Better Call Skyler Dept. - When it came to BREAKING BAD, everyone hated Skyler. A new article from the Week makes the case that BETTER CALL SAUL's Kim is how the show's creators have addressed BB's Skyler problem. An assessment of both the Skyler problem and of that article:
http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/2017/05/skyler-problem.html
A great read, for sure. I still can't get over the feminists--they are COMPLAINING about Kim being a strong, independent and intelligent woman in an effort to somehow demonize her fans who hated Skyler and somehow make Skyler look "more human"? That doesn't even make sense.
I agree with the assessment: Kim IS Skyler Prime: she's everything that Skyler could have and should have been.
Kim has just the right degrees to her: She's hard-working, strong, intelligent and recognizes her own faults. She got down into the dirty pit with Jimmy but doesn't judge him to his face for it because she's in the muck as well. Instead, she speaks to him like a HUMAN and realizes that she's in this mess out of her own volition. Skyler wasn't like that. She recognized the blood on her hands, sure, but she continued to demonize Walt and took some pretend moral high ground over him, thinking she was somehow entitled such a thing. Skyler was vile and nasty. I hated Walt. He was a complete psychopath and I had zero sympathy for him by the end of the series but Skyler wasn't much better. The fact that she constantly took this fake moral high ground really irked me--she was a terrible person as well.
Kim isn't like that--she owns her part of it and doesn't deem herself better or worse than Jimmy. She accepts that Jimmy is who he is, hopes for better but ultimately owns her part in it as well as her choice to stay in that mess. She doesn't make it out to be Jimmy's fault but her own. Skyler doesn't act like that--she does nothing but look at Walt with judgmental, vindictive eyes, all the while committing crimes of her own and doing NOTHING to put a stop to it all and, despite what Skyler fans say, Skyler ALWAYS had the power to pull the plug on Walt. She just chose not to.
This is the fundamental difference between Kim and Skyler: both committed crimes for and along with their men but Kim, unlike Skyler, owned her part in it and didn't deflect to Jimmy as the sole problem.
> and doesn't deem herself better or worse than Jimmy.
As of Monday, that appears to be changing.
Of course. She's still handling it better than Skyler, though.
share"As of Monday, that appears to be changing."