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i drink gin quite often. i'm presenting evidence as to why i think it is a dream. the strange time shift from midwinter to early september is a huge reason as is the multitude of unrealistic things which happen in the course of the episode. another wee textual things is walter being useless with the screw driver in the car but later on in the episode he DIYs an efficient killing machine. i think that every scene being from walter's perspective other than one which begins in jesse's dream could also be taken as evidence that we are seeing the fates of our two protaginists and also their fantasies. watches represent time and reality and can be said to represent a tie to the world. taking off the watch and abandoning indicates we are no longer in the real world. i know what gilligan said but he is hardly going to lay it all out, david chase certainly didn't.

so why do you think they made such a big deal out of walt putting the watch on the phonebox? how do you explain walt being in new hampshire during the winter but apparently back in new mexico for his birthday in september? or walt getting shot in the gut by an M60 but not noticing straight away? this theory justifies the crazy serendipity the finale relies on and deals with the morality problems as walter dies alone and unredeemed and jesse is stuck as a meth slave.

also shedding the watch could be a sign that we are outside reality. gilligan said that it was a continuity thing but he also said they fluked the reflection of skylar in the microwave.

the fact that walter was able to walk around without being noticed or arrested to the extent that he hung around after telling skylar to phone the DEA was extremely strange and a dream would also account for the way his plans worked out perfectly against all odds. there was also a lot of odd dialouge in the episode: the pizza/thai conversation, the part with marie constantly getting the neighbours name mixed up and the bit with jack asking him if he was wearing a wig. there was also a strange filter in the scene with skylar and the fact that everything apart from the quick look at jesse was from walter's perspective.

i actually quite like the interpretation that everything from the keys falling from the sun visor is a fantasy. it's also perhaps worth wondering if jesse's fantasy scene where he is well dressed in a woodshop which cuts to the reality of todd in the meth lab is a hint that this is what's going on. the sopranos ending was confusing at first but it later became clear that everything you needed to know was there in the final episode and also foreshadowed in many previous episodes. this might be the same.

the novel i take my user name from the The Sun Also Rises by hemingway has no plotholes. i am currently reading javier marias's Your Face Tomorrow trilogy and the first book in that series that has no plotholes. both of those examples are entirely realist works but there are other examples of novels which are fantastic or feature unreliable narration that you could apply this to as well such as blood meridian or american psycho. there are literally thousands of novels this applies to. plays again are too numerous to mention but find me a plothole in chekhov, ibsen or beckett and i'll be impressed. movies are obviously more prone to plotholes than plays or novels but there still plenty of examples i can think of. i rewatched the thin red line recently and there is nothing in that which could be described as a plothole. the movie i watched prior to that was five easy pieces with jack nicholson and again there are no plot holes in that. das boot was on film four the other week as well. no plotholes there. they are all fairly straightforward examples and there are many more. in breaking walter finding an unlocked car with the keys in it just when the cops are arriving and uncle jack passing up two chances to kill walter for extremely strange reasons aren't just plotholes in the normal sense but extremely cliche as well.

seriously? there are thousands of novels, plays and movies that are completely devoid of plotholes.

why did you spend time writing that out? you should also read some books and fill yourself in on the details of the the development of the bomb and also that nuking vietnam was on the table and a popular option amongst some in the us military. also most of the concentration camps were actually work camps rather than death camps and the SS were working hard to try and maximize the output of their slave labour. breaking bad isn't the second world war, it's the dirty dozen.

it wasn't a plot hole. he was in custody and then he wasn't and saul told him that walter paid his bail money. makes perfect sense. the prints on the murder weapon at the meth factory is pretty dodgy.

cooperating including confessing to multiple murders including a child. one of the biggest plot holes was jesse at no point asking hank what would happen to him after walt was arrested. i would imagine that if you can't account for your money you will get done with at least tax evasion. they had to have charged him with something to cause him to be bailed out.

he deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail anyway for his part in the murder of drew sharp. he is going to get a prison sentence just for skipping bail and being unable to account for his money. the fingerprints on the gun are going to be hard to explain as well and even if they can't pin hank's death on him the fact that he is involved will mean he'll get hammered for the other stuff.

i really enjoyed the first three seasons but felt it went downhill after that. i found hank and jesse interesting in the first half of the final season but i don't think that carried on in the second half. i found the final episodes to be pretty ludicrous and i don't think i'm able to suspend my disbelief to the required point to accept walt randomly seeing himself mentioned on tv just after giving himself up then walking outside and finding an unlocked car with key inside which he then drove across america to his home town where he wandered about at will despite being a famous wanted criminal. the fact that the finale turned on walt being able to park his car in the perfect spot so his gun could fire whilst all his enemies were conveniently standing in the firezone was ludicrous. uncle jack making a bond villain 'im going to kill you but not right now' mistake was weak as well.

marie knew that jesse was key to bringing down walt and bragged about it to skylar when she went to the car wash thinking hank was under arrest. it's unlikely that she would have held back any information relating to the disappearance of her husband. jesse also skipped bail which means he will be a wanted man and his prints are on a murder weapon in a meth factory. he's fucked.

marie will have told the DEA that jesse was staying in their house.

he would have some major explaining to do regarding hank and gomez. he has already confessed once so he might do so again. i would have liked to get some closure on brock, with the family of drew sharp and also some sort of acknowledgment that lydia's daughter is going to lose her mother.

he was released on bail when saul came to get him from the police station this season. that means he was processed. also walter doesn't pick the gun up after jesse dropped it.

he skipped bail and he is the last known alive person to be with two DEA agents who are about to be dug up in the desert. he's fucked. he also handled the gun that shot jack. walt's plan for skylar 'to cut a deal' with the prosecutor with the location of the bodies is retarded as well. also walt told skylar to phone the DEA straight away then hung about to see walt junior come home from school.....

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/breaking-bad-finale-reviewed.html emily nausbaumm hits the the nail on the head.

i thought he was pissed off about the blue meth because it meant that jesse was still alive? what's the consensus on jesse? he seems pretty fucked considering he is a wanted man.

he didn't know that skylar had been threatened when he decided to kill her though.

and one more for good measure

he met with lydia and todd before going to skylars.

what are people's thoughts on killing lydia? walt didn't know that she had threatened his family at that point and he seemed to do it just for the sake of it. edit also

i'm sure i saw that machine gun trick in an episode of the A team.

the uk team never had a chance. the course was always going to make it a war of attrition and the top ten was all big hitters. purito, valverde, nibali, sagan, gilbert and cancellera are stars, iglinskiy won LBL and grivko is going to be awesome. top marks to whoever designed the route. 1 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Portugal) 7:25:44 2 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spain) 3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spain) 0:00:17 4 Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) 5 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine) 0:00:31 6 Peter Sagan (Slovakia) 0:00:34 7 Simon Clarke (Australia) 8 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan) 9 Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) 10 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) before the race i actually fancied the movistar riders - visconti, valverde and costa - and i'm not surprised costa won after his showing at the tour. he's apparently signing for lampre so it'll be interesting to see how he holds up next year. the JTL thing is pretty funny. sky don't have any choice but to defend him because they had all the data when they signed him but if his passport tripped the wire it must be properly fucked up considering the values horner is happily publishing.