The franchise's universe timeline concluded at the end of 2010 in the final episode of Better Call Saul.

If we fast forward 16 years to 2026 in the BB universe, where do you think every living character is now and what is the legacy left behind by every deceased character?

Here's my personal theory about where each character in the franchise ended up.

Starting with deceased characters:

• Walter - now that it's been 16 years since the end of his reign, I'd imagine that the lore of Walter and Heisenberg has become ingrained in pop culture similar to Pablo Escobar and Al Capone in real life. There's likely been a ton of documentaries and Netflix series about him, and every true crime YouTuber and Podcaster has covered his case ad nauseum as the high school teacher turned drug kingpin. Albuquerque probably does "Heisenberg tours" to attract tourists similar to Al Capone tours in Chicago and Escobar tours in Medellin

• Gus - similar to Walt, I feel like he also would've became an infamous pop culture figure due to his outward reputation going from fast food chain owner to the biggest meth distributer in the US southwest. It wouldn't surprise me if his name and case also gets studied in law and business classes, and given his extensive ties to Walt, there's probably been a fair share of docuseries covering him as well.

• Mike - unlike Walt and Gus who became infamous after their deaths, I feel like Mike's legacy will be that of an ex-cop who became involved in the drug trade and has now been on the run from the feds for over a decade and a half as his body will never be recovered. Mike has basically disappeared off the face of the earth in the eyes of everyone in the BB universe

• Hank and Gomez - In between Ozymandias and Saul's confession, a lot of people probably suspected Hank and Gomez of being dirty cops but I like to think that after Saul's confession, their names both become honored and immortalized amongst NM law enforcement as fallen heroes who gave their lives to try taking down Walt and other big name kingpins.

• Howard - similar to Hank and Gomez, Saul's confession would've cleared Howard of any wrongdoings and re-established his legacy as a decent hardworking lawyer

• Salamancas - their legacy is how they went from being one of the most feared families on the other side of the border to being completely wiped out by Walt and Gus in a span of a few years

• Jack's gang - in the eye of the public, Walt murdering an entire group of extremely dangerous and violent white supremacists is probably the only thing he gets unanimously cheered for lol

Among living characters:

• Jesse - Now in his early 40s, I truly do hope Jesse is living a simple and peaceful life up in Alaska. I don't think he ever marries or has children since his past will forever haunt him from forming close human relationships, but I do think he's found a good career as a woodworker and become well liked by the locals, who probably know by now that he comes from a dark past but since it's Alaska and he's not causing trouble, they don't bother reporting him.

• Saul - In his mid-60s, he's either serving out the remainder of his days in prison as a well-respected veteran inmate who helps other prisoners with their appeals or he got pardoned by DJT in 2016 according to Gilligan lol

• White Family - Skyler is now in her 50s, Flynn is in his early 30s and Holly is a teenager. I like to think Flynn put the $9 mil that Elliot/Gretchen eventually gave him to good use by supporting the three of them, and donating to charities that support youths affected by cerebral palsy and drugs/gun violence. To distance themselves from Walt, the whole fam goes by Skyler's maiden name and actively refuses to participate in any Netflix docuseries about him. With Flynn's money, they probably homeschool Holly once her and her classmates begin to uncover who her dad was

• Kim - Now in her 50s, she's probably living a quiet life by herself in a Florida suburb while still trying to right her past wrongdoings and taking occasional trips to visit Jimmy in prison

Holy fuck this is a good episode (season 3 episode 12). There are so many sub plots in this show it’s hard to choose favorites but this is for sure a new top episode/storyline for me. The moral complexity that exists within this immoral ass world. Jessie confronting Gus. Walt doubling down on his loyalty to Jessie.

The empty squares means are when the same characters intercepts with themselves

X means the characters interacted with each other

- means the characters didn't interact with each other

*The characters didn't interact in Breaking Bad but they did interact in Better Call Saul

I got inspiration from this post by u/invisible_troyzan: https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/1oolnj4/i_was_wondering_which_main_characters_of_the_show/

I gave been rewatching with my gf and this is my first viewing after having finished BCS, really adds a lot to the story IMO it’s pretty cool how it all fits together. We just finished S4 (the best season) and I was curious what we all think was really going on between Gus and Jesse.

Clearly Gus is trying to win Jesse’s favor so he has the all clear to kill Walt. But I wonder: how much did Gus actually truly “see something” in Jesse? When Mike tells him that Gus “sees things in people”, I took that to be facetious. I felt that Gus and Mike were simply manipulating Jesse like how Walt had, playing on his desire to be valued and respected by his peers.

