Skylar White
Just realized what drives me crazy about her. I'm rewatching the first season. Yea, Walt isn't husband of the year at this point, but she completely disregards his feelings on everything and acts like she's the one with cancer.
shareI know what you mean. I binge watched Breaking Bad a couple of years ago, and then started rewatching it again recently.
Unfortunately, I had to stop after a few episodes because I just couldn't get past how much I disliked the Skylar part. Her menopausal bitchiness was just too real. Credit to her acting, I suppose. But, anybody who's had to deal with that in real life over an extended period of time doesn't want to be "entertained" by it in a TV show. It literally upset my stomach to watch her season after season with no letup.
Hopefully she won't be making an appearance in El Camino.
As bad as she is, in the last season Hank, Marie and Jesse are far worse.
shareI don't feel Jesse's behavior is unwarranted though. Walt was the bad guy at that point and he did nothing but use and manipulate Jesse.
shareAnd save his life. Plus I remember multiple times Walt wanted out and Jesse begged him to go back. The manipulation worked both ways
shareSaving his life was happenstance. Walt's true motive was to stop the Neo Nazis from taking the empire that he had built. Sure Jesse may have begged Walt to get back in a few times, but that's not the same as manipulating. Walt constantly told Jesse he wasn't good enough until he needed him for something. Not to mention he let Jane die and poisoned a child.
shareNo there is no difference, well let me back up, the only real difference is that Walt is just a better manipulator than Jesse is but Jesse still tried to manipulate Walt several times into going back into the business even going as far as to throwing a cinder block at this windshield.
Walt saved Jesse multiple times and I will remind you that he lost his good standing with Gus and had to fear for his life the entirety of Season 4 all because he saved Jesse from those two drug dealers. Walt was Jesse's guardian angel.
Jane should have been nicer to Walt, if she had I'm sure he would have saved her. Also Walt didn't have any legal obligation to help her, all he did was accidentally knock her over, if Jane hadn't been stoned she would still be alive.
Walt gave Brock a mild tummy ache for a few days, that's not as bad as murdering a child which Gus did and Jesse palled up with him after the fact. If Jesse hadn't betrayed Walt and helped him kill Gus then poisoning Brock wouldn't have been necessary. Also let's just cut all the BS, Gus was so going to kill Jesse as soon as he was able to, Walt saved Jesse from Gus and Gus's men even had Jesse handcuffed in the lab before Walt showed up.
1. The only reason Jesse ever teamed up with Walt in the first place is because Walt approached him and blackmailed him into being his partner:
Jesse: You wanna cook crystal meth? You...and me?
Walt: That's right. It's either that...or I turn you in.
- S1E1
2. Walt saved Jesse multiple times, yes, but Walt was ultimately also the reason Jesse needed saving in the first place a lot of those times too. To use your example, the only reason Jesse went after those dealers was because they killed the boy. They killed the boy because Jesse found out they'd made the boy kill Combo. The boy had killed Combo because Combo was selling on their turf. And Combo was selling on their turf because Walt had wanted to expand his and Jesse's territory - something Jesse was vocally against and even warned Walt would end badly.
3. Walt wouldn't have saved Jane even if she'd been sunshine-and-kittens-nice to him. Jane was a threat to his and Jesse's partnership purely by virtue of her existence and Jesse's interest in her. She was making Jesse more independent from Walt and one of the key factors of their entire partnership is Walt constantly making sure that Jesse is dependant on him. He manipulated Jesse into breaking up with Andrea for that same reason - it's actually a fairly accurate depiction of an abusive relationship without the romantic aspect to it.
4. Walt deliberately poisoned a child to the point where he was taken to hospital and placed in intensive care and observation for over a day. That's not just giving a kid a mild tummy ache, that's legitimately putting an innocent child's life in danger for the sake of, again, manipulating Jesse. It's left deliberately ambiguous as to whether Gus knows anything about Tomas' death from the two dealers - it's explicitly stated Walt was willing to bring serious harm to an innocent boy. Gus was superficially treating Jesse better than Walt ever did which is precisely why Jesse latched onto him.
what about jesse selling to recovering addicts in rehab?
that was simply monstrous
edit: and walt couldnt force jesse into making meth when jesse was already making meth prior to meeting him
walt's ultimatum was cook with ME or i turn you in