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>Oh, you have a second cell phone?
>Oh, you have a second cell phone? Time to ruin the marriage!
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So you're cool with it when someone you are committed to just lies to your face?
It's obvious he's not having an affair, so it's none of her damn business.
why would i tell my spouse i've joined the al-qaeda??? i don't frick anyone there and as we know marriage is just a sexual exclusivity contract that does not cover any other aspect of life. when i orphan our children by suicide bombing a bodega it will not affect her in any way
Skylar didn’t understand one of the most important things in a relationship and that’s to negotiate and compromise. Let’s say Walt wanted to suicide bomb a place but Skylar didn’t want him to. Skylar could immediately resort to screeching about her displeasure with Walt doing that. Or instead, they could talk it out and work out a compromise. Indeed you have to work to make your partner happy and can’t just care about your own needs if you want a relationship to work, but Skylar could’ve said “if you decide to suicide bomb, which is your choice, I won’t screech at you but I will end this marriage.” And then she verbally expresses her expectation of the relationship. Walt could then say “how about I help plan a terrorist attack, but I won’t be the suicide bomber?”. And then Skylar could say “I’m not a fan of that, but it will not end our marriage. Keep in mind I’m a little bit upset but it’s your choice to do that”. It’s that easy
>My officers can commit terrorism sometimes, as a treat.
Kek
>has a 2nd secret phone
how is that not a pretty obvious sign of cheating you moron
NTA, but everybody I ever met that had multiple phones was a drug dealer without exception. I totally get why it's suspicious in regards to cheating, but most people just trying to get laid aren't that meticulous about covering tracks and phone records. It's not like your wife can get a warrant to get your deleted texts from Verizon.
I have 3 phones because I buy one one every 4-5 years and just kept 2 last ones on hand. I never ever though of how suspicious that might come across.
>just kept last 2 ones on hand
This is a normal thing, lots of people keep old devices on hand as a stopgap in case the newest one breaks or gets lost. It becomes suspicious when they're all activated and have service through different providers or accounts, though.
I have an alternate email for secks
How do you frick an email though
i don't frick email
Ew, so you just watch emails bang like some kind of cuck?
no
nobody can bang email
Sounds like they're just not trying hard enough
It's not that Walter wasn't doing the wrong thing, it's more that he had more than enough actual excuses for it but she didn't believe them anyway. Someone who is poor, and just got diagnosed with cancer and has a baby on the way is bound to act distant and moronic. She didn't give him the benefit of the doubt, and just dragged his ass over the coals. The viewer knows he is full of shit, but she doesn't/couldn't know.
>you can't know your husband after decades together
Are you autistic anon?
>He had cancer for decades
Are you?
>The viewer knows he is full of shit, but she doesn't/couldn't know.
If you consider for a second that she knows him as much as we do you'd realize how dumb that sounds. Rewatching the show while knowing who Walt is, it's so blatantly obvious he's lying and also that Skylar can tell. Even Flynn catches on by the end.
Wrong. From Skylar's perspective, having been married to him for a couple of decades, and assuming he has always led a life of straight living - there is no reason to suspect malicious behavior just because he acts a bit crazy after a fricking CANCER diagnosis. The mental (and physical) anguish that people go through is enough to send anyone nuts, especially with so much at stake (finances, new baby on the way, etc). Just because she turned out to be correct doesn't make her not a b***h.
It's not that she thought he was up to no good, it's that he's blatantly and obviously lying about what he's doing. When you first watch the show his lies make sense in theory but when you actually know his character it's so easy to tell when he's bullshitting, he even changes his voice and everything. When you factor in that Skylar can tell when he's lying she actually does give him a lot more space than someone normally would. Also him having cancer is even more of a reason to be concerned.
Her entire problem as a character is that she is just not interesting. Besides a few missteps, she is almost entirely portrayed as being entirely in the right in any given situation. And even those she does have, like her infidelity and smoking while pregnant are always immediately contrasted by her husband’s much worse misdeeds. Not to mention she always has the moral upper hand in her dealings with her sister and brother in law, both much more rounded and fleshed out people.
And while this is what you’d hope a good wife and mother would act like in real life, it makes for a tremendously dull, sanctimonious, one note and ultimately unlikeable character. It’s the basic issue with ‘strong female’ characters by people who should know better.
