[Bertuzzied]

Some more alternate endings Gilligan had in mind. I think they chose the right one.

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/10...uld-have-seen/

Early on, Gilligan favoured an ending that would have seen Skyler turning suicidal, unable to cope with the man Walt had become. The writers talked through an ending that would have the Whites hiding out at a Motel 6 and Walt trying to soothe his wife through the closed door, prying it open to find her bloody body in the tub. Gilligan says he let it go when a writer said the suicide was “a bridge too far.” One ending floating around since before the finale season even began filming had drug-dealers killing Jesse Pinkman. A revenge-seeking Walter would then shackle the killer in the basement with a shotgun trip wire. Calling back to season one’s Krazy 8 capture, it was going to end with Walt Jr. offering the dealer water, at which point the drug-dealer would trip the wire killing both himself and Walt’s son.
Another early plan had Walter White going wild on the bad guys with his machine gun. But, said Gilligan, it “felt wrong for Walt to go out brawn over brain, go out like Rambo. Walt on his best day was never Rambo.” In a revision to that plan, Walt would gun down the good-guy police officers that had come for him.
Gilligan said they also debated having Walt use the M60 on the Nazis, albeit in a different way than Sunday’s finale. In the other version, Jesse would be jailed, with the Nazis closing in for the kill. Walt would have arrived with the M60 to break him out.