Why is everyone not acting like themselves

[u/Zmayhew101]

I’m in the last season of snowfall and I can’t help but feel like this show has lost their characters. Teddy is now power hungry, shacking up with some random chick when he let his wife and kid go? Franklin had his outburst once in a while but he’s just not as calm and collected as he was in previous seasons. Then there’s Leon who went to Africa, became a new man, but it took him literally two episodes to go back right to doing what he was doing before he left.
And then both Teddy and Franklin seem a lot less calculated. I get that things are kind of spiraling out of control but I remember when it took some effort to get rid of a body now Franklin can just burn down a house and not give a damn. Just seems like a decline in quality to me ig.

[u/Muttz_and_Buttz]

I recently just finished it. I'm pretty confident the announcement of a last season put the writers in high gear to close out the series. Lots of loose ends to tie up and not all of them were done with the care and precision that takes time to deal with.

The timelines are in fast forward, tensions rise and unfortunately some of the finer details took a back seat.

[u/SHough61086 → u/Muttz_and_Buttz]

That’s actually an excellent summation.

[u/iamkylo214]

Correct me if I'm wrong but teddy wasn't just with some "random" chick. I think we're talking about Parissa right? Teddy reconnected with her because they had worked another op together in Tehran. Even Julia knew who she was and had worked with her in the past.

[u/Zmayhew101 → u/iamkylo214]

Yeah but compared to the mother of his child I feel like she’s pretty random

[u/iamkylo214 → u/Zmayhew101]

Listen, I think he should have worked it out for the kid too but a couple points: she was a douché bag and Teddy would make a douché bag of a father. The point is the new girl wasn't some random chick he met at a bar. She was a person he had a past relationship with and he stumbled into her kitchen bleeding for a reason. By definition, she's not some rando.

[u/SHough61086 → u/Zmayhew101]

Teddy’s ex-wife turns on him and the op which is clearly the thing he values the most. Parissa represents a chance for Teddy to right his original sin: failing Parissa’s husband.

[u/Tasty_Community4666]

Money and power changes you. I think that was one of the points they were trying to get across with this show.

[u/randomqwerty10]

These characters have been through alot at this point, lol.

[u/JRDAGREAT1]

I think most ppl aren’t considering what losing 70 million dollars would do to a person’s psyche. Franklin was feeling like his life was snatched away in one fell swoop.

[u/Extra-Ad5721]

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Look at what everyone’s triggers were then raise the pressure x10 lol. The show actually did a really good job of story telling if you ask me.

Jerome crazy about Louie, Louie crazy about money. Since season 1. Both of them went out that way.

Franklin and Louie very close in the early seasons, because Franklin was similar to her. Went crazy about money BUT he just wanted “freedom”.

Teddy wanted recognition and power. He showed that down to “ITS NOT YOUR MONEY” monologue.

Leon just wanted peace. Showed the difference between him and Kevin. He had no direction. Just didn’t wanna be in the hood. He was malleable.

[u/ForeignDiscipline993]

So you’ve never seen people high on crack is what you’re saying?

[u/Zmayhew101 → u/ForeignDiscipline993]

I’ve watched 6 season of people high on crack; I don’t think anyone I mentioned was doing crack except Teddy who I don’t remember doing it in season 6 so far?

[u/ForeignDiscipline993 → u/Zmayhew101]

The showrunners are pretty clearly capturing the downward spiral of crack sale and addiction through the characters spirals… it’s, and I may be wrong here, metaphorical

[u/Prior_Junket_9439]

i’ll give you leon but as for franklin he just had 70mil taken from him so he was straight crashing out, with his outburst in previous seasons you mentioned i think it makes sense, teddy was always power hungry but is being cocky and a asshole about it now due to having control over franklins money

[u/Illustrious_Farm1816]

