Dark approach: He steadily loses control of the city and contemplates suicide. The last scene of the series is him holding a gun to his head in his office, and he's about to pull the trigger when he gets a call about some nutjob in a bat costume foiling a bank robbery.

Commissioner? It's Bat-intern to see you.

I don't know how they'll float this one to the viewers!

@avclub-f89827bb9d3e10d3c0abbe32af4af1f2:disqus It's one of those things where we have become so decadent as a society that people have taken basic life-supporting technological breakthroughs for granted so much that they can plausibly (to them)deny their efficacy. It's a classic case of congitive dissonance. Hey,…

…I fell off the jetway again.

BIRD!

"If I like it after I pirate it, I pay for it!"

The episode is just Todd shooting Walt in the back of the head. Fifteen seconds. Followed by one hundred minutes of Hardwick orgasming on television.

They are the new breed of Nazi Ninja. The only thing keeping their imprisoned members from simultaneously killing every prison guard and evaporating through their jail cell bars is the fact that, apparently, no one has offered to pay them enough to do it.

Okay. I just thought it was curious that BB glossed over a huge aspect of drug culture, even though it is a character-based and not message-based show. It didn't have to sermonize, but maybe just put Walt in a position where he had to confront another aspect of the reality he created and see how he responds.

I forgot about the ATM family, I do think that was a good microcosm of the effects of drugs packaged nicely with some more characterization of Jesse (i.e. weakness for children).

One thing that went unexplored in this show: the thousands, maybe millions of people whose lives have been ruined by addiction to Walt's product. The moral turpitude of meth cooking is given lip service by people like Hank, but the only consequences Walt has had to face are the direct dangers to himself and his…

Chekov's ricin.

Am I the only one who feels no ill will toward the Schwartzes? Walt made poor business and personal decisions. His pride caused him to reject their help with his treatments, but then he used them as unwilling cover. Then he becomes a one-man crime wave, and the Schwartzes have to cover their asses the protect the…

@avclub-e129a878f7b0e5aa9ac09e0282f64ea6:disqus Maybe a score is one of those things that, if it's done really well, you don't notice it. If you only remember all the strong feelings, I'd say the music did a pretty good job.

You mean the video game version of Breaking Bad?

I'll bring enough bacon to shape into everyone's ages!

"That's right."

[ElDan runs in excitedly waving a bike lock]

"Whoa, it's like I'm back on the moon!"