The skyler hate is odd. If you find out that your husband is a meth kingpin who goes around murdering people who get in his way, how are you supposed to react? Or if your husband ignores you day in day out, seems to have a secret life he tells you nothing about? The one shitty thing she did was cheat on Walt. That's pretty much it.
Television Breaking Bad
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amol fecked Ted.
Latin American skyler. Phwoar.
For better for worse, bitch.
And cheat on Bryan Cranston? Never!
She's ruined everything on him damn it!!!
"Oh you're dying...You can't disappear on me at times...You're not allowed live the remainder of your life freely"
"Oh you became a meth maker to make money to secure your families well being when you die...Oh you're evil so I'm gonna go of and feck someone else"
She's a tosser!!!!
How about "oh you're pissed off I'm a meth cook putting our family at risk and have decided to move out of the house, I'm just gonna... keep doing it!! And kill people who get in my way!"
I love Walter White/Heisenburg, he's I think my favorite character in any medium, but Skyler is a pretty great portrayal of a controlling wife who's husband has "broken bad".
Skyler is great. The people who dislike her seem to have pretty simplistic reasons and underappreciate how clever she is.
Still think she's a cnut......
Which in a way is a compliment to the actress
Which in a way is a compliment to the actress
It's not really, because the writers didn't intend her to come across that way. If anything, you're supposed to eventually come to think Walt is a total cnut.
There is no doubting that she is clever, but she is very controlling and manipulative- two characteristics that most people don't like, in fairness.
Walt is both of those things too.
Exactly. Walt is a master manipulator.
When your other half starts acting shifty and disappearing a few days a week you get a little concerned. When that's followed up by sleeping in a bathroom one night and following that up by pretending to be on a call to your insurance company which later turns out to be a drug dealer...what exactly is an appropriate reaction? Ah, feck it, he's clearly gone mental but it's his life so I'll leave him to it?
After listening to a series of non-stop lies for nearly a year with the tip of the iceberg being a fake fugue state you get to the point where there's a complete dissolution of trust and honesty, so separation seems a reasonable next move. And of course the thought of your partner being a crystal meth dealer makes you worried about what kind of danger that can lead to. When your partner decides to move back in and then makes you seem like an idiot, playing the "perfect parent" card and generally acting like that whole crystal meth double life doesn't really exist...well, you would go a bit mental. You're helpless because any decision you make will destroy your family, so you inevitably cave in and let your partner "win" the battle to minimise the damage done to the family. Resentment overload, time to lash out, you know this is the one thing that will drive your partner crazy...how exactly does cheating on your partner override all of that and make you into the bad guy? Bizarre.
Like I said, I don't think any character is 'good' in Breaking Bad. At least with Walt it wasn't his natural personality though, it was only when he was faced with the fact he was going to die and leave nothing behind that he started being a prick
Whatever dude she's a cnut. (Cant read incase there is a spoiler)
Anyways, I've 2 seasons and a half to go so she might win me over
There's no spoiler, it's all in direct reply to the stuff you've mentioned.
She was a controlling dick before she found out about these things.
She was a controlling person. A lot of people are. In fact it usually happens when one person in the relationship is a bit of a wimp, like Walter White.
Doesn't really make her less of a dick. She became much less so as the series went on.
I was very vocal in my criticism of Skyler's character early on in the show, but from the end of the fourth series onwards, she was great.
that's brilliantSurely thats not real? Which match?
I think it's real. I've heard that guy commentate on lots of tennis matches. Going by the commentary it seems to be wozniaki vs Williams.
Kevin skinner
I don't get why people think Skyler's horrible. Her husband hid getting cancer for ages, wanted to go without treatment so he could just die, and turned down easy help from his rich friends so he could cook meth, just out of selfish personal pride. He kept mysteriously disappearing, had a second phone, and faked a fugue state. The writing was clever to put you on Walt's side, but objectively, Skyler being pissed at him is hardly her being a bitch. The worst thing she did was cheat on him and even then you'd say she had reason too.
Sjyler is annoying but a lot of her actions are understandable.
Yep. And I disagree with the controlling bit as a reason to hate her as well. She wasn't a mind twisting controlling schemer or anything. She was just the slightly more dominant side of the relationship. There usually has to be one when the other is quite passive. There are plenty of very successful marriages that have one more dominant partner. To use that to "hate" her is weird. Let's face it, people hate skyler because she gets in Heisenberg's way and is a party pooper to his..umm..party. But in truth, they've given a pretty good portrayal of someone whose been through what she has.
Classic example for me was when Walt was missing and that cop came over on his day off to help their family and Skyler was giving him shit for not knowing where Walt was- even before they started the investigation. Ok, she was emotional so you you can write it off as 'understandable' but like you say.. annoying as hell.
She should've let him crack on and make millions for the family before he died.
I didn't like the Skyler of season 5a, she got boring but before and after I don't have much issue with her. She was pretty good in season 4 laundering all the money and coming up with clever ideas and even supported walt when hank found out. Obviously when hank died it pushed her over the edge and rightly so, it was how any family member would react on hearing such news but she never ever thought of ratting him out. She was really great in the last few episodes, specially when she takes that knife.
I don't see it as controlling tbh. She is protective, when she sees Walt taking measures to evade dangerous people, etc is when she starts to freak out and it is mainly based around the family being in danger and to be fair walt took risks time and again which on another day could have had him and his family killed in minutes so she was not unreasonable. She probably got too dramatic about it at times which put people including me off but overall if you look at her role it is not really annoying, at least not to me. All she really wanted was a peaceful safe life in the end.
Don't think she really made a big fuss about that did she? It was the dangers that came with it that was her issue, something that concerned her and her children's life. It's not really unreasonable to ask for a life where you don't have to look over your shoulder every minute.
It's definitely a bet, isn't it? He has to have bet that he could fit in a certain number of BB references in over the course of the match. Some of them seem kinda forced and out of place. That's why I think it's a bet. But it's still great!
just saw ep 13, 14 and 15 in one go. 14 and 15 were excellent TV! Watching the finale now!
I wasn't a big fan of Skylar, in fact I very much didn't like her. But it could be worse, she could have been dumb like Andrea from TWD who I hated a lot more for her stupidity.
Skylar won me over a bit.
Skylar won me over a bit.