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Breaking Bad was 62 episodes. The 62nd element on the periodic table is samarium. Samarium is used 2 treat lung cancer. Every little detail.

shield war auf jeden fall besser als letzte woche, aber leider kommt dann eine schlauchboot szene wo einem fast schlecht wird... was denken die sich bei sowas.

die serie hat potential wie man an der letzten szene gesehn hat, man müsste nur den halben cast austauschen, vorallem melinda may.

Bisher kann ich nur Leo Fitz und Jemma Simmons gar nicht ab. Ka wieso die so geschrieben/gecasted wurden.

As many have noticed, the final episode of Breaking Bad has a tonally different and other-worldy feel to it. Walt floats around like a ghost, everything comes easy to him, etc.
That's led some to speculate that the ending was all a fantasy of a dying man. While I think that's a bit too easy and cheap of an explanation, it does have some merit. However, I have a different take.
Breaking Bad has 2 endings.
The first, definitive, "TV" ending is the final episode: Felina.
The keys magically fall from the visor. Walt taps the window and all the snow perfectly falls off. He easily glides into the Schwartz's house and successfully threatens them. Badger and Skinny Pete make cameos. He patches things up with Skyler. He says what everyone wants him to say, that he did it all for himself. He looks at his son one last time. He takes a bullet for Jesse, kills all the neo-Nazis, and gets one last moment with a meth lab. Jesse also gets revenge on Todd, escapes, and happily drives off into the night to settle down somewhere quiet and take up carpentry. It's a perfect, Hollywood ending.
And completely unlike Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad is real. Breaking Bad is gritty. It's getting shot mid sentence and being dragged through the dirt. It's always striving to get what you want, but never succeeding. When there's a perfect heist, an innocent child ends up getting shot. Simple tasks like swatting a fly can take all day. Running a drug empire doesn't give you a legacy and pay for your children's collegiate future. It leaves you dying in your underwear in a cabin in the middle of nowhere while Nazis take credit for everything you've fought so hard for.
To me, the true "Breaking Bad" ending is the episode before: Granite State. It's real, it's tragic, and it's unexpected. It's fitting.
Jesse tries to escape, is punished dearly for it, and ends up paying for his sins by working as a meth slave. All of Walt's hard work was for nothing. His family hates him, won't accept his money, he has power over nothing, and his legacy has been stolen from him. He turns himself in, but at the last minute decides to go out in one last hurrah, disappearing from the bar like he was never there. It's then left up to us to decide if he goes on to build that robot machine gun to save the day, or if he dies from one last coughing fit in his snow covered car, depending on if we're pessimists or optimists.
Hell, the final shot of Granite State is literally the glass half-empty or half-full idiom. [1] And guess what music plays over it. The theme song. (Which we have never heard outside of the intro.) It's the true, open-ended finale.
But most viewers would hate it. And Vince Gilligan and the writers knew that. They knew that they owed it to us as viewers to give us a satisfying ending. But they also knew that they owed it to the show to give it a truthful ending. It would be impossible to create an ending that did both. They were conflicted as writers and probably deliberated about it for days, weeks, months. Should we make an ending to satisfy and reward the viewers, or one that stays true to the realism of our story? Eventually, someone decided, why can't we do both?
Granite State is the truthful ending the show deserves, and Felina is the happy ending the audience deserves.
That explains the difference in feel of Felina to the rest of the show. It's not a dream sequence, that's too cliche and cheap, totally wrong for the show, and if that were the case they would make it clearer to the audience. Instead, it's simply a satisfying, almost tongue-in-cheek, Hollywood ending. When the keys fall from the sky, the snow perfectly falls off the window, and the music kicks on, that's Breaking Bad's wink and nudge to the audience that this episode is going to be the fun, happy, classic TV ending that we all deserve after going through so much torment. It's the switch from the real, gritty Breaking Bad we all know, to a cleaner TV fantasy world. Think about it -- We get everything we've wanted as viewers.
And you may think that would be a betrayal to the story and the show, but it isn't. It's still true to character, tone, etc. There's still all the drama, drugs, and clever scientific Walter White destruction. The only difference is that it's all tied up into a neat little perfect bow, because at the end of the day Breaking Bad is still just a TV show. And a really fucking good one.
EDIT: Thanks for the Reddit Gold, stranger! And like I said, this isn't the end all be all interpretation, it's just how I see things. I'm not saying Felina didn't really happen or that it was a fantasy, just that it's the more "TV" ending most everyone wanted.
Granite State is the creators saying, "This is how it would/should end."
Felina is them saying, "But this is how you/we want it to end."

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Das würde dann auch erklären, wieso alles so unglaublich abgeschlossen wirkt. Allein schon, dass Lydia am Ende noch anruft, blablabla Ricin, wobei das wohl ausnahmlos jedem klar war. Macht schon Sinn, was der Typ schreibt. Muss aber auch gestehen, dass es mir vermutlich nicht gereicht hätte.

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LOL reddit xD
MfG Der_Busfahrer

tbh hätte ich nicht gewusst, dass BreakingBad bei Granite State aufhört, hätte ich es als Ende abgekauft

find das mit den beiden enden..also GS und Felina ziemlich genial

mir persönlich hätte bei GS aber noch was gefehlt. nämlich ein ende für bzw. mit jesse. wie das dann ausgesehen hätte ist jetzt mal egal aber ich hätte eins eingefordert. ob er drauf geht oder sich selbst befreit oder irgendetwas anderes passiert..scheiss wurst. jedenfalls für mich GS eben dahin nicht das perfekte finish weil jesses geschichte mir zu sehr in der luft hängt

^Lass in GS vor der Walter Szene Jesse noch an seiner Kette im lab rumlaufen und du hast ausreichend erklärung, wenn man das offene Ende nimmt.
Weiß nicht... Hätte es in der Bar geendet wäre ich wahrscheinlich ragend durch mein Zimmer gerannt bis ich erkannt hätte wie gut das Ende eigentlich war und das es zur Serie passt.
Obwohl ich schon befriedigt war als Walt allen den Arsch aufgerissen hat und dann im Lab gestorben ist.