#biddies

This is absolutely valid.

Big mood.

Jut and Dwae say c'mere baby.

No i don't mind at all!!!

THOSE BIDDIES PRODUCE MILK THAT COULD FEED A WHOLE COUNTRY.

LET ME JUST-

The bond was my main reason for sticking with season 2 because I was curious how that would turn out. So many possibilities.

Like: how much of Alder's knowledge can Tally access, can she control gaining access (with lucid dreaming/meditation for example, letting her call up those memories she really wants to see) because she is a thinker?

I know exactly what I would have done in Tally's place: treated Alder like a huge library with confidential information. Apparently Alder does not notice the breach, so.. Tally wants truth? Well she should actively look for it. She would probably find out how complicated and fucked up the military (and life) is.

Honestly if someone is 300 years old and in the military, there will be a LOT of shit, misdeeds, whatnot. And Alder will have the experience to make all the shit go away, she will have done so many times before if she is still on top now - which leads me to:

Alder should have totally memory-wiped Tally as soon as soon as she knew Tally was dreaming about Alder's Nicte-history. Or she should have emotionally manipulated Tally or threatened her where it hurts. Then Tally's defiance would have actually been an act of valour.

My main complaint is really that Tally could have stumbled over an old buried diary she perceived with her Thinking skills and read about Nicte there. This would have led to the exact same outcome in 2x09. In terms of the plot her being biddied and de-biddied was really fairly irrelevant except for the emotional fragility scene in 2x01. (You can absolutely fantasize about Alder in 2x08 for whatever reason. Doesn't Tally have a bit of an authority and military kink anyways?)

Alder saying: "it [the feelings of loss over the severed bond] will pass" - and us of course hoping that it would be complicated and gradual - was entirely accurate, it was pretty much gone after a night?

A more emotionally compromised Tally would have told Alder immediately about her nightmare and the centipede injury - that was even that very same night - and Tally's just like, yeah, not great but whatever. And then the dreams are only adressed with Alder when she dreams of Nicte?

A lot of the fanfiction out there deals with this much more thoroughly.

I love a lot of the ideas in MFS but man they are sometimes not fleshed out in the way they deserve. I absolutely partially blame the restrictions of the TV format, who knows how different (i.e. much longer and detailed) Eliot's book series would have been.