Of all the things Breaking Bad ripped off from The Sopranos, they probably should have included one of the best written ‘criminal wife’ characters ever put to screenwriting in there, instead of pandering ‘happy birthday Mr. President’ scenes and the like.
the 2 things that annoy me the most about her is her attention whoring melodrama and control issues
the melodrama is how every time she has to make a big spectacle out of her issues, like walt telling her he has cancer results in her breaking down at a family lunch, then doing the drowning in the pool thing next time, then fricking ted, etc
and the other is how when she is finally seduced by the money walt is bringing in, she can't just go about her business and suddenly thinks she is an equal partner in the drug empire, making executive decisions and bossing saul around
I wont argue that she's interesting because I find her pretty dumb, but she's definitely not always presented as in the right all the time. Walt just simps over her. There are times in the show where she seems even more crooked than Walt while also being hypocritical. She's always going to have the moral high ground over Walt because shes not putting her family at risk to be murdered by neo nazis and Mexicans with axis, but that's about it. She rarely even comes off as strong either, when does she ever really win? All I can think of is when she forces Walt to do Chemo and Sneeding Ted. If you can even call those wins.
>forcing Walt into chemo
This was actually her most likeable aspect for me, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to convince people with major illnesses like that to get help instead of just letting themselves whither away.
They were clearly in an unhappy marriage long before the meth or even the cancer. Skyler is a malicious c**t and Walt is a closed off sociopath. Neither should have become parents
Did you stop watching right here?
In season 3 episode 1 she explicitly lays out all of the things Walter did that made her suspicious and he's forced to admit the truth to her.
I've always said she's an excellent character.
I hate her, she's a total c**t, but she's really well written and very accurate.
This, people that hate the character in the context of the show are the same types of people that would send unhinged threats to soap opera actors 50 years ago.
Skyler is great when she's smart, she's great when she keeps Walt on his toes. All the Ted stuff makes zero sense, and once Skyler agreed to cook Ted's books like a complete moron it went only more moronic from there, and in ways Vince didn't even anticipate.
For example, the whole inheritance escapade, while it's true that Skyler could've given it to Ted without notifying IRS about money that never existed, still, 600 thousand dollars is still a shit ton of cash to suddenly materialize and I don't care how Saul did it, when IRS notices that they WILL investigate who the frick died to give Ted this much cash and it'll all just boomerang back to Ted getting investigated. So Skyler, when it comes to Ted, is too stupid to survive, realistically.
Skyler isn't very smart to begin w8th. She was a cafe waitress for frick's sake. Her only saving grace was knowing stuff Saul didn't to help Walter and she still fricked that up.
The person youre marrird to shoudnt lie to you. Id take my spouse hiding something from me very seriously too
In Walt defense, he had no choice but to hide it because his wife was a nagging and hysterical woman about everything. She wasn’t even cool with him smoking pot and intervened about that on his behalf. If she had been more accepting of Walt he wouldn’t have to keep secrets but she’s a control freak who doesn’t have any faith in Walt, so Walt had no choice
Anon, he was manufacturing and selling meth, Skylar could've been the most chill, subservient wife and he would still need to hide that. I dont get this cope, Im not a fan of Skylar either, but acting like she's overreacting about the meth shit (after she finds out) is just ridiculous. And Ill say it again, I get her being angry about Walter clearly lying for weeks, she doesnt know what it is, but there's obsviously something he is hiding from her. If my wife was acting as fishy as Walter was, Id be giving her an ultimatum way before Skylar did to Walter.
She was jumping on his back about Jesse, and still didn’t approve of it when she just thought Walt was smoking pot. And the man had cancer at that point, if he wants to smoke weed he should be able too. Cooking meth is different, but in some way Walter was justified in his reason and had to hide it for her own good or she would’ve been criminally responsible. Skylar had the right to be annoyed at him hiding that but since she was a constant snoop who didn’t approve of anything he did, Walt could’ve been hiding anything and for a good reason since he would’ve had to hide a harmless hobby like smoking weed. Skylar needed to relax she was uptight and controlling, although Walt cooking meth did just coincidentally give her what was a justifiable reason in hindsight to have been riding him so hard and freaked out about it
She's a Gen X suburb mom in 2008, you cant expect her to be cool with the weed stuff. Was she really that much of a snoop before? I guess she has a scene of telling him to not use a credit card, she took control of the whole finances thing since Walter lets her and is too much of a depressed push over to care about it. We all get why Walter does the shit he does, he knows hes going to die and wants to take control of things for once in his life, take action and feel alive again, and he has the perfect excuse to himself too "Im do this for my family". But unironically most of Skylar's reaction past a certain point in season 1 are perfectly justifiable. The reason she seems annoying to us is because she's the character that is the obstacle to Walter doing the druglord shit we want to watch. He deeper Walter goes the more fun the show is, and Skylar acts like the foil to some of his endeavors, but if you try to see it from her perspective, her actions are reasonable
I don’t know how I feel about Skylar throughout most of the show. She could’ve gotten an immediate divorce when she found out Walt was cooking meth, but instead she tries to make a failing relationship work and just turns into a b***h about everything. It’s fair that she’s mad about it but she should remove herself from the situation or at least let Walt do his business in peace. I think she was also extra demanding because she was pregnant but I don’t know, she just always seemed to be criticizing or complaining about something. I know that’s it common for middle aged suburban housewives for the most part, but they really didn’t give her a single likable trait either which didn’t help. And they started making her smoke while pregnant, and she also had a cringy way of flirting with Ted and then had the affair. Everything she did kind of sucked
She tries to get a divorce remember? Walt refuse to accept it, she fricks Ted and tells Walt to try and bring home the message of "This marriage is over". Walter doesnt accept that either. Eventually she reveals she never delivered the divorce papers back to the lawyer because of the "cant be forced to testify about your spouse" thing.
