it seemed like kind of a weird design, but I liked that. his kitchen was cool too. I always wanted to see the upstairs; for how long and tall the house was we really only ever saw the kitchen, the living room and the bedroom. any time a character went somewhere else the camera stayed in those rooms (besides maybe one or two random times we saw someone use the stairs?), which I also really liked from a creative standpoint as it displayed how limited Chuck's life was in all ways.


that also really drove home his self-realization of the life he'd made for himself after his moment with Jimmy, too. he seemed to realize for the first time that he'd cut off the only two people he had any regular interaction with, and I think internally he realized that his mental condition was in part self-induced out of guilt that he was an old, lonely man primarily because he couldn't find real affection for anyone that mattered in his life and the times were passing him by both legally and culturally. it said a lot to me that he had been recovering when he thought he was reconnecting with the things that made him great, but when he realized how lonely he'd made himself it immediately got worse than it'd ever been. he was torn between a strong desire to isolate himself from the world and be the most powerful person in his world, and those two desires devoured each other until he was so isolated there was no person or thing to express power over other than his home.


so he burned that down too.


what a great, shitty character.


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