Chekov’s machine gun became a massive headache for the showrunner.
Breaking Bad’s final season opens with a flash forward, depicting Walter White purchasing a machine gun.
The opening flash forward was “was the dumbest thing I ever did,” said Gilligan.
In an interview withVariety, Vince Gilligan discussed writing the show up to the season finale.
He said, “Its astounding how little we knew.
There was a little bit of hubris on my part thinking we would figure it out.
‘Weve got 16 episodes until the end.
Well get there!’
I got really scared, but my writers kept me honest.
They held my feet to the fire and said we needed to deal with the machine gun.
But we made it up as we went.”
Gilligan said, “It was after that point that we figured hes got to win.
Hes lost everything because of his hubris and his pride and his ego.
Hes lost his family, hes lost his soul.
I said, ‘I dont think we have to slavishly mention every single thing that we did.’
And Peter very politely said, ‘I think we do.’
He was so right.
It’s a drama with a science-fiction core, about a massive change affecting our contemporary world.
Although it takes place in New Mexico, the show has no practical or conceptual connections to Breaking Bad.
Gilligan did not share any further details, though he claimed the show will likely begin shooting this winter.
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