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The theft earlier this year of a Cracking Bad script from starlet Bryan Cranston's car wasn't the very first time details of the acclaimed AMC series have fallen into the wrong mitts.  “A script was accidentally sent to a non squad member in Season Four,” executive producer Michelle MacLaren wrote yesterday during a  Reddit AMA . “T he recipient contacted us and said he was sent the script accidentally but does not want to open it and ruin the surprise. We sent him swag and a gigantic thank you.”
The anecdote was part of an extensive talk in which MacLaren and other Violating Bad insiders touched on the demonstrate's attention to detail and, of course, the upcoming final eight gigs, which are scheduled to begin August 11th.  Fans prodded MacLaren, writers' assistant Gordon Smith, script coordinator Jenn Carroll and post-production editor and coordinator Trevor Baker for any scrap about  how the display might end .  
The staff was tight-lipped about the potential fates of Walter White (played by Cranston), Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul) and the rest of the characters, with Smith joking,  “I can pretty much say the only ending we didn't consider was where Walt moves to Uruguay and sets up a military dictatorship with the help of a series of Hitler's clones and his space army of . . . you get where I'm going with this. It's all open.”
The staff acknowledged feeling the pressure to come up with the ideal ending, much of which they said was self-imposed. “Honestly, it's been raunchy on everyone every step of the way. That's very likely one reason that violating each gig took a little longer – because everyone dreamed it to be flawless,” Carroll wrote. “Same thing in production: everyone wished every prop, every set, every casting decision, every wardrobe selection – EVERYTHING – to be flawless, because everyone dreamed to make the best display possible, and everyone especially wished to do right by Vince” Gilligan, who created Violating Bad .
Fans were also nosey about the close attention to detail, from the continuity of tone from season to season to the way the display makes use of color. 
“Every color is cautiously thought out and approved by Vince Gilligan,” MacLaren wrote. “Our wonderful costume designers put together a color chart at the beginning of each season and we discuss where the characters and their colors are going to go.”
Smith chimed in about Gilligan's intentions, writing, “I'm not sure Vince has a thematic meaning in mind as much as a mood. Colors fasten to certain characters, for sure (Walt and green, Sky and blue, etc), but the tonality of the colors is crucial. Often a character's colors will get darker and have more black in them as their story gets darker, and sometimes just the opposite. Vince attempts to make the colors have an emotional influence more than a literal meaning, I think. He indeed attempts to make everything in the framework influence the audience's feelings.”
Another fan switched gears and asked MacLaren about her latest practices directing Game of Thrones and the parallels inbetween working on the fantasy series and Violating Bad . MacLaren wrote that both shows give directors slew of creative freedom, within the confinements of time and budget.
“The fattest difference is location and in some cases size, but both are enormously challenging in a wonderful way,” MacLaren wrote. ” Game of Thrones is logistically thick and it is arousing shooting in Ireland, Croatia and Morocco but it is also thrilling shooting in Fresh Mexico, which has some of the most beautiful light I have ever seen.”