I've just finished watching "Chicanery," season 3, episode 5. Please don't give spoilers or hints of spoilers, like "Just you wait." I'm not sure why (at this point in the series) the sub hated Chuck when Jimmy did the pretty much the same things Chuck did.
Chuck is obviously a really bad brother, trying to plot Jimmy's demise, most noticeably (at this point) baiting Jimmy to break and enter into his home so Jimmy would eventually lose his ability to practice law. People in this sub's post-episode discussion threads have also said Chuck is psychotic for premeditating at the level of detail he did, but Jimmy took an equal amount of time and effort to plot and ruin Chuck, too. Off the of my head, Jimmy's:
* Stolen the Mesa Verde documents while Chuck was almost unconscious, went to a print shop in the middle of the night to spend hours manipulating the papers, then broke into Chuck's house later on to switch back the documents. It was a move that permanently damaged Chuck and HHM's reputation and also worsened Chuck's mental health by making Chuck think he was going crazy. (Chuck has a mental illness, but his skills as a lawyer were never in question.)
* Paid off the copy center employee and indirectly caused Chuck to bang his head on the counter. Then, Chuck had to go through the hospital tests, causing him more trauma and stress.
* Paid Huell to plant the cell phone battery on Chuck, destroying Chuck's credibility further and manipulating his mental illness again.
* Revealed Chuck's secret and mental illness to Rebecca, Chuck's ex-wife. I know Chuck lied to her about his condition, but Chuck had still asked Jimmy to keep his secret, and, I assume, wanted to let Rebecca know on his own terms.
* Coordinated Rebecca to fly 4,000 miles to manipulate Chuck into going crazy at court and also make her present to witness it.
I think what Jimmy did was equally as psychotic and premeditated as what Chuck did, but I don't understand why Chuck gets hate for his actions while what Jimmy did gets a pass or is kind of brushed off, with the justification being, "Well, Chuck did so-and-so to Jimmy." I also hear the argument Jimmy is the better sibling because he cares about Chuck, but I think at some level, Chuck still cares about Jimmy as a brother, otherwise, he wouldn't have bailed out Jimmy all those times when he was still Slippin' Jimmy. I also understand Chuck looks down on Jimmy, but that's also not a good justification for Jimmy ruining Chuck with the actions I listed above. Is just it a Walter White situation, where viewers sympathize with Jimmy, a character who's done many bad things, because he's the protagonist of the series?
Submitted October 26, 2020 at 07:28PM by HelloElliot_ https://ift.tt/37Kydyg
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