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Bryan Cranston says Breaking Bad ending was "fitting"

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Photo credit: AMC

From Digital Spy

Unbelievably, it's been exactly 10 years since Breaking Bad first hit TV screens. How time flies!

In that time, the story of a terminally ill high school chemistry teacher's transformation into a notorious drug lord has come to be regarded as one of the greatest shows of all time.

Walter White's story ended in an arguably satisfactory way after five seasons – although not everyone was happy.

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Photo credit: AMC

However, star Bryan Cranston has now suggested that the final episode was a "fitting" end for his character.

In the series finale 'Felina', we saw Walt go out in a blaze of glory after outwitting the neo-Nazis that are holding Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) captive.

Though he manages to shoot them all dead, the drug lord himself is caught in the crossfire and is left with a fatal bullet wound.

However, before Walt dies he manages to free Jesse, and in the final scene of the entire show Walter is shown collapsing in a lab, before the camera pans upwards on his corpse.

Cranston has reflected on that finale nearly five years after it aired, arguing that it was the right way to close the show.

Photo credit: AMC
Photo credit: AMC

"I think it was pretty fitting and actually, in an odd way, very noble that he was going to end it, because I think he recognised that he too became a cancer to everyone around him, a detriment to everyone's life," he told People.

"No one wanted him, no one wanted to talk to him. He became an island onto himself. He had this big barrel full of money. But with terminal illness, what good is that? And his family won't take the money. I think he felt that he failed.

"There was only one last thing to do – take out the final threat, and hopefully his family will at one time take this money back. And he never found out if that was to be or not."


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