Vince G. interview
Q.
If this show had ended with Season 4, let’s say, you could have had a conclusion where everything worked out Walt’s way. Does the morality of the show dictate that there has to be an unhappy ending for him, that in some way he has to atone for all the things he’s done?
A.
He doesn’t have to. Of course, as we all know, people get away with murder every day. Someone in real life is getting away with murder as we speak, somewhere in the word. Probably, with seven billion souls on the planet, mathematically speaking, hundreds of people right now are getting away with murder. Walt could end no differently than that. He could get away with the whole thing. I guess the question more precisely becomes, How satisfying would that be? What would satisfy the audience at the end of it all?
Speaking for myself, I find myself feeling a great deal of ambivalence toward this guy. Some days I’m rooting for him, some days I want to see him get hit by a car. A big question, what’s the most satisfying way to end this thing? But then, having said that, is the satisfying way the right way? Without giving anything away, these are the questions we ask ourselves constantly. We stop ourselves every now and then and say: What are our hopes and dreams here? What do we want to see happen? And then we take a consensus around the room, and very often we’re all on the same page with what we want to see happen. And then we say, is that the right thing to happen? What’s the point of it all? What’s the point we want to make? Do we even have one? Some days I’m not sure we do. But then plenty of days, it’s just enough to tell a gripping story, to have showmanship and drama and moments and shock and awe, as it were. We go back and forth a lot. It’s very much a work in progress.
@ shooting Mike for no reason.
