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Originally Posted by theginger45
She's the mother of a son with cerebral palsy, who's having another baby she can't afford. She's given up her dream of being a writer in order to take care of her family.
When the show starts she is giving her husband half hearted handjobs for his birthday and selling stuff on ebay and NOT WRITING and NOT WORKING!! She chooses not to write because she is either lazy, not good at it or just doesn't want to do it. I don't see anything stopping her from pursuing this if she really wanted to. If anything the show suggests writing is a passing fancy of someone who doesn't have anything better to do, but nice lol argument.
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Her husband is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her sister is a kleptomaniac. All of a sudden, her husband starts disappearing seemingly at random, with no explanation.
And how does she respond? By passively aggressively ignoring them or acting in completely destructive ways (smoking and working while pregnant) until she gets what she wants. She makes both situations worse because of her control issues while putting her unborn child at risk...
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Then, she finds out he's a meth cook who makes millions of dollars a year, but is putting the entire family at risk. Somewhere in amongst all this, she's expected to make decisions that affect her children's future.
Lol and she responds by going to the cops and protecting her fam... oh wait... she responds by (once again) trying to control walt through passive aggressive actions (ie sleeping with Ted) that lead to his agreeing to buy the car wash and cut her in so she can control the criminal activity that is now paying for her life.
Then she doctors Ted's books, because...??? she thinks he's cute?
Then she almost has Ted killed
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Is she perfect? Of course not. But even forgetting Jesse and Walt, is she more sympathetic than Gus the murderous meth kingpin, Tuco the crazy methhead, Saul the cockroach, Mike the hitman, or even Ted the arrogant tax cheat? OF COURSE SHE ****ING IS.
She's less sympathetic than them because those characters (save mike, jesse and maybe walt) are all basically insane psychopaths. Skylar knows better, she is smart and basically sniffs walt out from the get go. But she chooses to try and control the situation passive aggressively rather than actually protect her family when she claims that's all she wants to do.
Walt and Jesse and Mike make no bones about their motives. Walt and Mike are basically i will stop at nothing to provide for my family. Jesse wants madstacks and quite frankly is easy to sympathize with because of his lol parents and the fact he develops a conscience throughout the show.
Skylar's motive is to control walt and as many people around her as possible, she wants out, but only on her terms. It's like she has been dealt a ****ty hand but refuses to fold and just keeps shoving chips in the middle. Except the chips are her kids lives.
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If I were you I'd take a serious look at my moral code, or the way I perceive women, because something is really very wrong with what you said.
lol after reading this im not shocked you sympathize with her