Rodafowa wrote:
Saw it for the third time inside the last month. Just watched it again trying to keep my mind open to make sure I was seeing what was there and not mentally filling in the details that supported my position.
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Skyler seems sort of into it for a few seconds. Then she's kind of going along with it for a few seconds. Then she clearly says "hold... Hold up! Enough! Stop it!" but Walt ignores her and carries on, only stopping when she cries out in pain and yells "Stop it!"
I don't see where there's any room for interpretation at all.
I agree with the events as you're depicting them, we're all watching the same thing after all
But I still interpret it differently.
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As you say, she goes from 'into it', to 'consensual', to 'not wanting it' to 'STOP IT' in a very short amount of time, certainly the 'not wanting it' passing into 'STOP IT' literally lasts just a few seconds.
Walt is traumatised, and he's probably all over the place after what he's just been through with Tuco, at the same time, the 'new' Walt is starting to appear, more primal and vicious.
I'm not defending him as such, just saying that I didn't see it as him attempting to rape her.
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If anything I think this is the first real incident where the divergence of Walt and Skyler really makes itself known, she just never buys into the new Walt, but that's not to say that it was a foregone conclusion that she wouldn't.
Some women get along with men embroiled in a life of crime perfectly well, Skyler is not one of them.
I mean really, as a couple they're not exactly in a great place before the cancer and meth thing starts anyway, it's hard to see what could have sorted the marriage out, with or without the cancer and meth and drug kingpin trajectory.