Better Call Saul: Chuck Was Right All Along

Chuck McGill did nothing wrong he was the best character in Better Call Saul by far he's a real antagonist unlike that soy boy L Salam Mona he can actually come up with a Revenge plan that makes sense and works not whatever comic book [ __ ] this was he was completely based and redpilled and if he was the villain of season 6 things would have gone down a lot differently Howard Howard Howard you need to leave all right I admit I'm meming here Chuck is of course a flawed human being like everyone else on the show he let his insecurities and jealousy of his own brother destroy his life both literally and metaphorically but I think that many fans of the show dislike Chuck for for all the wrong reasons they don't like him because he's arrogant deceitful and most of all because he's mean to Jimmy they blame him for Jimmy's downfall saying that it was his sabotage of Jimmy's career that set him on the path to becoming Saul Goodman But Not only was Chuck 100% right about Jimmy blaming Chuck for Jimmy's decisions is entirely missing the point of the show so in this video Let's examine Chuck Mcgill and why he was right all along you have to know on some level I know you know I'm right you know I'm right Chuck mcel is Jimmy's older brother and in many ways his polar opposite where Jimmy starts out as a two-bit criminal Chuck is a straight laced lawyer where Jimmy is a clown Chuck is respected as a serious professional and where Jimmy is constantly breaking the rules chuck adheres to the law like a religion the law is sacred if you abuse that power people get hurt this is not a game before the series started Chuck got Jimmy out of jail time after he served some kids some chocolate ice cream however in return Jimmy agreed to give up his scamming ways and moov to Albuquerque where Chuck was building a legal practice Jimmy got a job in the mail room of Hamlin Hamlin McGill keeping to his promise to never again be slipping Jimmy eventually Jimmy passed the bar exam by taking online classes at the University of American Samoa on his own time Chuck was shocked that Jimmy had managed to become a lawyer all on his own however when Jimmy wanted to work at hhm alongside chuck chuck refused to allow it instead of telling Jimmy directly though he had Howard one of his Partners take the blame for not hiring him at the firm instead Jimmy began a solo practice and started doing low-paying public defender work eeking out a meager existence around this time Chuck separated from his wife Rebecca we aren't told why but afterwards he began to develop a sensitivity to electromagnetism though the condition was psychosomatic as it grew worse and worse he stopped going into work and removed All Electronics from his house at the start of the series he's basically a Shu in completely dependent on Jimmy to bring him supplies every day eventually Jimmy learns the truth about Chuck's sabotage of his career at hhm outraged at this betrayal Jimmy Cuts ties with his brother he even goes further when Chuck manages to seal Kim's client M sde Jimmy secretly takes documents from Chuck's house while he's passed out and sabotages them resulting in a legal mess for M sa ver and them leaving the firm to go with Kim knowing full well that Jimmy sabotaged him Chuck orchestrates a confession from him and later baits him into committing a crime to try and destroy the evidence this results in Jimmy being arrested and having to go in front of the bar to defend his license to practice the evidence is very damning to Jimmy but he manages to trick Chuck into having a meltdown in front of the bar and giving a paranoid rant against Jimmy's actions Chuck is humiliated and in the end Jimmy is only suspended for a year after the hearing Chuck's mental state continues to deteriorate after a number of setbacks he has a falling out with Howard and is forced out of the firm his sensitivity returns full blast and with no one in his life and nothing else to live for Chuck kills himself by setting his house on fire with a lamp now Chuck is characterized very villainously throughout the series not only does he stand against Jimmy's chances of getting hired at hhm he's also a very unlikable person he's judgmental constantly thinking that Jimmy's up to no good he's also very arrogant he believes that he's better than other people and when he's put into stressful situations he reacts very harshly to any sense of criticism mistakenly changing 1261 to 1216 would be the most natural thing in the world it could certainly happen to me I did not make a mistake part of the reason why Chuck is so hostile to Jimmy is his jealousy Chuck worked hard his entire life becoming a successful lawyer and always playing by the rules however as perfect as a person he tried to be he was always jealous that Jimmy was able to easily charm people and be likable in a way that he was not when their mother is on her deathbed her last words were asking for Jimmy not Chuck who was sitting right there next to her his parents constant preference for Jimmy despite his wrongdoings really made Chuck envious of his younger brother this is why when Jimmy becomes the lawyer Chuck is secretly Furious being a successful lawyer was the one thing chuck had going for him that put him above other people despite how likable Jimmy was at least he was a two-bit scam artist however when Jimmy passes the bar Chuck can't stand the idea that Jimmy could consider himself on the same level as him I work my ass off to get where I am and you take these shortcuts and you think suddenly you're my peer you do what I do because you're funny and you can make people laugh I committed my life to this Chuck's insecurity and jealousy manif FS itself as his electromagnetic sensitivity it's confirmed throughout the series that the condition is psychological not actually a real disease not only does it develop after his wife Rebecca leaves him it grows worse whenever his suspicions of Jimmy flare up whenever you think I've done something wrong something questionable you get worse Chuck's condition isolates him both literally and figuratively he loses his career his friends and family family