You missed a big one: Walter Jr. is really Ted Beneke's son. It's elementary, just do a punnett square. Walter Sr. and Skylar both have blue eyes. Walter Jr. has brown eyes. Prior to Skylar's affair, it seems clear to me that a part of the subtext of their relationship is that they had a romantic attraction to each other. Falling pregnant with Walter Jr., and wanting to avoid suspicion that would damage his marriage, or who-knows-what, could have been her real reason for quitting working back in the day. Cuckoldry is just another form of control. Right up her alley.
A strong argument well made! 👏 There's an (acceptable) level of _interpretation_ here, but I do agree with this theory and I'm considering making a Short covering it as a corollary to this video, because you're right this was a definite miss 😬
The funniest thing is that Vince G and Anna Gunn both are confused why her character is hated. How can they be so brilliant in their craft, and yet so stupid at the same time? They both think she exudes the “strong, independent female” and is therefore, has immunity from criticism. In reality, they wrote a very realistic modern woman - a selfish, controlling, emasculating, lying, man-hating witch with no accountability. And then there was her sister - flawed, yes. But a woman who encouraged her man to be a man and supported his dreams. Compare that to Skylar and the way she treated Walt (even before the diagnosis)
Agreed, I love Hank and Marie, if Skyler would have listened to them then Walt wouldn't have gotten treatment and they'd all have been better off 😭 Also somehow the most ruthless part of your comment is that you called her 'Skylar' 😅
The more Walt asserts himself the more Skyler goes to extremes to re-emasculate him. She doesn't have a problem with his criminality as much as what it represents: Walt breaking out of the box she'd put him in.
@@timramich No. Walt is dating his assistant Gretchen, who then turns around and dates Walt's business partner Elliot. Walt gets butthurt about it and asks to be bought out.
@@jackbryan4676 Oh yeah. I didn't pay much attention. The character traits of the series were too over the top for me. Some timid nerdy twerp turning into someone taking down real drug lords. Also the fact of Bryan Cranston being Walt. I liked him more as the Tim Whatley kind of character.
@@timramich It's nice to know that you have the ability to ask specific questions about this show to provide yourself with an opening to spew on how much you hate it. Well done.
In addition to the points made above, Walt started working at the car wash four years before the series starts, and Skyler quit Bennecke four years before the series. Walt, in addition to his teaching job, had to take on a second, often demeaning job at the car wash to make up for Skyler quitting. As noted in the video, she clearly lied to Walt about the fumes (and this speaks to the level of control she exerts in the relationship that her chemist husband, with an impressive knowledge of engineering to boot, who could explode any claims about the health risks of her working environment, never followed up or checked out her story), but Marie believes Skyler had to leave because of Ted sexually harassing her. Yet her behavior and demeanor around Ted are not someone who is so desperate for income that she is cautiously giving her harasser a second chance. Coupled with the general knowledge in which her sexy song for Ted's birthday is recalled, it's pretty clear she went too far in her flirtation, created expectations in Ted, or made their working together extremely uncomfortable, so she quit, lied to her sister & husband, and allowed him to take on the additional work to provide for their family, while she did absolutely nothing to secure a replacement job. This woman's idea of celebrating her husband's 50th birthday is to give him food he does not like, but in the shape of the numerals of his age, to demand that he leave work promptly on time without telling him that he has other plans, have him drive their son to school, after he does his two jobs, greet him on his arrival at a surprise birthday party with a not-at-all discreet rebuke for his tardiness, all the while he is miserable and the "guest" at his party sucks up all the energy in the room with his work bragging, and TV appearance (The principal of Walt's school appears to be the only person there who is not primarily known to the couple through Skyler. Why is Steve Gomez even at the party? What sort of relationship has he with Walt?). Walt's cough gets no real attention from her other than nagging to take herbal supplements. And then, at the end of the day, while she is preoccupied with her E-bay activities that she uses to excuse her lack of a job, she gives a fraction of her attention to a sexual encounter that is more awkward and humiliating than pleasurable for him, and presents her minimal level of effort, and refusal to engage in more intimate activity, as making it all about him. Skyler's behavior throughout the first two seasons, when she does not yet know about his