Johnny Ringo said:

Walt is probably buying that M60 to go up against Hank and Co.

But then I was like -

If he really has gone full Heisenberg then it's probably equally likely that he is going after former associates like Todd (aka Meth Damon) and Lydia. Erase anyone with links to Heisenberg.

Even as far as Walt has fallen, and as much as he has done to unintentionally hurt his family, I can't imagine him setting out to physically harm Hank.

My thoughts are the M60 is to tie up loose ends related to Todd and Lydia, and that the ricin might be his personal exit strategy.

But, you don't need an M60 to take out just a couple of people. Obviously whatever is about to go down is pretty big...

Walt's neighborhood looks like a ghetto slum in the flash forwards, yet in present times he lives in a really nice middle class neighborhood. What could happen in a year to make a neighborhood drop like that?

I thought it was some sort of new Bulletin Board.

I've become quite good at saving up whole seasons of TV and then watching them all in one hit, but I can't do it with Breaking Bad. So I guess I'm a BBaddict. But I refuse to inhale any speculation!

Only five episodes left...

Okay, so my prediction of what is happening in the flash forward hasn't really changed, but I feel much more sure of it now.

The machine gun is to tie up loose ends, Todd and his new Nazi buddies threatening the lives of Walt's family. He has to be sure they'll all be safe when he's gone. The ricin is to take Marie's advice and kill himself (which I predict will be prevented somehow).

Or maybe the show is so well crafted, it wants me to jump to these conclusions and is going to toss us in an entirely different direction. I've never been able to guess what was going to happen next with this show before. The neo-Nazi casual wiping blood off his shoe as if it were nothing is to let us know he's a real threat, and Marie's telling Walt the only option is to kill himself seems too obvious when coupled with the flash forwards of Walt acquiring a machine gun and then retrieving the dose of deadly poison. These are the obvious reasons for the gun and the ricin, and the show has never been that obvious (has it?).

Maybe he already dealt with Todd and Lydia, and is now moving forth to go to war against an army of neo-Nazis.

That last episode was intense!

CRAP!!!

GAH!!!

I've been cursing at my computer screen for the last ten minutes!

JEDI:

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

SHIT!!!!

Do I need to write spoilers??  OK, SPOILERS

Is ricin for lydia?  She is certainly a villain but from Walt's perspective I dont know how he would know that.  From what I have read ricin takes days to kill you and it's quite painful.  I am sure Walt is full of self-loathing in the flash forward but it doesnt seem like a great exit plan if intended for himself.  

I cant decide if he is going after the aryans just for revenge for Hank or if he found out they made jesse a cook slave and it is a rescue mission.  Maybe he only discovers jesse when he gets there and sacrifices himself to save jesse.  I think since the aryans let him go I cant picture them targeting the white family for any reason.

This episode was heartbreaking from start to finish, all of walt's rationalizing his terrible actions and talking his way out of everything came to a tragic end.  His goodbye call to skyler was about all I could take, give cranston the emmy now. Part of me wonders if the next two episodes largely leave the white family out, what else is there to wrap up?  I think walt understands now that he has destroyed everything and he cant be redeemed.  

it's remarkable how much this show makes you love and hate just about each character.  

Walter Jr. for President (of breakfast)

I can't even think of any words to describe that last episode.

Wow!

Now more than ever I am really happy I've been watching this show the last few years. Discovering it years later and having all the episodes laid out before me with no waiting along with impossible to dodge spoilers and references on the internet, it just wouldn't have been the same.

Continuing SPOILERS

Leaving the baby in the firetruck stuck out to me as much as the goodbye to Skyler. Breaking his phone and leaving his daughter behind, it was kind of the last step in letting go of his family, the whole entire reason he started doing all this stuff in the first place gone.

Can't believe we only have two episodes left.

:(