“He fades into the sunset, us knowing or not knowing if he was going to die from cancer.”
Nah, he doesn’t walk away from this show alive, that I’m pretty sure of. The show is written as a tragedy, so he’s got to go down in the end.
Besides, even if you could identify with him at the beginning of the show, after all he has done, who would want Walt to get away with it? He’s too far gone to root for.
Apparently Saul Goodman went on to some success as a lounge singer named Ferlin Husky, singing sad songs about broken dreams. Figures.