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So in TT they dont show the grocery store system but are able to get flowers and desserts etc, in thehandmaidstale even the high commander's family used a token system for food. I know theres a time skip between the two, but does this mean Giliad somehow fixed the mini food crisis? Was there ever a food crisis or why else would they use tokens? and what changed that made them stop using tokens?
Side question if anyone knows:
is TT showing the very first couple of underage marriages? Because all the commanders that are already married have normal aged wives, except for commander Judd and wife Penny whose house the plums visited around the bus attack. So does this make Penny one of the first few wives that came out of the schooling and was 100% raised to be this way and is TRUSTED enough to be high commanders wife (she started giliad school very young) Im bad at math and I also don't know when the schooling was established enough to begin sending out "wives" that are 100% brainwashed, like if a girl was 12 at the start of Giliad schooling, by 13/14 would she be brainwashed enough to be the wife of a high commander? That seems pretty risky for Giliad to do if the girl grew up in the "before world" for 12 years. And if they weren't sending out wives that were only in Giliad school for a short amount of time, then what happened to those girls? Handmaids because they weren't compliant or trusted enough? Or is this just an inconsistency? Because seriously if I was 12 and went to Giliad school for a year or two I would attack my commander husband the first chance I got especially if hes old af like boy bye😂

i liked the story line until >!garth marries becca even though she murdered her father. he even says ‘no one would understand’. the eyes are not dumb they are probably gonna watch them closely and maybe even wire the house. i cant see how someone so committed to bringing down gilead would expose himself like that. surely mayday would consider him burned. if the writers really wanted to keep becca alive and not a handmaid there are many different things that could of happened. 1. marry her off the maddox he seems like he would not care. 2. make her an aunt. 3. make her a martha. 4. make her an econo wife they likely wouldnt know what happened. 5. send her to marry some commander in the colonies they seem desperate. 6. send her to work in the colonies. 7. send her to that place that lydia sends i forgot who to.!< the whole story line is now weird and seems poorly written. if you have a different opinion please let me know because i loved the show and would like to want to watch season 2. now i find the show cringey and cant even bring myself to rewatch season 1.

I've never been on this subreddit before so I didn't know what flair to use and I don't know if this topic has been discussed because but I just wanted to say it and complain about the writing of the TV show.

I was so confused as to if I missed something with the imprinted chips with information in Daisy specifically as she was baby Nicole supposed to be transferred to the spy/Aunt Lydia in the TV show but it turns out that Mayday just sent a random teenager with no training into Gilead to "be a sponge" and report back information. A highly organised spy organisation would not do that as they already have loads of agents in Gilead to do that exact thing. And if they wanted someone to infiltrate as a Pearl Girl to gather information on elite schools that other Gilead-allocated categories of people cannot access, there is no way they would exploit a young girl to do that (which Gilead is already doing to a much great extent so why would they do the same thing at any extent?) - they could have trained a teenager who actually wanted to do it and not just send in a traumatised orphan. It doesn't make any sense because sending in someone they have no characeristic information on except that Gilead killed her parents and the country wants her back holds huge risks for her messing up their organisation. They had no personal checks on whether she could realistically do it, nothing. And she couldn't - she messed up and pretended that she was a victim of Dr Grove which was reckless as it could have exposed her cover if they found out she was lying. Spies that do impulsive stuff that are liabilities and I don't understand the logic the tv writers thinking that the people watching won't notice that this key plot point doesn't make any sense.

The fact that Daisy wasn't Nicole because she was the same age as Agnes also took away from the sister plot in the books.

And the conversation between Aunt Lydia and Vidala didn't make sense to me either. Her asking why she never liked her just felt like there was not enough build-up and that whole interaction just felt contrived to me. And Aunt Lydia saying, "One thing I can say about her is that she never gave up and neither will we" doesn't make sense either. Why would she want June's daughter to think well of her?

I was a bit disappointed with the lack of mentioning of Agnes' first adoptive mother because she had such a connection with her in the book. It was one of the few things about that novel that felt real to me (the Handmaid's Tale felt totally real but its sequel, not so much), like the prayers she taught her that Agnes was confused about. You could only see the resentment Agnes had for Paula in the TV show, not the love and grief she had for her first adoptive mother. It could have added a layer beneath the way Agnes interacts with the Gilead world as there is already something that has cracked the supposed normality that the its government is trying to reinforce. In the TV show, Agnes' curiousity about the outside world when she showed Daisy what she collected, could have also been deepened.

I don't understand why Agnes kissed Becka back. Also didn't make any sense because she was in love with Garth which we saw in throughout the series and the scene just before that when she said that it was so difficult for her to ask him to marry Becka so her friend wouldn't be a fallen woman. On top of that, Gilead's extremist Christian teachings would have hammered into Agnes that homosexuality is a sin so even though all of them had broken Gilead rules, it doesn't make sense for her to have no reaction to her friend trying to kiss her and even kissing her friend back when she supposedly doesn't have any feelings for her and has feelings for Garth? Maybe I'm just being dumb with this specific paragraph but I don't understand.

That conversation with Daisy and Agnes on the stairs about June didn't make much sense either. Why would you say that sort of thing in Gilead in such a public place on the staircases of the school where anyone could hear you? Other times in the show, the girl group went to the bathroom or places like that to discuss topics that they could get in trouble for.

Yeah, this stuff kind of ruined it for me...