Not so much a discussion BUT is it not super distracting when Arjun pulls up his shield and often almost always shrieks like he just got damaged? Every single time he does it I think ‘ah sheeeyt, I got hit’
Is it just me?
So, hear me out… the transition of Aunt Lydia from a sadistic enforcer to a master-spy hero in The Testaments is a textbook example of a "phony writer’s trope" that prioritises a marketable redemption arc over logical consistency. By attempting to merge her TV backstory- a spiteful, lonely teacher who weaponized morality out of personal rejection- with Margaret Atwood’s later "stadium" backstory where she is a victimised judge, the writers have created a character whose motivations are a walking contradiction.
The shift feels like a blatant retcon; it asks the audience to believe that the woman who oversaw the physical and psychological torture of June and Janine for years was secretly a calculating resistance leader all along, rather than a genuine religious zealot.
This pivot is riddled with plot holes, most notably the "Gilead plot armor" she receives in the latest episodes. After her public outburst at the border calling the Commanders "Godless," any internal logic of the regime dictates she should have been executed, yet she is inexplicably reinstated as a mastermind at Ardua Hall.
… so ultimately… turning Lydia into a "hero" feels like a cynical maneuver to keep a fan-favorite actress at the center of a spin-off, effectively scrubbing her of her genuine villainy and cheapening the suffering of the Handmaids by suggesting their trauma was merely a side effect of her "pragmatic" long game.
That being said I love the actress but even her acting seems very different from what we saw in the handmaids tale..
Fight me
I am currently immersed in this game and so much of it is blowing me away. At the same time I’m at a loss for words for how ‘new’ my ps5 pro experience is with this game and it just makes me wonder- why are so many developers neglecting all the amazing things the dual sense controllers can do?
What other games give a similar immersive experience beyond ‘good graphics’ ?