‘BREAKING BAD’ creator says ending will be “polarizing” and ‘CASABLANCA-ESQUE’

I’m not going to cry during the ending of Breaking Bad. I’m not. I promise. I’m not. I don’t cry just thinking about Lion King. Oh god. No. No I won’t cry.

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It all comes to an end in 2013. The second half of the fifth and final season of “Breaking Bad” will air this summer, putting an end to the meth fueled adventures of Walt and Jesse, played by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in career defining performances. And creator, writer and executive producer Vince Gilliganpromises the ending won’t be one you’ll want to miss, and it’s likely to have everyone talking.

“It’s going to be polarizing no matter how you slice it,” Gilligan told Vulture, “but you don’t want 10 percent to say it was great and 90 percent to say it sucked ass. You want those numbers to be reversed.” Of course, what exactly is going to happen we won’t know until the episode airs, but according to Gilligan, he’s aiming for a kind of bittersweet finale, not unlike one that was stamped on one of the greatest classic movies of all time — “Casablanca.”

“No one gets everything they wanted. The guy doesn’t get the girl, but he has the satisfaction of knowing she wants him. And he doesn’t get her because he has to save the free world. What better ending is there than that?” Gilligan said about the “pretty perfect” finale of the film. “I’m not saying we’re going to approach that or reach in that direction. Our story doesn’t line up [with ‘Casablanca’]. But we’re looking for that kind of satisfaction.”

But the elephant in the room is whether or not Walt will truly get away with it, or finally pay for all the breaking bad that he’s done. And *spoiler* Gilligan is pretty clear on this point. “Not at all, really,” he said. “I’m very cornball in my own view of the world. It just makes sense to me that bad people should get punished and good people should be rewarded. I know it doesn’t work like that in real life, but there’s always that yearning.”