ghostrunner wrote:Freed Roger wrote:Into season 3 of Handmaid's tale and the implausibility is getting burdensome.
I think it's just inherently very implausible and it's hard to maintain that over 3+ seasons. It's a world where - even ignoring everything else - men have taken sports away from themselves, so it's not going to stand up to a lot of scrutiny. Just have to take the fictional world as it is. Women could easily be repressed in this way, but no way would men agree to making themselves so miserable.
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The implausible world I'm generally ok with - they stay within their constraints, save for the timeline. For example, the pre-Gilead world,wasn't that long ago. Thus Hannah has only aged a precious few years, but the storyline makes it seem like Gilead has been established for decades with it's principles and rules. There was an Offred before June.
The characters are doing more and more things that seem out of character for me. I know, they intentionally display the duality of peoples personalities -how people can be incredibly cruel, and also kind at times. The climactic jams in story, they resort to thin plot conveniences to get them out of it.
The Nick character's ability to move freely in the story line doesn't make sense. He's a weak link in the acting IMO. He can bang the commander's handmaid and everybody knows it, as long as he opens car doors for them. Sure, they are supposed to have leverages in this authoritarian society, but his superpowers don't make sense to me. What happened to him at that house (before the baby was born)?