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I get it. It is not my temperament but I get someone crying in this situation - although I wonder why one side, usually the male figure, has to "surprise" the other, instead of this being a mutually agreed upon decision. What I criticize is that the vast majority of the TV proposals has to be this way, instead of a normal mutual decision between two adults. Grand gestures ring a bit untrue to me. But that's just me

Why do women in 99% of shows cry when a man proposes. Such a cliche, so boring. Are these people even adults. Such a low self esteem message it sends, like OMG, someone loves me and wants to marry me! The show messed up so much with the original premise of the book, anything goes as far as New Bethlehem is concerned. They also messed up with the privileges versus how people might feel. The mother of the guy in the hospital, she is old enough to have had a life before Gilead, and I get it that she relies on whatever privileges she might have, but I little nuance would go a long way to make things a little less awful. She could be shown as conflicted, despite the privileges, it is because of the need to quash dissent that almost killed her son, and this is a result of the authoritarianism of the place. But no. She still praises the system. The writers don't understand nuance, they are not capable of write anything good, really. It is like their dream job is to write for Marvel or whatever hero comics studio, but they never got the job. So they turned June into this impossibly annoying super hero who leaves corpses behind wherever she goes, and not really enemies corpses. The Testaments possible spoiler

Peeve: No June "Her and I" didn't go through a lot together. Janine and you did. She and you did.

Janine was never really "crazy". She is - arguably - the only character that shows what real trauma is Maybe a book related spoiler

I noticed that too. Not so much about Angela, I had forgotten about her, really. But I noticed that Nichole/Holly looked younger than I remember from the previous season. I thought she was already walking, for one thing

That would be something reasonable and logic but the writers, more than putting themselves in a corner, decided that the audience does not like to think, or cannot have a critical view of what they write, that they can just throw anything at us and everyone will be happy with whatever absurd statement is made based on nothing that really happened in the previous seasons, or that make any sense anywhere, in the history of things that make sense

Why is Margaret Atwood insisting on something she has no part on? This is strange. She apparently praised the butchery of her excellent book but has an issue with the name of a character that is not in it?

Nichole or Holly?

cc says it is Robby

That's one thing that attracts me to the show. This is what happens. People go tho the ER, they might see different doctors, they might be there when there is a change in shifts and they never see the doctors again because they are either discharged or admitted. In some public hospitals they might stay there for days but next season will not be the next day.

But she took Nichole away from her, didn't she? Wasn't Nichole claimed by Serena and Fred as theirs? Serena was part of the rape ritual. June might be conflicted, I have a hard time believing that she LIKES Serena

I don't really think the writing is comparable to the one for the Santos character. I think it is to make Robby's day even shittier. I do think that trauma or not, closeness or not, it goes to the kid's personality. It is impossible to compare and rate trauma by which one is worse than the other but I have met people going through terrible trauma that didn't lash out at the perceived culprit, but shut down completely. Which brings me back - again, sorry - the fact that Jake lashing out was just a hook to add to Robby's storyline. I though the story with the kid who had a eliminate list was more well developed - maybe because it held on itself while Jake's story was a little detail in a big event - because I could actually see the kid going from angry to sad, to combative, to really listening and accepting help. Same age, different personalities. About the same time spent in the ER too. Also a trauma. That kid would, and was, lashing out at anyone who came to the door.

The episode was very good on another level: the way the bathroom looked like after a few hours of complete chaos. When Samira was in the bathroom crying there were smudges of blood everywhere people touched, the paper towel rack was open and nearly empty, there was paper with blood on the floor. I like when they pay attention to details that look so real.

While your statement is factual, the point made is that Jake is not a "small child". He is legally, child, brain is not fully developed. But he can drive, he got condoms from different people, he was not treated like a little kid at all. On the contrary, he was treated as a responsible young man who can make smart decisions. As for the psychology, in a situation like a mass shooting, all theory goes out the window. I can understand Jake being upset and even lash out at any doctor who could not save his girlfriend but he had one hour (I know, not a lot) to sit there, he was with his mom, everyone was giving him all the love. It could have been that he refused to talk, turn his back, but not bring out the first moment of shock and grief back. And once again, while I think the writing was a bit over the top, I am pretty sure it was there to put more of the day stress on Robby's shoulders. The story was about Robby, the consequences of everything on him, on that specific day, and it worked to emphasize the burden he had carried all day, and how he could not really solve anything, driving him to a short moment of contemplative desperation. As long as we don't have to revisit this story, I am fine with it.

Actually, what determines that is each person's opinion about the situation based on what we know. And my opinion differs. I am also ok never knowing what happens the next day or months. I hope next season, or season, are original and that there is no revisiting or remembering that one day, as tragic as it was.