Was it ever explained why he went full schizo and became allergic to electricity?

>>212566425 (OP)
Because of Jimmy’s chicanery

Coping mechanism from stress due to being exposed to Jimmy's chicanery.

He wasn't allergic to electricity. It was a psychosomatic thing because Saul made him stressed out.

>>212566425 (OP)
He used to bitch about his retard failbrother Jimmy. His sob stories about Jimmy and his mother were part of the reason he landed Samantha. When Chuck further bashed Jimmy to samantba but saved Jimmy after Jimmy's car shitting fiasco Samantha got to meat Jimmy. She then realized Jimmy was affable and decent hearted and then started viewing Chuck as a sad boy faggot, and she got the ick and left him. He blamed Jimmy and when he discovered Jimmy got a law degree he began losing it completely.

>>212566425 (OP)
Jimmy become a lawyer and corrupting the law was only possible due to electricity (e.g., University of American Samoa, advertising)

His wife leaving him and needing an excuse to be able to drop out of society altogether. Been there brother

>>212566483
>>212566484
>>212566491
>>212566551
Kek

He's a control freak, his divorce and Jimmy becoming independent and getting a stable job freaked him out.

In Winner after Jimmy is sworn in as a lawyer and they're lying together in bed he starts scratching himself, that could be where it starts

>>212566425 (OP)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/11/snowflake-arizona-environmental-illness

>>212566686
>In Winner after Jimmy is sworn in as a lawyer and they're lying together in bed he starts scratching himself, that could be where it starts
>>212566551
it's not independence, it's Jimmy getting a law license

>>212566731
>It was decided that the best way to get us straight from the car into the shower, where we could wash the outside world’s chemicals away, was to enter the house completely naked. So we took off our clothes and marched without dignity across the gravel driveway.
>“You can have first shower,” Mae said, wrapping herself in a towel. We had only known each other for a few hours.
>Someone knocked. Mae reluctantly asked if I wore underwear. “We’re playing dress-up!” Susie shouted from the other room.
>I realized what Mae actually meant was, Did I wear Susie’s underwear? I hesitated for a moment, considering the alternative: going commando in a sandy environment.
I'm a page in and it reads like a porno

>>212566425 (OP)
He wasn't schizo, he wasn't crazy, electricity allergy is a real thing and he had it, Jimmy messing with him caused it to get worse

I really like the scenes from Chuck's POV

>>212567529
>But people came to Snowflake to nurture disease, and so, here, illness acts like a social currency. Being “normies”– a mostly derogative term meaning that chemical fragrances and electricity didn’t (yet) cause us debilitating pain – not only dropped Mae and I into a category of people who had historically hurt, abandoned, and misdiagnosed everyone we were about to meet, it also ranked us as lepers.
Kek

It's a take on the common trope of a villain being so 'evil' that the very lights in the room or hallway, whatever, flicker/shut off
But instead, Chuck is so 'good' that he makes the lights turn off
But from Jimmy's goals and motivations, Chuck's goodness actually works against it and in a way it is 'evil', to what Jimmy wants to do/who he wants to be.

>>212566425 (OP)
yes, at one point Jimmy says "lightning comes out of my fingertips" which was him accidentally admitting it was him that was giving Chuck the electricity allergy

>>212566540
Basically this, but she realized Chuck is full of hate or contempt and that’s his real identity. She didn’t like it, very simple plot.

>>212566731
>Deb said, in order to trust us going forward, we had to promise we weren’t going to write anything but a positive piece that would clearly inform readers of the clinical validity of environmental illness.
>“We can’t promise that,” Mae said.
>A general silence fell over the aluminum foil room. Deb, who had been pretty emotionless up until now, looked like she might cry. Our chance at writing a story seemed to be disintegrating. So I cleared my throat and prepared to overshare in order to hopefully diffuse things.
This whole article is a mental illness competition

>>212567872
Yeah the show did everything but just flat out say it but I guess more anons need handholding

>>212566731
>Over and over again, residents emphasized to me that they wanted to work, they missed working – they had no identity now, they said, no sense of self worth. Many, like Deb, were former chemical engineers. They were smart, easily bored, and embarrassed by what they worried some might misconstrue as laziness, or mooching. I believed them when they said they wanted jobs.
You anons gotta read this shit, it's batshit. I don't know if you posted this to prove environmental illness exists but if you did you have failed

>>212566731
>Many of the people we met had finally found doctors who believed them. Before, in the regular world, after enduring years of humiliating check-ups and stints in the emergency room, they relegated the medical profession to enemy status. Now, they spoke adoringly of their physicians, most of whom practiced integrative health – a blend of western science, holistic healing and one-on-one therapy.
"Doctors"

>>212566731
>As long as I framed environmental illness as a physical phenomenon, Snowflakers were happy, even eager, to communicate. But they got angry if I broached their illness, even obliquely, as a psychological phenomenon.

