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Edited or not, it was still pretty brutal. poor dying schlub cooks some pw grade crystal so his wife and kids can have a roof over they heads, and the wife goes and fucks some guy. Skylar's about a fucking cunt.



Since Skylar is not a real person, and is a character in a story written by men, don't you wonder what it is they were trying to say? Was the writer's goal really only to make you hate one of his characters or is there something more going on?





I understand that she's a character. I don't think the point is to just make the viewer hate her. I like shows that that give the characters more depth than simply good or bad. Calling her a cunt, and saying Walt was just a good Joe was lipping off. The moment that she so calmly told him she fucked her boss was something everyone, man or woman, has experienced. The person you love, that you know loves you, drops a cruel bomb on you, simply for the sake of cruelty. We've all recieved it. And we've all been the one to give it. Maybe not to that degree, or maybe to a greater degree. The deeper thing that's goling on is the fallout from comments and actions that can't be taken back. Of everyone. Walt's actions (the meth cooking, the lying about how his medical bills were being paid the two phones..everything),her aqctions, Jese's actions, the girlfriend's dad's actions. All the fallout from all of the actions by people who are trying desperately to hold on to their morality, as it keeps going further and further from their reach. For me, that makes the best episodic television. It's a soap opera format, with better and more realistic writing. I guess it's my stories.
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