'Breaking Bad's creator has revealed that, in preparing for the finale of the Emmy Award-winning series, he sometimes feared he'd taken a wrong turn in determining the fate of cancer-riddled, meth-dealing Walter White and company.
'Breaking Bad' is coming to a dramatic ending in the next four weeks
Vince Gilligan, who previously worked on 'The X Files' before the hit show which reaches its much-anticipated finale in four weeks' time, tells HuffPostUK:
"You can bogged down in a great many ways.
"The writers and I have spent the greater part of a year working on the ending, and you think of everything under the sun, every possible outcome that can occur to the collective imagination of the seven people in that writers' room," he says, scratching his head to demonstrate.
"What's an ending that would satisfy us, the writers? What is the ending that would satisfy the viewers? Is that necessarily the same thing? What's the ending Walt wants? That Skyler wants? You try to play a very deep game of chess, and I'm not a chess player.
What do you want to happen to Walter White (Bryan Cranston, right, with co-star Aaron Paul)?
Gilligan, whose alter ego Walter White has permeated the consciousness of his viewers in remarkable fashion during his five seasons on screen, admits to some "dark days" when he feared he'd got it wrong.
"I'd have an anxiety attack where I'd say to the other writers, 'We've screwed up, is there time for us to go back and reinvent?' Luckily, my writers would talk me off the ledge and say, 'It's not that bad, we're headed in the right direction. It'll be all right.' And now that we're at the end, I feel very good about the ending, very satisfied about it."
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Breaking Bad, with its moral maze of a sick man committing increasingly abhorrent deeds for a noble cause, has incited a wealth of commentary, analysis and debate among its many fans, all of which Gilligan explains he tries to stay away from...
"It's not because I'm not interested, but because I fear it would be a rabbit hole I would disappear down forever.
Vince Gilligan (centre) celebrates the final series of his hit show with his leading men, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul
"I would pretty strenuously avoid hearing those things, not because it wouldn't have led to a better ending, but you're on a path at that point, you have to stick it out and get to the end of the trail, and you don't want to get knocked off course.
"People way smarter than me have said a lot of very astute things about this show, a great number of them giving me credit for things that weren't remotely in my mind."
The Final Season of 'Breaking Bad' is available now on Netflix UK with new episodes released every Monday. Seasons 1-5 are available on Blu-ray, DVD and Netflix UK now. Watch the trailer for Series 5 below...
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