Breaking Bad Finale

The season finale of Breaking Bad ended two nights ago, and I'm still in the processing of digesting it. While initially I might not have been gung ho about the ending, the fact I'm still ruminating is definitly a positive. Great art requires some reflection. Throughout the season the series provided hints of an impending event - a child's stuffed animal floating in Walt's pool, people in hazmat suits bagging various items, two body bags in Walt's driveway, smoke rising in the background. From the evidence one would guess the event was a meth lab gone wrong - Walt would be forced to make the drug in his house, endangering his family - but, this was not the case. In the final moments of the episode, we see Walt standing by the pool alone, his wife having just left him (great scene by Anna Gunn), a loud boom is heard and above we see an explosion as two planes collide, raining debris, including the stuffed animal, onto the neighborhood. The collision was a result of Jane's father, an air-traffic controller, being distraught over his daughter's death, so it did have a connection to the events of the season and wasn't entirely out of left field. It was a bold move on the part of the writers, which I have to appreciate, and I also have to give them props for the misdirection. I cannot wait for next season to see how the cataclysmic event affects the characters.