How Better Call Saul’s Walt & Jesse Cameos Connect To Gene
After a painfully long wait, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman finally cameo in Better Call Saul, but why are their appearances relevant to the main story now? Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul were announced for Better Call Saul season 6 before the season premiere had even aired, but eager Breaking Bad fans were forced to wait until episode 11 before reuniting with these Gordon Ramsays of the meth world. Walt and Jesse finally arrive in the appropriately titled «Breaking Bad.»
Set during the events of Breaking Bad season 2, Bob Odenkirk's exchange with Cranston and Paul shows the famous desert kidnap incident from a brand new perspective — almost like a deleted scene, but where the actors have strangely aged between takes. In theory, however, this Breaking Bad flashback could've happened at any point during the last five-and-a-half seasons. Nothing demanded Better Call Saul wait until its third-to-last episode before filling this particular narrative gap… so why are these Breaking Bad cameos coming now?!
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Walt and Jesse's cameo scenes are interlaced with Better Call Saul's Gene storyline, set in the months immediately following Breaking Bad's finale. Gene tries to contact Kim Wexler, but is tempted back into old habits, and it's this comparison between past and present that makes Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul's appearances relevant to Better Call Saul's ending.
Breaking Bad season 2's RV scene finds Saul Goodman at arguably the most important crossroads of his life. Despite Mike Ehrmantraut telling him to avoid Walter White harder than the IRS, the ambitious Saul Goodman sees potential in Walt and Jesse — a raw, malleable talent with good
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