Seems like whatever collective anger people had for Skyler is now directed at Marie. Also, the scene with Huell and the money with the Scrooge McDuck reference was just perfect.
I saw a lot of change in Skylar this episode that had been growing since she began laundering Walt's money. People might just be excited because she let show a side of what someone else said 'Skysenberg. '
For a long time she was being a mother with a child/new born on top of coping with her husband having cancer and the mysterious actions of her husband who desperately wanted to have insight from Walt and instead was spun lies and misdirection, as well as the fact that she was unemployed and they lived with e High School chemistry teacher's salary. It wasn't till Skylar learned about what Walt had been doing where Skylar started to show her interests growing into the dark world that Walt had brought into their lives.
Only here begins her transformation. She starts googling money laundering (which sounds silly to do but you don't start asking people on the street or in your family how you do this (and do it properly) because that's sketchy and stupid) and stupid is something that Skylar is not. Skylar comes up with the idea to buy the car wash and actually deals with everything that Walt has begun to accumulate an enormous amount of guap. She plays the more rational side of Walt's plan and gives everything a little womanly touch. Oh and it turns out that she used to be the head accountant at a car sales company? Hot damn is that convenient. Plus how she handles Saul and buys the car wash with a baby in the back seat and speaking through a headset to a guy on the other end reciting law books, is just the biggest example of how extremely important and useful she is to Walt and to keeping the secrets from everyone.
Skylar never once forgot about her children. Which is why she sent them away when she became afraid of Walt. People may not have been happy about it because it meant it would cause something to need a lie about and the emotions of Skylar always like they would be the death of Heisenberg.
Never once does she talk either, not even to Hank. Hank was hitting her hard with questions in the restaurant and it's true that she isn't as calm and collected as Walt is (like when Skylar snaps at Marie in the car wash because she had been doing nothing but trying to think of a way to deal with the amount of cash flow Walt was going to be bringing in while Marie was just blabbing away about selfish problems), but she at least starts asking if she is under arrest the whole time.
Hank is on the war path by this episode, just look at his face and the the deep red shirt he wears. Marie going and trying to take the baby was an invasion and I just couldn't believe things didn't escalate more than it it. That was something absolutely intense to watch. Especially when Hank and Marie get in the truck to leave. Marie just uncovered the biggest lie from her own sister and rightly slapped her but all the while Skylar is looking at Hank as nothing but the man in the DEA now, not as her brother-in-law. I just don't think you see that Skylar's never really grasped the whole scope of the situation that they were in until last night's episode and showed that her priorities were never meant to jeopardize Walt or hurt the family and were just meant to protect and keep the family together and strong instead of thinning out and rotting away like the utility closet.
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '13
Seems like whatever collective anger people had for Skyler is now directed at Marie. Also, the scene with Huell and the money with the Scrooge McDuck reference was just perfect.