illegal activities is very controlling and suspicious. The audience is inclined to give her slack, because they know what Walt is doing, but she has no way of knowing this. One might contend her knowledge of, and familiarity with Walt tells her he is up to no good, but where is that intuition at discerning how unhappy he is with their "sex" or his surprise party? Why do we see her do nothing to make him happy that does not involve her being the center of attention? No, what we see is a controlling partner becoming angry at their spouse acting on their own and thinking for themselves. She checks up on Walt's phone calls, she finds Jesse, and when Walt says he tried marijuana (which is barely even a vice), she gets all moralistic on him, and when he snaps back at her, she tracks down Jesse to intimidate him into refusing to sell to Walt, citing her DEA agent brother-in-law. Notice how she behaves in THAT encounter: she enters through the gate, despite Jesse telling her not to, she approaches him, despite him telling her to leave, and then passive-aggressively acts as if he is threatening her. Skyler's approach to Walt's pot habit is not normal, sensible or sane, it is controlling and ego-driven. Like her husband, she is compelled to beat people in confrontations. This same trait plays out in her dealings with Walt when she learns of his drug dealing. First, she demands that HE be the one to leave. As the arrival of the Salamanca brothers will later show the viewer, the danger she rightly fears coming down on Walt is not going to care about his marital status. The smart, and moral, thing to do in her shoes is to take the kids away from Walt and the house, and TELL HANK. Yes, there could be repercussions for the family of a drug dealer, but if anyone could steer her through those scenarios, it would be Hank, and if anyone could get the DEA to go as easy on the Whites as their professional discretion allowed, it would be the sister of an agent's wife, with a handicapped teenage son and infant daughter. When Walt calls her bluff and moves back in, she refuses to tell the police why she wants him out. She refuses to allow her lawyer to pursue an emergency separation order and go to the police. She is too proud, too controlling, too attached to control of her family, to allow herself to appear as the helpless victim or the fool whose husband started a drug-cooking business for months behind her back. Her ill-advised dealings with Walt continue, when, instead of maintaining separation for the safety of the family, following an actual murder attempt against a member of the family that Skyler professes to believe Walt is responsible for, she makes up a story about his gambling addiction so she can vent some of her anger at Walt to her sister and also force Walt to fund Hank's treatment. Why was a charity website just fine for Walt, despite his distaste for online begging, but not for Hank, now that she knows the money is illegal and ill-gotten? Because she wants to be the benefactor. She wants to be the one who takes the bills from Marie and tell her she's got this. She wants Marie to be in her debt forever, and to play the big shot in the family. She then trades access to their kids to get Walt's compliance with her scheme to launder money through the car wash. Why the car wash? Because it was her idea, because she had to say something when she got the urge to take control of the discussion on the finances. Because she cannot bear to let Walt and Saul do all the planning and thinking, she has to be in charge. So she fixates on the car wash, and when Bogdan won't cooperate with her plans, and refuses to sell his livelihood that he built up from the ground, and has put his heart and soul into, for a price she has precisely calculated based on her estimation of the business he does, she then swindles him out of the original fair price, all of this to avoid backing down or admitting to Walt or Saul she is wrong or her plans won't work. Skyler's controlling behavior also manifests with her alleged security precautions, such as rebuking Walt for buying the champagne, citing their alleged poverty (except they just bought a car wash for six figures... ) as incongruous with the expense. Except that is exactly the sort of thing people actually do, they splurge when they accomplish something, thinking that even if the account is a bit tight this month, their new business will make it up down the road. She tells Saul he can't be seen in the car wash because he is too recognizable, and here, gets a rare moment of comeuppance, when Saul points out that getting his car washed is a perfectly legitimate reason to be there, and then breaks down the complete disaster of her plan to evade IRS attention through Ted, by giving him money to pay off his debt. By the end of the show, Skyler is miserable, broke, estranged from her son and sister, and far better off than she deserves.
These narratives are absolutely brilliant. They are of the quality that a YT-er with over a million viewers has. You will definitely get there with these though!
