The Handmaid's Tale - Тема III - "Under His Eye!"

Фред ще си го получи, но и Серена трябва да го отнесе, тя е не по-малко виновна от мъжа си, а накрая и го предаде по много долен начин. И не мога да разбера какви илюзии храни към Никол? Побъркана жена.
Гилеад много слаби и страхливи ги изкарват. А и много глупави ги изкарват управляващите. Лоурън ги наричаше някакви дечица дето си играят с оръжия или нещо такова. Толкова несериозно вече взе да става, че не знам. Това е бившето САЩ. Кажете ми кога ще се случи да им отвличат водещи фигури в политиката и тия да стоят със скръстени ръце. И то канадците, хахаха.
Планът с измъкването на толкова много деца също е нереален особено в този момент, когато всички са на щрек. И ще има много косвени жертви според мен. Всичките Марти ще увиснат на въжето. Но признавам, че ако планът се осъществи ще е грандиозен удар върху престижа на Гилеад.
Разочарован съм от Джун и постъпката и. Елинор не бе виновна с нищо и за никого. Джун бавно но славно се превръща в чудовище и като цяло доста ме отблъсква този сезон.

Something interesting to think about: Commander Lawrence made it very, very clear that he is a utilitarian. And he stressed the importance of being utilitarian to June early this season, when he made her pick which Marthas lived, emphasizing that while the act of choosing who lives and who dies seems morally unjust on the surface, it was important for her to see the opportunity in it, because she couldn't save everyone, but she could make a selection that, in turn, could benefit many, many more people.
His interest in Darwin's book near the beginning of the season, in addition to his comment about only saving Emily because she  was brilliant, suggests that he views humankind as stalled in their evolution: in particular, the book shown is one in which Darwin exposed some very misogynistic views about the weakness of women, and how they've ceased to evolve. We can gather that his involvement in Gilead's creation had nothing to do with religion, or the appeal of sexual slavery, but was likely because of his belief that putting women under strain would cause them to grow and evolve.
So where this gets interesting, of course, is Eleanor. He loved his wife dearly, but, she represents a lot of things that he appears to directly oppose. As he put it last episode, "She was always so fragile." She was mentally ill, she cracked under strain, she was a liability to a cause that would provide a better outcome for the many rather than the few, because she was constantly at risk of revealing sensitive information from the resistance she was privy to. She was living proof for him, had he been more self-aware, of the EXACT flaws in the Darwinian rhetoric he supported, and was his great hypocrisy to his utilitarian views.
June, this last episode, made a decision that one could argue Commander Lawrence had set her up to make. She reacted to the situation at hand in the exact way he attempted to groom her to earlier on. She reacted with the same mentality that Lawrence used to justify Gilead, and every other questionable decision he's made. She sacrificed the one for the many, because she could not get everyone out alive, but she could make a selection that, in turn, could benefit many more people.
I don't think there was meant to be a conclusive answer on whether what she did the right thing or not, because there isn't one. It's a debate as old as time. We were meant to be uncomfortable, and to examine this philosophical question from every angle, and I think it's meant to show us more about ourselves than any fictional character.
"Better never means better for everyone... it always means worse for some."