I’m sure Eden wasn’t 100% happy to be ripped from her family to be assigned as a wife to an older guy, who’s in love with other woman either, so why is Nick so fucking mean to a literal fucking child, who doesn’t know any better and is 15?
I understand the love surrounding the “Expectant Parent” scene because I have the same love for it too. Amidst all the horror and terror of Gilead, June and Nick are excited to be parents of their child, in those few moments up the stairs, nothing else matters but their family. It’s sweet and heartbreaking and layered and just gets me in my Nick and June feels, I get that.
But another moment that I think was telling was how June accepts and seeks comfort from Nick after Hannah is taken away.
I think that’s important because in 2x09 there was this re-realization on Nick’s part that June has a husband and a daughter and a life unrelated to him, he’s confronted with that truth and then reminds June of that truth in the ending scene. I bring this up because I half-expected Nick to either give June her space to grieve after Hannah is taken away from her again or I half-expected him to touch her only for June to move away because she’s inconsolable, both of which would’ve been options that made sense and would’ve been more than fair but that’s not what happened. Instead she held onto him, let him hold onto her, they embraced and it was natural and it was intimate.
And I’m not trying to discount the scene being about Hannah and I’m not trying to discount June’s love for Luke (even though I personally don’t think the show did a very good job in establishing it) but I don’t think that Nick is an outlier, not after that scene.
also, my 21-year-old brother drinks regulary, smokes A LOT and lives from canned ravioli only while i do neiter of these things, drink water 24/7 and often get shit for buying so much fresh veggies (?? don’t ask me what’s the problem with that, money or something i guess though i buy them myself) and actually cook meals
but guess who gets concern trolled about their health every other day? :^)
as someone who comes from a family that hand washes all our dishes imagine my shock when I realized when white people complained about washing dishes they were really complaining about sticking some dishes in a machine
Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes? That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood. Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.
