Ted and Walt are parallels

Sounds odd, but let me explain why. In relation to Skyler, both Ted and Walt are people that she's laundered money for (and fucked, but that's beside the point). People who, regardless of Skyler providing the resources for them to stop committing their respective crimes, continue to commit those crimes anyway. Walt keeps cooking meth even though Skyler gives him many incentives to stop, Ted keeps evading the IRS even though Skyler gave him the money to get them off his heels. Both decisions eventually lead to the demise and misfortune of the two men, all while Skyler plays an exasperated accomplice to them. Both men also say they are committing and hiding their crimes from their families to "provide and protect them". Furthermore, when Ted first receives Skyler's money, the first thing he does is go out and buy a fancy new car. This hedonism is later paralleled by Walt in S5A, where after he remakes all the money lost to Ted, he goes out and gets fancy new cars for both him and Walt Jr.

Submitted June 17, 2019 at 09:54PM by neqiba http://bit.ly/31EfLBP