I love this essay so much...except your bit about the tiara. I would put it on my kid once, take a picture for the aunt, then sell it and put it in the baby's savings account. :)
Agreed, I would probably keep it for a year and have her wear it in front of Marie a few times, but then secretly sell it 😅 Skyler was probably planning on telling Marie that she'd returned it and making a big deal about how _inappropriate_ it was as a gift though 🙄 Thank you for the feedback! 😃
As awful as Skyler White is, I must acknowledge how GREAT Anna Gunn was in playing such a complex and layered character. Homegirl really did bring out every nuance of Skyler White that when I watched the old Seinfeld episode where she is one of Jerry's girlfriends, I inexplicably hated her guts lol
Agreed! The best thing about Anna Gunn's performance in Seinfeld is that it seems like they didn't write any jokes for her so she read a lot of lines with such disdain for Jerry that it's hilarious 😅
Skylar had every intention to emasculate Walt. Walt went from a confident, leather jacket-sporting man, to a broken, sweater-wearing loser. In the scene where Walt, Skylar, Frank and Marie are having a heated discussion, Frank says, "Well, maybe he wants to die like a man, to which Skylar snaps back, "I don't want him to die at all!" She paid absolutely no consideration to Walt being a man. Hank understood that for a male, dying like a man is more important than living as an invalid. And I mean both forms of "invalid". A man who is controlled by his wife does not have her respect. Her affair confirms that. Not giving her husband real bacon on his birthday, of all days, confirms that. Uninterested in sex with Walt confirms that. Permitting the denouncement of her husband's name in allowing her son to call himself "Flynn" and herself calling him Flynn, confirms the lack of reverence Skylar has for Walt. Interesting how when the money started pouring in from Walt's meth enterprise, Skylar was on board regardless of the legality. My assumption would be whether the cartel or the cancer got Walt, either way, he was out of the picture and she would have millions as a nest egg. It was only when the wheels started to fall off that she withdrew. When they were financially struggling, she didn't have that financial cushion which is why at the time, she didn't want him to die at all. Skylar is a very well-written character with nuance and complexity. I wonder whether actress Anna Gunn ever noticed the manipulative character of playing Skylar from day to day on set, or could only see it as an audience member once all of the fragments were put together.
Very well said 👏 I am also curious about whether Anna Gunn noticed the intentions behind the character; both her and Vince Gilligan act like it was some big surprise that people didn't take to her, like neither have any concept of what sort of character they were playing/writing.
Dude, seriously.... excellent channel. Your blend of cross references between IP is a treat. I don't even know half of them but it's still hilarious. You must have an encyplopedic knowledge of TV shows and movies. One of like 3 channels I have to notify me of new content. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! 😃 To be honest, I just watch most shows and movies like a zombie - in one ear and out the other - but the excellent stuff like Breaking Bad resonates in my brain for longer 🧐 Thanks again for the great feedback! 😄
I get why people come around on Skyler. The first watch through we are living vicariously through Walt and we tend to see his side on most things. We hate SKyler for always trying to jam Walt up. Once we've seen the complete series though, we understand how Walt destroyed his and his families lives. We understand that Walt ends up dead on the floor of some skinhead's meth lab. So on subsequent watch throughs, we're more sympathetic of Skyler. Her protestations and fears in regards to her, Walt and the family turn out to be true in the end. Both Walt and Skyler are really selfish, pretty fucked up people.
Yes, but there's still plenty to be said about how years of her controlling nature beat Walt down in the first place. He ends up dead on the floor of some skinhead's meth lab....but what factors drove him there? Why was he so insecure and starved for respect? If there was more love in his marriage, specifically more affection and less dissatisfaction coming from Skylar...would the end result have been the same?
I don’t necessarily hate Skyler and Walt becomes a monster because of his ego that was fed by his drug empire but the ego was always there. She does suck though.
You should consider making a video about the endearing parts of Walter White's personality. Why do so many people love the show? What is it that so many young men find attractive about his life story? Lots of potential for your type of video essays. You are massively under appreciated.
I'd never actually considered why Walter White is such an endearing character, but I know that in my case it's because Bryan Cranston was the father 'Hal' in Malcolm in the Middle 😅 It's definitely something worth exploring 🤔 Thank you so much for the awesome feedback! 😃
I agree. They should have done the _Skyler's scared of Walt_ stuff much sooner in the show, probably Season 2, because the _"I am the danger"_ moment happens about forty episodes in and that was much too late to take her _fear_ seriously 😬
@@ExtraCheeseProject My original comment was before watch the video. After watching it I have to compliment you on calling out Skyler and all of the ways the Skyler haters never did lol. You're pointing out all of the bad parts she's been doing all along whereas fans of the show only cared about the bitch she became in response to Walter becoming unhinged. Very nice, also I clipped the Half-Life moment of Ted falling over because it was absolute gold.
@@Gator159 Thank you so much! 😃 I was in two minds about including the Half-Life edit in the montage, but I figured it's worth having it for the people who'll appreciate it, your feedback has proved that thinking correct 😁
I had doubts about leaving that part in, but it's so encouraging to hear that you and other Half Life fans found it funny, thank you so much for the feedback! 😃
Yeah she's interesting. An "anti-villain" in a way, but you're right I don't think she had pure intentions the whole time. Just think, if she had never told them about his cancer, Walt might've accepted a job from them. Making it clear that it would be a pity hire GURANTEED he'd reject it, and if she knew him like a wife should've she would've KNOWN THAT. If she was truly a knowing wife she'd have told them "do not bring up the cancer. Make it clear you want him for his MERIT. That is what he cares about, and he'll take the job then." or just not told them anything at all. Walt takes the higher paying job, and the show never happens.