and is left in a dark broken house his pride and ego push away everyone close to him until he's left all alone which is why he ultimately takes his own life without a doubt chuck had serious flaws that ended up being his undoing however I think that fans of the show missed that despite his contempt personality Chuck was right about Jimmy it is insane how you got every detail exactly right even after becoming a lawyer he was still slipping Jimmy the con artist more interested in taking shortcuts than doing things the proper way and that need to break the rules is what ultimately led to his own demise as Saul Goodman I know what you were what you are people don't change you're slipping Jimmy and sliping Jimmy I can handle just fine but slipping Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun now I already know what people are going to say but Chuck made him that that way he didn't support his brother even when he did go straight and work hard to become a lawyer if he had Jimmy would have been a straight laed lawyer and would have never become Saul Goodman which is total [ __ ] the series establishes that Jimmy's need to break the rules isn't just the result of his circumstances it's a pathology almost the same as Chuck's allergy to electricity Chuck knows Jimmy he knows the damage he's capable of doing to those around him even when he doesn't mean to so while it was a dick move to not tell Jimmy that he didn't want to hire him it wasn't necessarily a wrong decision but you're like an alcoholic who refuses to admit he's got a problem now someone's giv you the keys to the school bus and I'm not going to let you drive it off a cliff when he was a child Jimmy witnessed his father being taken advantage of by a grifter the man told him that he had to choose if he was going to be a wolf or a sheep essentially either be someone who takes advantage of others or is taken advantage of Jimmy chooses to be a wolf and begins stealing from his own father's store because of it I'm adding this in while editing there seems to be some debate over whether Jimmy really stole the money from the store or not after auditing the store Chuck finds $144,000 missing and assumes that Jimmy stole it over the years he also blames Jimmy for the store closing and for their father's death afterwards however in another scene we see that Jimmy hides rare nickels and dimes in the Band-Aid box above the ceiling some fans think that Jimmy only stole these coins which only amount to a few dollars at most and that the missing money was really from their father giving it away as handouts we're not giving a definitive answer either way but I think it was a combination of both do I think that Jimmy stole the full 14,000 no but I do believe that he did take small small amounts of money out of the register over the years that eventually added up Jimmy hated seeing his father acting so weak and this was his response we do see him actively take money and his reluctance to talk about it with Marco also suggested me that he at least had a little bit of guilt over the store closing so while I don't think it was entirely on Jimmy I do still believe Chuck was right to suspect him this is what creates the sliping Jimmy persona because of this experience Jimmy began to see any form of compassion or naivity as weakness instead he devotes himself to scamming people not just to earn a living but because it gave him a rush he's addicted to the thrill of getting over on someone which is why he does it even when he knows it's not the right thing to do or another way to put it I did it for me I liked it I was good at it the comparison to Walter White is apt because just like Walt Jimmy's Behavior can't be excused by his circumstances despite whatever happened to him Jimmy ultimately did what he did for himself even when he gets an opportunity to have the legitimate career he always wanted at Davis and Maine he just can't play by the rules coloring Outside the Lines is just too attractive to him and he ultimately decides to do things his way I know what stop me you know what it's never stopping me again the larger point of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in general is that choices have consequences it's the bad choice road that Mike talks about our actions lead us to a conclusion that we have to face but we made the choices that put us on the road you can't blame other people for your own actions and the fin Al is Jimmy finally accepting responsibility for who he is and what he has done in the end he even admits to his own part in the breakdown of the relationship between him and Chuck throughout the finale we see him asking various characters what they would change if they had a time machine though he plays it off as another Saul Goodman quirk in reality it's his way of saying that he regrets what happened between him and Chuck and wishes that he could go back and change things between the two of them but that thing with your brother that wasn't even a crime it was my point with this video wasn't to say that Chuck was perfect he was a deeply flawed and bitter man but he isn't responsible for Jimmy's choices Jimmy chose to be sliping Jimmy he chose to be sa Goodman and he was responsible for his own fate not Chuck now to be fair he was wrong about one thing he thought that Jimmy could never change and in the finale he finally did by admitting the truth about himself it wasn't his usual display of emotion after a scam it was real this time and he accepted the consequences of his actions but I'd argue that it was only by accepting that Chuck was right about him previously that he was finally able to become Jimmy McGill again instead of Saul Goodman Chuck was right about you all alone so as much of a dick as Chuck might have been the series wouldn't have been the same without him and I think he deserves to be appreciated for that at least although he was still crazy he's mentally ill I am not crazy formerly Chucks Matt Joyce Uncle Mike Sam cedarland Celery Man ctis Von zarovich and [Music] Admiral

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Length: 14min 0sec (840 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 29 2024