22|| she/her

The Testaments S01E09 "Marat Sade"

"She's one of the bravest people I've ever met. She's beautiful and kind. She thinks she's funny, but she's not so much, actually. She's just a really good person. She's the one that we all want to be like, you know?" - Daisy, 1x10

thinking about how perceptive agnes was here. it made me think of that scene from before coming to gilead when daisy at first dismisses the gilead girls as being stupid, and she had to be warned not to underestimate their intelligence. we see that here. i really love that throughout the show we got to see girls and women in these religiously oppressive places be humanized in a way. even daisy’s comment in the scene where she went to agnes’ room about them not needing personalities (though true, they don’t need personalities since they’re just functionally there to be married off and make babies) did not change the fact that indeed these girls still do have them. we see that later when daisy describes the girls to june, but we also see it throughout the show through their little quips and interactions with each other. they may be deeply indoctrinated but that does not mean they’re any less intelligent and capable humans with their own individual personalities and desires. we also see daisy grow a lot too as she goes from seeing them as silly little girls who cant read and write to seeing their full power and potential in that last letter she wrote to june.

The Testaments S01E08 Broken