Breaking Bad’s Biggest Catastrophe Was Predicted by Its Star’s Sitcom 4 Years Earlier
The show’s most tragic moment was prophetically mirrored by the same actor’s scene.
16 years ago, the audience saw the first season of Breaking Bad, which later became the most favorite series for millions of viewers around the world. AMC’s crime drama has become notorious for changing its tone, initially containing buddy comedy elements, towards a darker tale about a person betraying all his ideals on his way to power.
The character development of the show’s main character, Walter White, who turns into a relentless drug lord, passed through a number of the essential check-point moments, proving the horror of Walter’s transformation, with one of them standing out of them.
Breaking Bad fans would agree that the most devastating events of the whole show are Jane’s death and the following Wayfarer 515 disaster, closing the second season in 2009. As you can remember, it was White who was partially responsible for both of them.
The Wayfarer 515 Disaster: What Episode of Breaking Bad Was This?
In the 12th episode, Phoenix, he finds Jesse and Jane passed out from heroin use and lets Jane, the love interest of his associate, die from choking on her vomit. Walt takes such a sin upon his shoulder to get rid of the person who is aware of his drug dealing business.
Later, in Episode 13, Jane’s father, the air traffic controller Donald, learns about his daughter’s death, and the grief causes him a mental breakdown, which he doesn’t want to admit. This results in him mistakenly allowing the flight path of a commercial airliner Wayfarer 515 to cross the space of a small corporate turboprop JM21 over the city.
This plane collision was a horrifying shock not only to the onscreen Albuquerque’s residents, but to the show’s whole audience too. Surprisingly, it turns out that another iconic character of the Walter White actor, Bryan Cranston, also caused a similar crash.
The Connection Between Breaking Bad & Malcolm in the Middle You Never Needed
Cranston starred in Fox’s sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, where he portrayed the loving, but reckless father and husband Hal. In Episode 7 of Season 6 (2005), Hal Sleepwalks, he prepares the present to get his wife Lois on their 20th anniversary. Hal decides to hire two skywriting planes to make a heart in the air, however, they crash into each other.
It’s obvious that in Malcolm in the Middle it’s played for comedic effect, while in Breaking Bad the plane crash serves “to visualize, in one fell swoop, all the terrible grief that Walt has wrought upon his loved ones,” as voiced by the showrunner Vince Gilligan.
You can now binge Breaking Bad on Netflix to revise not only this tragic episode, but the whole path of Walter White gradually becoming Heisenberg.
Source: NJ