BB ended a little too softly for kookie ole Walter White. He kinda got what he wanted. He died on his own terms too easily, got one over on his old pal Gretchen, used his drug money for his family, showed his wife he was the better man, saved Jessie, and killed the bad guys. I would not have let him off so gracefully. He should have been the one to have to live. After the visit with his wife, the Nazi fucks kill his wife and kids. The gun thing could have gone off pretty much the same, except Jessie saves him after the Nazis show Walt the bodies of his family. Jessie dies. Lydia should have turned out to be a cooperating witness against a politically difficult drug kingpin in California or some shit so that her death would create the utter necessity of Walt getting a deal where he becomes a witness and has to live a long life under an assumed identity, living with the enormity of what he had done and having failed at everything except dying of cancer. They could have had a montage of the aftermath, of the trial, of his cancer being cured, of his own personal hell for forty years after killing everything he claimed to ever love. That woulda' been cool. It's kinda like what The Shield did to Vic Mackey, only with more dead loved ones.
I think they should have finally answered the Gretchen question, too, but they show abandoned that plot after the second season, so it became less important than it once was.
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