Gene Perfectly Repeats (& Flips) 2 Breaking Bad Walter White Scenes
Better Call Saul's Gene may have more in common with Walter White than everybody thought. Between Bob Odenkirk playing Jimmy McGill in Better Call Saul and Bryan Cranston bringing Walter White to life in Breaking Bad, the Gilliganverse boasts two of the greatest main characters to ever grace a TV screen. Better Call Saul has taken great pleasure in drawing parallels between the two — Jimmy's "God in human clothing" speech mirroring Walt's iconic "I am the danger" scene, for example.
Any comparison between Jimmy and Walt in Better Call Saul's prequel timeline is purely accidental, since the pair hadn't actually met at this point. But during Better Call Saul's Gene era — the black-and-white sequel narrative set after Breaking Bad — Gene Takavic has been unavoidably influenced by Heisenberg, both positively and negatively, consciously and subconsciously.
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Better Call Saul season 6, episode 10 («Nippy») marks the first occasion Gene directly references Walter White. More than just paying tribute to a high school chemistry teacher, however, «Nippy» twice sees Gene employ tactics Walter White used during Breaking Bad.
Gene's masterplan is almost thwarted when Jeff slips over during the Cottonwood Mall heist, and the 3-minute window where Frank gobbles down cinnamon goodness expires. To keep the security guard distracted, Gene pretends to suffer a sudden emotional breakdown, crying about his loneliness in an impromptu existential crisis.
In Breaking Bad season 5's «Dead Freight,» Walter White needs to bug Hank's DEA computer. To make his brother-in-law leave, Walt embarks upon a semi-pretend breakdown over his failed marriage and the loss of his family,
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