10 Ways Breaking Bad Was Almost Completely Different
8. Jesse Lives
One of Breaking Bads very first scenes encapsulated the entire philosophy and thematic glue that bound the show in one prescient speech: Walter White informs his class of students and us that chemistry is the study of change, and it is to their credit and our benefit that the shows writers kept this idea at the forefront of their own thinking. Jesse Pinkman, the fresh-faced, blunt-brained SkaterBoy that is now known and loved, was an important character in the early going but was still essentially a plot device for Walts criminal ambitions to take wing. Its now practically common knowledge that Jesse wasnt supposed to make it out of the first season alive; when Gilligan and the shows creative team saw his performance and theres only one way to say it, really chemistry with Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul was given what turned out to be a very long stay of execution. Many people remain under the erroneous impression that it was the 2007 writers strike that saved Jesse, but the truth is it was Pauls performance that kept him alive. What would Breaking Bad have been like without Jesse Pinkman? In that the show essentially became a two-hander and Jesse was its battered, beating heart and the viewers long-suffering proxy, even with such a talented writing staff its hard to imagine that Breaking Bad would have been better off without him. B*tch.
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