Chuck and Jimmy Season 1 relationship was great, until...

Doing a re-watch, season 1 was a lot of fun to watch Jimmy and Chuck get on the same page.

It showed that Jimmy really cared about Chuck - bringing him his supplies and all the requisite newspapers and doing it "just so" to Chuck's picky likings. I mean, maybe Jimmy's enabling his brother's illness and helping him avoid real help/treatment, but he's just trying his best to get by and help Chuck get by.

Then they find the Sandpiper case, they're working together. Jimmy's work ethic pulls Chuck out of, what, 24 months of recluse and inactivity and gives him purpose and distracts him from his own illness long enough that he goes outside without realizing it.

The brothers are on the right path, they're working a great case with merit - and doing it the proper way. And then....

Chuck (rightly) knows this is too big for them, refers it to HHM, only to block Jimmy from getting picked up by HHM or being able to work it further.

Chuck has to have seen that by putting his focus and all his intensity into this case, it made Jimmy "go straight". He was working it the right way. It's an honorable case. But he just can't let his brother get any credit or success. He has to sabotage him, and deceive him by letting Howard look like the bad guy, when really it's Chuck for no reason besides his own.

Jimmy has been nothing but a totally stand-up guy for Chuck. His lifeline to the world. The only person that cares enough to check in on him.

Would Jimmy still have morphed to Saul if Chuck wasn't like this? Would he have taken a path of more or less a credible lawyer able to practice successfully?

Or do we think Chuck was right, he's a "chimp with a machine gun" and only would have been bound by his nature to spiral out of control and contribute in so much destruction?

Obviously it had to happen that Chuck would be an antagonist to Jimmy, but really I guess I wrote this thought out since I really liked the Jimmy+Chuck team when they were on the same page. It's a shame Chuck burned it. Without his influence, I don't think Jimmy "breaks bad" into Saul, even if he was Slippin Jimmy. It was just kind of sad to me that they didn't have Jimmy do something dumb and really give Chuck a good reason to screw him over in the first season for more evident reasons.

Submitted February 27, 2019 at 04:38PM by jrix68 https://ift.tt/2Xn7osh