Breaking Bad is not always the most realistic drama, but its ending machine gun always increases credibility, which is why it happened.
Breaking Bad is not always the most realistic drama, but its ending machine gun always increases credibility, which is why it happened. This is not to say that that moment even almost ruined the ending of Breaking Bad. It can be said to be one of the most satisfying conclusions in recent TV history. Although some fans hope that Brian Cranston's Walt White will survive the finale, considering all the terrible things he has done, his story really cannot end in other ways.
Walter's ending gave him a chance to do something heroic - rescue his former friend Jesse Pinkman and bring down the white supremacist villain - while also reminding fans of him being tempted by money and power. He was a good person before corruption. This appropriately made him pay the ultimate price for his countless sins in the past, but at least he knew that the young man who was closer than almost anyone on earth was no longer a prisoner.
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However, before he can achieve this goal, Walter needs to use his considerable brainpower to design a complex trap, which includes a machine gun and the trunk of his car, which is likely to make Saw's John "Jigsaw" Kramer blush. Thankfully, he didn't use it for evil. Nevertheless, many fans found this moment too much to accept, even if it passed the rumor-stopper test after the show. It turns out that the creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, didn't expect the machine gun trap to even become a thing for most of the season.
In an interview with Uproxx in 2018, Gilligan admitted that after Walter White purchased the M60 machine gun from a gun dealer named Lawson in the premiere of Breaking Bad Season 5, he hadn't really thought about its practical use. Gilligan It is thought that he and the other screenwriters had time to figure this out in episode 16 of season 5, but as the season went on, Gilligan still did not solve the problem. This is bad enough that he strongly considered hoping that fans would forget the gun, but his writer firmly believes that the subplot needs to be guided somewhere.
Finally, Vince Gilligan and his company came up with the idea of introducing Uncle Jack and his white supremacist gang as villains, which would require Walter to do something big to bring them down. The M60 is a huge gun, theoretically very suitable for destroying an entire room in a rampage. At that moment, they knew what they were going to do. Fortunately, for Gilligan, most fans, even those who think the use of this gun is a bit silly, are willing to use it to enjoy the originally great series ending. Although some people may wish that they hadn't introduced the gun at all, this is of course a better way to repay the item, because letting it disappear from the narrative will make Breaking Bad look worse overall.
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