First, I think Gretchen chose Elliott because he must have had just a huge fucking cock. If there is any and i mean ANY correlation between the size of a man's ears and the size of his cock, then Elliott is swinging a serious stick. Those ears blocked out the lighting from the kitchen in that scene in the last episode. I thought I was looking at Alfred E. Neuman from the Mad Magazine covers.
While I really really really enjoyed Breaking Bad, for me, what set it apart was it's amazing framing of shots, the challenge of creating a character that changes so dramatically and doing it relatively seamlessly (never done), and totally stepping up after finally getting critical acclaim and rather than petering out (like Dexter and many others) knocking the last 8 episodes out of the ball park each week. I mean, maybe a few of those episodes were ground rule doubles but rarely does a show answer the call like this one did in concluding its story.
That said, how did Walt get hit by a bullet when he was on the floor? ricochet?
And I suppose I should add that The Wire is my absolute favorite show of all time and Breaking Bad didn't change that.