I was one of the biggest Skylar haters around but this season I thought she has been phenomenal. I actually truly feel bad for her character and I thought her attempting to take a stand against Walt was played out so brilliantly and was one of the most eerie moments of the show. I didn't pick up any obvious foreshadowing that showed a way for her to kill herself, but I was just waiting to hear a single gunshot at any moment in the last 10 minutes.

Also want to credit Andy Greenwald for pointing out the Reverse-Venus scene with the pool, didn't know much about Greek Mythology but I thought that was played out really well after reading up on it.

Andy Greenwald has some of my favorite insight on the show.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollyw...de-4-fifty-one

 

Originally Posted by NUTZREALHUGE

skyler may well be the definition of the word cunt. she is absolutely the worst ever. she wanted to get involved, get all gangster and now is gonna fuck everything up. that thing with her wishing for walts cancer to come back, just wow.

the cunting is coming.

I'm guessing you missed the part where Walt brought the drug game into her family, brought danger to her children, violently told her that he is a dangerous person, have Walt confess to planning (and committing) a homicide, and Walt causing severe harm to Beneke (sp? her lover).

The bitch is well within her rights of killing Walt imho.

Either way, these two should not co-exist. One has to kill the other soon.

 

Originally Posted by Randers

I'm guessing you missed the part where Walt brought the drug game into her family, brought danger to her children, violently told her that he is a dangerous person, have Walt confess to planning (and committing) a homicide, and Walt causing severe harm to Beneke (sp? her lover).

The bitch is well within her rights of killing Walt imho.

Either way, these two should not co-exist. One has to kill the other soon.

I think Skyler takes her own life, she has nothing anymore. Obviously, I wouldn't even consider the pool scene any sort of foreshadowing to that and I don't even consider it an attempted suicide.

It's either she takes her own life or she finds the Ricin like someone said earlier and she thinks its Meth or something and takes it. This will further enrage Walt as he finds someway to blame something or someone else besides himself and keep playing off the line of thinking that he isn't the cause for any of the negative side effects of his actions. Walt has clearly shown he won't spare anything/anyone trying to get in his way but I just don't see her dying at his hand.

From Skylar's POV, it seems as if Walt had a hand in his (Ted's) injuries.

Admiral, Skylar made it perfectly clear that her goal is to protect her children. She baptized herself of the Walter bullshit/business, and she has clearly defined her intentions. Afaict, she wants Walt dead/arrested/gone more than she wants to end her own life.

 

Originally Posted by MeJahAndOmaha

If/when skylar finally pushes walt to the point of killing her, it will mark the final stage in walt's progression as a character and will be the point when things quickly start to unravel.

-250 walt with ricin
-100 suicide
+200 mike does what he has to do
+350 walt shoots or strangles her
+500 the show ends without her dying

The scene where Marie comes out and tells Walt about Skylar's idea for the kids, it seemed as if Walt sighs as he resigns himself to being without Skylar (could be construed as he knows what he has to do).

 

Originally Posted by Randers

From Skylar's POV, it seems as if Walt had a hand in his (Ted's) injuries.

how so? she was the one that cooked the books for beneke, stole walt's money and conspired with saul to "fix" the problem (twice).

htf can she blame walt for the beneke outcome? woman logic?

I'm thinking an outsider takes out Skylar/Jesse/Mike and maybe the kids, with the final scene of the series of course being his "say hello to my little friend" moment, here's my reasoning for now, correct me if I'm wrong on any of this:

1) In the opening scene of the season he wasn't wearing his wedding ring, I don't think he ever took it off before, even when they were separated and he was living in his own place, so that just makes me feel like she's dead and he took it off because it made him feel like shit every time he looked at it.

2) I'm thinking that's the thing that pushes him off his powerful heisenberg perch he's on right now, seeing her/jesse dead, knowing he's the reason, shows him he isn't who he thinks he is. Again with the opening scene he just looks so damn defeated, resigned to his fate, just ready to die nothing to live for.

3) At first I thought Jr and the baby would be killed somehow, but I kind of think maybe he took them to Rhode Island to hide out before he comes back to take care of business one last time, but then again having all the Rhode Island stuff (ID and car tags) that would kind of defeat the purpose of being secretive about their location so I'm probably wrong about that.

edit: Unrelated, like someone said before I liked the watch acting like a ticking time bomb with his age at the end, second hand started on 50, ticked to 51, then ticked to 52 and goes black.

Simply, I'm assuming Skylar ASSUMES that Walt hurt Ted because of the money, her fucking Ted, etc whatever.

This assumption on her part would continue her internal narrative that Walt is OOC/dangerous.

 

Originally Posted by Randers

I'm guessing you missed the part where Walt brought the drug game into her family, brought danger to her children, violently told her that he is a dangerous person, have Walt confess to planning (and committing) a homicide, and Walt causing severe harm to Beneke (sp? her lover).

The bitch is well within her rights of killing Walt imho.

Either way, these two should not co-exist. One has to kill the other soon.

i dunno, my take on the series is that she WANTED to take an active role in the money laundering and covering up the source of the money. i thought the benekey thing was skylers game plan, that only had to be cooked up because of her actions in the past (banging the dude, cooking his books etc).

i think whats happening now is that she didnt realize what she was gettign herself into. she thought getting benekey to pay his taxes would be easy, and now the dude is in the hospital fucked up. Walter has killed people, and she is now aware of that. she cant deal with the reality of the choice she made and is now imploding, shown by her breakdown, the pool thing and her general demeanor in season 5.

i predict that she will kill herself, but not before fucking everything up for walt. i think she is going to confess to marie what has been going on. that will be the final episode before the break...walt will be running in part 2 of season 5.

could see that, and he has hank and marie pretty much on his side for the situation so it could be presumed they would believe him

 

Originally Posted by El Burro

Walt can't kill Skylar now. Law enforcement (Hank) is aware of motive (infidelity). If he wants to make it look like suicide, he is going to need a pretty strong alibi (even after the pool situation, imo).

well ricin makes it look like natural causes, and that stuff doesnt just keep showing up for no reason. He didnt put it behind the outlet to later throw it out he would have insta tossed it like jesse thinks he did.

this season gets my dick hard but I gotta say, what in the world is going on with Jesse and his support of Lydia? We really supposed to believe he fights for some womans life he met for 5 mins? also, Im over the hate of Skyler. She might not be the most likable actress but come on what the hell is she supposed to do living with the full blown psychotic Walt? I think her reaction to Walt is genuinely written.

 

Originally Posted by Bawsten

she should be blowing him left and right saying thank you and is there anything else i can do for you.

and how did she get this role she is the ugliest worst actress ive ever seen in such an important character. I mean shes the best..... I guess it makes sense where jr got most of his genes from

She should be blowing him left and right? please explain how a do right middle class mother of 2 from the burbs is going to embrace her once harmless teacher husband turned power hungry murdering meth manufacturing sociopath? she was a good wife till he went to the dark side and violated all her trust in him. she not much of a looker but id hit her in season 1 no problem. she needs to look like a homely housewife to make sense of the story. worst actress? she only earned an emmy nom and likely win with last nights episode. she was A+ awesome so was the episode.

 

Originally Posted by Bawsten

she should be blowing him left and right saying thank you and is there anything else i can do for you.

and how did she get this role she is the ugliest worst actress ive ever seen in such an important character. I mean shes the best..... I guess it makes sense where jr got most of his genes from

Bad actress? Should be kissing his ass? Wtf is wrong with you? Oh yeah, go from a teacher to a homicidal mastermind drug lord who puts his family in danger on several occasions. DEFINITELY something to be happy about and "blow him left and right" over. Dumbass.