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Better Call Saul REACTION 4x2 [Edited - Early Access]
Added 2024-12-23 07:34:26 +0000 UTC
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I think Jimmy’s character was constructed to be a foil/ opposite of Walt. Walt is driven by ego and the desire for superiority; he’s nerdy, introverted, and socially awkward, but he creates the Heisenberg persona to impose his delusional self image as a badass supervillain on the world. Walt is callous and oblivious to others’ feelings, obsessed with his own narratives of grievance and self-justification; he struggles to see from other characters’ perspectives and believes he’s right about everything. Jimmy is the opposite. He is weirdly egoless and impressionable, entirely other-directed and externally motivated. Where Walt endlessly wallows in his own resentments and delusions of grandeur, Jimmy can’t bear to be left alone with his own thoughts and is constantly seeking stimulation and validation from others. Where Walt is a shy nerd, Jimmy is a charming, extroverted theater kid. Jimmy is never violent and rarely malicious, which makes him arguably the least evil of all the villainous characters in this universe, but he is unscrupulous. He’s emotionally childlike, irresponsible, pleasure-seeking, and incapable of dealing with guilt or accepting responsibility; Whereas Walt had this poisonous resentment inside him, this desire to exact revenge on the world for under-appreciating him, Jimmy is less positively evil and more simply unprincipled
Francesca Langer
2024-12-25 05:37:14 +0000 UTC“It’s Chuck in the back of his mind.” Yes, exactly. Chuck’s death has left Jimmy feeling orphaned, without an adult to tell him what to do and keep him in line. Chuck told him he was a menace and would hurt everyone around him, and now that Chuck is gone, Jimmy feels like he is out of control.
Francesca Langer
2024-12-25 04:59:59 +0000 UTC
