That’s just really mean and unfair.
Bruce says he’s bringing Luke to meet Hannah/Agnès and even Moira?
What about Nicole? What about her own dad?
Nick did everything he could to ensure his daughter wasn’t born in Gilead (both Nicks from the book and the show).
Nick from the show even kept an eye on Hannah without June even asking…
what was Luke doing? It took June arriving in Canada for him to remember that more action was needed to get his daughter back!
Even after Boston, he left! But yes, he’s going to return to the Testaments for his reunion with his daughter.
They should have killed Nick off a long time ago instead of using him for an entire show for nothing.
Yeah, we saw this the other day. It is cruel and unfair. Nick and Nicole deserve better. Bruce Miller has never been a particularly nice man and this has never changed. He's just a less shitty person compared to Tuchman and The Scientologist that he got away with a lot of the flak from s6.
But to offer some comfort, we can say this:
Bruce has said many, many things in the past that have never come to fruition. He's a blowhard who only cares about getting reactions from fans, not creating good content. Realistically, considering the branch of "feminism" that these people love, we can see a reunion being between mother and daughter only. Further, we know from Samira that she has no interest in being on tt. While it's possible she's changed her mind and could return for a reunion scene, the racism of the show (that is STILL a writing problem despite years of constant criticism) and the misery are both big turnoffs to her as she is done with roles like Moira's. Also, even if Bruce has privately decided to undo the murder of Nick, he'd never announce it publicly by mentioning Nick reuniting with his daughter. If Nick were to, in the very (very) slim chance come back to life, they'd never announce his appearance years in advance. It would be used as massive shock value in the end. Same with them ultimately bringing Nicole into the story where she belongs- it's unlikely, but if they plan on doing it, they're not going to say so until it's time for show promo.
Nicole has never really mattered to the people making this show despite her being critically important in the book. Even back in 2x13 there were early signs of this. That they're leaving her out of the narrative entirely isn't really a shock. Nicole deserves to reunite with her beloved father and potential younger sibling and with Hannah. But the writers don't care about her, so she exists as a prop.
That the show constantly rewards Luke despite his everyman misogyny and his passivity is irritating. Of course we don't think he should be kept from Hannah (he's not Fred or Serena who should never be near children), but to have Luke do nothing for years, suddenly turn into superman, and then in the end get that reunion while Nick is killed off and insulted is hurtful. Nick, who as you said looked out for Hannah on his own to the best of his abilities, deserved to live and see his daughter again just as much as Luke deserves to see Hannah again.
As much as we hate to say it, we agree. And if they had killed Nick off early on, at least we could have left this shitshow earlier, saving ourselves the mental peace that we lost by becoming so attached to Nick. Over a year out and we still feel a lot of hurt over this. There has been no closure and with how much the creators still seem to hate Nick, we won't even get the dignity of a brief fatherly moment (whether it's a living reunion or an after-death mention) that could provide closure. And that leaves us wishing we'd never watched at all. Was the joy worth the extensive hurt? We find ourselves often thinking 'no'.
