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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was frustrated by Luke's teary confession that he feels like June is choosing to fight Gilead rather than come be with him in Canada, like she doesn't love him enough and would rather be some rebel hero. He doesn't express any acknowledgement or concern about Hannah. June stayed in Gilead to rescue their daughter! For God's sake, act like a father and not like an insecure man.[/quote]

He's always been kind of a pathetic character who has never even begun to grasp what they are going through in Gilead. He loves June in-when the rubber hits the road- a pretty superficial way. He has little depth and seems to be mostly focused on his own experience of loss. Doesn't seem like a marriage that would ever get through this if they did come out the other side. He doesn't seem like a bad guy, just unable to relate to much outside his own experiences and loss. It may be intentional on the part of the writers to keep him in the background. [/quote]

To be fair to Luke, it's not like Hannah running around the Northeast with no real support is in any way calculated to get Hannah back, especially after the passage of this kind of time.  And he's basically right -- it doesn't seem like she's at all conflicted about whether to get back to Luke.  To the extent she's conflicted about whether to flee to Canada when the opportunity arises, it's all about what the trade off is (saving children, another chance at Hannah) versus her own personal safety.  Luke doesn't seem to factor into it.

I'm not enough of a historian to really be able to comment on this, but I think it's pretty grounded in history that even wonderful, caring parents eventually make the decision to leave without their children where they had been separated and didn't even know where the child was, maybe telling themselves that they will then be able to better fight for them later.  I'm pretty sure that has been fairly common in the history of awful repressive regimes.  So an expectation that she would leave her child behind at some point is not totally out of left field.  It's easy for a TV viewer to say "Of course you never leave your child behind!"  But in reality, I think the human experience is more complicated.  [/quote]

I get the sense that the scene where Hannah was afraid of June but not the other adults was designed to make it easier for June to leave her behind.[/quote]

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