But if Gilligan sees the story of El Camino as Jesse reclaiming his life rather than simply dealing with the fallout, then it would probably be better to have this scene with Jane at the beginning of the movie.The worst part is how clearly well-meaning he is. That being said, Breaking Bad shows us that Jesse is never the monster that Walt is and that while Jesse did bad things, karmically he has paid it back by being tortured and imprisoned by neo-Nazis. I pointed out in my Breaking Bad recap that Jesse is constantly used by other people, but this scene indicates that Gilligan sees Jesse as an unfortunate soul who is tossed around by the motives of others, but lacks agency of his own, which is a very charitable reading of someone who is young but not exactly a child and not completely irresponsible for his own actions.
Taken on its own merits, this El Camino scene probably should have been at the front of the movie since it’s the thesis statement for Jesse’s character.
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The scene then cuts back to Jesse driving into the future with the subtext that he’s now finally free to make his own choices. She counters that it’s better to make your own choices rather than following the winds of fortune.
In the final scene of El Camino, we’re treated to a brief flashback where Jesse ( Aaron Paul) and his now-deceased girlfriend Jane ( Krysten Ritter) are having a conversation we he says he likes the sound of going where the universe takes you. I bring up this scene because the tone of the scene is strangely similar to the conclusion of El Camino, and it makes me wonder how showrunner and writer-director Vince Gilligan sees these two characters and what values they hold. It’s a scene that tries to have it both ways-Walt is a monster at the end of his story, but he’s also a man who liked chemistry-and you can’t really reconcile the two because the show has gone to great lengths to show that he is a horrible person. But I think the writers’ love for the character kind of peeks out in that final scene to show that they still have some affection for Walt even though the character has gone to great lengths to burn off any good will. He loses his family, he loses most of his money, and his legacy will be that of a monster, deservedly so. Some may argue that the cosmic scales of justice have tipped to the point where Walt gets very little. He finds his enemies’ drug lab, and lovingly touches one of the instruments to indicate his love of chemistry and a reminder of what he was able to build. But in the final scene, after Walt has killed off his enemies and freed Jesse, Walt, who has been mortally wounded, gets an odd grace note where he gets the comfort of his chemistry.
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The series went to great lengths to demonstrate the transformation of Walter White ( Bryan Cranston) from mild-mannered science teacher to monstrous drug kingpin. I love Breaking Bad, but its final scene has always rubbed me the wrong way.
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