But I'm not feeling discomfort, I'm feeling unsatisfaction at what I consider an unresolved/unfinished plot thread.
Howard killing himself literally accomplishes the exact same thing, except it doesn't involve Lalo doing something stupid and it pushes Kim to her breaking point harder because she is indirectly at fault for it.
Before it all broke down, Jimmy was almost servile to Chuck. He clearly loved him, and unlike almost anyone in his life, he went out of his way to help him, despite his insanity, and refused any compensation for it. He became a lawyer because he actually wanted to follow in what he thought was his better brother's footsteps.
Just casually shooting someone to start a conversation is exactly what Lalo would do. The only good character introduced near the end.
Howard is very clearly depressed, even talks Jimmy about it, and his company isn't going well. They were going to go with that angle until they decided that the brilliant idea of burying them under the lab would make redditors clap like seals.
Well the nazis came in because Todd was related to them, but the issue is that you have Gus telling Hector that all of his male relatives are now dead, plus the other dons which means Gus is now in charge of their organization. Where would Lalo come from? Because it would be out of character for Gus to miss someone.
Also to shock the audience before the mid-season break and get them talking about it. Free publicity.
Lalo was my favorite of the new characters you know are doomed because if they were around in BB they'd still be doing things. He's also my favorite of the Salamancas, but he had to die.
I don't know, howard might not have been directly responsible for chucks sabotaging his career but he went along with it and allowed it to happen and didn't tell jimmy what was really going on. So he has some degree of responsibility for itAnOminous said:
Chuck wasn't driven by just being mental. He did have a point in that Jimmy has a good heart, but at that heart he's still a crook and could very dangerous. And he was right.
I didn't say he wasn't right. He was, i'm just saying it wasn't just him and that howard willingly went along with it. It wasn't ethical for either of them, particularly given both howard and chucks obsession with ethics and legality. That aside, I suspect chucks mental issues were a subconscious way of punishing himself for fucking with jimmy and violating his own ethics. The problems started not long after jimmy became a lawyer and chuck started having issues with it and doing what he did to sabotage him
Chuck was also a huge liar and immoral. The "letter versus spirit of the law" type of person. Where he would lie and sabotage people but it was for the greater good and technically within legal bounds. Sabotaging Kim's career just to spite Jimmy was insanely unethical and likely illegal workplace harassment. But he would beat her in court because he knew the system if she sued him, so he feels justified in his actions as he could use legal jargon to exonerate himself.
Neither of them were obsessed with being ethical. Howard is a corporate business lawyer who wants to keep the firm because of his father's legacy. Chuck is an egomaniac who was practicing high profile cases to make himself famous. He only stops becoming a prominent lawyer due to his divorce. Chuck was an attorney that would hold press conferences and give speeches which is why every lawyer immediately recognizes his name. Once his mental issues crop up he can no longer appear in public (or practice law).
His electrical signals allergies came from his breakdown of his marriage. Their separation and divorce despite being hugely critical components of Chuck's story are never explained to the audience. His 'allergies' actually helped him bond with Jimmy and Howard. As they were the only people he trusted initially to visit his home and see him in his total mentally defeated state. When his wife visited him after his breakdown he actually has Jimmy there with him for moral support and to help rationalize the power being off to the house because he trusts Jimmy to entertain his mental illness and pretend along with him.
But that's the thing. You got Chuck, big smart brain with mad respect and he tells Howard that they need to stop Jim or else he'll burn the whole world if he becomes a lawyer and Howard agrees to take the bullet not out of spite or evil against Jim personaly, but to help Chuck, whose always right, who Howard owes his entire life to. And to save the world.
In their eyes it was. Also recall this is a show about lawyers.
Which they sought to protect because they knew Jim would take a massive shit on those in his career eventually.
I really don't see that. Chuck's condition is some bizzare random bullshit, but I really doubt that at any point he regretted fucking up Jim's career. Only time he might have regretted it is before his death.
I got the impression the shit started because his wife left him. Would be an interesting point if he was so fucking scared of Jim becoming the lawyer of evil, that it caused him massive panic and anxiety and it fucked his brain so much. Still don't think he regretted doing what he did.
No he wasn't. He was a lawyer lol
And he was right. Kim losing her fucking shit on a bus proves it. Chuck absolutely knew how toxic Jim was beyond Jim's own control and he did all he could to push Jim out of it.
Chuck did everything right in his life, while Jim was a piece of shit kid. No shit Chuck would be spiteful of Jim because mom loved the thieving younger son who was funny. It was definitely spiteful, but nowhere near the monstrous shit that Jim turned out capable of doing.
He was already suffering from it while he was still married. He hated the way Jimmy could make his wife laugh.
Are all Better Call Saul fans retarded? A guy who alienated everyone and killed himself and had a fake electricity allergy...."did everything right"? Look out everyone, Mr. Contrarian is here, move over. By the end of the show everyone recognizes that Chuck was insane and needed to be locked up or have a guardian around him at all times.
I thought the writers made it very clear that Chuck's mental disorder was tied very closely with Jimmy. Heck, I'd wager we see similar sort of mental disorders in the perpetual victim types on X and other social media sites. The character had a superiority complex that more than likely stemmed out of spite, especially toward Jimmy. He may have also had a neuroticism and a need for supremacy/control over situations. I'd wager we see the majority of the later as Chuck was always calm and collected until he was out of control of the situation like in Chicanery and the forgery arc.
And then Jimmy doesn't get stopped and does indeed burn down the world.
Every person is born with a potential height that they may never reach without adequate nutrition and a healthy environment. Jimmy's descent into being a terrible person was heavily fed into by Chuck's decisions.
Kim recommended Jimmy despite knowing he was an unreliably volatile loose cannon purely because she was fucking him, and because she did that, Jimmy ended up causing reputational damage to the firm she recommended him at.
