The Guide did not look at all pleased, did she? I like brown couch’s idea posted earlier — she might think she’s about to be pink-slipped so that Nadia can take that job.
The Guide did not look at all pleased, did she? I like brown couch’s idea posted earlier — she might think she’s about to be pink-slipped so that Nadia can take that job.
What better way to harvest enough energy from those near you to allow you to regenerate, than to actually die? That’s probably why it also happens on a key birthday; people will be there. A normal energy vampire phase, perhaps?
Yes! Guillermo completely riffed that “Lazlo will be Derek’s mentor” angle, but Lazlo apparently took it to heart and assigned Derek the task of unloading the pillows. Which, it struck me, is a good education for Derek in how to use his hypnotism skills and approach strangers in their houses.
Some thoughts on the “incest” angle —
First, I agree with the poster who said that it was Mobius pushing that, as part of his attempt to control Loki. But I agree that it was a mischaracterization.
Two parallels came to mind: The Master and Missy, in ‘Doctor Who,’ and Miles and Gwen in “Into the Spider-Verse.” There…
“Surely the scene where Sylvie shows Hunter B-15 memories of her past life was meant to be a flashback montage, not just two women standing in a rainy parking lot.”
That scene worked for me. We didn’t need to see. In fact, I think the lack of flashback made it easier for viewers to put themselves in B-15's place.…
As June testified in the ICC court, Fred insisted that the Lawrences and June ‘perform the ceremony’ while the Waterfords sat in the Lawrence parlor, and that Eleanor in particular was traumatized. It was not long after that she took her own life. That’s a pretty good reason for Lawrence to want revenge.
Fred was…
The interrogation scene was worth a re-watch.
Serena would have been so much better off if she had stuck with the strategy of separating herself from Fred and claiming she was also a victim.
But, no ... she had to not only reunite with him, but resume the haughty demands of a Commander’s wife. In that interrogation it…
Even though June was somewhat complicit in Eleanor’s death (she could have summoned help, and I think that Joseph Lawrence is aware that June would have checked on her), I think it went unmentioned because he understood why. With that in mind, I think that June’s testimony about his late wife’s character, her kindness…
June wanted Fred to know the terror she had felt when she and Luke were first hunted down and Hannah was taken.
It was quite a twist, in that the viewer thinks that subjecting Fred to Gilead justice (when he has been dishing on Gilead to save his own hide, and the other Commanders know it) will be justice served. Even…
“Just give me five minutes” was June saying that she was leaving for good.
Luke knows (and understands) what June did. It was her “Five more minutes” that indicated that she’s leaving for good; either because she expects to be arrested, or because she’s going full renegade. She had already assured herself that Nichole will be loved and cared for. She was saying goodbye to _Luke_ and that’s…
That’s a bit harsh. The 22 were women who had risked their lives for the Resistance and been caught and imprisoned, and were therefore political prisoners. But, under Gilead’s laws, Janine and Hannah are not prisoners, so they couldn’t be part of a prisoner exchange.
Agreed. June looked up to the window at Moira and Luke and their bond in caring for Nichole, and she knew that Nichole would be safe and loved.
Thanks for noting that. It did seem that conception wasn’t the only issue; it was the ability to deliver a healthy, full-term baby. A woman had even tried to kidnap Hannah at the hospital after her own newborn died.
We went from Cmdr. Lawrence proposing a child swap (to be negotiated) to Luke asking June to meet with Nick and to take Nichole along. I couldn’t help but think that he was hoping that Nick would agree to work to swap Hannah for Nichole, as they would at least be with their birth fathers. Of course, that doesn’t allow …
Well, most of their adult lives. Seven years is enough to know what they’re faced with. Esther seems to have been an exception because she was not only given a worse deal than most, but apparently had grown up with at least one Martha who taught her skills with natural poisons. She had been encouraged to resist rather…
Note 1: I’m a nerd at heart and I did find it romantic that two lovers of very different viewpoints and temperaments both showed their love for June by doing research and creating valuable documentation.
Note 2: You rarely see the top of June’s left ear. You might recall that the handmaids were tagged in the first…
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Janine sounded as calm and sane as she ever has, as though she’s had time to process recent developments and is finally seeing clearly (no pun intended). She ignored nearly all of Lydia’s diatribe against June and instead repeated her direct appeals to be allowed to die in prison rather than be forced to serve as…
I’m curious about one point (perhaps it’s made clearer in the books). Fred claims that Gilead is the only country in which the birth rate is climbing. That is exactly the sort of propaganda a Gilead bigwig would spread.
But earlier there were envoys from, I think, Mexico, negotiating with Gilead for healthy babies. So…