#if howard hadn't tried to push kim away from jimmy maybe she wouldn't have fixated so intensely on a scam that involved his downfall

[debbierhea]

it’s so funny to see people calling for kim’s death or punishment as if she is solely to blame for howard’s murder. the gag is that no one is wholly to blame for his death !!! no one is wholly to blame for any of it! each individual character’s actions have an effect, large or small, on everything and everyone else in the story. we as human beings are all connected whether we like it or not. and of course these are characters, not real people, and they exist in a story. but this story has been masterfully crafted by people to pose questions, to make us wonder why we feel the way we do about the things that happen. yes, there is blame to be thrown around but to what point is this blame deserved or even true? to what point is this blame fueled by our emotions? by our subjective views of justice and truth and right and wrong? how do we draw the line between us passing judgement on any one character (kim) without engaging in the exact behavior that character used, the very behavior we are condemning—building our own subjective rule book in which to view the world and dole out our own personal versions of justice?

#sure if kim had told jimmy the truth about lalo then maybe they wouldn't have gone forward with the scam and howard wouldn't have been #there when lalo came knocking. but you could argue that about LITERALLY ANY PLOT POINT #if howard hadn't tried to push kim away from jimmy maybe she wouldn't have fixated so intensely on a scam that involved his downfall #if jimmy hadn't gone into the desert kim wouldn't have confronted lalo or quit mesa verde #if chuck hadn't forced jimmy out of the sandpiper case would jimmy have lost his license? would kim have left hhm? #if nacho hadn't tried to kill hector then lalo would never have come to albuquerque #if the twins hadn't confused abuelita's car for betsy kettleman's jimmy and nacho would never have met #every single person's actions play into the outcome of last night's episode. sure there are degrees of severity and danger and harm in all #of these actions but who gets to decide? who gets to decide where the blame ultimately goes? should anyone? does it really matter? #howard is dead. and every one of our main characters has pushed a domino over whose echo has led us here #i just find it funny that the entire point of the show is to show us that nothing is as simple as placing blame wholly on one person #nothing is as simple as Right and Wrong and yet here people are acting like it is #better call saul #bcs s6