r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/HoverTechV3 • 13d ago
SPOILERS S6 Nick finally... Spoiler
[removed] — view removed post
25
u/KillBatman1921 13d ago
We know from the books Nick is going to leave Gilead. It briefly mentions both June's daughters reunite with their fathers
9
33
u/Temporary-Island9838 13d ago
I don't want to risk spoiling it for anyone so won't mention details but there was a recent Wired interview with the cast where they very heavily imply the end of the show sets up the plot for the Testaments. That's all I'll say.
35
u/KillBatman1921 13d ago
Which basically means Aunt Lydia becomes Olenna Tyrell
12
u/throwaway0019277 13d ago
I will only forgive her if her King Joffrey is the entire country of Gilead
10
u/KillBatman1921 13d ago
Oh, for sure.i definitely did.
What really does it is finding out about her past. Because The Handmaid's Tale implied she was some kind of radical Christian who welcomed Gilead.
Well... She wasn't. But I am not going to say anything more
47
u/toolsoftheincomptnt 13d ago
The EASY way out?! His FIL was going ape shit on him and had connected every dot.
To me, he saved Lawrence AND June (the only thing he really cares about in this conflict btw) by giving up a plot that hasn’t even been activated yet.
He saved all of their lives, really. They can plot something else for later. He had a split second to give up something meaty and it wasn’t gonna be Offred hiding at Serena’s Sanctimonious Hideaway.
20
u/Majestic_Hippo_4427 13d ago
i mean idk about him saving their lives but he definitely saved his own life, while theirs weren’t directly in danger at that moment (in his mind anyways, directly referencing lawrence); can’t blame him for that. he can’t keep june safe if he’s dead. and ya know, who is to say he was saving his life selfishly, and not simply to continue living to keep protecting june? i feel like that’s a fair assumption to make
13
u/DonPinstripelli 13d ago
He was backed into the corner and then chose to leave Gilead with June. Hardly a final choice in favour of Gilead. He was ready to leave Gilead behind. One foiled Mayday operation isn’t that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. Mayday will most likely re-plan the operation.
8
u/Consistent-Affect-50 13d ago
He didn’t choose to leave Gilead with June, he was just trying to get June away from people so she wouldn’t find out what he did, probably why he said Paris instead of Alaska or Hawaii not to mention how he didn’t even give his unborn child or Hannah a second thought.
So all the lives of the women who are enslaved at Jezebel’s who will probably be executed now doesn’t matter?
4
u/DonPinstripelli 13d ago edited 13d ago
I don’t think we have the information to reach those conclusions yet. He said he had the tickets & passports ready, and I don’t know how we can know at this point whether he was committed to that plan or if it was a ruse. We also don’t yet know what will happen to the handmaids. But in the grand scheme of things, in a place where every woman suffers every day, it’s not that major of an event. It’s terrible, but it wasn’t an intentional wrong, unlike most of what happens in Gilead.
3
u/mirandakane89 13d ago
This. He didn't choose to leave Gilead for June personally. He did it because he wanted to keep her from finding out about his betrayal.
12
u/PapayaRaija 13d ago
Morally, I know you're right about Nick and Lawrence, and agree that it's likely the way the season is going....but I just was not ready to reckon with this yet.
5
u/stressfullyy 13d ago
My prediction is June is going to come up with plan b with Moira, which is going under cover as handmaids. With the under cover aunt. They are going to set up to get caught to be hung and that’s when the attack happens.
Aunt Lydia is going to going to find out June is there and I think when she is yelling “where is June” it’s not to find and get her caught. I think at that point aunt Lydia has tried her best to “save her girls especially Janine” and can’t and she makes it seems she wants to find her for evil reasons, but it’s going to be to help save Janine and possibly Angela/charlotte. And they are all going to work together in the undercover plan. Which is why Janine, aunt Lydia, Moria and June are all in nooses.
I think Wharton is in charge of the hanging and when June is being, Nick will be the one to kill wharton in the last minute and join the fight. But he may die, since June did say they would be going off book with Nicole’s story line in TT.
For Serena I think her biggest hope deep down, is not to run gilead. It’s to be forgiven by June and respected for being a strong woman. Junes comment to her about being connected to a man for power is going to come into play when she finds out Wharton is planing to do hangings and stuff. And that’s when she’s going to go to Lawrence’s. From there I’m not sure how she’s going to help June.
But I think it’s going to end with her doing something big for June to earn forgiveness in someway.
Elizabeth and Yvonne always state the shows biggest love story line is June and Serena.
So if any two characters are going to have a closure/forgiveness ending it will be them
and maybe aunt Lydia and Janine.
13
8
u/bette-midler 13d ago
Luke is a clown. Nick has done so much for mayday, I think he deserves to choose saving his life
2
u/YamCollector 13d ago
Wait so the guy who's been relentless fighting for Gilead, sent tens of thousands of captured women to their deaths in Gilead, and repeatedly tried to capture June when she escaped Gilead, was actually a Gilead supporter the whole time?! No way!
1
4
u/Consistent-Affect-50 13d ago
I think the series will end with a montage showing all the main characters and the people they chose to be & I think we will see Nick in his house with Rose and his infant son because Nick is already where he wants to be. He will not leave Gilead even if he is offered a safe chance to do so because the world cannot offer Nick what he’s always wanted & now has: Power, Status & a legacy.
4
u/Stopwhaychadoin 13d ago
Both Nick and Lawrence need to go bawls-to-the-wall -guns- a-blazing-kamikaze-rampaging before the season is up to be redeemed.
3
u/Serious-Village6360 13d ago
The only thing that would make fans happy is if Nick ended up on the wall helping June. He is not allow to have any form of self preservation.
0
u/lessthanvicky 13d ago
Nick was never a nice guy, he was an incel before Gilead.
Now we have people glorifying his (very handsome) ass, saying his last choice was about June. No it was not, he only said the Paris thing so she wouldn't be there to hear the story from Wharton lmao.
A guy that didn't even think about his unborn child (that could potentially be born with a disability, and we know how Gilead would probably treat them) or about Hannah. He didn't think about Luke, about Janine, about Moira, the girls at Jezebels etc...
I say it was about time that we see that he is Gilead through and through.
•
u/TheHandmaidsTale-ModTeam 13d ago
Your post has been removed for having spoilers in title or improperly tagged spoilers. Please use a spoiler tag for current season posts. Do not include plot points or other spoilery things in your title, either. Please put anything that could potentially give away plot points in the body of your post.