Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Better Call Saul: The Fall of Chuck McGill" video.

  1. The Take : Chuck simply saw Jimmies rise as somehow being his own fall. Jimmie has cut corners, and not done all the, “hard work,” that Chuck has. So, Jimmies success is the Universe being out of order. So, he NEEDS to see Jimmie fail, as a kind of confirmation of his own life choices. He works at Jimmies failure, so as to maintain the universe. Everyone hiding their phones, etc, is also a passive exercise of power. No matter what a person’s, “rank,” they must defer to Chuck; even in the court room. That’s a LOT of power. But, Jimmie finally overpowers Chuck, on his OWN terms, on his OWN TURF, in the COURTROOM. At this point, Chuck believes he’s been slain; the very fragile world he’s built about himself, is finally shattered, with Jimmie able to beat Chuck at what he does; what he is; what he lived for. Ergo, there is nothing left for Chuck to live for. Chuck believes that Jimmie has destroyed his world, and the one time that they confronted each other, in court, where Chuck, “should have won,” Jimmie won. Chuck was never his own person. His sense of self was based upon his own measurement against his brother. Chuck had no real sense of self, which was his own, petty, self-annihilating destruction. That’s my take
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