Your analysis is spot on! Walt couldn't be allowed to think he'd earned a job from his own merit and maybe she wanted Walt to feel pitiful, or she wanted to assert her authority (probably both), but if she'd focused on lifting him up instead of keeping him down then you're right the show would have never happened (that or if they had access to free healthcare) 😅
You’re trying to tell me a 40 year old woman doesn’t have the knowledge or experience to use birth control properly? The baby wasn’t a surprise. The pregnancy was on purpose to once again solidify her hold over Walt. She is terrified of Walt leaving her.
I wouldn't be surprised! 😬 It gets worse though because there's also a growing theory that Walter White Jr. was actually 'Ted Beneke Jr.' which is worth a video of its own 😅
@ I’d be interested to see how much evidence is available for the Beneke kid theory. It’s definitely a possibility. I vote for Walt’s kid tho based on my previous comment and Skylar’s behavior thru the show.
The strongest evidence is probably that Walter Jr. has brown eyes - like Ted - whereas Skyler and Walt have blue and green eyes respectively - making it impossible to have a son with brown eyes - but people are quick to say that the genetics of this are _not that simple_ and/or that this is just a casting oversight (pun intended) 😬
@@ExtraCheeseProject take your time bub!!, no rush!! with the over saturation of everything on youtube and the internet.. quality thought provoking things are very hard to come by.. your cast away break down legit blew me away man... keep it up..
@SnagKing25 The Cast Away video had 20 views for the first 6 months so I won't ever _rush content out_ because I know to invest the time to make each video worth watching for whenever YT decides to show them to viewers; your feedback supports this philosophy, thank you! 😃
Great vid . Here's my personal fan theory on Walter left Grey-Matter Gretchen cheated on him with Elliott he found out somehow and left soon afterwards breaking up with her and taking the $ 5,000 buyout.
Agreed on her being a terrific actor! 👏 Gotta disagree on Skyler being the most powerful character though, because we have to remember the cameo from Star Trek: The Next Generation's *Q* of the *Q Continuum* (John Sherwood de Lancie, Jr. as Donald Margolis) 😬
You missed a big one: Walter Jr. is really Ted Beneke's son. It's elementary, just do a punnett square. Walter Sr. and Skylar both have blue eyes. Walter Jr. has brown eyes. Prior to Skylar's affair, it seems clear to me that a part of the subtext of their relationship is that they had a romantic attraction to each other. Falling pregnant with Walter Jr., and wanting to avoid suspicion that would damage his marriage, or who-knows-what, could have been her real reason for quitting working back in the day. Cuckoldry is just another form of control. Right up her alley.
A strong argument well made! 👏 There's an (acceptable) level of _interpretation_ here, but I do agree with this theory and I'm considering making a Short covering it as a corollary to this video, because you're right this was a definite miss 😬
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@@exhaustpipes 😂👏☕
Moronic.
The funniest thing is that Vince G and Anna Gunn both are confused why her character is hated. How can they be so brilliant in their craft, and yet so stupid at the same time?
They both think she exudes the “strong, independent female” and is therefore, has immunity from criticism. In reality, they wrote a very realistic modern woman - a selfish, controlling, emasculating, lying, man-hating witch with no accountability.
And then there was her sister - flawed, yes. But a woman who encouraged her man to be a man and supported his dreams. Compare that to Skylar and the way she treated Walt (even before the diagnosis)
Agreed, I love Hank and Marie, if Skyler would have listened to them then Walt wouldn't have gotten treatment and they'd all have been better off 😭 Also somehow the most ruthless part of your comment is that you called her 'Skylar' 😅
@@ExtraCheeseProject Sky-liar
The Skyler hate is 1000% justified from that singing scene alone.
I almost turned this video off when it opened with that damn scene.
The more Walt asserts himself the more Skyler goes to extremes to re-emasculate him. She doesn't have a problem with his criminality as much as what it represents: Walt breaking out of the box she'd put him in.
Well said! 👏
Was she the reason he didn't work at that chemical company and become rich like his 2 friends?
@@timramich No. Walt is dating his assistant Gretchen, who then turns around and dates Walt's business partner Elliot. Walt gets butthurt about it and asks to be bought out.
