Breaking Bad Creator Calls This Scene The Dumbest One He Ever Did

One of TV's most prominent and influential shows ended on a high note, but it managed not only to keep up its quality, but also to exceed the level of drama.

White returns to Albuquerque and forces his former partners, Elliot and Gretchen, to take 10 million in order to later give it to Walter Jr., who wished his father a quick death in their last conversation. Afterwards, Walter says goodbye to Skyler and goes to Welker's hideout.

There, Heisenberg uses a machine gun to destroy the criminals. Jesse is free and takes off in the El Camino, and a mortally wounded Walter White takes his last tour of the lab. It's time to die.

The brilliant ending of Breaking Bad was preordained from the first episode of season five, where we see Walter buying a machine gun, which he will use fifteen episodes later.

However, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan admitted that the scene with machine gun episode was his stupidest decision. Why? Because he simply didn't know where to go with this storyline further.

In the interview with Variety, Gilligan said:

“One of the dumbest things I’ve ever done in my career was committing to the idea of Walter White buying a machine gun when we did not know what he was going to do with it. We had no clue.”

Quite an unexpected confession from the creator of such a brilliant show. But what proves the genius of Vince Gilligan is that after months of painfully trying to come up with this story development, he created the finale we received.

Breaking Bad had a great ending that summed up everything that had happened over five seasons. But the real ending was not Pinkman being freed from slavery. And not Walt lying on his back dying. His fate had been clear for a long time – he had nothing left, no family, no friends, no humanity.

Walter White has been actually dead for a long time, but he had to draw a line in the sand, name the real reason for what he did. And he does so in a monologue to his wife in the last episode: "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really… I was alive."

We liked it, too, Walter.

Source: Variety