Didn't say that, just said your argument was, well, bullshit. You can't counter "many skyler haters are misogynists" with "WELL, my WIFE hates Skyler! So. Case closed!" it's a shit argument that demonstrates you don't actually understand what's being discussed
Lol again keep throwing yourself on a cross like a good little martyr, but you're missing what the actual argument here is: that many skyler haters are misogynists. because they can't justify their hate for her beyond "she is a BITCH I hate when she get in walt's way he is trying to HELP HIS FAMILY" which is a full-on misreading of the show in so many ways. if you think your reasons for hating the character are justified and not sexist: good for you! post them and try to be reasonable.
Again not what anyone is saying in here, but do continue to martyr yourself!
All this pretty much.For me, understanding Skyler's role and why she is the way she is is a crucial part of understanding Walt himself. Walt was a man with a certain ambition and as that floundered (because of his pride, likely), they settled into a mundane 9-to-5 existence. Skyler represented in a way that part of his life that reminded him of his failure, of his mediocre life.
What follows for me would be the way it would devolve in a normal relationship. Why wouldn't Skyler constantly hound Walt for lying? Why wouldn't she be furious considering she has a kid with Cerebral Palsy and a new baby on the way? Why wouldn't it shock her that the man who before was a simple chemistry teacher turned out to be cooking meth? Why wouldn't she stand in the way of that at times? How else is she supposed to react?
Anna Gunn's performance is perhaps not the most nuanced, but her character is acting -precisely- how most normal people in that situation would react (right up until the moment she decided to go along with the money laundering). In fact, I was constantly hoping she would find Walt out early on, because of the danger he was putting his families life in.
She fucked Ted because in her position she felt it was one of the few ways she could exercise a sort of power to take advantage of Walt. When we see later in the show how trapped she really is, it's no surprise she handles this the way she does. It wasn't even like it was an affair, at that point things were starting to unravel and frankly Walt deserved it. But even if he didn't, doesn't it make sense from a character perspective that an increasingly desperate individual who found how such a shocking thing would make decisions that seem at times impulsive?
Anyway, this is an open-ended comment, but hating Skyler isn't misogynistic. The REASON some people hate Skyler certainly is, given the debates I got into with people on NeoGAF alone
so people who can't stand skyler hate women? because they didn't use gender neutral terms to describe how her character is chock full of abrasive undesirable properties? would you rather they call her a poopyhead or something?
best episode of the entire show
Hating somewhere for having an affair is by no means a "misogynist take". I'm not sure what world you live in but lots of people look down on people that have affairs, man or women. The reason for doing it doesn't matter. Nothing wrong with hating someone for being mean either.
I don't really have a problem with her character myself, I just have a problem with blanket misogyny accusations solely based on the fact that someone isn't using gender neutral terms to describe someone's personality, and bold declarations such as "There are female characters that are bitches. Skyler isn't one of them."
How can anyone hate Walt jr? He's the only decent human being that exists in the Breaking Bad universe!
Hannibal, Hannibal, Hannibal, Hannibal.
Next week.
jeeze do you people use the term "protagonist" incorrectly. protagonist is by definition someone you're supposed to fully identify with; the show has gone out of its way to divorce us from aligning with walt. we identify with elements of him sure, but we have never been rooting for him. since like, Gray Matter, you shouldn't really have been rooting for him. at least, that's the reading I've taken from the show. And many others have taken, it seems. If you want to argue that we're supposed to be rooting for him to poison kids and endanger his infant daughter and lock his wife in an emotionally taxing marriage and manipulate a man who treats him like a father, I'd love to read that argument. see what about the show has convinced you that that is a logical reading. at the moment I don't really see it, but I bet it's feasible.
No, it's moving off actual television though. cable is going to cater to smaller and smaller niches, continually specializing, as broadcast continues to turn out more and more homogenous content. maybe the reality tv cycle will end, maybe it will only grow larger.
it's an opinion that you are presenting as an indisputable fact.