@@jackbryan4676 Oh yeah. I didn't pay much attention. The character traits of the series were too over the top for me. Some timid nerdy twerp turning into someone taking down real drug lords. Also the fact of Bryan Cranston being Walt. I liked him more as the Tim Whatley kind of character.
@@timramich It's nice to know that you have the ability to ask specific questions about this show to provide yourself with an opening to spew on how much you hate it. Well done.
In addition to the points made above, Walt started working at the car wash four years before the series starts, and Skyler quit Bennecke four years before the series. Walt, in addition to his teaching job, had to take on a second, often demeaning job at the car wash to make up for Skyler quitting. As noted in the video, she clearly lied to Walt about the fumes (and this speaks to the level of control she exerts in the relationship that her chemist husband, with an impressive knowledge of engineering to boot, who could explode any claims about the health risks of her working environment, never followed up or checked out her story), but Marie believes Skyler had to leave because of Ted sexually harassing her. Yet her behavior and demeanor around Ted are not someone who is so desperate for income that she is cautiously giving her harasser a second chance. Coupled with the general knowledge in which her sexy song for Ted's birthday is recalled, it's pretty clear she went too far in her flirtation, created expectations in Ted, or made their working together extremely uncomfortable, so she quit, lied to her sister & husband, and allowed him to take on the additional work to provide for their family, while she did absolutely nothing to secure a replacement job.
This woman's idea of celebrating her husband's 50th birthday is to give him food he does not like, but in the shape of the numerals of his age, to demand that he leave work promptly on time without telling him that he has other plans, have him drive their son to school, after he does his two jobs, greet him on his arrival at a surprise birthday party with a not-at-all discreet rebuke for his tardiness, all the while he is miserable and the "guest" at his party sucks up all the energy in the room with his work bragging, and TV appearance (The principal of Walt's school appears to be the only person there who is not primarily known to the couple through Skyler. Why is Steve Gomez even at the party? What sort of relationship has he with Walt?). Walt's cough gets no real attention from her other than nagging to take herbal supplements. And then, at the end of the day, while she is preoccupied with her E-bay activities that she uses to excuse her lack of a job, she gives a fraction of her attention to a sexual encounter that is more awkward and humiliating than pleasurable for him, and presents her minimal level of effort, and refusal to engage in more intimate activity, as making it all about him.
Skyler's behavior throughout the first two seasons, when she does not yet know about his illegal activities is very controlling and suspicious. The audience is inclined to give her slack, because they know what Walt is doing, but she has no way of knowing this. One might contend her knowledge of, and familiarity with Walt tells her he is up to no good, but where is that intuition at discerning how unhappy he is with their "sex" or his surprise party? Why do we see her do nothing to make him happy that does not involve her being the center of attention? No, what we see is a controlling partner becoming angry at their spouse acting on their own and thinking for themselves. She checks up on Walt's phone calls, she finds Jesse, and when Walt says he tried marijuana (which is barely even a vice), she gets all moralistic on him, and when he snaps back at her, she tracks down Jesse to intimidate him into refusing to sell to Walt, citing her DEA agent brother-in-law. Notice how she behaves in THAT encounter: she enters through the gate, despite Jesse telling her not to, she approaches him, despite him telling her to leave, and then passive-aggressively acts as if he is threatening her.
Skyler's approach to Walt's pot habit is not normal, sensible or sane, it is controlling and ego-driven. Like her husband, she is compelled to beat people in confrontations. This same trait plays out in her dealings with Walt when she learns of his drug dealing. First, she demands that HE be the one to leave. As the arrival of the Salamanca brothers will later show the viewer, the danger she rightly fears coming down on Walt is not going to care about his marital status. The smart, and moral, thing to do in her shoes is to take the kids away from Walt and the house, and TELL HANK. Yes, there could be repercussions for the family of a drug dealer, but if anyone could steer her through those scenarios, it would be Hank, and if anyone could get the DEA to go as easy on the Whites as their professional discretion allowed, it would be the sister of an agent's wife, with a handicapped teenage son and infant daughter. When Walt calls her bluff and moves back in, she refuses to tell the police why she wants him out. She refuses to allow her lawyer to pursue an emergency separation order and go to the police. She is too proud, too controlling, too attached to control of her family, to allow herself to appear as the helpless victim or the fool whose husband started a drug-cooking business for months behind her back.
