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I think Chuck admires a lot about Jimmy, just not as a lawyer. He probably thinks he'd be a good spouse and provider, a good worker in other professions, that he is a good brother, etc. But he fetishizes the law, and to an extent, he's justified. An attorney wields great power over the fate of his clients and his opposition. They are entrusted with secrets and the fate of wealth and possessions, as well as the very lives of clients facing criminal charges. Chuck is a rule follower, which in some ways impinges on his abilities as an advocate. There's a reason he is a civil attorney. There are rules and evidence that are black and white. If he wins a case, the law was on his side. If he loses a case, he followed the law and can sleep at night. I don't think he has it in him to be a zealous advocate when the liberty of an accused criminal is on the line. He could never 'advise'/nudge a client to destroy damning evidence, or coach one on the fine points of answering questions in a way that obfuscates metaphysical truth. There is a philosophical merit to his standards, but it would prove cold solace to a client serving jail time because Chuck revered the law more than he defended his client.
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I don't think he dismisses his intellect, his ability to summate a matter to serve his client, his business sense, his capability, etc. Just his character when it comes to litigating.
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Regardless of what the reasons are (and some of them are probably totally justifiable), he still doesn't see him as an equal from a career perspective. The fact that Jimmy even got the law degree bothered him.
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The law, whatever it may be, is not a STEM course, where a convolution is; whether you're at MIT or in a basement in S.Dakota. There are things you learn about critical analysis, and interpersonal integrity, and ethics, in 3 years in a classroom and in study groups that you can't replicate on a computer.
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Gould talking about Chuck's reasons for making the decision he did (both selfish and principled). Also gets into the whole self-fulfilling prophecy debate about Jimmy's own bad choices (and whether Chuck's opinion of him as a scumbag plays a factor in them). |
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Discussions like this are what makes the show great. There aren't many shows on TV right now that we can discuss like this. It's really incredible.
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The show has also hit emotional highs that I don't think BB ever really did until the last few seasons of its run. It's a very good start.
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well they can show how he got started into meth and his "spicy" specialty or w/e the hell it was
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