Skylar White

She gets no points at all. Belittled and sniped at Walt from the beginning, hypocritical and judgmental, a criminal and a cheater. She’s not innocent in the least.

And then the “I fricked Ted”

frick Hank. He was always trying to belittle Walt in front of his family, as far back as the first episode.

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She gets no points at all. Belittled and sniped at Walt from the beginning, hypocritical and judgmental, a criminal and a cheater. She’s not innocent in the least.

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ah, this trope again. I suppose nickelback is the worst band that's ever been assembled on earth too, as the internet woudl have you believe?



-Skyler realizes walt is somehow, someway involved with a druggie loser although she doesn't know how. She (reasonably, in this scenario) assumes he sells walt pot. For a guy that has never touched a drug, I can see how this would be alarming and she honestly doesn't really act out as much as one might expect.
-Walt is extremely devious. He is out late, and upon telling her another lie about why he is coming home late from working, she tells him she knows he was fired 2 weeks ago. At this point, skyler knows that walt is not working but is out late and not being forthright, and is also involved with a drug dealer. She has every single right to be upset.
-Walt hid the fact that he has cancer from her for some time, I believe it was a few weeks. How would a spouse not be pissed about this?
-When he finally does tell her about the cancer she is supportive and finds great medical care. Problem is that walt now has to empty his pension (to her knowledge of course) to pay for it, leaving them basically dead broke. Every one in this situation would be reasonable frazzled.
-grey matter offers him a position to work, which he turns down. They go a step furhter and simply offer to pay for the treatment outright, he turns that down too. Why in God's name shouldn't skyler be pissed about this?
-walt continues to be aloof and nearly rapes skyler in the kitchen before she has to make him stop (somewhere late season 1 early season 2 this was
-hank tells skyler that the phone company looked at the records and walt did not receive a phone call when skyler knew he did, thereby informing her he has a 2nd cell phone. One more lie on top of lies on top of lies.
-Eventually when the lies are so numerous they can't be kept straight anymore walt does come clean. He tells his wife that he is a manufacturer of methamphetamine. Hello, this is enough to make anyone angry.
-When their relationship can't continue as normal she wants to separate which they do. Walt then ignores this agreement and breaks into the home (locks were changed) and won't leave. She calls the PD and they basically say "look lady, if you can tell me ANYTHING whatsoever that would make me need to remove him I will. Anything at all" but she keeps quiet and didn't give him up.
-She decides to pull up her bootstraps and go back to work to support her family. When she sees Ted is cooking their books does she turn him in? No, actually she gives advice on how the books need to look in order to keep suspicion off of him. She easily could have sent the dude to jail that afternoon but she helped him out as well.
-When Saul wanted to buy friggin laser tag or a nail salon, she again is the one that had the good idea to buy the car wash since walt had a history there and it makes far more sense. She's also the one that did the research on the numbers to come up with a viable offer, and went by herself to do the deal.
-When that was rejected, she's the one talking to Saul's dude in the ear piece giving the laws and regulations that were being violated. Once again another way in which she helped out majorly but doesn't get any credit.
-When they have the car wash she actually works there and helps do the laundering.
-Even when walt did sign the divorce papers, which is what she originally wanted, since she at this point knew about the meth she intentionally didn't sign the papers becuase of some legal thing about husabnds and wives or something. Can't remember exactly but again it was to help protect walt.
-That dumbfrick ted beneke was $600K in the hole to the IRS and they were about to come donw on him hard and investigage every square inch of his life and business. Skyler gave him some money to help start paying his debt and he blew it on a car for appearances like the retard he is. So she had to steal the basement money to pay off the feds to keep them away. Considering she was beneke's accountant, don't you think it's reasonable that once the IRS starting in guns a blazing that they'd look heavily into her life as well? If she didn't steal that basement money, the feds are on them and the jig is up. She did that to lierally save the family.



People essentially hate on skyler for 3 main reasons:

1) She fricked ted
2) She gave ted walt's money
3) She's a speed bump in the way of the protagonist that we pull for

Cheating is unforgiveable so I understand #1. #2 people copmletely and totally ignore the reason for it, which without it the white's are toast. And #3 is just an everyday thing you see in any media.

Point being....Skyler is not NEARLY as bad as everyone wants to portray her. And I have no idea why. It's one of those internet memes where a couple people pointed out that she sucked and they hate her and then before you know it it ballooned into articles and blogs all writing about how "Skyler White is the worst TV character....EvErARRRRR"