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Anonymous wrote:Post-finale... Is anyone else just glad this show is over? The one "big question" that haunts us throughout the show remains unanswered, and we get a bunch of hokey montage scenes I, for one, could've easily lived without. 2/3 of the way through, I found myself wishing they'd compacted the previous episode and just squished all of this one in at the end.

At least it's over? I guess?

What’s the big question?

When/How/If she gets back to Hannah.

Anonymous wrote:Post-finale... Is anyone else just glad this show is over? The one "big question" that haunts us throughout the show remains unanswered, and we get a bunch of hokey montage scenes I, for one, could've easily lived without. 2/3 of the way through, I found myself wishing they'd compacted the previous episode and just squished all of this one in at the end.

At least it's over? I guess?

What’s the big question?

Anonymous wrote:Post-finale... Is anyone else just glad this show is over? The one "big question" that haunts us throughout the show remains unanswered, and we get a bunch of hokey montage scenes I, for one, could've easily lived without. 2/3 of the way through, I found myself wishing they'd compacted the previous episode and just squished all of this one in at the end.

At least it's over? I guess?

The hokey dream sequence scenes were not good, though I did enjoy the one big cameo at least. The last episode was better. I am glad it's over, and am reserving judgment about the Testaments. I assume the settings will be DC and Colorado?

Post-finale... Is anyone else just glad this show is over? The one "big question" that haunts us throughout the show remains unanswered, and we get a bunch of hokey montage scenes I, for one, could've easily lived without. 2/3 of the way through, I found myself wishing they'd compacted the previous episode and just squished all of this one in at the end.

At least it's over? I guess?

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Anonymous wrote:I kinda loved Aunt Lydia for getting her lick in at the last minute. Wasn't expecting her to be all-in, but she really did get it.

That was a great moment. I’m assuming she won’t be in The Testaments, then?

No, she will be.

Huh. I’m going to have to suspend my disbelief that she didn’t destroy her standing and her cover in Gilead by being almost hanged as a traitor and publicly condemning the Commanders. I mean, I know Gilead doesn’t have the Internet and live media coverage, but surely the Boston Commanders kept DC in the loop about what was going on and who they captured? Apparently not.

The Testaments happens concurrent with the timeline the show is in. There will be some wonkiness - mainly because Hannah and Nicole/Holly are supposed to be much closer in age and Holly is a big part of the book.

The testaments is 15 years later.

It's 15 years after the end of the book, which ends years before where we are in the show. In the book, June leaves the Waterfords after killing Cmdr Waterford. She's pregnant. I don't think we even find out if she escapes.

So I don't know what they do with the show the Testaments.

So I found out what they do with the show the Testaments - it's four years after what we are seeing now vs. fifteen. And the focus is on internal Gilead - not Boston - and kids that have grown up entirely in Gilead. So spoiler I guess - Tuesday isn't the end of Gielad

This podcast - https://www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/podcast/eyes-on-gilead-a-handmaids-tale-podcast - (which is really great!) had Warren Littlefield, the new show runner on.

https://www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/podcast-episode/warren-littlefield-on-the-handmaids-tale-season-6-and-the-testaments-interview/eliadcrg8

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Commander Lawrence thoroughly explains the economy and the supply chain logistics of the new regime. Honestly. I can see a world in which the whole system is collapsing, people are starving etc, and someone like Lawrence thought that helping the new regime create a functional economic system was the moral choice. Fast forward a few years and he realizes what he’s done.

I would absolutely watch this show. The most interesting parts of Season 1 are the flashbacks to the start of it all. I would love a prequel but it might hit too close to home.

A Gilead Sim City documentary!

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Commander Lawrence thoroughly explains the economy and the supply chain logistics of the new regime. Honestly. I can see a world in which the whole system is collapsing, people are starving etc, and someone like Lawrence thought that helping the new regime create a functional economic system was the moral choice. Fast forward a few years and he realizes what he’s done.

I would absolutely watch this show. The most interesting parts of Season 1 are the flashbacks to the start of it all. I would love a prequel but it might hit too close to home.

Agree 1000% but I feel this way about all dystopian stuff. I want to see the "messy middle" - after the initial event but before the current hellscape.

Commander Lawrence thoroughly explains the economy and the supply chain logistics of the new regime. Honestly. I can see a world in which the whole system is collapsing, people are starving etc, and someone like Lawrence thought that helping the new regime create a functional economic system was the moral choice. Fast forward a few years and he realizes what he’s done.

I would absolutely watch this show. The most interesting parts of Season 1 are the flashbacks to the start of it all. I would love a prequel but it might hit too close to home.

