This week ‘Better Call Saul’ came to an end, a wonderful series that served to close the ‘Breaking Bad’ universe. For my part, I was very satisfied with the outcome and the truth is that it felt like a quite natural resolution for the story, but the truth is that the original idea was not that.
Beware of spoilers from the end of ‘Better Call Saul’
peter gouldco-creator of ‘Better Call Saul’ with Vince Gilliganhas revealed that initially the ending was going to be sadder, because there would be one last meeting between Jimmy and Kim, but it would not have been in jail:
Jimmy and Kim meet up in Albuquerque before he goes to jail, and the last scene is him in jail alone, thinking. And I liked that a lot, but it seemed a bit cold to me. I think in the end, we all felt that ending the two of them was the strongest way to do it.
Gould also pointed out that this version was going to be sadder, since “Jimmy was afraid of what was going to happen to him in prison, and it had a lot to do with fear.“, while on the chosen ending it stands out that “It’s a very different scene. It is above all a nostalgic connection“. Also, they also had doubts about the details of it:
There was a version that ended with the two of them smoking, and I thought about it for a while. In the end, after seeing both of them, it seemed to me that it was the right thing to do, and that it was more honest to end with the two of them apart than with the two of them together.
For its part, Rhea Seehorn He dared to predict how he thinks Jimmy and Kim’s story continues after that outcome of ‘Better Call Saul’:
I think they still see each other, and there’s still a bond there, so maybe she’s trying to find a legal way to reduce her sentence. But in an honest way! Without any shenanigans.