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Post by geometryman on Jun 1, 2018 9:08:27 GMT
I wondered about The Colonies. I assumed the job they're made to do has some purpose, such as reclamation of toxic areas. If they were simply performing a pointless punishment task why not just execute them (as seems to be a common fate in Gilead) instead of going to the trouble and expense of setting up this operation, since we understand they're all going to die there eventually? The site appears to be radioactive, judging from what look like radiation signs on bags and equipment, so as you say just wearing masks would be no protection for the Aunts.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jun 4, 2018 12:07:12 GMT
So, it looks as if the pattern for this series is the back story of some of the minor characters from series 1. I assume therefore that we'll find out more about Lydia's background as well as Janine, Serena and the Commander. I think I read somewhere that a third series has been commissioned, which presumably means that poor June is going to keep almost escaping and then getting caught. Unless they execute her or send her to the Colonies once her baby is born, of course. Perhaps next time she'll have more sense than to show her face at a window! Though I'm guessing that it was the child who inadvertently gave her away.
The traumatised young man that Moira was helping said he'd automatically been made a Guardian. Is Nick a Guardian?
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Post by marion on Jun 4, 2018 16:47:14 GMT
I'm so upset by that ending! And yes, how stupid to stand by the window, and how careless of the safety of your rescuers, June. Bad form there I thought.
I thought Nick was referred to as an Eye.
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Post by carrie on Jun 4, 2018 18:21:47 GMT
Yes Nick's an Eye, employed as a driver but also spying on the household to make sure they are following the rules.
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Post by geometryman on Jun 5, 2018 9:46:38 GMT
I only remember Nick being an "Eye", but maybe he had been a Guardian earlier - do we know what he was doing before being assigned as Waterford's driver? Also, I'd assumed Guardian just meant one of the armed men constantly patrolling the streets, but perhaps it's a more general term, applied to anyone who is somehow involved in enforcing the regime under control of the Commanders.
It does look like the activity in The Colonies is to do with recovering the land, "through the work of the Penitent" according to Aunt Lydia in the flashback scene of her giving handmaids a talk with slide show. Unless of course that was all a fabrication for propaganda purposes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 10:48:32 GMT
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Post by geometryman on Jun 5, 2018 11:23:37 GMT
Interesting, especially the amount of trouble they went to in creating the scenes.
I didn't realise that was Marisa Tomei playing the banished wife, who Emily poisoned while pretending to help her.
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Post by pearl06 on Jun 25, 2018 9:14:43 GMT
Things are happening in this last episode. Poor Nick! A hole in the sheet?  |
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Post by marion on Jun 25, 2018 12:26:23 GMT
Isn't the hole in the sheet actually true in some extreme form of Judaism or perhaps Mormonism, or is that just a myth? I was surprised Nick didn't say anything to his wife about her being so young when he was trying to avoid sleeping with her.
I was also surprised Ofglen could get hold of a remote detonator, let alone all the explosive needed to blow up the centre. The resistance has clearly upped its game as just moving letters seemed all but impossible last series!
I take it Serena Joy's infertility is down to the gunshot wound. But what puzzles me is why ALL the wives are sterile and only Handmaids (selected from the masses) are fertile. Is it some rather selective virus? I can't remember how (or indeed if) it was explained in the book but it seems odd not one wife can bear a child. Have I missed something?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2018 14:46:30 GMT
At the end of the book, there’s a section called “Historical Notes” which deals with people talking about the Gilead society and the time before it. There is not one single reason given for the infertility, but a list of mostly environmental factors that resulted in a marked increase in both sterility and fetal/neonatal mortality.
The primary cause seems to have been pollution - either through toxic chemicals or radiation. The other proposed causes varied from birth control, STDs, to pesticides.
There was also speculation that the Commanders may have come in contact with a sterility-inducing virus, an experiment which was abandoned early on because they thought it was uncontrollable.
Note: In the universe of the book, only one in four pregnancies was successful due to such omnipresent pollution.
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Post by cakewalk on Jun 25, 2018 16:57:10 GMT
Love the name of the University - which I presume, translated means 'Don't have any of it' (ie if said with a Scottish accent!)  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2018 17:10:10 GMT
The actual pun is 'Deny none of it'.
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Post by cakewalk on Jun 25, 2018 17:59:14 GMT
The actual pun is 'Deny none of it'. Ah ... fair enough. I think I prefer mine though! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2018 18:11:42 GMT
The actual pun is 'Deny none of it'. Ah ... fair enough. I think I prefer mine though! So do I. |
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Post by cakewalk on Jun 25, 2018 21:04:28 GMT
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Anymore to come?
