Remember, as the very first episode suggests, like chemistry, this show is about change.  Walter has transformed into Heisenburg.  Hank changed into someone a little (okay a lot) less jackass-ish.  Skyler has changed…Marie has changed…Jesse has changed as well…However, the ultimate transformation would be Jesse into…

fair enough—i got it wrong bc I heard someone say that the spelling of Pinkman's first name was the way you'd spell a woman's name, and I never bothered to fact check it. nonetheless, "Pinkman" still fits with the overall point I was making, and, if you bracket out the spelling the name Jesse - when heard - can refer…

Another thought, the show also has shown how Walt adopts certain mannerisms of the people he kills. What if when Jesse kills the neo-Nazis (who, as it happens, don't like to wear gas masks when cooking meth—think back to how Walt escapes Crazy-8 in the show's first episode), Jesse adopts their worst characteristics?…

Here's my guess.  Walt's last act of vengeance (toward Jesse) will be Walt's final undoing.  Many folks have commented on how pink is a sign of death in the show.  I actually think it's more complex than that.  I think pink is a symbol of the feminine (in the non-gender-essentialist Jungian sense).  Basically, pink is…