People like competency. See Where Mike’s Murder Falls on Our List of the Best Breaking Bad Kills, In the first few episodes of Breaking Bad, you immediately establish how emasculated Walter White is. You start to see the world as Walter White sees the world, and Walt’s world is a dark place of suspicion and paranoia. My girlfriend, she showed an interest in reading the scripts, so I let her read them, but I haven’t told anyone the ending. In the early days, especially writing the pilot, I worried so much that Walt wouldn’t be likeable. He’s a guy who gives great lip service to the idea of family. If you’re a painter and you’ve painted what you think is your best work, you don’t want describe the painting to people. 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I wish we’d had time to do something more interesting with Walter Jr., but I guess we didn’t. It’s funny, my girlfriend is a former teacher. He turns down their offer for reasons of ego. It’s not a slow transformation. Is he a better person than Walt?Jesse is weaker than Walt, because he consistently succumbs to Walt’s will – unfortunately for him, because he’d be a lot happier if he could get the hell out of Mr. White’s orbit. It’s funny, you could easily and properly make an argument that Walt is some sort of a victim when we first meet him, a victim of life constantly beating him down for years on end, but I think he’s his own invention. Is it that he’s so evil, or that he’s so good at his job? It would be a hard thing to suddenly realize that your ineffectual, milquetoast brother-in-law is the Keyser Söze-like criminal genius you’ve been tracking for almost a year. I think you’re exactly right. But it makes you wonder what it would be like to write for SpongeBob SquarePants. I have to lose my soul to do this, but I do it for my family and therefore it’s alright.” He believes he’s doing it for his family. Did doing this show become emotionally difficult? Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. It’s a job he was doing before he even met Walt, and yet, in my mind, I sense that Jesse’s version of meth dealing was a kinder, gentler version [laughs] that did not involve a high body count – or, in fact, a body count at all. Speaking on the Better Call Saul Insider podcast, Gilligan told fans to stop re-enacting the scene in which Breaking Bad’s Walter White lobs a large pizza onto the roof of his home after trying to placate his wife Skyler. It’s entirely possible that with the first season of Breaking Bad, you scared an entire generation of people off of the idea of teaching high school. Sign up for our newsletter. My favorite time as a kid was not Christmas morning. Isn’t Hank a little thick?No, I don’t think so at all. She was willing to do pretty much anything to get him out of her family’s life. Jane Fonda will arrive on Netflix on 8 May in this show about two rivals brought together after their husbands announce they are in love and plan to marry. He basically says, “No, I’d rather cook crystal meth than take this free money.”. CDKeys Sale! I think pretty much everyone roots for Jesse, more or less. There were times when I thought, “Boy, wouldn’t it be a blessing to have a character in my head who was good and true and honest?”. Back when people who don’t care for Skyler hated her the most, that’s when I respected her the most. It’s been done before. Years of giving in to his fears and not swinging for the fences made Walt who he is. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Since the series ended, the house has become a tourist attraction for fans of the show. He wasn’t so hard to have around in the early going, but late in season two or season three, when he was lying so effortlessly to his family and doing awful things, it started to affect my outlook on life. I got an email from my mom, after she watched the second episode of this season. I do see the world in pretty dark terms. It really is. At least briefly, he tries to be a normal person. ‘It makes you wonder what it would be like to write for SpongeBob SquarePants.’. Our alternate endings were all subsets of the ending we went with. [Laughs] It would have been a very short show. Vince Gilligan has issued a stark warning to Breaking Bad fanatics. You’re driving in a parking garage and thinking, “Jeez, there’s someone waiting to kill me.” That’s an extreme example. This is a terrible job! The writer and producer told fans to stop hassling the elderly lady who has lived in the house in Albuquerque where exterior shots of Breaking Bad were filmed for 41 years. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. The memorable pizza scene in Breaking Bad was reportedly filmed in a single take. The questions of where and how it was gonna take place were up for grabs, and we had different versions on different days in the writers room. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. You don’t treat people that way”. If Walt had taken the offer in episode four, you wouldn’t be able to provide for your family. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent. “I’m doing this for my family. He’s not cut out for this life. This will bridge the gap between How to Train Your Dragon 2 and the third film. What Vince Gilligan and the Ending of ‘Breaking Bad’ Tell Us About ‘El Camino’ The show’s creator once told viewers it was up to them to decide what happened to Jesse Pinkman.