I know thinking and critical analysis is tough for you buddy but I already pointed there's nothing about that scene to indicate it was given to him personally by Gale, dipshit, if anything you'd assume he ran out and bought it due to his giant ego. Try not to get bent out of shape that someone doesn't hold a tv show…

Yeah, and that's shitty and lazy writing.

"'You know the reason they couldn't show the inscription beforehand (other than the writers not knowing it existed until now obviously)?  Because anyone with a brain would see the ending coming a mile away.'
Because it would be INEFFECTIVE DRAMATIC STORYTELLING."

So your good with the big moment of Hank CRACKING the Heisenberg case being based on some off screen gift giving that makes no sense because "hey, it's not COMPLETELY implausible."
How is that any different that them just showing up and cuffing walt and saying, "we witnessed you committing some crime" and it wasn't a…

Go back and watch the scenes from season 3.  Gale and Walt meet for the first time, cook, gale brings up a Whitman poem that Walt doesn't know.  There's some hank and jesse scenes and then a scene of Walt in his apartment reading the book when he gets a call from hank.  No more scenes of gale in that episode and the…

"The book first appears in SEASON THREE, EPISODE SIX. Here is a screenshot:"

Guys there was no setup to the book.  The was no indication that an inscription from Gale was on the inside until the last seconds of the episode and no mention ever that Walt got a book from Gale.  It was pulled out of the writer's asses at the last second, because if we had known it was there we would also know it…

This was lazy and dumb writing

This was lazy and dumb writing