#nickandjunesource

I've been reading the various posts by Osblaine fans all day today. Kindred spirits all of you. You have my heart.❤️

The common denominator i found today is that everyone was okay with Nick not having a fairytale ending as long as they could keep the essence of him alive. If they could have just done justice to who he was we would have lived with it. Some of us just wanted him to have a pasta date in peace or just hold his daughter again. It really wasn't too much to ask really. The writers want us to believe that a dystopian political drama talking about feminism can't possibly give us that. Utter bullshit. It's just bad writing by a bunch of people who were never invested in their own show.

I remember being invested in another show, also six seasons long a couple of years ago. It's of course a completely different genre but i speak of it now because i remember how much respect the creators had for the fans of the main couple of this show. The show is called Lucifer and the ship was Chloe and Lucifer - shipname Deckerstar.

In their last season they were faced with the moral dilemma of having the main leads end up together. I won't spoil it for people who want to see it but essentially being together would mean one of the main lead dies leaving behind a kid. Going into the finale everyone thought they would ruin it. Guys I can't even tell you how well they handled it. With so much grace and without ever disrespecting the characters or what made them imperfectly perfect. I remember the writers saying that they want this season to showcase the growth of the main lead since season 1. Imagine that. One of them did die in the future arc and the main leads were separated for a long time. It was bittersweet but i don't think a single fan finished that show feeling disserviced.

Point being if you care about your story and the characters, you build your script and story to keep their essence alive and to accomodate the fans who supported you.

Nick and June

At some point someone in the writers room went "Yeah let's make it big! Let's show her staring at the sky while the plane blows up. Also let's make the last shot of a beloved character be him siding and sitting with a bunch of commanders so they know he's bad. Otherwise they may think he's a victim".

Spoilers ahead......At this point spoil yourself. There's nothing left to look forward to.

I don't even know where to begin. I'm writing this to vent. I'm writing because this was a devastating episode for long time fans of this show and i just need to talk about it.

As i saw this episode i kept thinking about how Elisabeth Moss really said record yourself as you watch the last scene with so much glee. Is she really that clueless or just sadistic?

It feels like every interview she has ever given where she spoke about Nick was to gaslight us into thinking she feels the way we do about these two characters but really she was just playing with our feelings. I WISH i had recorded my reaction to the finale because it was mainly just me saying Fuck you to her.

She said during the episode that her god is the god of love. She lied. Tried to lure us into thinking that means something. She said I love you to the handmaids, trying to throw us off into thinking this epsiode is the one where she will choose love. This was all done on purpose. To set us up. Which is just cruel. Her god is the god of wrath.

To say that Serena is one of them now because she gave up one measly piece of intelligence six seasons in when Nick has given her significantly more throughout this journey is undoing the work of all these seasons. Can't they see this? She says at one point that she thought Serena has changed. When did she see this? When she kept going back to Gilead to rise up in power time and again. Giving up amnesty, everything Tuello offered. And the minute the conversation between Serena and June turned to what she has done to bring up Gilead June gladly says let's not talk about it. Why? Why not talk about her wrongs? Because it doesn't have the shock value for the social media pages to see a villain confront her wrongdoings. It's more jarring to see the good guy go bad.

To say bravery looks good on Lawrence while knowing what was about to happen. They chose to write this dialogue on the back of every brave thing Nick has ever done- disregarding him and all those instances that made us love this character. Again because Lawrence made one good decision in three seasons.

Now to talk about the most painful scene of this episode. It was cruel and i guess what Moss wanted most of all- Shocking. Maybe she knew the script this season was so bad that this is what would get us to watch. I wish she knew we would have watched anyway. For Nick. For the rebellion (that falls flat on the face by the way because it's so poorly written).

The slow motion to show Nick, the fake tears on her part. Making him stop on the steps and doing nothing. She knew she was killing us along with Nick and reveled in it as a director. Completely foregoing everything we loved about June.

How could she not stand up? How could she not at the very least give him the choice to get on that plane? Just a nod, a signal, anything...Didn't he deserve that much after everything? Even if he did choose to get on the plane, he would never tell on her to those on board. He would die even as he made the wrong choice. I know this. Because that's the Nick you showed us for all these years.

I would take a Nick who gives up a half assed plan to save June than a June who doesn't even blink as she watches Nick go up on that plane. They really want us to think that SHE has the moral high ground here?!

Adding that line for Nick, saying that she told him to leave time and again...when? I'll tell you when- it never happened. This is your last ditch attempt to make us believe he's a whole different person. Because you spent the last few seasons convincing us he was forced to stay in Gilead and now you changed your mind. And if he is to be the biggest villain on the show then why torture us by having him ask Lawrence if she was okay at the end? Just to devastate us and play with our feelings. To make us watch for that tiny morsel. Forget making something authentic for the audience that has been loyal to you for so long. Just horrific- the way this was handled!

I thought it was a basic caveat when making a multi season TV show that the last season is for tying loose ends. That's when the characters you've spent five seasons and 7 years fleshing out get the ending they deserve.

Instead what the writers chose to give us this season is a completely new Mayday/revolution ready aunt that had me scratching my head wondering if i missed her in my million re-watches. No backstory, nothing. Literally a useless plot device.

I'm supposed to believe we had a secret aunt in hiding all this time who's just lying in wait for what? A shotgun commander wedding?!

You could have made the effort to flesh out roles for allies you've built up over five seasons (hint hint- it's Nick). People we care about. People who's stories we know. Clearly sneaking June and Moira across the border did not require an aunt to open car doors. They've been in and out of Gilead the past few episodes like it's cake walk.

Why introduce new characters now at the tail end? You could easily have had Nick confide in June that he doesn't want to do this anymore and have her convince him to join the revolution more actively. Then go for wedding massacre. Or maybe have Rita call him out for not being able to get her family out making him question his actions as they pertain only to June. Or even Janine could have been made a pressure point to get him to turn. Instead Janine is brutalised, Nick is made a villain and some random aunt is telling us - LET THE REVOLUTION BEGIN. Come on.

So accurate!😂