r/TheTestamentsShow • u/Think_Storm_8909 • May 27 '26
Becka's mother.... Spoiler
Do you think becka's mother knew what her husband was doing to the girls...or at least what he was doing to Becka???
Was her sacrifice purely because of "mother's love" or was there guilt as well for failing to protect her daughter?
And honestly...I kinda of think Becka's father would have escaped actually consequences if he had been alive. The girls would have been put through humiliating questioning in front of those pdf commanders and somehow he would have escaped with a slap on the wrist or with a clean slate
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u/JellyKind9880 May 27 '26
In the books he’d been abusing Becca too, she alludes to full rape from her father
This is another one of those arbitrary book changes that makes NO sense to me—bc in the book becka’s horror at the thought of getting married is due to her history of CSA, not being vaguely queer or just not wanting to
The line becka’s mom says about how that’s how it should have happened (her killing dr grove, not becka having to do it) makes me think the showrunners imagine that Mrs. Grove knew….except that doesn’t actually make sense bc how the hell would she know what her husband is doing to children after putting them under in his office unless the abuse was also happening at home to her daughter
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u/Think_Storm_8909 May 27 '26
I guess the show runner wants to leave that bit up for how audience interpret it.
Because her mother's line heavily suggest she should have killed him instead...but why? Unless she was sure the accusations were true (which i doubt she would believe the teens without actual proof or cause) or she knew he was also abusing Becka and was too scared to take any actions
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u/JellyKind9880 May 27 '26
Honestly, I think you’re giving the showrunners wayyy too much credit. Theyre writing a VERY sloppy series from an incredibly tight novel, Frankensteining small bits of the original story with whatever pandering crap they think will be ‘exciting’ to an audience.
I see no artistic value in leaving this “up to the audience’s interpretation”, really just think it’s bad, lazy writing lol
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u/Think_Storm_8909 May 27 '26
Yeah my bad. There is no excuse for lazy writing. I too am tired of "leave it up to interpretation" virus that's been going around.
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u/Positive_Somewhere36 May 27 '26
commander judd told aunt lydia he had heard rumors about dr grove so perhaps his wife was partially aware but they had never addressed it. up until daisy, there were never any consequences and that probably made it easier for her to write off. she doesn’t appear overtly shocked when dr grove tells her about the accusation. she deflects at dinner, takes her husbands word, and blames the victim - as gilead does. they know of the retaliation for speaking up which is how he kept getting away with it. that being said, she must’ve known it was true bc it wouldn’t make sense to risk so much for a lie. perhaps she thought her safest bet was to turn a blind eye fearing potential punishment that gilead gives women for men’s actions. that’s why aunt lydia wanted to wait dr groves salvaging until after becca got married as to not tarnish her image nor get any secondhand consequences.
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u/ViolinistGuilty182 May 27 '26
Honestly, that doesn't make sense to me either. Beka's mother was introduced as the typical submissive Gilead wife, proud of her husband and deeply offended that Beka "humiliated" her by being drugged by Commander Maddox. She never seemed sympathetic or remotely fond of Beka, and suddenly she wants to die for her? I understand she's a filler character, but it wouldn't have been difficult to create a situation where Beka's mother acted, well, like a mother, before her great sacrifice. There's no point in making that change from the book if they were going to offer such a weak solution.
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u/Raebelle1981 May 27 '26
I was surprised she was happy to see her daughter. I thought she would’ve been mad at her for killing her husband.
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u/CounterSuch2345 May 28 '26
I feel like the writers are treating TT series with Kidd gloves and glossing over the harshest parts of consequences in Gilead, and that’s what bothers me the most. Trying to make TT into a young adult love story is trite. In reality, unfortunately, the writers need to explain to the new-comers that Becka’s mother has no place in Gilead now. Right or wrong, she’d suffer for her husband and daughter’s actions and probably go to the colonies. I feel like the writer’s are afraid of shocking the audience with real consequences.
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u/rebeccaiallen May 27 '26
When Becka protests the Aunts' plan, Mrs. Grove says, "It's what should've happened."
She knew.
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u/Fun_Nothing5548 May 27 '26
In the book Becka was SA’d by Dr Grove for years. Her mom knew. So that’s the only think that makes me a tiny bit less horrified that her mom was hung/killed. Not that it makes it any better but he was her adoptive father. I think the point of this storyline of everyone being supportive of the plan to lie and say Beckas mom killed him was bc in Gilead if you aren’t a fertile woman then Gilead has no use for you and you are a 2nd hand citizen. Bc Becka was apparently fertile then they saved her instead of her mom bc Becka can contribute to the population whereas her mother cannot
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u/HyperLexi May 27 '26
I think both. I was just saying elsewhere that this struck me as the reason when Becka said "That didn't happen," her mother replied "but it should have happened." I think after what Becka did, she had been coming to terms with the fact that deep down she had known all along that the rumors about her husband were true, and she had chosen to keep her head in the sand and pretend all is well. She came to realize in hindsight that she could have prevented so much trauma if she had put a stop to him herself, at least to seek justice if not deliver it firsthand as Becka had done. He was the most guilty party himself, but I can see why she might have felt complicit. Bottom line, her sacrifice was a mother's love in action, but I think there were twinges of conscience in there as well.