El Camino

I’ve never watched a better TV show than Breaking Bad. One summer, I watched four and a half seasons in about three weeks, just in time to catch the last half of Season 5 as it aired live. It was one of the greatest journeys of my entertainment pursuits.

El Camino just came out today. It’s a two hour movie continuing from where the show ended. It follows the pursuit of fugitive Jessie Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul) after the massive fallout between drug lord and drug maker. This movie, like the series, was expertly crafted and well made. It met every expectation I had for it.

Great stories never die. Even when you think the story’s been told entirely, there’s always more to say, more to investigate. On a deeper note, there’s more to every story than you think. You can never know the entirety of a story—to do so would mean to understand each perspective of the characters and every motive behind their actions. This is an impossible task, so there is always more to learn.

If only professors, teachers, and educators understood this… Maybe there would be less students who hate learning and more meaningful discoveries.