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Anonymous wrote:I kinda loved Aunt Lydia for getting her lick in at the last minute. Wasn't expecting her to be all-in, but she really did get it.

That was a great moment. I’m assuming she won’t be in The Testaments, then?

No, she will be.

Huh. I’m going to have to suspend my disbelief that she didn’t destroy her standing and her cover in Gilead by being almost hanged as a traitor and publicly condemning the Commanders. I mean, I know Gilead doesn’t have the Internet and live media coverage, but surely the Boston Commanders kept DC in the loop about what was going on and who they captured? Apparently not.

The Testaments happens concurrent with the timeline the show is in. There will be some wonkiness - mainly because Hannah and Nicole/Holly are supposed to be much closer in age and Holly is a big part of the book.

The testaments is 15 years later.

It's 15 years after the end of the book, which ends years before where we are in the show. In the book, June leaves the Waterfords after killing Cmdr Waterford. She's pregnant. I don't think we even find out if she escapes.

So I don't know what they do with the show the Testaments.

Anonymous wrote:I want Serena to die a painful death. Women complicit in subjugating other women is a special kind of evil.

I think the writers and actress have done a good job making Serena compelling. It seems like she was pretty young when she initially wrote the books and was part of the creation of Gilead. And infertility can make women do some pretty desperate things and she also had some element of Stockholm syndrome or something with her husband. I’m open to a redemption arc for her—I’m not saying she’s turned into some kind of hero but I think shea not the woman she was at the start of the show.

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Anonymous wrote:I kinda loved Aunt Lydia for getting her lick in at the last minute. Wasn't expecting her to be all-in, but she really did get it.

That was a great moment. I’m assuming she won’t be in The Testaments, then?

No, she will be.

Huh. I’m going to have to suspend my disbelief that she didn’t destroy her standing and her cover in Gilead by being almost hanged as a traitor and publicly condemning the Commanders. I mean, I know Gilead doesn’t have the Internet and live media coverage, but surely the Boston Commanders kept DC in the loop about what was going on and who they captured? Apparently not.

The Testaments happens concurrent with the timeline the show is in. There will be some wonkiness - mainly because Hannah and Nicole/Holly are supposed to be much closer in age and Holly is a big part of the book.

The testaments is 15 years later.

Wait—if Holly/nicole is in it, does that means she didn’t stay in Alaska? That sucks. I want her hanging out in Girdwood with a few very defensive huskies. She’s had enough Gilead crap in her life.

Also. I am very unclear with this show on the whole environmental collapse point. People seem very healthy (even considering they killed off all the sick people…wouldn’t commanders and their wives continue to get sick?), and it’s super unclear to me where the contaminated places are, where they are growing food, etc. I would have loved a whole episode in which Commander Lawrence thoroughly explains the economy and the supply chain logistics of the new regime.
Honestly. I can see a world in which the whole system is collapsing, people are starving etc, and someone like Lawrence thought that helping the new regime create a functional economic system was the moral choice. Fast forward a few years and he realizes what he’s done.

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Anonymous wrote:I kinda loved Aunt Lydia for getting her lick in at the last minute. Wasn't expecting her to be all-in, but she really did get it.

That was a great moment. I’m assuming she won’t be in The Testaments, then?

No, she will be.

Huh. I’m going to have to suspend my disbelief that she didn’t destroy her standing and her cover in Gilead by being almost hanged as a traitor and publicly condemning the Commanders. I mean, I know Gilead doesn’t have the Internet and live media coverage, but surely the Boston Commanders kept DC in the loop about what was going on and who they captured? Apparently not.

The Testaments happens concurrent with the timeline the show is in. There will be some wonkiness - mainly because Hannah and Nicole/Holly are supposed to be much closer in age and Holly is a big part of the book.

The testaments is 15 years later.

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Anonymous wrote:Bradley whitford is just such a good actor. He always seems to have better written lines too. I sometimes wonder if they have different writers for different characters or if the actors can adjust their lines a bit.

I think he just delivers his lines better than just about anyone.

It's reported that many of those great lines are his own ad libs. (His delivery is great, too!)

F**k Nick. I can't believe anyone cares about him or wanted to see more of him. As the episode was beginning, I made the comment to my wife that I wish a handmaid had murdered him in his sleep, off camera, so we didn't have to hear any more about him.

Anonymous wrote:Bradley whitford is just such a good actor. He always seems to have better written lines too. I sometimes wonder if they have different writers for different characters or if the actors can adjust their lines a bit.

I think he just delivers his lines better than just about anyone.