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Skyler is still one of the most controversial topics of conversation for Breaking Bad and viewers seem to either fall into loving her and Skyler being the best and most flawlessly badass character of the whole show, or being the worst ever and a total bitch of a wife. I'm frustrated though that some of her actual morally ambiguous acts are never

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I agree with what you're saying, I think that she and Walt are quite similar people in some ways in the way they go about things, so I find it frustrating when viewers seem to just hate Skyler for ridiculous reasons like her nagging Walt too much or sleeping with Ted, but then even the viewers that defend her rarely seem to admit to her actual flaws.

It feels like so many viewers are just projecting some one-dimensional view of how they view female characters on to Skyler. When it comes to a character like Walt, if he had handled the car wash sale the way that Skyler did then it would absolutely get discussed in terms of what it says about his character, but with Skyler stuff like that very rarely seems to come up? The discussion seems to nearly always comes down to talking about her in relation to Walt and condemning her for not being a good wife, and then even the fans who are defending her are usually mostly talking about her in relation to being a saintly mother figure and how everything she did was to protect her family from Walt. And there's so much more to her character than that