6 Reasons Why "Breaking Bad" Could Just Be Walter's Twisted Dream

Don't roll your eyes just yet. Kera Bolonik recently disclosed a few very telling reasons why the entire series may just be a chemo-fueled fever dream. Spoilers ahead... Obviously.

Kera Bolonik explains her "last-ditch effort to justify the horrific metamorphosis of Walter White."

Was this all just a dream? Say it ain't so...

Tons of forces are gnawing at Walter's unconscious and they are all on showcase in the pilot.

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He knows his cancer is terminal. He's dealing with the anxieties of astronomical medical bills. He watches a drug bust on the evening news and learns just how lucrative cooking meth can be. And he gets to witness his own worst student evade the police.

The color of each character's clothing rarely change, and when they do it signifies something very specific.

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Marie only ever wears purple... unless her kleptomania flares up, then she's in black. Are these details more fitting as Walter’s perception of each person? How he renders them in his memory or dream world…

Walter’s delusions of grandeur

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The series unfolds like a video game. Each season Walt defeats a villain and subsequently levels up, entering a new dominion. It follows this pattern all the way until he takes down Gus Fring.

How did a CalTech Ph.D. end up teaching at an uninspired public high school riddled with embittered students?

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Seriously Walt, we deserve a better explaination why you left your start up, now-multi-billion-dollar, Nobel Prize–nominated company to go work at a school where you've got to supplement your income working the cash register at a car wash.

Why is Uncle Jack so unstoppable?

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Walt is a mastermind strategist in a new and complicated domain. He's a drug-manufacturing genius able to outwit the savviest distributor in the region. He orchestrates elaborate hits on extremely well protected people... and yet he'll be damned if he can contain a few dim witted Neo-Nazis, always meddling with his plans!

The timeline seems to occur in fast forward

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Let's recap the past year and change. Walt has gone from zero to decimating every meth kingpin in the Southwest. Hank recovered from rehab as quick as a wink. Jesse falls in love with a recovering heroin addict, and they fall off the wagon together until she OD's. He grieves for what seems like months and quickly falls in love with Andrea at a twelve-step program, only to have Walt poison her kid. Why does this timeline seem like such a key factor to the story?

So was it really all a dream?

Would an ending like that cheapen what is widely regarded as the best final season in TV history? Didn't you take pleasure in experiencing how this story has unfolded. Does it really matter if these events took place in a hallucination contained in Walt's mind or within a legitimate Breaking Bad universe?