20 Things You Somehow Missed In Breaking Bad
1. Checkmate
Ozymandias is regarded as the climax to a lot of the story-lines in the series - it is the time where Walt has been defeated by his enemies and his life has been destroyed.
And, a small detail of the episode that a lot of people miss is a close-up of a chessboard, in which the white king is surrounded by black pawns, and is it essentially impossible for him to win.
This symbolises Walt's fate in this episode - he truly has been defeated.