>>212567872
>Chuck is full of hate or contempt
who else did he hate?

>>212566731
>On our last morning in town, Deb intercepted me in the driveway to explain how fragile I was. She had been thinking about my symptoms – the headache, my history of so-called depression and my menstrual cycle which started two weeks early on our second day there.
>“My therapist says it’s just stress,” I said. “I feel like maybe we recognize something in each other. We just want to call it different things.”
>She shook her head. “You have environmental illness, I can sense it.”

>>212567863
Jimmy has lightning powers but still gets in trouble with the cartels in BrBa. I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

>>212566425 (OP)
Jimmy could shoot lighting from his fingertips

>>212568581
His mother

>>212566731
>After we finished, I lingered in the doorway while Deb searched the dark house for her glasses. I was no longer permitted indoors because I had changed back into my own clothes, and the scents emanating from my regular world apparel had already caused Deb’s ears to swell, making it hard for her to hear.

>>212568678
well there's also the fact that they didn't bother to explain the time travelling either

you know I wasn’t even that into BCS, but the day it ended felt like the death of television

>>212566425 (OP)
Latent mutant powers

>>212568581
Niggers

>>212568835
This but mad about you

>>212568581
Just Jimmy, and it obviously dominated his life. The man’s allergic to electro magnetic fields. He doesn’t actually like jimmy beyond family ties. Jimmy is the envy of his family, even though all he does it fuck up, while Chuck works very hard and honestly, trying to show mom and dad he’s doing the opposite, and they just don’t really care as much. He even tries to lead by example and Jimmy obviously really revers his brother because he wanted to practice law with him. If Chuck just let him in and continued to mentor Jimmy none of this would have happened instead he chose to be his silent adversary, and constantly back stab him. It’s painfully clear Jimmy isn’t even during their dinner and she’s probably wondering wtf why isn’t Chuck helping his brother?

>>212569179
It's actually a pretty sensible argument for how fucking resentful someone who really does the right things for the world and sacrifices a lot of his life working his ass off for it. I agree with Chuck in a lot of ways. You don't want to spiral about it or anything, but Jimmy is a fucking retard and its insane people tolerate stuff like that just because he's got a con-man's sense of salesmanship

>>212569179
You've missed the subtext that Jimmy's gift is people, and it comes to him innately just as it did to their father and that's why he was always the favourite.
Chuck is a man of rules and rigor and simply isn't likeable, so even when he has Jimmy dead to rights with records of pilfered money they side with him.
Chuck ends up clinging to the fact that he's a lawyer with an illustrious career whilst Jimmy is a no good slippin' bum, but then Jimmy manages to get a law degree and Chuck knows the business well enough to understand that his people skills will take him far, perhaps as far as Chuck even.
So Chuck is simply left with nothing. He's not the intellectually superior and accomplished but coarse older brother, he's just the worse of the pair like how he always felt with their parents.

>>212569179
Based

>>212569615
Also based

>>212566731
>At the airport gate, I remembered the emergency Valium in my bag, and all of my stress went away.
Huntress S Thompson over here

>>212569615
>Jimmy's gift is people
Jimmy's gift is manipulating people. I mean he is happy enough and he isn't 'faking it' when he charms people, but he just snaps and starts throwing people in front of cars and stealing shit and forging documents in an instant. Maybe his gift is understanding and being good with people, but it's ruined by his ability to use that for selfish evil in any given moment

>>212566425 (OP)
Because he's an uptight neurotic dick who refuses to process his emotions and resentment towards his younger brother.

>>212569179
too many Indians on this website

>>212569615
>his people skills
You mean his willingness to break the law.

