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Originally Posted by master3004
Wait, what?
Are you saying it isn't possible for a husband to rape his wife?
The sexual conduct in the last scene wasn't an unwilling wife having sex with her husband to pleas him, it was a frightened to death woman allowing a man she no longer loves and fears to an amazing extent to violate her in order to not piss him off to the point that she dies.
Explain to me how that isn't rape.
Calling guys who want sex with their wives and their wives giving in to make their man happy because they like their husbands being happy and will put up with something they may not have time for or are too tried for, etc. rapists is disgusting.
of course a husband can rape his wife. i'm a long-time lurker, so it's fair of you to assume i'm nuts, i guess.
but, to a viewer indifferent to gilligan's intent and with a friendly evaluation of walter's choices in seasons 2 and 4, this is not obviously coerced sex. indeed, it seems like the case you describe in your last paragraph - a lethargic sky is just mailing in the sex to gratify her husband. that is, i don't have to grant that i'm thinking of walt as a villain coming into this scene.
i'm asking us to adopt a prosecutorial perspective if we're gonna call it rape. how would we substantiate the claim that the sex was coerced? you propose it's that walt has shown himself to be a true badass rather than a henpecked pussy. so, with this in mind, i'm to believe that skyler is scared to death.
but that dog won't hunt. walt has never threatened her physically. not even when it was warranted. so she can't credibly claim to be afraid for her life.
no, i propose that she's just grief-stricken over beneke.
i'm loving that gilligan built up a character for us to love and then builds a case against him. but the author's case has to hold water - it can't just be lighting and sad faces