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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was awful, I’m done with the series.[/quote]

Reading all these comments I thought I was the only one who thought this ending was horrific.

[b]The lesson I took from this is if someone oppresses you then you have every right to murder.  Have we really gotten to this point in our society? June's actions should not be celebrated.  I don't think it is far-fetched for her character to do this based on the path we have seen this season, but her actions shouldn't be lumped into a "girl-power-isn't-this-awesome" kind of thing that is being spelled out in all the reviews/interviews.[/b]

In all honestly, it would have felt more poetic for the women to not kill him...yet still send the finger to Serena...and let Fred go back to Gilead.  He was not going to have a great reunion and likely would have ended up the wall as his fellow commanders no longer welcomed him. Why not let him see his whole life spiral out of control first. [/quote]

Did you not watch the last scene? That’s the point. She decided to be a murderer but now…she’s a murderer. And you can argue that there’s a place for that in war and revolution but by doing so, she has forfeited her chance to live as a refugee in her reconstructed family. She knows, Luke knows, that’s the point of the last scene.

+1 The lesson is that violence and rage begets violence and rage. Look at the history of conflict in any part of the world. You don't oppress without creating a cycle of oppression. The desire for revenge is too powerful. Joseph is right, too, that it won't ultimately satisfy June. The triumph will be temporary, and she will still be unhealed. The tragedy of Gilead includes its legacy in the lives of those who've escaped.

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While I don't disagree, I feel that the producers are doing a disservice by going around in interviews saying that June choose "justice" for what she did to Fred.  It would be much more interesting if instead the show made more of a point to showcase how Gilead destroyed June's conscience and created a rage in her that cannot currently be fulfilled.  Instead, they filmed it in a way that seemed to glorify her violence and even excused it as necessary because again it was just "justice." That is what I take issue with.[/quote]

“Though justice be thy plea, consider this. That in the course of justice, none of us shall see salvation”. — Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. [/quote]

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