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Originally Posted by Benny003
You don't think she'll get addicted to the pain medication (the "good stuff"), do you? It was kind of interesting to me that she decided to blow off work and relax. On the surface that looks like a good thing that she wants to take care of herself, but that's not who she is. She's a workaholic. That's how she keeps her life focused on trying to accomplish things. I just don't see her stepping back from work being a good thing for her.
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I don't think that....but I also don't think that the writers would put a line like that in there for seemingly no reason. it's such a strange thing to even have the characters do; the choice that's made right there is absolutely going to have consequences in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by Benny003
How did things go so quickly from Chuck seeming to be very much "fine" after retiring to basically trying to commit suicide by way of his electricity disease? I mean he went from being fine talking to Jimmy to waking up in the middle of the night to full blown paranoia in the matter of a few minutes during the show. That jump just didn't quite fit right to me.
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I thought the writers did a good job of imparting that chuck was never fine; he developed ways to mask his psychosomatic condition as a means to whatever end he was hoping to achieve.
I also do not think he was fine whatsoever in talking to jimmy. "you never really meant anything to me" was so clearly an utter lie meant to hurt Jimmy that I didn't think it could possibly be construed any other way (although the avclub seems to think it was genuine, which I just cannot possibly agree with).
I have always thought that chuck's "condition" as it were was a direct result and had a perfect correlation to his relationship with jimmy. viewed that way, his outcome last night after all that has happened was of a piece with the rest of his character.
I've gone on too long but I would say that if anything seemed "quick" or a "jump" it was chuck being 'fine,' which we now know he never actually was.
think of how many episodes/scenes/cuts of this show have been devoted to showing how much of an utter nut job chuck really is (on the surface they play it pretty even-handedly by making the viewer question just how real his condition is, or at least how real chuck THINKS it is). now remember how utterly defeated chuck was at the end of chicanery. now think of how the only person he ever truly respected outside of work saw him revealed as completely off his rocker in the most public way imaginable (and not only that, he actually thought that there was a chance of the two of them rekindling their romance). now think of how much it must hurt chuck to think that his only partner, his only friend, the only person he views as anywhere close to his equal on a professional level has put himself close to personal financial ruin just to get rid of him. oh, and his relationship with his only living family member has devolved to the point where he feels compelled to devise and implement a plan to hurt that family member as much as he can.
now, what were you saying about him being "fine?"