>>212570319
Chuck is a thief

>>212568678
Obviously he only has enough juice to hurt geezers like Chuck

>>212569179
>Just Jimmy
He's pretty degrading and dismissive to almost everyone he deals with, with maybe the exception of kim when he says he'll talk to howard.
He treats howard like shit, ernie like shit, he's condescending to his clients.

>>212570319
There's a reason everyone likes jimmy more than chuck. He's a skeezy sheister, but he very likable and can talk you into anything.

>>212569735
>>212569683
Sametroon

>>212570662
Yes anon, I called something I thought was bases "based" then read a reply to that comment and wrote "also based".

doesn't he start going crazy when Jimmy comes over for dinner with Chuck and his wife?

>>212569615
It's important to acknowledge all the years of Slippin Jimmy bullshit Chuck witnessed. Chuck was nuts but even Jimmy thinks he was right. It's a relationship where both sides had a lot of reason to hate the other, and really the best thing they could have done was sever their ties permanently.

>>212570662
What do you think you're getting out of this one? It's not a political debate or anything, I don't imagine you're really that passionate about Chuck vs Jimmy to worry about if someone's lying to you by posting twice. I gotta say you claiming samefag here just seems like a bad habit of yours

>>212570728
He's already crazy by that point, but he wasn't put of the closet with Samantha over it

>>212570728
no, watch the show

>>212570907
I still think it's pretty clear in the finale that Jimmy was acknowledging and admitting to Chuck's perspective on him, which he always understood but he couldn't fully accept. It's awful to just call someone a 'bad seed', and the show does make sure to show how Chuck contributed to Jimmy's behavior through self-fulfilling prophecy, but Jimmy spent the whole show committing and defending indefensible actions. The finale was great because he finally stopped doing that and began to cosmically set things right. It was cathartic, I had grown way tired of his bullshit myself, and it makes sense for the character that at that stage he had gotten existentially sick of it too

>>212570598
>but he very likable and can talk you into anything.
No, he is willing to break the law where others aren't. It's how he got ahead, it wasn't his people skills. We saw what his general people skills were worth in the opening ep: Clients in jail and no work.

Chuck makes a good allegory for the trans mental health debate. He insists everything has to accommodate his problem while insisting there's nothing mentally wrong with him. Alongside this, when questioned about the inadequacies in his logic, he simply loses his temper much like someone with a mental illness will. And yet Chuck will not claim he's mentally ill. Despite the evidence. Chuck shows multiple signs of being mentally ill but society plays along. When he is forced to take a step back and look at what he is, he kills himself.

Vince Gilligan so concretely sums up the trans issue I swear it must have been on purpose.

>>212571446
I just don't think that's what they meant with the character

>>212571446
Kek

>>212571446
>>212566731
Read the above article anon, it's gonna have you grabbing your sides

>>212571561
i'm not reading all that give me a greentext version

>>212571870
Almost every reply is a greentext quote of something good from the article. We got it all set up for you, man

>>212571496
Probably not but it sure maps on well enough

>>212572027
Chuck is definitely mentally ill and denying it, that's for sure

>>212571935
Are you the anon that posted the article because if you are, thanks anon.

>>212572098
No I just enjoyed the greentexts myself and wanted to pass that on to you

>>212566731
>>212572159
>"Can I give you a hug goodbye?” I said.
>"Not in those clothes,” she said.
Not in those clothes anon, sniff, not in those clothes

>>212566425 (OP)
chicanery

>>212572456
https://www.dancingrabbit.org/
It's real

>>212572658

>>212569615
Bingo. If it weren't for his superior position and set of accomplishments, the only difference left between him and Jimmy would be that Chuck is a fucking prick and Jimmy isn't. And he knows that.

this guy's scenes are must-skip

i wanted to cum inside his wife

>>212572973
He was married to RD?

>>212566425 (OP)
Side effect from Mulder swapping bodies with him

>>212573003
Rosario Dawson?

>>212566731
>>212572658
I'd like to drive through one of these communities with a gigantic homemade radio tower in the back of a pickup with big sirens and speakers on top playing the shrillest droning sound possible, all blatantly hooked up to a bunch of nasty car batteries with tangled wires everyone could see

>>212572939
I loved their relationship.

Actively sabotaging your little brother on numerous occasions was unhinged. Jimmy almost idolized him. I get not wanting slippin' Jimmy to work at your firm. But the rest was just fucked up. Chuck was like 50% of the reason Jimmy turned into a cheating scoundrel.

