I said you say it "like" it's a bad thing - you left it open-ended. But merely asking the question does imply that you thought it was bad, that you needed someone to assure you on this point.

Yeah, Vince's "artsy fartsy" answer was fucking terrible. He is an instinctual artist. He can't thematize what he is doing for shit. Hence, why he makes pop culture that is firmly pop culture, and that's not to speak down to it, he's amazing.

@tjstrikes:disqus I apologize for being unclear in a bad way, and not in a way that was attempting to express my position. He died in the diner.

I agree. Thanks for expressing this view.

Right, it would have ended like Simon Wilder says at the end of each episode. Everything would be a disaster constantly. But we are talking about the ending of the series. The rest of the episodes are assumed to be fixed points of events that have already happened. Keep up.

His plan worked because a requirement of an series finale is that it has to be an episode of the show, rather than an anomaly. His plans always work, he's that smart and lucky. Wrong time to be complaining about that. And the idea that things were too neat… Walt's life ended in utter disaster and catastrophe. On the…

Yes, not getting to say goodbye to your son, and dying in pain alone is happy. Sure, he got some revenge, but look at the bigger picture.

They had a good moment that shows their relationship had developed. Lydia saying "my blouse?" had a feel of "I see that you're sweet on me Todd and I'm a bit flattered by it and I'd consider dating you, because your fumbling is cute." And then when Walt shows up and she says "Todd?", looking to him for protection and…

You're looking at the full scope of the details and contextualizing them. Criticism on here is about finding one element, blowing it up, examining it, and proving you're smarter and more artistic than Vince Gilligan and his team. Shame on you.

It was a tonal element, not a plot element. Not everything is plot.

It was both perfectly clear and perfectly ambiguous. Of course he died. But it was not shown. And it was. But it was shown in a way that could be interpreted otherwise. Yet, yeah, you'd have to be an idiot to think he wasn't dead, all the while knowing that you don't know. You don't experience your own death, it's the…

You're taking Walt's speech to Skyler too seriously. He was saying words at a time and a place and in a mood. Why are you trusting Walt that that was he real, 100% motivation and he finally reached a True Judgement on what has been going on his head for the last 5 seasons?

Time has been a big theme of the show. "Out of Time Man" being the big song in the first episode, and clocks constantly ticking in the White's house. Walt was admitting to himself that time was indeed out for him, this was it.

Some great criticisms (I won't criticize the ones that were stupid). It's almost as if the commercial nature of the medium constricts the freedom of the artists! Imagine if we were living in a socialist country where filmmaking was funded through the state (think Von Trier, Tarkovsky, etc.) and also imagine that it…

I love how it is so in character that Todd would be dumb and literal minded enough to do that with his ringtone. It's like the wacky mid-western Dad who has the Darth Vader theme when the wife calls.

Yes, that's possible, but you say it like it's a bad thing. It is left open ended. Just like the fact that Jesse was probably arrested off screen. He left the Nazi compound speeding like a motherfucker while cops were swarming in. Of course one of the cop cars probably swung around, or called backup, to capture the…

That's real life. This is drama.

They chickened out a bit on the ending. The plan was to turn him evil and he ended sympathetic and partially redeemed. In a way, I would have preferred him to devolve into madness. I wanted the cackling crawlspace Walt and the Mike shooting Walt to be developed more, until he was just let loose on the world as an…

@eric827:disqus I'M THE ONLY ONE WITH THE TRUTH, NO ONE CAN AGREE BECAUSE NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND THE TRUE DEPTHS OF MY POSTS. GET REAL.

They are terrible.