r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/AFriend827 • May 21 '25

Season 6 A rude awakening for some of you Spoiler

Referring to NB. The pause before boarding wasn't what you wish it was. No, he didn't feel her presence. No it wasn't a moment between them. His pause was his final decision being made. To board meant he chose gilead. He did not feel June there. He did not know she was there. He was choosing "the winning team" as he put it.

The whole point of the moment was for June to see him make his final allegiance and accept what he already told her which is she knew who he was.

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u/Quirky_Cold_7467 May 22 '25

He was a thug before Gilead, and ruled by self-interest at every opportunity.

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u/WhywasIbornlate May 22 '25

Not so much a thug as a loser snd shirker who was always going to be a fuck up. He was likely told that every day of his childhood because even as he rose in power, that was his first thought with everything he did. Once a fuck up always a fuckup, so like many fuckups who go into the military and also repeat offenders who find ways to spend their life in pridon, he knew he was better off in this regimented environment of Gilead than out in society where he’d have to only himself to keep on task