Breaking Bad left us fairly complete with its finale. As a fan I was extremely satisfied with how things played out and I like the fact that it was somewhat open ended. Open ended in the sense that we think that Walter White might be alive and we can imagine exactly what might happen there. Open ended in the sense that Jesse Pinkman is on the road with a whole new life ahead of him. But what will he do? As fans, that’s up to us to decide.
However, the show itself is still being talked about and analyzed as if it’s still on television. Fan theories are all over the place and we’re still trying to make sense of hundreds of moments and scenes from various episodes. Oddly enough one of the biggest mysteries of the show was that famous scene where we saw an unsliced pizza pie on Walter’s roof.
Recently Vince Gilligan did an AMA on Reddit and a user asked him about it. Here’s what Gilligan said:
Was Badger and Skinny Pete’s conversation at Jesse’s party about the pizzas not being sliced written in after the fact to explain how Walters pizza landed on the roof intact? Everyone knows a sliced pizza would have come apart.” As creator Vince Gilligan says of the unsliced pizza, it had to do with continuity and physics:
Yes! We had a long discussion before we shot the pizza on the roof scene about whether or not the pizza should be sliced–because, as all you physicists know, a thrown, sliced pizza would come apart due to centrifugal force or angular momentum (or something like that). And yet, you’re right: no self-respecting pizza parlor sells an unsliced pizza. So we figured we needed to explain it (in the “They pass the savings on to you” scene), or else face our audience’s righteous wrath!
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