While Breaking Bad was on the air, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) had risen as one of pop culture’s most popular antiheroes. Though very much flawed and often making cruel decisions that harm others, seemingly most fans had stood by Walter throughout all five seasons of the show. Some felt empathy for his situation, given his cancer diagnosis, and perhaps many fans felt that Walter’s personal problems made it easier to give him a pass on all of the criminal activity.

Walter’s story came to an end in 2013 with the series finale of Breaking Bad, though he has since been seen in flashback sequences in El Camino and Better Call Saul. But as each year passes since the end of Breaking Bad, series creator Vince Gilligan can’t help but feel less fond of Walter White. Speaking about the teacher-turned-drug lord in a new interview with the New Yorker, Gilligan says he now finds it harder to forgive all of the “destruction” Heisenberg had created when he had an easy way out at the beginning of the series.

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Gilligan goes on to add that perhaps the rose-colored glasses are just easier to take off after a certain number of years have passed.

Vince Gilligan Never Understood the Disdain for Skyler White

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One character who had gotten a lot of flak had been Anna Gunn’s Skyler White. Gilligan says that he has never understood the fan disdain for Skyler, but in retrospect, he thinks that the show was “rigged” against her with the way Walter was positioned as the “hero” of the story. Even so, fans didn’t have as much of a problem with other characters who posed a much bigger threat to Walter, so it remains a “weird thing” to think about for Gilligan.

While Walter White had two appearances in the final season of Better Call Saul, the Skyler character never made an appearance, nor was she shown in El Camino. Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte) has also not been seen since the series finale of Breaking Bad. However, Skyler’s sister, Marie (Betsy Brandt), appeared in the series finale. There are no plans for any more shows to be made in this universe so chances are we have seen the last of the Whites.