Since this season was originally supposed to be the final one for the show, going out on the dramatic high note it did would have been pretty great stuff. But now with the show getting a chance to wrap up a few loose ends, speculation is pretty rampant among some fans as to what’s going to happen in the new final season. My two cents: Given that Gus Fring is dead and gone, some folks might not be too pleased about this. Those folks would be whichever DEA and other law enforcement employees he might have been paying off to look the other way. Walt may have done himself and Jesse a huge favor by taking out the meth kingpin, but try telling that to a crooked cop or agent who was using Gus’ payoffs to pay off that mortgage or put their kids through college. I have the feeling that Walt will see the effects of his actions not vanishing into thin air as he’s hoped.

Also, Skyler now knows he’s a killer (and a damned creative one at that), so there’s that issue to deal with. Oh, yeah… then there’s the matter of Gus’ bodyguard Mike, who will no doubt be none too pleased that his employer is dead and gone (as is everyone else in the organization as well as the opposing Cartel it seems). Still, I’d actually love to see the show end with Walt and maybe Jesse (if he survives the season) back where they began: cooking meth from a busted-looking trailer in the middle of nowhere. After you lose everything, you sometimes have to fall back on what you know how to do best…