>>212566731
Called "Snowflake" out of all the names they could move to

>>212573404
I'm a Chuck truther but Jimmy also sabotaged Charles. They both fucked their lives over retarded sibling rivalry spite

>>212566425 (OP)
>>212568810
do they need to explain? Chuck possibly was targeted by a lodge spirit

>why didn't Chuck just let Jimmy be a lawyer at his prestigious law firm even though Jimmy has a joke of a law degree and is a known criminal liar while Chuck is responsible to other partners and for dozens of associates, not to mention his clients?

>>212574534
Chuck's fingers typed this post

Chuck was morally in the right

>>212574668
Yep

>>212566731
https://archive.is/jVvGv

>>212574534
>h-he wuz a cwiminal!

>>212566425 (OP)
He browsed /pol/

>>212568678
It drained his life force, that's why he looked 50 at 35. He couldn't do it anymore.

>>212572939
Pipe down nacho

>>212571446

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>>212569615
Except Jimmy consistently used his "people skills" to break the law and scam people, even his own family. This narrative that Chuck was just jealous of Jimmy for no good reason has to stop. The fact that so many retards side with Jimmy goes to show how easily rubes get duped by the halo effect. The show couldn't spell out any clearer that Chuck was right about him the whole time. Even Jimmy realizes it in the end after destroying everyone he ever cared about.

>>212574534
The problem is Chuck didn't say this to Jimmy's face directly and instead tried to sabotage him while leeching off him.
Shouldn't have taken a half measure.

I swear to god I'm going to pistol whip the next person who says chicanery.

>>212567729
you use the term POV like a woman, that's clearly not a POV shot.

>>212573358
The snowflake town seems hilarious, like if you drove through and peppered the end of their driveway witb axe body spray and left the can you'd likely fuel weeks of faiting, months of drama and possibly two suicides

>>212574534
Why did he give his con artist brother access to his prestigious lawfirms mailroom and client info the cry foul when Jimmy reformed and got a law degree instead of falling for chucks obvious honeypot?

>>212574668
>has Howard take the blame for nit hiring Jimmy, but still makes Jimmy get him eggs and a paper daily
>Fakes an illness
>Steals from his neighbors when convenient because of fake illness
>sets his house on fire endangering his neighbors to kill himself instead of necking
Chuck isn't a saint

>>212576600
Hey Favre, what was that Jazz murder mystery book you were talking about last week?

>>212576924
Fuck yeah. On one hand I appreciate a whole town of delusional autistic people getting together and making a town, but hot damn wouldn't it be fun to just blare on them with a megaphone during a picnic

>>212577252
>I appreciate a whole town of delusional autistic people getting together and making a town
The article made it sound like a horror show. Like if you aren't presenting symptoms of your fake illness you get thrown in a lower caste. But I guess history is just the movement of people into little groups formed solely to enable eachothers delusions and then descend into shit testing and purity spirals.

>>212576600
>>212577213

>>212577375
Absolutely, for sure. These people are insane and hostile, at the same time I appreciate them building their little tribe out somewhere for their own sensibility. A little haven for insanos, maybe

>>212577531
Yeah there have been countless enclaves in the US ranging from slab city to Hayden lake in Utah.

>>212577655
**idaho

>>212577655
>>212577680
The American Dream, really. A last place where you can be fucking insane and raise your kids to be the same way

>>212568678
Mexicans are immune to electrical attacks

>>212577740
That's Indians. I saw the episode on that stupid history channel show about people with actual superpowers that I think Stan Lee hosted... that show has to be 15 years old and I'm reminded how far we've fallen from god

>>212571099
Dumb post

>>212571935
>We

>>212566425 (OP)
Was it ever explained who this guy is?

>>212578154
Not in the slightest, that’s the crazy thing

>>212578092
The royal we. The editorial

>>212566540
Jimmy became a lawyer when Chuck was still married.
His allergy was a symptom of stress born out of the realisation that everyone liked Jimmy despite being a scammy criminal, and no one liked him despite being lawful and righteous
His whole worldview came crumbling down

>>212568810
Anti-Semitism alive and well in Albequerque

>>212571446
Nice pasta from circa 2020

>>212566551
Damn this would be the kino reason

>>212573358
Kek. That's like painting a helicopter all black and flying it around a mental institution at the same time every week.

>>212568924
This but MASH