reason is in the ‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off.
The broadcast of the last episode of ‘The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ reached a score of 10/10 for a few hours, which angered ‘Breaking Bad’ fans, who started an online battle to try to lower the rating of this ending of the spin-off of ‘Game of Thrones’.
This in turn made fans of the series based on the story created by George RR Martin dedicated themselves to lowering the score of ‘Ozymandias‘, thus no longer holding the record for the best final episode of a television series.
What the last chapter of ‘Breaking Bad’ is about
‘Ozymandias’, which is how this episode was titled, refers to the poem of the same name by Percy Bysshe Shelleand, husband of Mary Shelleyauthor of ‘Frankenstein’. In it, he reflected on the transience of power, in the figure of Pharaoh Ramses II, and established a declaration of intentions at the end of the series.
In this chapter, the death of Hank Schraderbrother-in-law of Walter White and DEA agent, who joins the protagonist’s fall, being a tragedy for the viewer, and led to it being the only episode with a perfect score on IMDb.
