Better Call Saul Revisiting Breaking Bads Walt and Jesse Makes Sense

Better Call Saul Revisiting Breaking Bad’s Walt and Jesse Makes Sense

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are reprising their roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in Better Call Saul Season 6, and it makes a lot of sense.

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Better Call Saul Revisiting Breaking Bads Walt and Jesse Makes Sense

Breaking Bad is one of the most influential and critically lauded pieces of media of the modern age. It’s been analyzed, critiqued, dissected, rung out, and categorized to such a point that many of its major plot points are discussed as common knowledge. So when AMC announced its spin-off in 2015, Better Call Saul, many fans were left wondering: will Walt and Jesse return? For most of Better Call Saul’s run, the answer to that question has been a resounding and emphatic, “No.” Even though many of Breaking Bad’s supporting characters have appeared on Better Call Saul in varying capacities, there hasn’t been an appearance or nascent mention of Walt or Jesse throughout its five aired seasons.

However, during Better Call Saul’s panel at PaleyFest, it was confirmed by co-creator Peter Gould that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will be reprising their respective roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the show’s final season. Since its last season is airing now, it’s only a matter of time before viewers see these beloved antiheroes once again. After all, bringing back such iconic characters makes logical sense. In modern fiction, it’s tough to think of two characters that are as entrenched in the public consciousness as Walt and Jesse. Although, given the obviousness of their inclusion, viewers have wondered why Gould and co. waited so long to include them. Furthermore, fans have eagerly theorized how they’d go about handling such a monumental reintroduction.

Better Call Saul Revisiting Breaking Bads Walt and Jesse Makes Sense

In the same way that it makes sense that Better Call Saul’s creators would bring back Walt and Jesse, it also makes sense why they waited so long to do so. When Better Call Saul premiered to record-breaking viewership, many fans tuned in hoping for more Breaking Bad. However, they didn’t get Breaking Bad. They got Better Call Saul, and that was by design. Though initially frustrating due to this unmet expectation, what blossomed out of Better Call Saul’s first season was something entirely unique to itself. It had an identity, and that identity was completely distinct from its predecessor. Sure, several supporting characters from Breaking Bad appeared in Better Call Saul’s first season, but that’s what they remained: support.

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New Mexico’s drug trade is certainly an element of Better Call Saul’s fiction, but it plays second fiddle to the show’s heart: Jimmy McGill. This man is who Saul Goodman used to be. Jimmy is well-meaning, he’s a work-in-progress, and he tries. However, there’s a darkness to him, something unmet. As a result, he doesn’t always do the right thing. To rightly explore this, Better Call Saul unabashedly and firmly squares itself on Jimmy’s character. Wanting to keep the focus on that means denying viewers the characters they know (i.e., Walt and Jesse). Logically, if Walt and Jesse had appeared in the first few seasons of Better Call Saul, audiences would’ve preferred to see them over Jimmy, which would’ve been a big problem. This show isn’t about them, it’s about Jimmy, his struggles, his experiences, his story. Gould and co. rightly delayed their introduction to give the audience time to root for Jimmy in the same way they did for Walt and Jesse.

With this understanding, fans have wondered since Better Call Saul’s inception how and where Walt and Jesse might return. Well, depending on how far into Breaking Bad they take Better Call Saul’s continuity, there are only so many options that’d feel right or make chronological sense. Before Breaking Bad, Walt had never even heard of Saul. So for Walt to exist in Better Call Saul’s fiction, it would need to be through a character that’s not Jimmy or any of the characters Walt encountered during Breaking Bad. Considering his introduction in Season 5, it’d feel fitting if they utilized Hank Schrader as Walt’s avenue to appear on Better Call Saul. Perhaps it’s at a fundraiser or a dinner scene set in Hank’s house. Given the reality of Walt’s life before Breaking Bad, it’s difficult to imagine him appearing in any setting that’d be deemed dangerous.

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On the other hand, Jesse’s inclusion could be set in any number of dangerous circumstances. However, in Season 2, Episode 8 of Breaking Bad — entitled “Better Call Saul” — the circumstances are made a bit more specific. In this episode, Jesse claims that Saul was able to get his meth-manufacturing partner, Emilio, acquitted of “dead to rights” criminal charges not once but twice. Due to this, viewers could suspect to see Emilio and Jesse coming into contact with Saul Goodman at some point in Better Call Saul’s final season. With that being said, regardless of how Better Call Saul’s creators choose to include Walt and Jesse, it’s certain to be both profoundly memorable and exceptionally earned.

Catch up on all five seasons of Better Call Saul on Netflix. The first two episodes of Season 6 are streaming on AMC+, with new episodes airing Mondays at 6 pm PST/9 pm EST on AMC.

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