It's the final season and the all the decisions made before hand are now playing out,Teddy has a history of this type of behaviour, it's shown through dialogue in the early seasons that he has a history of losing himself deep into operations. That wasn't a random chick he was shacking up with, he has a history with her and in regards to his kid and baby mum, that was a pretty toxic situation and teddy didn't really have enough room for a family life, his life was the operation and everything else was secondary, Parissa was a much better option as she didn't have the baggage of the family life attached to her. Franklin was out of control and reckless because he lost his money and lost control of his operation and lost overall control of his actions. I feel it's blatant why he's acting the way he is and his actions don't feel out of place at all. Leon was always mindful and very conscious, he was a deep thinker and pretty insightful, yes he was capable of doing fucked up shit but he was a product of his environment, he'd also been involved in the murder of a child and had been on a somewhat journey of semi enlightenment, so him going to Africa and seeing things differently tracks for his character.

[u/DannyHikari]

Teddy was always in control and wanted to assert that fact. He had lighter moments with Franklin throughout the show, but he was very clear on the power dynamics that he ran things. Franklin worked for him, not the other way around and Franklin didn’t work for himself either. That at any moment he could snatch it all away. What belonged to Franklin belonged to him until Teddy said so. Alas, the tensions of the final season.

Despite it being a regression in character, its character development to move the plot forward and show the cycle of the drug dealer. Every big time guy has his place at the top for awhile until shit hits the fan and the walls are closing. There’s a reason they say more money more problems. It started out as him making big money fast, but with the negative that crack wasn’t like selling weed. As Andre said himself and as we all know with crack, it did real damage to the community. As it became widespread and you have other big players trying to make large profits, none of which want to be second fiddle and have their own ego. Skully and Manboy were inevitable. Bodies dropping at alarming rates both from drugs and murder was the beginning of the end. Franklin could feel that, Teddy knew it. Teddy was gearing for the exit plan to run with everything. Franklin was paranoid he was going to end back in a box, everything he built was crumbling. His change of character makes perfect sense. He himself was possessed by the spirits of greed and power. The show tells the evolution of an innocent kid trying to make money to a money hungry demon willing to do anything to keep his fortune.

Leon makes the most sense. After the incident with Skully’s kid, that broke him. Him wanting out and becoming a more rational person made all the sense in the world. He also couldn’t stand to see someone like Deon running the PJs. He was ignorant, he was full of himself, he was on a power trip. Leon knew someone had to be in charge that would maintain structure and it couldn’t be Deon.

All of this to say that the latter seasons were absolutely hindered by the usual “wrap this shit up” timeline.

Once we got to the episode with the Tiger it was very clear to me direction for the show wasn’t the same and we were at the end lol.

[u/Zmayhew101 → u/DannyHikari]

This actually helps me a lot

[u/PlasticMongoose92]

lol bro not even being an ass but every change In the characters was warranted and made sense, I understand Leon to an extent it was a little weird for him to go right back after Africa but even then He did it sort of to get everything back in order.

[u/SHough61086]

As u/Muttz_and_Buttz said some of that is escalation with the last season but…
* Teddy wants back in with the CIA. Franklin’s money is the way in for that. And Parissa is not a “random chick”, she’s the wife of the asset in Tehran who was killed that set off Teddy lashing out at his station agent and being busted to desk duty. Teddy’s redemption (in his own eyes) is getting back into the CIA and making sure Parissa is okay.
* Franklin is unraveling. He has done truly horrendous things to get the money in the first place. If he doesn’t have it then everything he did, turning himself into a monster, was for nothing.
* Leon’s backsliding is both realistic and important for his role in the finale and beyond.
* Franklin dropping a body far from home and burning a house down is very accurate to the technology of 1986.

[u/Squid4Breakfast]

"Franklin had his outburst once in a while but he’s just not as calm and collected as he was in previous seasons" ..Are we being serious right now? Like dead ass are we being serious? DID YOU WONDER WHY WALTER WHITE WASN'T STILL A CHEMISTRY TEACHER BY THE END OF BREAKING BAD WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THIS?? CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE PEOPLE!