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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ even after that dynamite of an episode, season 3 struggles to captivate us. The debate above is so lame compared to s2 even. [/quote]

June is a less sympathetic character this season. She cost two women their lives without good cause.[/quote]

OP here (ha, first comment, after having finally caught up).  I'd expect her to be less sympathetic by this point.  Not sure I'd be able to hold it together well either, without compromising either my morality or my sanity.[/quote]

June was a bit morally gray to begin with. She knew Luke was married to another woman.[/quote]

I think that is what makes the story so compelling. She had not made the best moral choices and she did not really support her mom and her protests.  She is a normal woman, who is struggling with rising up.  She is trying to hold her own shit together and sometimes fails.  The only way to survive it to turn off your emotions, and she went too far.  Now she is trying to find the right path - by using her new found power to save as many kids as she can.  [/quote]

Good point. [/quote]

Yes, this is in line with how Atwood wrote about June. She was very "normal" in behavior and intelligence. She wasn't a Serena Joy, but in the lead up to Gilead she was pretty apathetic. The "I'm not a feminist. I like men" and "I don't really pay attention to politics" type. [/quote]

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