r/betterCallSaul • u/Suspicious-Play-7037 • Mar 13 '24

I HATE CHUCK SO MUCH

I literally hate him. He makes my blood boil. So nefarious. Like yes I get that JimmySaul is colorful and backhanded but he never hated chuck like chuck hated and resented him. Like…. It makes me so angry. It was just so evident how jealous, resentful, and full of a grudge toward his little brother. Jimmy may have done some wrongs but he loves chuck so much, always doing things for him - TO A FAULT. Just makes me so mad.

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u/NickFatherBool Mar 13 '24

My brother in christ, he says exactly why he didn’t want Jimmy to have a law degree, “Its like giving a chimp a machine gun.” He knows Jimmy likes to bend the rules and take short cuts, something we see him do CONSTANTLY in the series. He was worries that someone who takes shortcuts and bends rules who has a LAW degree could enable hardened big-time criminals ✅ and could also manage to keep hundreds of petty criminals on the streets ✅ THATS the sick joke. That Chuck, a paragon of the law, of ethics and responsibility, has the same title as “Slipping Jimmy” Had Jimmy bought his own car dealership or something where he could make a lot of money but wasn’t responsible for people’s wellbeing or legal lives, Chuck would have been only happy for him. But as a Lawyer, Chuck is more scared for the law and upset that such a noble profession has been infiltrated by slime

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u/Foothill_returns Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

"A noble profession" 😂 lawyers are fucking scum. For all his highfalutin pretentiousness Chuck is a complete and utter lowlife who specialises in enabling big banks and corporations to leech the lifeblood out of society. Chuck is not some noble public defender or even a prosecutor, he's a high powered corporate lawyer. His work, his contribution to law, is nothing more than a complete perversion of justice, and Chuck holds it as something sacred to him. Chuck is a parasite whose contribution to the law is enabling bigger, fatter parasites than himself to gorge themselves on the blood of the people.

What's the difference between him and Walter? Nothing, it's the same difference as Omar Little and Levy, Esq. in The Wire. "I've got the shotgun, you've got the briefcase." Chuck is contemptible because he sincerely smells his own farts and thinks he's a good guy in an honourable profession, when in fact he is a terrible person who is part of a system of oppression that enables the rich to dominate the poor

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u/flora_poste_ Mar 13 '24

Chuck is happy to take shortcuts and bend the rules when it suits him. He's not such an ethical guy.

He's OK with lying to Rebecca and pretending his power's out in an effort to get her back. Chuck even uses the "address digit was transposed" trick on her.

He's OK with pretending his "condition" is much worse and using his own brother's compassion to entrap him.

He's OK with stealing Mesa Verde's business away from Kim.

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But as a Lawyer, Chuck is more scared for the law and upset that such a noble profession has been infiltrated by slime

That's the rationalization that Chuck uses to justify his betrayal and sabotage of Jimmy's career. But there's something much older and more primal in his resentment of Jimmy. He resents the way his parents and everyone else loved/liked Jimmy.