Breaking Bad 3x3
Added 2023-12-03 09:58:40 +0000 UTCComments
No no, skylar is a bad person, since the beggining of the show. His obession of control is the trigger of the show. Walt did not want to let a medical debt to his family, he wanted to share his last days with them. Skylar did not want that. Skylar wanted to DRIVE EVERYTHING and she did wrong... She called Eliot... WORST MOVE OF THE SHOW, she reminds him the biggest regret of his life and literally trample his ego, when he was dying... Trample the ego of a dying man it's the best way to turn him crazy...
dolo
2024-08-20 16:24:37 +0000 UTCMaple said it lol. Skylar is a pos too.
Andrew Clifton
2024-07-29 07:33:01 +0000 UTC“I wanna give him a hug… and probably an ssri” had me rolling
Colorado people’s press
2024-02-04 03:28:05 +0000 UTCYou're an idiot.
Anto
2023-12-11 00:27:52 +0000 UTCWoke goyslop of an opinion
Justin
2023-12-09 23:09:19 +0000 UTCThe biggest tragedy is that people still call her "Skylar" 🤣🤣
Victor
2023-12-06 05:34:37 +0000 UTCTitle of this ep is I.F.T.
Terri
2023-12-06 05:07:01 +0000 UTCWell that's a just a pretty dull, patronizing way to look at it and his response may have been more influenced by idiots treating the actress with the same vitriol they felt towards the character. We don't like her at first because she's not an exciting character and we aren't following her around, watching her struggles. And her character clearly shows some traits and makes some decisions that are perfectly deserving of some ire. We're a disembodied entity focused on Walt's series of dilemmas and choices, and we clearly see more of what's going on than Skyler does, so we have information that makes us not like some of the choices or reactions Skyler has. If we only followed Skyler's point of view, her character would come off much more likeable because we would see her making choices based off of the same information we have, making it more relatable and easier to empathize with.
Tim F
2023-12-05 06:26:06 +0000 UTCThis is a quote from Vince Gilligan, the show's creator & head writer (it says it all) “Back when the show first aired, Skyler was roundly disliked. I think that always troubled Anna Gunn. And I can tell you it always troubled me, because Skyler, the character, did nothing to deserve that. The hatred for Skyler is rooted in sexism and misogyny. Most people’s hatred of Skyler had little to do with her and a lot more to do with their own perception of women and wives.”
Chris Bruneau
2023-12-04 17:20:40 +0000 UTCThanks for writing all that. Could use some paragraph separators (shift+enter), but great points all around. Yeah, I think the biggest part of the dynamic with the audience is that she's the impediment to his new, exciting life. If she was a 2D, ride-or-die spouse like in mob movies, the audience would be cheering her on, but her agency and intellect in this case are overshadowed by the antagonistic role she's been playing against Walt in the narrative. And Walt's story started (Season 1) as a real powerful underdog story that a lot of people latched onto. And first impressions are hard to shake, so they can give Walt too much leeway in hopes that he'll conform to their initial image of him in their own heads.
Dan
2023-12-04 12:18:44 +0000 UTCCan't say that I'm not guilty of picking up my phone to check the time, only to set it back down and realize I didn't read the time and have to pick it up again. There's looking... and then there's reading/comprehending. When I'm on autopilot, sometimes I go through the motions and need to double check that I didn't transpose the numbers in my head, like 11:21 vs 12:11.
Dan
2023-12-04 12:05:30 +0000 UTCHmmm. I really hope I don't end up writing some long-ass thing that nobody'd want to read. But I want to tackle the whole "antipathy toward Skylar" thing. Especially the position that you both take that he isn't as despised because he's not relatable. I think - for whatever it says about the viewer who loved Walt - that he is absolutely (maybe sadly) relatable. Not in the specific sense of cooking meth, killing people, etc. But look more broadly, Walt is a man trying to make his life feel more important, more profound, more "alive" than just some mild-mannered, high school chemistry teacher who's frankly lucky to have had a wife, and a family - which after all most people consider what life really is about. But it's not very exciting is it? Remember when Walt said at the intervention: "I just have never gotten to make any of my own choices in life"? Very relatable! How many viewers - ones who were Walt fans - said to themselves "maybe it'd be alright to get cancer and be liberated to let go of the inhibitions, the insecurities, the anxieties that have held me back and reinvent myself to have a new exciting life where I no longer have to color within the lines"? I think of myself. 50 years old and I grew up wanting to be a rock star (and actually have written like 300 really kick-ass lyrical songs). Now what I do as a career - software development - I love and I'm good at it. But if I consider my 300 songs, and how I've never done one thing to try to actually do something with them, then I can't not think that this is not what I wanted my life to be. Lot of people in that boat. Lot of men especially. If something, like cancer, out of your control gave you license to completely transform yourself into a persona bigger than yourself, who wouldn't punch out an air dryer in a restroom after a doctor just told you guess what you don't have one year left to live, you have time now to go back to being a nobody? it's like Walt's story is ultimately the story of an unfulfilled, written-off narcissist, and that - maybe sadly - is very relatable. And if that's the case, then Skylar's character arc unfortunately (even unfairly to her) makes her the well-meaning but nagging impediment to Walt's chance to live a life that redeems his irrelevance. So she would kinda have to be seen as the antagonist and hated for it (though I never actually hated her cause I also understood where her character was coming from). The fact that so many people literally despised her without her actually doing anything really terrible just shows how visceral the connection people had to Walt's character and life pre-Heisenberg. The series asks the question what would you do, what price would you pay, what would you give up to live your own Heisenberg life?
Lance Allen
2023-12-04 06:54:25 +0000 UTCPeople who have ran a big business relate easier with Walt. Walt has been beat down his whole life and is facing death. He tried to off himself in the pilot- he's a dead man walking in a sense now. And the breakup doesn't justify Gretchen & Elliot taking Walt's ideas. That's the lowest blow. Walt has snapped here- he is a criminal, just more than Skyler
Justin
2023-12-04 05:37:09 +0000 UTCIn 0104 when Walt is telling the family about how Skyler & him met he says they were eating grilled cheese 10 feet apart at her work. When Skyler calls the cops on Walt Walt makes him and Jr grilled cheese sandwiches and you could say Skyler was 10 feet apart across the living room. One of my pet peeves about this scene is right before Jr gets home Skyler checks the time on her watch but when she asks Jr why he's home so soon she checks her watch again and replies "ah" like she didn't just look at her watch prior.
Justin
2023-12-04 03:22:54 +0000 UTCChad, very true!! Its not always about violence--but those calls are always sticky! a total stranger getting between two people quarreling is a baaaad thing! My uncle almost got stabbed by an angry housewife in 1988!
Chris Bruneau
2023-12-04 01:23:45 +0000 UTCthis seems worse than if there was violence or something where they could pop in, arrest him and be done with it. even if i was the cop i'd be cringing out of my teeth with this lovers quarrel.
Chad Gloria
2023-12-03 23:03:43 +0000 UTCMy uncle was Chicago police for 30 years--he told me domestic calls are the absolute worst!--lot of hard-core realism in this episode.
Chris Bruneau
2023-12-03 17:33:23 +0000 UTC