Her ill-advised dealings with Walt continue, when, instead of maintaining separation for the safety of the family, following an actual murder attempt against a member of the family that Skyler professes to believe Walt is responsible for, she makes up a story about his gambling addiction so she can vent some of her anger at Walt to her sister and also force Walt to fund Hank's treatment. Why was a charity website just fine for Walt, despite his distaste for online begging, but not for Hank, now that she knows the money is illegal and ill-gotten? Because she wants to be the benefactor. She wants to be the one who takes the bills from Marie and tell her she's got this. She wants Marie to be in her debt forever, and to play the big shot in the family. She then trades access to their kids to get Walt's compliance with her scheme to launder money through the car wash.
Why the car wash? Because it was her idea, because she had to say something when she got the urge to take control of the discussion on the finances. Because she cannot bear to let Walt and Saul do all the planning and thinking, she has to be in charge. So she fixates on the car wash, and when Bogdan won't cooperate with her plans, and refuses to sell his livelihood that he built up from the ground, and has put his heart and soul into, for a price she has precisely calculated based on her estimation of the business he does, she then swindles him out of the original fair price, all of this to avoid backing down or admitting to Walt or Saul she is wrong or her plans won't work.
Skyler's controlling behavior also manifests with her alleged security precautions, such as rebuking Walt for buying the champagne, citing their alleged poverty (except they just bought a car wash for six figures... ) as incongruous with the expense. Except that is exactly the sort of thing people actually do, they splurge when they accomplish something, thinking that even if the account is a bit tight this month, their new business will make it up down the road. She tells Saul he can't be seen in the car wash because he is too recognizable, and here, gets a rare moment of comeuppance, when Saul points out that getting his car washed is a perfectly legitimate reason to be there, and then breaks down the complete disaster of her plan to evade IRS attention through Ted, by giving him money to pay off his debt.
By the end of the show, Skyler is miserable, broke, estranged from her son and sister, and far better off than she deserves.
I read that whole thing and I really enjoyed it. Well done.
I always describe Walter White as a DOMESTICATED CASTRATED TIGER. Soon or later it is gonna do something DESTRUCTIVE.
That's a perfect analogy! 👏🐅☕
Thank You!!! Everyone says "Skyler did nothing wrong!" But she's literally the worst.
ikr and what really bugs me is Vince Gilligan saying that himself as if he didn't know exactly what kind of character he was writing! 🙄
Ikr? I hated her from the get go- so controlling, manipulative and hypocritical.
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These narratives are absolutely brilliant. They are of the quality that a YT-er with over a million viewers has. You will definitely get there with these though!
Thank you that's so encouraging! 😃
I love this essay so much...except your bit about the tiara. I would put it on my kid once, take a picture for the aunt, then sell it and put it in the baby's savings account. :)
Agreed, I would probably keep it for a year and have her wear it in front of Marie a few times, but then secretly sell it 😅 Skyler was probably planning on telling Marie that she'd returned it and making a big deal about how _inappropriate_ it was as a gift though 🙄 Thank you for the feedback! 😃
Suggesting to have Jesse killed was a bridge too far. Walt preferred to die instead of sacrificing his adopted son to apathy.
Well said! 😭🙏☕
As awful as Skyler White is, I must acknowledge how GREAT Anna Gunn was in playing such a complex and layered character. Homegirl really did bring out every nuance of Skyler White that when I watched the old Seinfeld episode where she is one of Jerry's girlfriends, I inexplicably hated her guts lol
Agreed! The best thing about Anna Gunn's performance in Seinfeld is that it seems like they didn't write any jokes for her so she read a lot of lines with such disdain for Jerry that it's hilarious 😅
Skylar had every intention to emasculate Walt. Walt went from a confident, leather jacket-sporting man, to a broken, sweater-wearing loser. In the scene where Walt, Skylar, Frank and Marie are having a heated discussion, Frank says, "Well, maybe he wants to die like a man, to which Skylar snaps back, "I don't want him to die at all!" She paid absolutely no consideration to Walt being a man. Hank understood that for a male, dying like a man is more important than living as an invalid. And I mean both forms of "invalid".
A man who is controlled by his wife does not have her respect. Her affair confirms that. Not giving her husband real bacon on his birthday, of all days, confirms that. Uninterested in sex with Walt confirms that. Permitting the denouncement of her husband's name in allowing her son to call himself "Flynn" and herself calling him Flynn, confirms the lack of reverence Skylar has for Walt.
Interesting how when the money started pouring in from Walt's meth enterprise, Skylar was on board regardless of the legality. My assumption would be whether the cartel or the cancer got Walt, either way, he was out of the picture and she would have millions as a nest egg. It was only when the wheels started to fall off that she withdrew. When they were financially struggling, she didn't have that financial cushion which is why at the time, she didn't want him to die at all.
