Breaking Bad was honored with a well-deserved Emmy for Best Drama Series, and its finale on Sunday demonstrated why it holds that title.  

The characters were vivid, the plot was perfectly carried out, dialogue was memorable, and the soundtrack was completely accurate.  

Throughout the show Walter talked a lot about family and caring for them, but again it was all talk. Walter continuously justified going into the drug business for his family, as though trying to convince himself and the viewer this was true. But he put his family in harm's way, tried to kill Jesse whom he always saw as a son, his brother in law was killed because of him, and Walter even went to the extent of kidnapping his own daughter. It seemed greed was his motivation and not family.

Jesse on the other hand stuck by his principles of caring for those he loved. He realized that his relationship with his girlfriend Andrea could not continue if he wished her and her son to stay out of danger. He also cared for Walter and convinced others to not kill him. He himself felt he needed to eliminate Walter in order to put a stop to the harm Walter continued to impose on others, but he cannot bring himself to do so.

This show has been full of vengeance, hate, and pain. But the finale on Sunday finally showed the love that Walter has spoken about throughout the show in action.  Walter was a monster through out the show but in the finale he became human again.

Walter admits why he continued to cook meth,  "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was, really ... I was alive." He tells his wife Skyler where she can find the bodies of Hank and his partner. He arranged a lie where her and the children will be able to receive the $9.7 million.

Walter is vulnerable now. His cancer is at it's worst, he is broke, he is a wanted man, and no one is on his side. Walter is a smart man and for the first time has used his weakness as his weapon. No one expects for Walter to have any more tricks up his sleeve and put their guards down. This made it easy to make the Schwartz to agree to launder his money and give it to his family, to put the ricin in Lydia's sugar, and have the automatic machine gun in his trunk killing the Aryans.

When Walter saw Jesse and what Jack and Todd had done to him he returned to the protective father he always felt he was to Jesse. This was the reason Walter covered Jesse with his own body shielding him from bullets. He even let Jesse the satisfaction of killing Todd, who killed Andrea. But Jesse did not just quickly shoot him; he strangled ever bit of life out of him.

Walter gave Jesse his freedom and then visits his lab. Walter walks through looking and touching his tools and mask and smiles. He is reminiscing and thinking of good times while his time is about to be up. While lying on the floor of his lab, and bleeding out from a bullet he protected Jesse from, cops arrive on the scene and the song Baby Blue by Badfinger plays in the background. The perfect finale to a great series!