Ehhh, it’s not THAT uncommon for older couples to grow some resentment. The whole boomer, “I hate my wife” DOES come from somewhere, and spiteful people that are legally bound to each other will do all sorts of stupid shit before they split.
… Though usually it’s from people a little more shitty than Walt. The sort of people who turn into selfish egotists a little easier than getting a cancer diagnosis and a bag of cash. Granted, the show did a great job showing how they were both flawed and both had a touch of ego in their normal lives. Walt’s just happened to explode feeding off his resentment of his old business partner, and recent success producing.
In Skyler’s defense, she was staying because she was an accessory after the fact, not that she was terribly OK with it. I’ve definitely seen people make that level of dumb decision before, and about as big of life decisions, too, with far less payout than millions of dollars and a viable laundering scheme!
It has been a while since I watched the show, but if I recall correctly, she wanted to leave initially; then, she decided that it would be bad for the family if Walter got caught, so she stayed to help him launder money 🤷 It seems to me, she was ready to split and even cheated to force Walter to let her go.
I am not a lawyer, but I suspect that the more she was getting involved, the worse it was getting for her and for the family - she had two kids for goodness’ sake! So whatever legal reason they brought in the show made little sense to me.
Oh absolutely, she would’ve still had a rough time of it even fully agreeing with the cops, which is why it’s so stupid when they act like pigs.
Hank really screwed the pooch with his chance at getting Skyler over by being a cop before a family friend. After that, it was obviously a choice between two evils for her.
The choice was pretty obvious, IMO… Go with Hank, destroy the family, destroy Walt, walk into a HUGE court case, everything explodes and goes public, you get little to no money from the DEA/gov… absolute nightmare with no clear payoff. Or … go with Walt, hope his plans that’ve worked out thus far under your nose continue to work out, and get millions of dollars and a life you get to define.
Definitely an obvious choice. It’s a good example of why making cops such authoritarian shitstains will never, ever produce a more peaceful society.
Ehhh, it’s not THAT uncommon for older couples to grow some resentment. The whole boomer, “I hate my wife” DOES come from somewhere, and spiteful people that are legally bound to each other will do all sorts of stupid shit before they split.
… Though usually it’s from people a little more shitty than Walt. The sort of people who turn into selfish egotists a little easier than getting a cancer diagnosis and a bag of cash. Granted, the show did a great job showing how they were both flawed and both had a touch of ego in their normal lives. Walt’s just happened to explode feeding off his resentment of his old business partner, and recent success producing.
In Skyler’s defense, she was staying because she was an accessory after the fact, not that she was terribly OK with it. I’ve definitely seen people make that level of dumb decision before, and about as big of life decisions, too, with far less payout than millions of dollars and a viable laundering scheme!
It has been a while since I watched the show, but if I recall correctly, she wanted to leave initially; then, she decided that it would be bad for the family if Walter got caught, so she stayed to help him launder money 🤷 It seems to me, she was ready to split and even cheated to force Walter to let her go.
I am not a lawyer, but I suspect that the more she was getting involved, the worse it was getting for her and for the family - she had two kids for goodness’ sake! So whatever legal reason they brought in the show made little sense to me.
Oh absolutely, she would’ve still had a rough time of it even fully agreeing with the cops, which is why it’s so stupid when they act like pigs.
Hank really screwed the pooch with his chance at getting Skyler over by being a cop before a family friend. After that, it was obviously a choice between two evils for her.
The choice was pretty obvious, IMO… Go with Hank, destroy the family, destroy Walt, walk into a HUGE court case, everything explodes and goes public, you get little to no money from the DEA/gov… absolute nightmare with no clear payoff. Or … go with Walt, hope his plans that’ve worked out thus far under your nose continue to work out, and get millions of dollars and a life you get to define.
Definitely an obvious choice. It’s a good example of why making cops such authoritarian shitstains will never, ever produce a more peaceful society.