So, Is A Breaking Bad Reunion Actually Happening?

Soon.

With one word, repeated twice and a picture of two donkeys, the world has suddenly got very excited. Or at least, Breaking Bad fans have.

Because there can surely only be one reason that Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston have posted the same image, at the same time with the same caption, right? It's got to be a tease for them working together again.

And with the Breaking Bad movie on its way and centred apparently on Jesse Pinkman's "quest for freedom," a lot of people seem to believe that the pair will reunite for that project on AMC. So, could it really be happening?

There can't be a single person in the entire world who wouldn't want to see Walter White (and Heisenberg) return after his vague ending. It would be the easiest way to market the spin-off movie too, since the show was far more about Cranston than it ever was about Paul alone. Even more so, it was about their dynamic.

The choice of image might well be important, since we're looking at mules and the implication of that term in the drug trade is pretty telling. They definitely WANT us to think it's happening.

Is it even possible though?

Well, yes. In two ways. Firstly, White isn't shown dying at the end of Breaking Bad: he's merely left badly wounded and the ending is left open. The assumption that he died is simply that, and it barely matters that Bryan Cranston has said that White died. Because Cranston also said this to Conan:

“Maybe Walter White did get away with it. Was there a coroner’s report? No. Was there a listing in the obituaries? No.”

Sure, it was a joke, but he makes a compelling point. As long as you don't see someone die on screen, there's room for them to still be alive.

It would be a pretty fitting end for Walter White to cast off his Heisenberg persona and help save Jesse and it would be a huge boost for the film's profile. Hell, even having White appear to Jesse as a vision would be an interesting one, particularly as Pinkman's "quest for freedom" could just as well be a quest to be free from White's influence over him. He is, after all, traumatised rather profoundly when we last see him and mental instability would fit.

There is another possibility, of course: Better Call Saul's fifth season will be coming soon and the show's head honcho Peter Gould tweeted in response to Paul’s ass photo that he's “Looking forward to this.” Naturally, that could mean we'll see White and Pinkman in their early days together on that show as has been roundly called for previously.

Then again, they might just be trying to make a bunch of asses of us all...?