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thenothlng · 8 months
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serenagaywaterford · 5 years
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Omg your tags are everything 🤣 Personally, I like Luke; we don’t see him enough that it feels like he’s a focal point over the women, but I do like checking in with him. As for Lawrence, I just like the actor lmao But yeah, fuck Nick. He’s not attractive, he’s so boring, he doesn’t emote, and he served his purpose so just go away already cause he’s taking up valuable time that could be spent on the ladies
:DDD You cannot imagine my sheer joy seeing your post! It’s quite a thing to just come out and say it in the tags on this hellsite ;) (I’m not that brave!)
Yeah, I do like Luke in the sense that I understand his purpose, and he is a necessary character (at this point still), and that he’s just such a perfect example of how and why “good” men let and continue to let Gilead happen. And his personal story is definitely sidelined enough that you’re totally right, he doesn’t take anything away from the women who the story is really about. (Although I think 1x07 is one of the worst, most pointless episodes of the whole series. And I say that as someone who is constantly complaining that THT isn’t worldbuilding outside Gilead enough, lol. I just don’t think we needed an entire filler episode to show that there’s some people (1 man, 2 men? Honestly I’d don’t remember much lol) who don’t agree with Gilead and there’s some vaguely organised resistance/escape route/“railroad”. [Please don’t make me call it by it’s name! lol])
Lawrence is interesting in the sense that he’s obviously got a purpose to the larger narrative, and he’s gonna play a decent role in the resistance. But my issue is just that I don’t want them to waste like a whole episode or even half-episode giving us flashbacks and background on him? I mean, I don’t think we need that. We know he is a war criminal; I don’t really care how he got there? (I’d honestly be more interested in Fred if we’re going to learn about why powerful men decided that was the route they wanted to go. That said, I don’t care about Fred’s backstory much at all unless it helps to illuminate Serena’s.) To me it seems fairly obvious? (Aunt Lydia and Serena on the other hand, now there are stories to be told that are more relevant to the themes of the show, imo anyway.) Not to mention the actual current plot(s) that need to be developed. The men are effective characters when used to expand and develop the female ones. Like, character props lol. Just on their own merits? Personally, I’m not all that interested. I can watch any other (dystopian) TV show (or the news or history channel lol) for man stories. I know people disagree so this is just my own perspective and interests in terms of THT.
N*ck tho… (Welcome to my world of unnecessary censorship!) Absolutely everything you said, I 1000% agree with. He’s completely redundant at this point in the series. He brings nothing to the show either as a character or actor, unless you’re a N*ck fangirl or one of those crazy N/J shippers that has made the entire show about him (and them, because it’s him). [Yes, I understand the irony of me talking shit about other shippers, when half my THT content is a non-canon problematic af f/f ship, lol.] There are just so many stories to tell about Handmaids, Marthas, Aunts, Econowomen/girls, and I suppose Wives (though those seem fairly obvious lol) that I’d rather not have to sit through 10 minutes per episode wasted on N*ck brooding (if Mingella could act, that is), or N*ck/June making goo-goo eyes at each other with absolutely the bare minimum of chemistry. (Poor Moss, tbh. It must be very difficult to have to carry 100% of every scene with him on her shoulders. She does her best. Honestly, if it wasn’t for her incredible screen presence, that important part of June’s story would have been a complete and utter flop cos he certainly wasn’t selling it.) And I’m not even gonna touch what a douche (or just not great) the character himself is, cos at this point I’ve been bitter enough, lol.
Frankly, I’d rather go to Subway and watch the guy there make me a sandwich. That has about as much entertainment value as uwu N*ck does to me at this point lol. ;) I’d get more out of that. Like, a somewhat appetizing sandwich.
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