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Our gut told us it was right.
That would be a very powerful ending but very much a kick-in-the-teeth kind of ending for the viewers.
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We talked about a version where Jesse kills Walt.
We talked about a version where Walt more or less gets away with it.
He’s just too far down the road to damnation.
But at least he takes a few steps along that path.
Of course, Walt for years now has been looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
But on the other hand, the family emotionally is scarred forever.
So it’s a real mixed message at the end.
So, mission accomplished."
When you think of it, he didn’t really have a chance in the early days.
On what happens to Jesse now
“We always felt like the viewers desired Jesse to get away.
And it’s up to the individual viewer to decide what happens next for Jesse.
That’s what the writers wanted to see.
Todd is actually in a weird way kind of likable, but he just had to go.
Opie had to go.
Ricky Hitler, as we like to call him.
I think the whole world is better off without that group of characters.
So having satisfied that, it felt to us like, ‘Jesse is not a killer.’
This poor guy has wound up having to kill over and over again.
And we thought to ourselves, ‘You know what?
Let it end with Todd.
Let that be the last person this kid ever kills.
Let him go on from here to have a decent life.’
He’s just not going to make Walt happy anymore.
It’s not about, ‘I’m not still angry enough to murder you.’
And indeed it is.
The wonderful westernThe Searchershas John Wayne looking for Natalie Wood for the entire three-hour length of the movie.
As soon as I find her, I’m going to kill her.'
So, it’s always a matter of stealing from the best.
Dying is not necessarily paying for one’s sins.
[There was] the one time with Hank [Dean Norris, in ‘To’Hajiilee’].
But he’s expired before the cops show up.
He’s patting his Precious, inLord of the Ringsterms.
Todd is so likable, you almost have these ambivalent feelings when he’s being choked to death.
So we figured, ‘What’s the best way to do that?’
She’s just not that person.And then we thought, ‘Can we use the ricin?’
That’s sort of a necessity, and that stuff was a little more clear-cut.
In the previous episode, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) lays it out for Walt.
There’s no way for Walt to do this.'
