So Breaking Bad has finally gone to the big film canister in the sky, and along with it, there are huge major spoilers to follow.
Seriously, if you didn’t watch “Felina,” the final episode of Breaking Bad , go read something else. We don’t want your readership. Go away, and come back when you’ve seen it.
Gone yet? Okay. So along with Breaking Bad , Walter White — also known as Heisenberg, and the show’s beating heart — took his last breaths as the curtain fell, and the story of the chemistry teacher who broke bad and left a mark on countless people’s destinies ended.
The show is set in Albuquerque, its desert landscape as much a character on the show as Gus or Mike. So it’s fitting that Walt got a real-life crossover from his “hometown” paper, the Albuquerque Journal.
The paper carried an “obituary” for notable local and totally imaginary dude Walter White, as if he’d lived and died in the city. The obit for Heisenberg began:
“White, Walter, aka ‘Heisenberg,’ 52, of Albuquerque, died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer, and a gunshot wound.”
The fake obit continued:
“A co-founder of Gray Matter, White was a research chemist who taught high school chemistry and later founded a meth manufacturing empire. He is survived by his wife, Skyler Lambert ; son Walter ‘Flynn’ Jr.; and daughter Holly. A private memorial was held by his family.”
It concludes:
“In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to a drug abuse prevention charity of your choice. He will be greatly missed.”
So who was behind the Walter White obituary? As you may know, obits are generally family submitted, and this was was as well — in a sense.
Breaking Bad megafan David Lyman, of the Facebook page “Unofficial Breaking Bad Fan Tour,” said the page was behind the Heisenberg real-life crossover, and he explained :
“I’ve been a humongous ‘Breaking Bad’ fan since the beginning… I was actually in the pilot, and putting the obit in the paper was fitting, because the series was based in Albuquerque and it provides some of us some closure.”
Lyman adds:
“Of course, there are a lot of us sad to see the show and Walt go… But being able to see that part of Albuquerque and the local talent was wonderful, and many of us could feel some pride.”
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