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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 guess that it is harder when it comes to a favourite character getting such vicious and widespread hate as Skyler did, something that happens more with female characters anyway, for fans of the character to not just jump right into defending them and interpreting their every action from the best possible light

And IA with the show doing a terrific job of defining Skyler's character, it's just a shame that fandom had to even approach a show like BB with such black and white morality. I think that too there was a lot of 'well I'm starting to really dislike Walt and recognise that he's the bad guy now, so that means that I should be rooting for Skyler and Jesse as the good guys who are opposing him'. Even Mike I've seen discussed from that viewpoint as an example of a 'decent criminal', and wtf just because those characters have individual reasons to hate Walt and oppose him does not mean that they have suddenly become the heroes of the story. Skyler possibly fell under that in 5A when she was fighting to protect her children from Walt's criminal activities in the right way, but by the time of 5B she was telling Walt to 'take care' of his enemies like Jesse and she was back to working alongside Walt, even if that meant threatening Hank over turning Walt in. And a lot of Jesse's emotional response to Walt came after he believed that Walt had killed his friend Mike, and then with his realisation that Walt had been manipulating him all along with Brock and Gus. Of course it's understandable for anyone to freak out at that, but let's not pretend that it was all about Jesse suddenly wanting to do the right thing and that he became the moral voice of the show. And I won't even get into Mike and the bullshit that he talked about Walt messing up 'their' good arrangement with Gus lol. None of those characters were as simple as the white hats speaking the truth against Walt's black hat, but you wouldn't guess that from a lot of the audience response