Later when Gus and Jesse have dinner Gus seems to be not outwardly hostile or dismissive of him but it doesn’t seem to me quite like a true respect. However when he takes Jesse to his big meeting with Download Audio to murder the whole cartel, i think Jesse’s competence and the fact he saved both him and Mike causes Gus to begin to truly respect Jesse and his potential. Seems pretty clear, but there is a wrinkle.

After Gus susses out that something was amiss with his car at the hospital, he decides to get an uber instead. Jesse is being held in the room by the Feds questioning him on the ricin, but he’s released after the tox screen comes back clean. Jesse runs out of there and is immediately tased and kidnapped by two dudes in a van and taken to the lab (when earlier Gus had said Jesse could stay at the hospital to be with Brock and could make a makeup batch the following week) and forced to cook at GUNPOINT and even had to handcuff himself to the wall when the guy watching him has to step away for a second.

Now was this because Gus was tipped off by how Jesse has lured him to the hospital and thus knew that Jesse was in on the plan that Walt must have been formulating to kill him, or was his earlier respect and willingness to compromise a complete farce? Did Gus ever actually respect Jesse? What do you guys think

During Hank's death.

Snapped back into being Walter White, seeing someone who was essentially family, killed. That look on his face, collapsing on the ground in tears.

A YouTube comment put it into perspective: how arrogant of him to think that Heisenberg and his actual self, Walter White, would never cross paths.

A few things I find interesting are how Marie tells Hank he should just arrest Jesse, how he did the right thing when he assaulted Jessee after tresspassing, I'm wondering if this is meant to be like, a reflection on how Americans and especially law enforcement and those close to them are liable to disregard things like rights and standards for police.

I'm on my third rewatch and this time I'm paying a lot more attention to Mike. Everyone else in the show spends huge amounts of energy explaining their choices to themselves. Walt says it's for family, Jesse keeps hoping he can be a good person somehow, Skyler tells herself she's protecting the kids, Saul has a joke for everything.

Mike is different. He knows exactly what he is. He does the job, he takes the money, he puts it aside for his granddaughter, and he doesn't pretend it's noble. Even when he's kind, like with Jesse, he never acts like he's a hero. There's something almost refreshing about how clear he is.

At the same time, I think that clarity is also kind of tragic. He accepted a life a long time ago and never tried to get out of it, except through Kaylee. His whole moral code is basically about doing bad things in a professional way.

Did anyone else see Mike differently on rewatch? Do you think he's the most honest character in the show, or is that just because he talks less than everyone else? And did Better Call Saul change how you see him? Curious to hear other takes.

What do you all think would have happened had Walt survived his cancer diagnosis and Jesse ultimately ended up leaving before he decided to go on a revenge journey against Walt? Do you guys think Walt truly would have “retired” or would the inevitable need to work alongside Lydia ultimately creep up? I think he never had a way out once Hank found out. He was either going to go to jail or lose his life via the criminal process. But I guess he always got away with it, and maybe he could have found another way

As Walter White surfs through the channels you can hear the last bit of Saul Goodman's commercial here, "...Better Call Saul!", 7 episodes before the character is fully introduced. As far as I can tell this might be the earliest reference to Saul Goodman.

When it first happened, it was the first thing in the show (besides maybe the "this is not meth" scene) that took me out of the show, because it felt less gritty and realistic feeling than the rest of the show.

And some people will say "nothing in breaking bad is realistic" but the point is for things to FEEL realistic, not to literally be realistic. Like blue meth isn't an actual thing but it feels like it could be real.

What works about the plane crash: we see Walter's evil deeds having downstream effects, thus making him the indirect murderer of the child with the teddy bear.

I really like that but I think there is a way to do it without the goofiness / surrealism. What if Jane's dad was a truck driver? He gets distracted by his grief and runs over a child. Or collides with a minivan that had a family inside.

Walter is driving and slows down, he sees an accident on the road being cleaned up. Dead people being wheeled into ambulances, and Jane's father being put in cuffs. His eyes look to the side of the road and spot a blood covered pink teddy bear, that flew out the car window during the crash. His shaking hands pick it up and he looks at it with horror.

What do you think?

In addition to cracking up the door. It got bro looking like Indiana Jones. Where did it even come from? It wasn't there before. I shall headcanon that Jesse and Jane adopted it together at some random flea market.

