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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > The Handmaids Tale : Emotional Devastation on a Weekly Basis
 
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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011

Pellisworth posted:


edit: unrelated, do the Commanders and their Wives not have sex, ever? Is their society operating on a strict "sex is for procreation" rule and so the infertile Wives can't have sex?

Best to not waste all that precious sperm

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011

Vegetable posted:


And the cutting to flashbacks. Oh god the flashbacks. It's just the prestige TV thing to do these days.

It was also a thing that the book did.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




 Sometimes I think you absolutely need to be heavy-handed to make people understand that women are not baby-making machines:
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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011

flashy_mcflash posted:


While I tend to agree with this more often than not, all the Canada stuff, including Luke, is also not part of her tale at this point and certainly nothing she's privy to either. If they went out of their way to depict Canada's refugee/immigration policy (which I found too trite and rosy by half - "here's a health card and free money") they could depict more of the coup and the reactions to the plummeting birth rate in other countries.

Why? How this affects people personally is way more engaging than the political machinations.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011

Pac-Manioc Root posted:


Now, how Canada remained a, more or less "normal developed" country when we know Mexico and the US are just disasters is certainly an unanswered question, but it invites any number of reasonably plausible explanations.

The most likely explanation: Canada was more or less "normal developed" allready which made it easier to deal with the crisis.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011

Rap Record Hoarder posted:


They're also pretty inconsistent with how strictly Offred is held to the handmaid rules inside or outside the Waterford residence but that just might be sloppy mistakes or things done for plot convenience.

It's more that there hasn't been a single theocracy where everyone obeyed the rules perfectly.

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