Breaking Bad

[Fox]

Originally Posted by St. Jimmy If that is a spoiler you have watched NONE of this show.

First, I was joking. Second, I've followed the show avidly since day one.

I don't quite agree with people's opinion of Skylar. I think her running off to fuck her boss after finding out the truth was a bit drastic, but it was a very human choice for the writers to make. It didn't make sense in any way except that she was looking for an escape, and this good-looking, charming, nice, rich man who was nothing but nice to her was the perfect escape from the insanity her life had become.

She's also been very logical this entire season (except for the coin, but we'll get to that). Walt buying his son the Corvette was fucking STUPID. Possibly the stupidest thing this extremely intelligent man has done up to this point; a total disregard for the story he and Skylar came up with, a total disregard for the possibility of being audited by the IRS, and basically just a totally ridiculous thing to do. Skylar's reaction was RIGHT. Her decision to leave the house for a day or two was right as well - she just found out that her husband is a murderer. We've known it since Season 1 - she's just finding out in Season 4. We're used to the fact that Walt has done terrible things, has killed people, seen people die without doing a thing to help, and has ordered men to die by others. We've come to accept that it's part of his journey, but Skylar is just discovering it, and it terrified her. It was the logical reaction to leave.

The coin flip is interesting. "Fate" provided her the chance to leave for Colorado, but she moved the coin back to New Mexico because somewhere inside of her, she loves this too. Skylar is slowly breaking bad. She's apparently accepted that Walt is a killer, and is seemingly willing to stick around and keep this thing going.

The situation with Jesse and Mike is also very interesting. I believe that Walt is right - Gus is trying to turn them against each other, and maybe, just maybe, is planning to get rid of the much smarter, scheming, devious Walter in favor of Jesse. Perhaps he believes Jesse can be more easily bent to his will, that Jesse can teach someone else the formula and then Gus can be done with them both forever.

My prediction (which has almost always been wrong in regards to this show) is that Mike comes to actually really like Jesse, and when the time comes for him to "get rid of Jesse" at Gus' request, he makes the choice to save Jesse and kill Gus instead. This would leave Walt, Jesse and Mike running the business, and then in Season 5 they go up against the Mexican Cartel and a newly-walking Hank.

I love this fucking show.