From 'Confessions'.
So haunting and forebodingㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ. Incredible stuff

Just a video/song I think every fan of the show should see. Hope everyone enjoys this as much as I did!

I’m clueless… How are we supposed to interpret the title? What does that mean? Is it a play on Breaking Meth? Breaking Out? Breaking Walter?

Someone help! Give me your best (or the most accurate) take.

Yes I know Google is free…

EDIT: You guys are awesome, thank you so much. I get it now. :D

I am not saying this should happen. I do not think race is integral to any of the characters. Especially Holly. And I do not want this to be the most down voted post in Reddit history.

A lot of the characters are white. I have no problem with this. I'm just curious if things were different, like if Vince got the show set in California like he intended, or Arizona which is actually on the border of Mexico.

I am opening a discussion on the value of race swapping, using Breaking Bad as an example. I think if Skylar was black there would be so much pressure for her to be stereotypically loud mouthed and sassy. While this could be amusing for some, it would appear culturally inappropriate for others. But if Jesse was black it would open a discussion on the American education system determining poor career options, and whether Walter was a good teacher because he was knowledgeable, or a bad teacher because he gave up on his students.

Another example, Gus Fring works better as a minority figure, if he was white there is so much value lost from Hank's perception of "beans" contrasting from the boss of a drug empire.

Curious what the Overall consensus is in S2E3 when Jesse gets interrogated by Hank and Gomez after getting arrested in the motel. Could he have actually gotten away with it? Did Jesse play it off well?

They have a great mentor-student dynamic between the two of them and also they're funny as heck in the moments theyre together.

Just wrapped a commercial with Mr. Pinkman. He’s as down to earth as you would hope and expect. Last time I worked with him on a promo for The Path, I missed my opportunity. I made sure this time I didn’t get caught slippin.

The first time i watched the show, i was so keen on knowing what happens next that i missed a lot of finer details. I finished my first rewatch after a year and it has my mind reeling. What.a.show!

The ending made me emotional. Jesse's final cry of freedom. Walt's admiration of Jesse's lab before he breathed his last.

Walt's one last moment with his daughter Holly and him watching his son from afar one last time. This particularly harder knowing the actor is no more. Actually every scene with Walter Jr. AKA Flynn made me want to give him a hug. Kinda re taught me a lesson to hug my loved ones more often.

When I watched the show for the first time when I was like 14 this part always scared me I don’t really know why but even now I still find it kind of eerie

Like, couldn't Gus have been from a non Spanish speaking family in Chile? Or south America for that matter, since we don't necessarily know his childhood was in Chile, in fact (better call Saul spoiler: the coati he talked about tormenting as a child is not an animal that lives in Chile). And I know south America to be a huge melting pot of people from all over the world, so is it really that strange that this guy doesn't speak Spanish very well?

I guess the case for hector is a little weaker since he does have family members that speak Spanish natively but then again it could be argued hector was raised in a non Spanish speaking household like recently immigrated and stuff.

They got a pretty big scare the day Walt visited them but his death probably made headline news the next day.

For the sake of storytelling, Walt collected the lasers from badger and skinny pete in that one scene, but that sort of implies it was a one off stunt, I would have instructed them to keep Elliot and Gretchen on edge over the course of the next 10months.

The Schwartz's then had about 10 months to mull over whether or not to give to money to Junior, or contacting authorities, which wouldn't be too out of character.

Junior receiving $9M out of the blue definitely would have raised suspicions towards Elliot and Gretchen, even though they had philanthropic endeavors before that, this is pretty obvious that they didnt just decide to give that kid that specific amount of money.

Junior and Skyler also probably would try rejecting the money ? Most definitely they would ask questions to the terrified Schwartz's, would they end up taking the money anyway to have a chance at a better future ?
Curious what your theories are !

My theory is that the money got seized the moment they tried wiring it, and they came clean to the police upon questioning. I think Walt knew it would happen, but it was his last hail Mary, sending a last message from beyond the grave. I imagine a scene of the two going home after that, flinching at every odd sound they hear, constantly looking over their shoulders in fear.

In the episode when talking to Skyler on the tapped phone. Even though it was meant to clear Skyler I think some part of him actually did mean that shit, there were times where she didn’t really believe in him and complained so it wasn’t 100% false. And she did pull a knife on him earlier so I wouldn’t put it above him meaning it when he called her a bitch.