That makes Skylar seemed considerably better. It’s been a really long time since I watched the show, I might need to watch it again to really get a fair opinion about it lol. The only thing I can hold against her is smoking while pregnant and then cooking the books for Ted, but at least she wasn’t going to testify against Walt or bring him down which is good, and she wanted the separation and Walt wasn’t letting her which I forgot
Her smoking while pregnant is bad because it implies that she did the same or similar before which is why Flynn has Palsy and yet she still doesnt care. Her cooking the books for Ted is annoying because she plays the morality angle with Walt but it makes sense. She's breaking the law but not putting her family at risk the way Walt is. Plus she never believed Walt did it all for the family in the first place.
The divorce lawyer was completely right and it was basically a ripoff of the scene of Carmela getting owned by the israeli psychiatrist in The Sopranos.
>She could’ve gotten an immediate divorce when she found out Walt was cooking meth,
She did, but Walt wouldnt sign and ended up moving back into the house against her will acting like everything was normal. That's when she pulled the ifrickedted, idk why anons think it's some major betrayal.
>harmless hobby like smoking weed
It's even worse than that, he didn't even enjoy it as a recreational drug. He was literally using it so he wouldn't turn into a vomiting wreck every five minutes after a chemo session.
Why are you making excuses for Walter? He wasnt even using it. He smokes once in Jesses house because he wants to forget about the man in the basement he's supposed to kill. I know it seems silly to see a person disapprove of weed so hard but in context thats exactly the average suburbian wife in 2008.
>he smokes once at Jesse's house
And what was the reason he told Skyler for his excuse in the first place?
My mom caught me with a bong for the first time in 2008 and all she said was keep that shit out of the house if you're going to do it.
Your mom is cooler with that suff than the average mom then.
If you have a second undisclosed cell phone ya you're doing something wrong lmao
She's hot
It might be just a me thing but outside of season one I only found her attractive when she was completely broken down and disheveled like in picrel or that one scene where she's terrified of Walt in their room.
>"I fricked chupacabra"
If a woman is insecure about you having an affair it means she knows she's a shitty woman and that you SHOULD have an affair. Simple as.
I'm watching this show right now, she is not meant to be likable. But I can understand her character's motivation and reasoning.
She wanted Walt out of her life and thought having an affair would get the job done. Morally reprehensible? Yes, but also realistic. Sometimes when women don't know how to break up, they just cheat on you instead.
The money she gave to Ted was to cover her own ass and Walt's ass, she even hired goons to force him to do it. She was loyal to her family and looked out for them.
She was angry with Walt because he was involved with savage cartel people. It DID backfire, and he almost died several times, and they did threaten his family.
>Sometimes when women don't know how to break up, they just cheat on you instead
They were already separated and she gave him divorce papers to sign. What more could she possibly do lol
imagine writing a gay essay about a tv show character. lmao homosexual
When I saw this scene again when I rewatched BB I laughed my ass off. I realized that with all the context it "makes sense", but to someone without any context (Walter) it's completely fricking nuts, ESPECIALLY because she cheated on him with Ted, makes it all even more hilarious.
why do the subplots on this show feel so boring and irrelevant on rewatch but everything in better call saul feels connected and important even when nothing happened (so the whole series)?
is it just because mike and nacho are better?
>lol no
Whomst are you quoting
>there is a different timeline where i shard into this womens mouth and she swallows it and thanks me for it while her cripple son is watching it and fapping to it
Don't forget commiting many felonies which included accessory to murder. If you want a normal life, Walt is not the partner for that.
I have 2 phones
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