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Tywin could do it if he had influence over the king. Joffrey was at least scared of him a bit, so he probably would be able to get Jaime released from his oath, and that was his plan. With Tommen, there was no question because Tywin had full control.
It looks like they're done with the separate timelines for now. Maybe next season if they bring Daniel back there will be a couple episodes, but they've already done that before.
Vikings will by the end of next season. They have maybe 2 left now from the original main cast.
She needs to keep her schedule clear for the Deadwood movie anyway.
It was kimchi
Morgan is not exactly a pillar of mental stability.
June was not fit to be a wife because she conceived a child with a married man. Otherwise she could have been married off to have the same status as Nick's wife, or married the head of a household and worn the blue dress. Since she was fertile, they gave her a choice- become a handmaid or go to the colonies. It wasn't really a choice, because they made sure she understood it as life or certain death. The other handmaids were in similar circumstances. Some were adultresses, lesbians, etc.
She has gotten more wise, but is also doing more to test the boundaries of the system. She was broke for 1 or 2 episodes, because she was shown that she got others killed for trying to help her. Still she wants to get her daughter and escape with her baby too, but she doesn't want to be dependent on others to make that happen. First she has to make sure that axe is not over her head anymore, the one that's gonna swing as soon as she has the baby. And now, she's trying to make alliances with people (particularly women) who have more power than she does. I think her goal is to walk out on her own instead of running.
They were on the road for maybe a year between the dam break and finding the stadium.
It seemed like at the time they had left Mel and Charlie for dead and wouldn't care too much to get them back.
There was a split between Ennis and Mel + Charlie. Mel was against the plan for that very reason- if they flood the place with burning zombies, nobody would be able to get stuff from inside. Ennis was angry about Madison + Naomi getting the extra supplies and didn't care about looting the stadium anymore, he just wanted to get them back. We still don't know everything about what happened that day because in the present, the Vultures were all back together and had most of the weapons from Madison's group. And Naomi with the Land Rover.
everything gets a return
I thought they might get taken out, but once we see it was Arkady who met them, I figured they were in the clear. They did too, because they were able to let down their guard and go to sleep. Arkady would have been one of the first to go if the coup succeeded.
There really was a coup attempt against Gorbachev by his own party (which did include some KGB leaders), but it was in 1991. They were opposed to giving the Soviet states more autonomy. The ones responsible for the coup were caught and got locked up for a while. It was ironic because it ultimately split the communist party and allowed the populists to take over via their relatively new election process. That's how they ended up with Boris Yeltsin, and corruption so widespread that it destroyed their economy.
It's not too far fetched and actually pretty common throughout history that a large group of people can be ruled over by a select few. In Negan's case, he set up a caste system where the lower group was being "protected" by the higher group. Negan kept his place at the top because he established a set of rules and made his top guys believe if he wasn't there, they would cut each others' throats to take over. This is exactly what he told Gabriel when they were trapped in the bus. And if that happened, the one who came out on top would probably abandon the rules and destroy the order he says he was responsible for establishing.
They left some opportunities for a followup, maybe a mini-series in a few years. I get the feeling as for right now, most of them want some time away from the show to work on different projects.
I really thought she was going to ditch them at the McDonald's. Either that or make a call to the feds.
The showrunners won't say if Renee is a spy, but one of them said there are clues in her scenes that answer that question. Really I believe he said that because he wanted something for people to speculate about after the show is long gone, like people do with the ending of The Sopranos. Anyway, to indulge, I think she is batting for the red team:
- that other spy who pretended to be Elizabeth and Pilot Phil's son threatened to report Elizabeth for breaking protocol. Elizabeth told him anyone with experience is gonna break protocol every now and then, and then she tells him to do what he's gotta do.
- early on with Renee, there is a shot of her staring at the Jennings' house. With the camera angle, they made a point to emphasize this. She may have been sent there to watch for signs they are about to defect, her job was to either stop them or send a message up the chain for someone else to handle the situation.
- she methodically pushes Stan to get her a job in the FBI building.
- in the finale, watching the house get raided after she hugs Stan, there are 2 shots from her POV that are clearly centered on the boxes they are carrying out. Her new task could be to get access to those files and destroy anything incriminating.
They really only touched on it with the show, but their training is trauma-based (at least with the women). It conditions them to dissociate so they can use sex as a tool to get information. Elizabeth was sexually traumatized by a ranking officer while she was in training. Red Sparrow is a whole movie about this type of training. When they are not outright raped, they are forced to have sex in front of everyone. There was definitely something going on with Philip too. I don't remember exactly, but I seem to recall an episode where Philip had flashbacks to when he was a kid living on the street. It was implied that there were men who take boys off of the street to do whatever with them. And then the episode where Elizabeth wanted Philip to do with her what he did with Martha.
In their interview, the showrunners said they worked on the script for the garage scene for months, and they weren't sure this would be the one until they did the table read. They knew since season 2 that they wanted Philip and Elizabeth to make it back with possibly one or both kids, they were just not settled on the logistics. I think it was better to show they remained loyal to the official government, at a huge personal cost. Their journey back to Russia was very tense, that's what they were going for with this episode. As a viewer, I could get a little bit of what they were feeling. By the time they got to the border, they had just resigned themselves to whatever their fate would be.
A lot of times people have it in their heads how a certain thing will happen and how they will handle it, but when it actually happens, it goes down completely different from what they imagined. That's what happened with Stan. He was enraged and devastated, but he also realized on some level there was a genuine friendship and love for the family. And there were many moments through the years he knew were genuine. Philip was there for him when he was going through divorce, Henry was as much a son to him as his real son. Stan knew the expected move was for him to take them in, but in that moment, he didn't have the capacity to go through with it.