<p>I’ve always loved the light and dark scenes juxtaposed against each other. Like when Hector (Tio) was in the nursing home. The nurse is treating him like a baby asking him, “Do you have to make poopy?” She has no clue this guy is a former high ranking member of a drug cartel. It was so funny to me, the nurse has no idea what’s about to happen.</p>
<p>And then, after the big Face off explosion, Walt is in his car listening to the radio to hear news of the explosion. That’s also an all time favorite scene of mine. The radio announcers were so full of perky chatty conversation, and they glossed over the explosion, having no idea the full extent of the dark devastation in the underbelly of their own city. </p>
<p>There are so many switches like that from very dark to very light throughout the series. Not so much in the last few episodes.</p>
<p>Joblue, I understand about the money in the package, but just when you’re thinking he left money in it, you never know if it plays a part in the felina, possibly someone is going to open it and inside is something else. Just another of my crazy internet theories.</p>
<p>I am totally willing to play along, but the one unbelievable part of the last episode is that Walter walked eight miles into town in the snow. He could barely walk across the room. In the scenes we saw before about the end, he’s walking from the coffee shop normally, he’s walking around his house and bending down to get the Ricin, etc. No matter how angry he is, that flight-into-health is not realistic. </p>
<p>Also, I find it funny that after all of our speculation about who trashed his house, it was just local kids.</p>
<p>The inconsistency I caught was that he was still receiving chemo at the cabin yet somehow he was still able to grow a full head of hair. I’m willing to forgive it for the sake of art. :)</p>
<p>But this takes place in the TV Land and in the TV land Walter White is a brilliant chemist who helped launch a billion $ company and cooks the purest meth on the planet.</p>
<p>Yeah, that chemo-plus-hair thing made no sense to me, either. Maybe because he’s not getting a full dose? Maybe he’s keeping his hair this time because it reminds us more of the original Walter White, and not Heisenberg?</p>
<p>For me, the most unbelievable episode was in the 5th season: the freight train episode. So, if you saw that, and you weren’t complaining about how unrealistic it was then, why turn around and say oh, he couldn’t walk eight miles to town and have hair after chemo. I mean, who could really pull off a train heist like that?</p>
<p>I have willingly suspended disbelief since episode 1. I’ll admit there are plot holes and implausibilities - I don’t care. We probably wouldn’t be as invested in these characters as we are if BB was a scrupulously accurate portrayal of the meth trade in the American southwest.</p>
<p>It was quite a stretch for me to believe that Walt could have 10 guys taken out in three different prisons within a two minute span and become an international meth supplier with more money than Skyler could count/launder right after the next commercial. The snappy musical montages helped put it over for me. :)</p>
<p>I have wondered why someone in the bureaucracy didn’t ask “What’s up with this Walter White guy?” before it all came tumbling down this season. Like a claims rep at his car insurance company. How many times was that Aztek damaged, anyway? Or a cop or sharp-eyed police reporter - Walt’s had a number of encounters with the authorities, including the time he was found naked and incoherent in a grocery store, which would be worthy of a news story around here.</p>
<p>Not going to nitpick this show, though. I think the emotional honesty trumps the small stuff.</p>
<p>Thoughts, after rewatching the series (not completely finoshed yet):</p>
<ol>
<li><p>It took a long time for Walt to learn how to move a barrel of anything! </p></li>
<li><p>Jesse had clear, blue eyes, and a good soul for a long time. He rescued the red haired toddler in “Peek a Boo”.</p></li>
<li><p>Walt was inept for several seasons, even as Heisenberg. He was always playing catch up, needing instruction from Jesse and Saul. He was book smart but street stupid for so long, and didn’t appreciate Jesse.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Does anyone want to post a prediction or a wish list? I wish:</p>
<p>That whatever Walt’s fate in the end, he sees and understands and feels infinite remorse for all the pain he has caused. I don’t want him to die denying it, or thinking he was in any way justified.</p>
<p>That the Neo-Nazis, Lydia, and for sure Todd come to violent ends.</p>
<p>That Holly, Flynn, Marie, Skyler, and for sure Jesse somehow are all still standing at the end. I feel as if the kids and Marie are going to be okay, but that Skyler will serve prison time and Jesse - would the show really torture him more than he’s already been tortured? I hope not.</p>
<p>Prediction - I will still love this show even if it ends with Walt waking up on his 50th birthday saying, “Honey, I just had the worst dream.” But I predict the ending will not disappoint. And that the ricin is either for Lydia’s tea or Walt himself, just before he’s arrested.</p>
<p>An article with one of the writers says after the bar scene, Walt is no longer ‘Walt’ or ‘Heisenberg’, he will transform into something new. So whatever that means.</p>
<p>I am done trying to predict…almost…ha ha, we all think the ricin will end up in Lydia’s stevia, or with Walt, but I think that’s a trick to make us look that way…maybe the ricin ends up in wine that is drunk by the Grey Matter people…oh, I don’t know…but we’ll all know soon.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m going to just sit back and let the episode reveal itself. Also, the writer said the episode was ‘screened’ and there was a favorable reaction from the people who saw it. And the actors, when they read it through the first time, there were several moments of silence among them after it was all said and done.</p>