Skylar is a very well-written character with nuance and complexity. I wonder whether actress Anna Gunn ever noticed the manipulative character of playing Skylar from day to day on set, or could only see it as an audience member once all of the fragments were put together.
Very well said 👏 I am also curious about whether Anna Gunn noticed the intentions behind the character; both her and Vince Gilligan act like it was some big surprise that people didn't take to her, like neither have any concept of what sort of character they were playing/writing.
Idk, I think Skyler just didn't want her loving husband to die. This isn't the stone age
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Really good video
Thank you! 😅
Dude, seriously.... excellent channel. Your blend of cross references between IP is a treat. I don't even know half of them but it's still hilarious. You must have an encyplopedic knowledge of TV shows and movies. One of like 3 channels I have to notify me of new content. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! 😃 To be honest, I just watch most shows and movies like a zombie - in one ear and out the other - but the excellent stuff like Breaking Bad resonates in my brain for longer 🧐 Thanks again for the great feedback! 😄
I get why people come around on Skyler. The first watch through we are living vicariously through Walt and we tend to see his side on most things. We hate SKyler for always trying to jam Walt up. Once we've seen the complete series though, we understand how Walt destroyed his and his families lives. We understand that Walt ends up dead on the floor of some skinhead's meth lab. So on subsequent watch throughs, we're more sympathetic of Skyler. Her protestations and fears in regards to her, Walt and the family turn out to be true in the end. Both Walt and Skyler are really selfish, pretty fucked up people.
Well said 👏
That’s just using hindsight as justification
Yes, but there's still plenty to be said about how years of her controlling nature beat Walt down in the first place.
He ends up dead on the floor of some skinhead's meth lab....but what factors drove him there? Why was he so insecure and starved for respect? If there was more love in his marriage, specifically more affection and less dissatisfaction coming from Skylar...would the end result have been the same?
Well just because you see the greater context doesn't justify her behaving that way in many of the situations.
Excellent analysis 👍🙋🏻♂️
Thank you so much! 😃
Masterful editing! Really enjoy these videos, thanks for making them 😊
Thank you so much, you made my day! 😃
Subscribed with notification bell on. Can't wait to see more from this channel. Love the editing. 💖
Thank you that's so encouraging! 😃
I always despised her.
"I'm not bad, I'm just written that way" 💀
Absolutely brilliant.
Thank you! 😃
How does this channel not have more views? These videos are hilarious!! "You are a fool!"... hahaha 4:30
😆 That awkward moment is one of my favorite edits! 😁 Thanks again (again)! 😃
I don’t necessarily hate Skyler and Walt becomes a monster because of his ego that was fed by his drug empire but the ego was always there. She does suck though.
Another great video.
Thank you! 😃
Nice vids 😊❤❤❤
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the feedback 😃
You should consider making a video about the endearing parts of Walter White's personality. Why do so many people love the show? What is it that so many young men find attractive about his life story? Lots of potential for your type of video essays. You are massively under appreciated.
I'd never actually considered why Walter White is such an endearing character, but I know that in my case it's because Bryan Cranston was the father 'Hal' in Malcolm in the Middle 😅 It's definitely something worth exploring 🤔 Thank you so much for the awesome feedback! 😃
They definitely dragged her being scared of Walt way too long, it was the most annoying part of the show
I agree. They should have done the _Skyler's scared of Walt_ stuff much sooner in the show, probably Season 2, because the _"I am the danger"_ moment happens about forty episodes in and that was much too late to take her _fear_ seriously 😬
Love this
Spot on once again. A contentious women is the downfall of all good men.
Maybe they overdid it with the 'contentious' aspect of Skyler but it made for great viewing 😬
Agree
I haven’t seen the series but that intro is painful
She created Heisenberg…………
Skysenberg ☕
Seriously though, he had the resume to be a college professor. That's what annoyed me the most
Exactly, even being a high school chemistry teacher isn't so bad, did he really have to be out there washing cars? 😭
@@ExtraCheeseProject My original comment was before watch the video. After watching it I have to compliment you on calling out Skyler and all of the ways the Skyler haters never did lol. You're pointing out all of the bad parts she's been doing all along whereas fans of the show only cared about the bitch she became in response to Walter becoming unhinged. Very nice, also I clipped the Half-Life moment of Ted falling over because it was absolute gold.
@@Gator159 Thank you so much! 😃 I was in two minds about including the Half-Life edit in the montage, but I figured it's worth having it for the people who'll appreciate it, your feedback has proved that thinking correct 😁
The Half Life voices and loading screens with node graphs out of date are hilarious.
