Resolutions that fit every character. Walt got to choose how he met his fate. Jesse's free. Skylar won't go to jail. The kids will get the money. Marie can get Hank's body. Nobody died who didn't deserve it. And no one is left to cook and sell Walt's blue meth.

Respect the Chemistry, indeed.

Update: Vince Gilligan explains how they arrived at the characters' final fate. He says some people will see Walt as a loser and some as a winner who beat the system. Gilligan explains:

He accomplishes what he set out to accomplish way back in the first episode: He leaves his family just a ton of money.... They’re going to walk away with just shy of 10 million in cash, because of Walt’s machinations ... So it’s a real mixed message at the end. Walt has failed on so many levels, but he has managed to do the one thing he set out to do, which is a victory. He has managed to make his family financially sound in his absence, and that was really the only thing he set out to do in that first episode. So, mission accomplished.

...“It’s in the eye of the viewer. Dying is not necessarily paying for one’s sins....it could be argued instead that he did get away with it because he never got the cuffs put on him. ...But he’s expired before the cops show up. They’re rolling in with the sirens going and the lights flashing and he just doesn’t give a damn. He’s patting his Precious, in Lord of the Rings terms. He’s with the thing he seems to love the most in the world, which is his work and his meth lab and he just doesn’t care about being caught because he knows he’s on the way out. So it could be argued that he pays for his sins at the end or it could just as easily be argued that he gets away with it.”

From my viewpoint, he got away with it. He was dying, he wanted to make money and meth, he did, he didn't spend a day in jail, he left his family $9 mil, and he got shot by his own design, not by a cop's bullet.

I also didn't care that Walt admitted to Skylar that providing for his family wasn't the reason he kept cooking and selling meth -- I have never been interested in the morality aspect of the show. I was glad they avoided the cliche of having Todd turn Jesse back into an addict while he was enslaved.

I suspect the next time we see "Jesse" will be on "Better Call Saul" and he'll be in Alaska raising Brock.