Breaking Bad gave Jesse Pinkman a good ending, making Netflix's El Camino movie unnecessary

The Mary Sue

Vince Gilligan should've left well enough alone with the Breaking Bad series finale, says Kate Gardner. "We don’t get tidy bows on anyone’s story except knowing that Walt dies, and that works because we’ve been living through his point of view since episode one," she says of the series finale. "That’s why the ending works so well and why the finale works as an excellent epilogue to the series." Gardner adds: "Maybe I’m hesitant about the movie, which looks to be beautifully shot and well acted, because I don’t like unnecessary sequels. There’s a difference between a franchise expanding through different stories about a specific universe and a singular narrative following a small group of characters that doesn’t need to be told because the ending was good enough. Breaking Bad isn’t Star Wars. We don’t need to see Jesse move to an island full of porgs, though maybe that would bring him joy. Sometimes, it’s better to let the story end when it needs to end. We don’t need to over-explain everything. Sometimes, it’s best to let the characters exist in their endings, and if you really need a solution, that’s where personal headcanons and the occasional fanfic come in. The story doesn’t always need to be told by the creators."