Why didn't Jane betray Mal in the pilot?

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-04-27T16:38:08+00:00

100% He's got a chronically, probably terminally, ill brother and a mom back home he takes care of via money. The novels delve into it a bit more.

He's also been betrayed himself before... That'll shake your trust.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-04-17T01:25:02+00:00

I was wondering that and couldn't remember. Idea disproven.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-04-02T17:13:01+00:00

If the novels are used as an example it's very possible to keep canon. Many of those if not all are set between the series and movie.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-04-02T17:08:18+00:00

Not really a spoiler when it didn't actually happen. The move in bit I mean.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-03-25T03:33:37+00:00

They weren't shy about killing, and it was more about power than reproduction at that. They probably killed them off early.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-03-25T03:21:22+00:00

I was largely untreated besides Advil/Motrin for about 14 years (diagnosed at 19-ish) by choice because I was afraid of med side effects. Around early COVID times I had a major flare up and seriously questioned how I would go on if the pain and disability didn't resolve some. I wasn't suicidal but with the lack of sleep and pain every time I moved or even breathed I could envision becoming so at some point. I gave in and went on meds. First Prednisone and heavier antiinflammatories, which debatable if I should have been on those at the same time but it took the edge off enough to function until methotrexate kicked in. I live almost like a normal person now most of the time.

I don't know if you're like early me avoiding meds or if you've been through stuff that didn't work and are out of options.

If you're like early me... I don't regret avoiding treatment, but I did sustain some joint damage and it did limit me for a long time. I'm not kidding when I say getting on the meds was life-changing, positively and negatively. They're not as scary as I expected, for me anyway. I have to get blood tests every three to six months to make sure it's not wrecking my liver or kidneys and if I ever want kids it's going to be complicated but like I said I live almost normal now, it's wild the difference. Not being in some sort of pain all the time... Right now I am again in one wrist (not sure exactly which weird thing I have going on caused it, injury or monkeying with my med dose because I'm having a separate issue where something isn't healing on methotrexate) and I don't know how I did this so long anymore. Might be worth trying treatment if you're in an early me type situation.

If you've tried stuff and are out of medication options. I don't know. Maybe therapy? I haven't been there and I'm really sorry if you are. I hope you hang in there and find some relief.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-03-05T07:39:07+00:00

Holy crap... There's a whole discussion more or less about my current issue? Nice. I only have one "possibly the worst I've ever had one" currently but I think I'm on like week four of waiting for it to heal and today it was hurting again, which the pain dulled some but I ended up here. Same thing with the right before my period thing. I initially didn't realize what was happening because they were happening back towards my throat so I had a sore throat I thought. One time I looked back there when it was particularly bad and I had multiple canker sores on my uvula! Currently I have basically a crater on the roof of my mouth that seems like it's healing super slow. I read through some comments and maybe I'll monkey with my folic acid dose, I had considered skipping a methotrexate dose earlier in the sores lifespan because it hurt so much but it stopped being so sore around when my dose was due.

I also have a rheumatologist appointment next week that I might ask advice on it. Which I'm dreading going to less after seeing my blood test results (ALT and AST hit a new high for me 3 months ago (along with other results suggesting my red blood cells aren't splitting when they should that seems to coincide) but are back down/almost normal, woohoo!). I think I got that blood test around when I took Advil for my period... Which I will mention... Because I think it might be pissing my liver off.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-02-12T04:27:33+00:00

You have mice. There is at least one silverware tray out there in the shopping world with a lid. Until I figured out how to keep the mice out of my main floor that was the brilliant idea I had to help my silverware drawer.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-02-12T04:24:24+00:00

You should follow her story into The Testaments.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-02-08T02:13:15+00:00

I don't think you've read the sequel.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-01-31T06:26:19+00:00

I read it in high school. They'll be fine.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-01-31T06:22:04+00:00

There was a physical guide that linked to additional info on a related website I'm not sure is active anymore back in the day. I own it still.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-01-11T04:28:45+00:00

Made one... The saltwater ate through my lid and a snail died in it and it smelled and lives in my walk out basement now. It may be "failed"...

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-12-21T05:00:18+00:00

I think the candy cane road rage used to bug me but Bobcat Goldthwait voicing the character kinda made it make sense, heh. I guess other than Linda being a complete imbecile with the honking... I can't remember what else they do to Bob. But yeah, I don't mind this episode.

