i feel like it was both accidental and intentional. he was under a lot of stress and made some mistakes but he seemed to have enough time to fix his mistake and instead just let it happen.

I really thought the ep was building up to the chicken man bombing Walts house & killing wife & son.

Oh well -- at least there wasnt a huge cliffhanger making me curse the writers for having to wait ages to see a lame resolution.

I was hoping that's what would happen, not because I'm twisted or anything, but because it would be seriously ballsy on the part of Gilligan and Co. and would almost guarantee their highest ratings ever come Season 3.

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I feel a bit jacked off that they spent the season teasing the consequences of a nervous breakdown of a character we just met. Almost makes me wonder if they had more than one resolution to the mystery depending on how the ratings were.

In any case, I enjoyed it. As a "finale" it could have never lived up to my hopes. As another episode, I thought it was well done. Sucks to have to wait forever to continue with this story.

In other events, I think some of you don't appreciate how important it is that Skylar is kind of a bitch on wheels. (I'd hit it, btw.)

I may be ******ed, and I can accept that, but unless next season opens A++ and ties a few things togethers, that ending sucked. Big time.

Being distraught and letting a couple planes collide is flat out ****ing ******ed, if that is what they were going for. Let's just consider for one second how much time and information planes and ATC have to communicate.

Someone set me straight?

What was up with putting the bong in the bag with the money without dumping the water out?

there was no water in the bong

Seriously, someone tell me they didn't just go full ****ing ******. Someone tell me I'm dumb and give me a hint of what I missed in that sweaty hairy ball licking ending.

I'm distraught. No joke. wtf. I feel like I have to go look up the %'s of planes colliding to prove how ****ing ******ed that ending was.

It's hard to admit it, but I've gotta say I didn't love the season finale. The whole episode was, I guess (apart from Skyler's tirade), more of a denoument after last week's climax. Jesse just goes to some baller rehab with some monks and... that's it. Skyler leaves Walt, Walt Jr's website... does exactly what Saul said it would, with no hiccups... yet. I like the metaphorical idea of Jane's dad bringing two airplanes crashing down on Walt's house, but logistically in the show I didn't buy it, nor do I think it had the intense impact that so many other episodes this season had.

All season I was telling my friends that, after a very good (but not excellent) season 1, Breaking Bad has turned into the best show on television and season 2 is a masterpiece. Unfortunately, the season finale -- while not bad -- didn't live up to the billing I had sold it under, nor the expectations I had built up for myself.

I feel like I got Soprano'd again. But at least this one is coming back.

I spent most of the ep expecting something huge. Maybe not the level of the turtle head, but something to drive me crazy waiting for the start of the next season. Now I probably just forget about the show till ads for the next season start airing.

Maybe I'm the only one, but I thought the finale was great from start to finish. Can't wait for next season.

Well, I did to. But crashing a couple of passenger jets together is a pretty big ask. If in 1985 someone depicted a couple of planes flying into the Sears Tower you might have thought "Yee-Haw", but at the same time thought it kind of silly. Pretty heavy on the deus ex-machina that the chick who he needs to die, dies on Walt's lap, and now, by the law of conservation of characters her dad is critical in the scene they've been hinting at all season-- and it isn't connected to the plot to date in any way, oh, and it involves passenger jets colliding over Walt's house.

Hey. I don't want to be the guy who keeps posting in the thread about a show he doesn't like! I love this show. I also think the "finale" thing is a bit overblown. It's another chapter in the story. And it was a good one.

Very true. I did like the ep, just wanted something big to happen.

Except for Scrubs, which was a series finale, all of the shows I watch had sh*tty finales this season.

Yeah I'm fine with the ending. Not really a Deus Ex Machina since the crash will likely play an impact on Walt's surroundings and not his personal matters. He didn't turn a giant donkey wheel and move his neighborhood.

Some awesome moments this episode. Jesse breaking down, Skyler vs Walt, that TV interview, loved all of it. Great season. Very happy where they left things off with Walt/Skyler. That became the true ending. Plane crash just a literal visualization of **** hitting the fan.

I finally thought we were going to see Walt admit the Truth. I think he wants the marriage to end.

As a huge fan of this show, that ending was pretty lame.

Definitely one of the best shows on television.

Everything about the story is very fluid and dynamic...Walt's situation is outlandish to say the least, but the writing and the acting both portray the cast as very real, very human people. More so than other shows, I think, Breaking Bad succeeds at getting you invested in its plot and cast; you revel in their little victories (don't tell me I was the only one who felt all warm and fuzzy when Jane first holds Jesse's hand) and wallow with them in defeat.

Speaking of defeat...there's a sh*tload. This is one of the few shows that I can say keeps getting better and better every episode and really mean it, and that has a lot to do with the fact that we're constantly reminded of how easy it is for things to go wrong. I mean, consider that little mushy moment I just mentioned and then look back on last week's episode...the show recognizes all the maybe's and what if's of how events could turn out, but instead of giving the characters what they want, they keep taking away. It's solemn, sure, but it makes for a more entertaining show, and it emphasizes how truly f*cked up the illegal drug trade can be. Whereas Weeds maintained a kind've comic goofiness to its comedy (which has a lot to do with the subject matter), Breaking Bad's is darker and (if I may whore an overwhored term) grittier...which is reflective of the fact that it deals with harder drugs.

I'm pretty stoked on the finale. If this season is any indicator, should be crazy intense...and I'm guessing it'll end with a cliffhanger. I wonder who's gonna die?

Oh, and Badger's f*cking dope. Since his appearance on the show I've seen him in a Wii commercial and an AM PM spot...it's rad. Saul's just as awesome, and twice as shady. He's like what Ken Rosenberg would be if Ken Rosenberg wasn't a bitch.

I considered this too, then decided that the TV interview will make the huge donations more believable in the end.

I'm not a huge fan of the plane crash, but on the other hand, it's a way of demonstrating just how many people really die as a direct result of Walt's decisions. Sure, we've seen a couple junkies or dealers go down, but nothing on this scale of innocents.

So the crash, and likely the controller involved make news, and Walt makes the connection that his decision to allow Jane to die killed hundreds of innocents? Does he know anyone personally on those two planes?

EXCELLENT read, thanks

Did I miss something by not thinking he crashed the planes on purpose? I thought he just zoned out and made an accident.

i didn't see it as anything but a huge accident.

Way too much attention being paid to what ended up being a very small part of the finale. I'm more interested at what the Los Pollos guy is planning. He didn't seem too pleased that the guy he just bought a million dollars of meth off has a brother in law in the DEA.

Nah, he's supposed to be a smart guy, and will actually understand what Walt is trying to do. I'm sure it will come up in a conversation in the future, but if anything this should instill confidence in him that the dea isn't currently on to Walt.