I had doubts about leaving that part in, but it's so encouraging to hear that you and other Half Life fans found it funny, thank you so much for the feedback! 😃
@@ExtraCheeseProject I'm surprised not more people noticed. Definitely leave that in.
HATED THAT BROAD
Yeah she's interesting. An "anti-villain" in a way, but you're right I don't think she had pure intentions the whole time. Just think, if she had never told them about his cancer, Walt might've accepted a job from them. Making it clear that it would be a pity hire GURANTEED he'd reject it, and if she knew him like a wife should've she would've KNOWN THAT. If she was truly a knowing wife she'd have told them "do not bring up the cancer. Make it clear you want him for his MERIT. That is what he cares about, and he'll take the job then." or just not told them anything at all. Walt takes the higher paying job, and the show never happens.
Your analysis is spot on! Walt couldn't be allowed to think he'd earned a job from his own merit and maybe she wanted Walt to feel pitiful, or she wanted to assert her authority (probably both), but if she'd focused on lifting him up instead of keeping him down then you're right the show would have never happened (that or if they had access to free healthcare) 😅
That's Fenster, Keaton, and Kint in the thumbnail. From The Usual Suspects.
I been waiting for somebody to mention this 🙏 I was going to do a video on The Usual Suspects (1995) this year, but I shelved it 😬
@@ExtraCheeseProject I saw it in the theater 7 times in 1995.
Walt Broke Bad when he chose Skyler.
You’re trying to tell me a 40 year old woman doesn’t have the knowledge or experience to use birth control properly? The baby wasn’t a surprise. The pregnancy was on purpose to once again solidify her hold over Walt. She is terrified of Walt leaving her.
I wouldn't be surprised! 😬 It gets worse though because there's also a growing theory that Walter White Jr. was actually 'Ted Beneke Jr.' which is worth a video of its own 😅
@ I’d be interested to see how much evidence is available for the Beneke kid theory. It’s definitely a possibility. I vote for Walt’s kid tho based on my previous comment and Skylar’s behavior thru the show.
The strongest evidence is probably that Walter Jr. has brown eyes - like Ted - whereas Skyler and Walt have blue and green eyes respectively - making it impossible to have a son with brown eyes - but people are quick to say that the genetics of this are _not that simple_ and/or that this is just a casting oversight (pun intended) 😬
you have a new faithful subscriber bub. your cast away break down blew me away and PISSED ME OFF hahaahhha
kelly sucks
Thank you so much that's so encouraging! 😄 I've been busy this year but a new video is coming soon (in a week or so) 😬
@@ExtraCheeseProject take your time bub!!, no rush!! with the over saturation of everything on youtube and the internet.. quality thought provoking things are very hard to come by.. your cast away break down legit blew me away man... keep it up..
@SnagKing25 The Cast Away video had 20 views for the first 6 months so I won't ever _rush content out_ because I know to invest the time to make each video worth watching for whenever YT decides to show them to viewers; your feedback supports this philosophy, thank you! 😃
Yeah thank you, truthfully I don't think there was a single 'hero' in either series.
I watched BB from Week 1, by the end of Season 3 I was practically done with the show as I found every character distasteful.
I think Jesse was the only 'hero' even having so many faults 😬
What about Todd. He saved everyone from a deadly spider
@@tonyc8752 😂
Always hated Skyler didn't know why.
Such a deplorable character
Never get married
Marriage seems to work out fine for some people, but whenever it goes badly it tends to go _incredibly_ badly, like _life-changing accident_ badly 😬
Great vid .
Here's my personal fan theory on Walter left Grey-Matter Gretchen cheated on him with Elliott he found out somehow and left soon afterwards breaking up with her and taking the $ 5,000 buyout.
Excellent! 👍 Where do you land on Walt Junior; is he really *Ted Junior?* 😬
@@ExtraCheeseProject My sense is yeah without a doubt
@@traviskarnes6825 Great minds ☕
Gretchen didn’t cheat on Walt
@@craftymasterproductions4218 Maybe not, we don't really know for sure, but it's fun to speculate 😃
Anna Gunn is a Brilliant Actor
Skyler is TheSingle Most Powerful Character in
Breaking Bad.
#AnnaGunnBrilliantActor
#BreakingBad #Skyler
Agreed on her being a terrific actor! 👏 Gotta disagree on Skyler being the most powerful character though, because we have to remember the cameo from Star Trek: The Next Generation's *Q* of the *Q Continuum* (John Sherwood de Lancie, Jr. as Donald Margolis) 😬
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