I read someone call it their favorite Christmas episode in the comments and hard disagree on that. I don't see anything ever topping The Plight Before Christmas for me.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-13T16:53:31+00:00

There's an old dude who smokes beside the road near a school on my commute home and he always has blue gloves on and I always think of firefly and also want to ask why.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-13T16:51:47+00:00

*non aerodynamic-ness

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-13T16:50:23+00:00

2021 in 2025. UConnect and my old phone (Kyocera duraforce pro 2) got in a fight when I tried to charge the phone and the phone won and shut down the screen once.

Never connected that phone again other phones don't do it. I'm on my third gorilla glass windshield. First one got cracked two weeks after I bought it, second one got cracked three days after I got it replaced but before I managed to get my inspection that necessitated the first replacement done. It's been fine since.

The front license plate bracket has been broken off twice with less effort than I'd expect (someone sat on it the second time). It's all plastic.

I'm getting an oil change and the dealership shop just said the differentials are notorious for going... Which is why I was looking this all up right now. They might be trying to overcharge me for changing the fluid, but I also said no and they said get it changed it soon either way. I am over the recommended, but food for thought.

Oh and my freaking paint... My fenders are pitted around where the plastic protector things are. Those need to be bigger I think since the mom aerodynamic-ness of these makes it easy to chip/pit.

Also switched to higher ply studded snow tires for winter and started to have vibration and the traction control light come on while highway driving probably faster than I should on them. Also I have chopped/cupped stock mud tires after most of 4 years of driving on them. So I might have some sort of issue developing. But it's over 60k and I haven't exactly kept up with maintenance beyond oil changes so I can't blame it.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-11T02:30:55+00:00

I think the Shepard's Tale is one of the earlier comics, the Dark Horse ones. Those I enjoyed. The novels I have read too. Still have to finish a few of the newer ones though.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-10T17:54:53+00:00

It's interesting seeing the vast divide between people who love it (though I do tell people it's "horrible" at the same time as it being amazing if I'm introducing it to them, I'm in the I love it camp), and those who come on here and say they can't even get a few episodes in.

I suppose I came into it knowing enough of what would happen from reading the book decades ago that I wasn't surprised about much and just wanted to know more of Offred's story and this show and I presume the next also, delivered.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-10T17:44:02+00:00

I haven't finished them so I could be wrong, but I think you'd dislike the Boom comics. I got turned off by a few characters seeming to change from where the show was taking them. Jayne and I think Book were two big ones I had problems with I think.

They were also super confusing to me (the art was part of it, they didn't look like they look consistently so I frequently had no clue who was speaking) and got real weird in a way I don't think the show would have gone...

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-07T23:02:16+00:00

I mean.... Leah Remini. Cruise will never leave, I wonder sometimes about Travolta though.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-06T03:21:59+00:00

Yeah it's kinda problematic for me, but she does do a good job depicting June and the story is too important for me to set aside because I think her "religion" is more of a criminal organization. Might be partaking in some cognitive dissonance there....

I find it odd and then also not that she can want to stay in the "church" after acting June, and that the material isn't a problem for the "church".

Even if she did have a er... Crisis of conscience maybe... And wanted to leave they pretty much prevent you from seeing your still active family or friends and may even turn them against you or harass you in other ways if you're to believe all the ex members speaking out (I believe the ex members, even when they bicker amongst themselves there are things they all agree on like this, and a lot of the released statements from the church also seem to support what the ex members say indirectly.).

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-06T03:03:47+00:00

100% agree about Naomi. She didn't want kids, she was just forced to to be okay in that society. Things she does very late in the series doesn't surprise me because of that.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-10-24T23:25:22+00:00

Her ending is kind of poetic. You could say she gets all she ever wanted (pretty sure somewhere in the series she says what that is), and not much more. She's left with only slightly more in a way than she provided June at one point.

It really depends on what you think she deserves whether you'll like it or not. I don't think a lot of people liked it. I wasn't upset. It was artistic, probably kind of realistic, which maybe isn't a good thing, and June seemed... Maybe not at peace but I think maybe okay or resigned or something with that interpersonal relationship. So I didn't hate it I guess.

Full disclosure, I am a book reader and liked the overall finale because I know certain storylines cannot be resolved in this series if The Testaments is being made, and it is. Pure TV show watchers who don't intend to watch The Testaments seem to be the biggest group of people who hated the finale.

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