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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Wives were all infertile. Have we ever seen a life with biological children. I doubt they’d give up a breeding woman to the exclusive use of a single Commander. That’s a good incentive for marrying off the young Daughters to young loyal men like Nick. [/quote]

The wives aren’t necessarily infertile. They are just the Gilead elite who either helped bring Gilead to power or married someone who did. Most of them are infertile, and they have the power to force fertile “fallen” women to breed for them. There are also the econowives, who are not considered fallen, may or may not be infertile, and don’t have the power to force anyone to breed for them.

I think once Nick became a commander he no longer was subject to forced marriage, but would be considered a good catch for one of the other commander’s daughters, probably.[/quote]

They only check the woman and assume the men are fertile.  So in less the woman has an affair, if she is with an infertile man, she will be deemed infertile and the blame.  Many are older woman who are past their prime years of having kids.

I think most are arranged marriages.[/quote]

Yes, Tuello said something to Serena when he was trying to get her to break out of Gilead about having given up the possibility of having a baby that was all her own, but that if she went to the US/Canada maybe she could. I interpreted this as if she hadn't gone to play for the enemy, she probably could have been with a husband who would have been able to give her a child, as the Canadians and Americans seem to know it is the men who are sterile.

This is an instance where the TV show and the book deviate. I was kind of horrified when they chose a  then 32 yr old actress as Serena and made the whole Commander class fairly young and the women of a fertile age. The book makes it very clear that most of the Commanders and their wives are 50+, so the fertility of the Commander's wives is not in question. In a way it adds something to the future plot that Serena might have no fertility issues at all.

I don't remember where I heard this, but I must have read somewhere they were planning for about 7 seasons. If that's really the case, they're going to need more twists like that. [/quote]

I assumed that when Serena was shot in the lower abdomen pre-Gilead, she would have been fully informed by the doctors how the injury affected her fertility (did she require a full hysterectomy, etc.) I don’t think that the show has really touched on that again, possibly because no matter what Serena wasn’t going to have children by Fred so it was a moot point up to this point.

I would love a few more seasons. There is so much potential there; a dive into the rise of Gilead, ripple effects of Gilead on the rest of the world, how Gilead comes to an end, rebuilding... and that doesn’t even touch on the characters and how they rebuild their lives or meet with justice post-Gilead. Maybe see what Hannah’s world is like when she’s June’s age.[/quote]

Oh, you are so right! I completely forgot that Serena had also been shot in the abdomen and that could have been a complicating factor, no doubt! But I think you're right, they wouldn't have explored that aspect more as her reproducing was basically off the table entirely as long as she was married to Fred.

There is a lot more potential and I would like to see them explore that. I just need their writing to keep up so it doesn't feel like it is just a cash cow that drags things along. I thought this season was not great. The past few episodes have been good, but there was a LOT of fluff. I still have so many questions and they spent 60% of the season doing...not much. [/quote]

if Serena has eggs and she moves to Canada she could have a surrogate. Gilead seems to have forgotten how to do medicine. [/quote]

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