#my fury at all the misogynistic hate skyler got from viewers back in the day grows with every ep

[calamity-bean]

Sorry, I'm just still reeling from the fact that Walt says "I am the danger / I am the one who knocks" in the very same episode as Skyler's "Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family," and yet the former became iconic and famous and endlessly parroted while I have NEVER heard any fan quote the latter before.

The context of those iconic Walt lines is not even cool. He's just an insecure little man putting on a mean growly voice to yell at his wife in their bedroom because she dared express concern that he might get murdered like one of his colleagues — a situation that was only on her radar in the first place because he couldn't bear to let a dead man get credit for his ~gEnIuS~! I'm not saying that that reaction wasn't in-character for him, I'm just saying that I don't see anything badass about a grown man throwing a temper tantrum because his wife, without even knowing she was doing it, dared to contradict the mythos he's built around himself: this Heisenberg persona, this version of himself who is cool and powerful and incomparable and in control.

And Skyler's response?

Skyler digests what he's told her, the implications, the idea that her husband is not merely a criminal but apparently a very dangerous one. And then she looks "the danger" unflinchingly in the eye and coolly, calmly makes it absolutely clear that she will stand up to him. That she sees through his version of "protecting their family" for the self-aggrandizing excuse that it is. That she is not under his control.

That's so much more badass. What the fuck.

#my fury at all the misogynistic hate skyler got from viewers back in the day grows with every ep #and i don't understand how so many dudebros idolized this guy when so much of what he does is so pathetic #like i can understand enjoying his brand of pathetic (though i dont) but ive heard so many ppl (mostly guys) talk like he's so COOL #calamity watches brba #op #brba #skyler white #1k