It's one of my favorite TV shows, probably my favorite if I had to pick. Lately I've just been watching scenes on Youtube, but one scene struck out to me as a clever thing the writers did. So the part where Skylar is explaining how they've had money coming is becuase Walters been gambling, is a gambling addict and is shockingly good at it because of his intelligence making him good at counting cards and whatnot. If you piece together earlier scenes and look between the lines it's clear that this story is a lie, that actually he's been making his money by cooking and selling meth.
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The real secret gem is that Skylar cheated on Walt and Holly isn't his.
But the writers didn't realize people would hate an emasculating bitch-wife so much so they abandoned that leaving only some clues.
This has been my head canon since it aired. Skylar fucked Ted before she left her job the first time, and the story about "Mr. Grabbyhands" was a lie to Marie to cover it up.
Everything points to this: Skylar's evasiveness over why she originally quit, that "Happy Birthday Mr. President" apparently wasn't the first time she did that for Ted, that Ted's secretary hated her from the jump, etc. They absolutely fucked before their affair shown in the show. The only leap of logic is whether it led to her getting pregnant.
The only thing I wish went differently in the show was for Skylar to get her comeuppance like everyone else. It's probably more realistic that she got away with everything though, since women usually do in real life.
Edit: and then I just scrolled down to find that you covered all of this. Fuck it. I'm leaving it, even if it is redundant.
Your version is more succinct.
I'd like an epilogue scene 20 years later when Skylar finds out the money for Holly and Walt Jr didn't really come from Gray Matter guys but from Walter.
And it's too late to refuse it so she has to live with the fact that Walter actually did it all for them. He did what a man does: a man provides. Walter wins in the end.
That would be so epic.
But he didn't. He did it all for him. He said so in the final episode. "I did it for me. I liked it."
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel. That makes me feel angry!"
He also said he believes there's "some combination of words, certain words in a certain specific order that would explain all of this". Like for instance...
S01-S04 Walt would say those words to Skylar in the end because that's what she needed to hear to move on, and also to protect the money he's laundering through Gray Matter from her asking too many questions about it. If she finds out the money is from Walter she'll reject it out of spite.
S05 Walter we're supposed to believe is now a totally different person who when he was calculating how much he needed and how many more deliveries before he could get out was secretly loving it and lusting after Tuco's job. He got off on killing the guy with a bike lock. In the Fly he's delirious almost to the point of telling Jesse about his role in Jane's death, yet has the presence of mind that the whole episode was just a way to obscure his criminal lust from Jesse. And he arranges a complicated scheme to get the money to his kids but he never really cared about that at all - just did it for fun I guess.
S05 Walter is obviously absurd and totally out of character, but they had to finish their arc and they had screwed up on making Walk less liked over time because the writers didn't understand actual people's (at least men's) morality is so they had to go 180 degrees all in one season.