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Hm. Well, I guess I'll cap this off just by saying I disagree quite a bit about your take on Skylar. For one, I don't really value hypocrisy as a criticism, like on a fundamental level. Whether somebody follows through or not matters a lot less to me than whether their ideas are good. See the conservative/liberal criticism of hypocrisy toward Rage Against the Machine as an example. :p
My reading on her character is that there are times when she gave in, like when she told her divorce lawyer she didn't want to throw the book at her druglord husband (she's not blameless), but also that there was never a time she was enthusiastic about the criminal life Walt had pulled her and the family into; she's pretty consistent about wanting out, it's only the 'how' that gets muddled. I'm sure there are parallels to how abuse victims get stuck in there somewhere.
And, the knife that was pulled was a direct response to spoiler dying. I simply can't read that as manipulative; she was fending off a threat at that point. For all Walt's bluster about the work being perfectly safe and he's the one knocks, anyone who crosses him seems to end up in a ditch somehow.
—But anyway, I'm not trying to drag you into a long debate about it. We can agree to disagree here. I held a lot back initially just because I didn't have the energy for the paragraph by paragraph reply thing. 😅
Whether you reply or not, I do hope you have a great day!