Breaking Bad Season 6: What Will Happen to Walter White?
AMC's cult drama series Breaking Bad introduced a mild-mannered Chemistry teacher, Walter White (Bryon Cranston), and turned him into an almost, invincible drug-lord Heisenberg. But, the end is quite impartial -- it knocks at the doors of the invincible, too. What kind of an end the teary-eyed Vince Gilligan has written for Walt?
Breaking Bad's creator Gilligan cried while writing the last paragraph of the last episode. He told ABC Newsline, he teared up, "because it suddenly dawned on me that I'm never going to be writing this character again. It was a lot of water under the bridge," Gilligan said. "[But] we're not going out with a whimper. I can tell you that."
He didn't allude to putting Walt six feet under. Morally speaking, it would be a perfect end to a character who was timid and anxious as Mr. Chips but once he metamorphosed into Scarface, he became the confident, brutal fiend. However, again morally speaking, it would be an easy end for Walt and that too without facing the consequences of his devilry.
At the TimesTalks Panel Discussion, as reported by Huffington Post, Cranston said that there is a "good case" that Walt dies -- "that maybe that's the fitful end." However, he also hinted at a much darker, alternative end. "And yet, what if the thing he wanted the most, which was the togetherness of his family, what if he lived and they didn't? Wouldn't that be a worse hell to be in? Or maybe he should die. I vacillate on this."
Cranston told ABC Newsline, "He (Walt) has money and influence, his enemy Gus Fring, a brutal meth distributor, is dead, but he seems to be longing for the days when life was simpler."
"It would be [Walt's] greatest wish for the last few months of his life to be able to have a boring mundane world to live in ... knowing that his family is taken care of for the rest of their lives," he said.
The meth that he cooked cannot turn the clock back and his old, mundane life is lost forever. Cranston said "He's not going to get it (old life). ... There is going be some trouble. There's going to be some bad things happening. It's 'Breaking Bad,' not 'Breaking Good."
The life of a character, unlike in real life, does not come to an end but the character becomes something else. The final eight episodes will tell what becomes of Walt. There are chances that he might appear in a Breaking Bad spinoff with his daughter Holly White, and take another shot at cooking meth.
AMC's critically acclaimed drama series Breaking Bad returns for its swan song on August 11, 2013.