The creators of Better Call Saul have surprisingly made it clear that the final season of the series will have plenty of crossovers with Breaking Bad, including appearances by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, respectively. While the announcement did not come as a massive shock to anyone, it was strange that they decided to announce what could have been a secret appearance by the pair, even to Aaron Paul, who expected the producers wanting to keep the information under wraps. Now co-creator Peter Gould has said that by the end of Better Call Saul, fans will have a different perception of the events of Breaking Bad.

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Better Call Saul was the first spin-off from the main series, which acted as a prequel to the show focusing on the dubious lawyer Saul Goodman. Throughout the series, it became obvious that the two shows would cross over completely, but it was never known whether the Breaking Bad leads would be returning for some new scenes. Of course, Aaron Paul has already been seen in the sequel spin-off movie El Camino, but this time the new scenes will explicitly fall within the existing timeline of Breaking Bad.

Gould recently spoke to EW about the final season of Better Call Saul. As well as revealing that the finale will also be the final piece of the Breaking Bad puzzle for now, he teased that whatever happens across these last episodes will resonate through the Breaking Bad story and weave everything together. He said:

“This is the climax — at least for the moment — of all those episodes, 62 episodes of Breaking Bad. We have El Camino. This pulls a lot of the elements from all three projects together and weaves them, but always in the context of the story of Jimmy McGill, Kim Wexler, Mike Ehrmantrout (Jonathan Banks). I don’t think you’re going to look at Breaking Bad the same way again after you’ve seen this whole season.”

Better Call Saul Could Be the End of the Breaking Bad Saga

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There has been speculation of other spin-offs coming from the world of Breaking Bad for some time, but Gould’s comments seem to have put those to bed for now. While there is a never say never attitude toward every hit series and movie having some kind of revival in the future, Gould is now moving on to something different.

In many ways, Better Call Saul has managed to weave its story of the character of Jimmy/Saul into the storylines of Breaking Bad, both in terms of timeline and characters, in an almost perfect way. For that reason, it is hard to imagine why anyone would want to try and milk that again after managing to pull off the feat of having two series and a movie all set in the same world that has been received with almost perfect critic and audience ratings. If this season of Better Call Saul turns out to be the last time we see these characters, it would perhaps be the best way to ensure the Breaking Bad legacy lives on intact.