Hmm, every week after new episode I promise myself that I won't be reading any of these „professional“ reviews and every week I do at least one article. And I am pretty annoyed, because I have a feeling that they are putting these together with political dictionary on the side-table to comply with current propaganda. I find myself often wondering about how they could reach these conclusions because it is something completely different for me. My only conclusion so far is that for authors of these reviews it is still „us against them“ - like the cold war never ended. So it is really nice that on this forum there are opinions and insights I can identify myself with – even if I don't agree.
Frankly said, I am glad that Martha is gone. After last week this was episode I was able to enjoy at first go from start to end. I usually skip through episode to the good bits and then view it whole later on second or even third time. With this episode I couldn't find reason to skip forward. I think that Martha run her course and now it's time to let her rest. I don't think that it would be that interesting to have scenes with her in Moscow as was done with Nina or Anton. I really can't see what she would be doing. When they extracted Anton to Soviet Union, he was able to come to terms with it by being passionate about his research and it was interesting for us to watch. But Martha was never really interesting in this way, she was interesting in way she was able to bend her look at reality and what she considers normal. So please stay well and don't come back.
Food in the vault. Does anybody know who pays for that? Does FBI have some fund for this?
We have mentions of Kimmy and Lisa from last season in one episode. It feels little forced. Why they couldn't have Philip give Gabriel the cassette four episodes back? I don't know, it is sloppy. Also, they went away with dead drops? Moreso nowadays everything is ordered through Gabriel. Why they went away with wireless coded messages? And I like how this scene was cut in last week promo. It went completely different in real life – well show – than in promo. They made the KGB in promo harsher.
The whole idea of EST is - I don't know – it seems intangible. I am like Elisabeth: I celebrate Christmas for lights on trees and cookies. Otherwise I am atheist. But for Philip I think that what he gets from it is the CLICK moment. He understands something when in EST. Problem is it is not because of EST. It's more like when you are sitting in park garden of some restaurant drinking beer and eavesdropping on what people at neighbouring tables are discussing, it's something completely different to your area of expertise and looking at people on bicycles and then boom you understand something you were trying to understand for some time. The exact conversation around you is not imperative for it. And that is how I see Est. So it is quite understandable that Elisabeth don't GET IT, she can't, she only can somehow get it how Philip can GET IT. And really when Philip start spewing EST talk I think he is being manipulated. He invents some new idea on basis of EST. But Elisabeth cannot really do it, she doesn't have his brain.
Funny is that I think Philip is begging to realize that simply running away from this kind of life will not make him happy. Or everything will not be sun and rainbows. Lets say he doesn't like the killings or on these lines. But when I look at his solution to his problem with bullies or how he angrily dealt with that guy in Pilot who liked young meat I think that he realizes that sooner or later he would kill or maim somebody else. Just because it is part of him. So running just because he is depressed is not an option. Now he has at least the advantage that he can blame the Centre. Or that it is at least how I see it.
I really liked the scene between Elisabeth and Paige. Paige – as every teenager – wanted the power. And power comes from being recognised as equal. Of course she had no idea what that would entail. But nobody really does. She just had the bad luck to pick short match. Now she has to deal with it. She probably on some level understand. But that doesn't mean she will not need some pushing. When she turned her back on Elisabeth and wanted to storm off she inadvertently pushed Elisabeth to reveal the harsh truth. But given that she immediately come back when Elisabeth ordered her to and didn't throw tantrum she “knows”. It makes me wonder how she was disciplined – if she was spanked?
When they introduced the “7 months later” I thought: F**k me. It's usually really bad idea. But after the credits rolled I realized that it was not that bad or even it was quite good. It made sense. Kids looked older so more to the actual actor's age. Situation stabilised.
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Date: 2016-05-05 10:49 pm (UTC)Frankly said, I am glad that Martha is gone. After last week this was episode I was able to enjoy at first go from start to end. I usually skip through episode to the good bits and then view it whole later on second or even third time. With this episode I couldn't find reason to skip forward. I think that Martha run her course and now it's time to let her rest. I don't think that it would be that interesting to have scenes with her in Moscow as was done with Nina or Anton. I really can't see what she would be doing. When they extracted Anton to Soviet Union, he was able to come to terms with it by being passionate about his research and it was interesting for us to watch. But Martha was never really interesting in this way, she was interesting in way she was able to bend her look at reality and what she considers normal. So please stay well and don't come back.
Food in the vault. Does anybody know who pays for that? Does FBI have some fund for this?
We have mentions of Kimmy and Lisa from last season in one episode. It feels little forced. Why they couldn't have Philip give Gabriel the cassette four episodes back? I don't know, it is sloppy. Also, they went away with dead drops? Moreso nowadays everything is ordered through Gabriel. Why they went away with wireless coded messages? And I like how this scene was cut in last week promo. It went completely different in real life – well show – than in promo. They made the KGB in promo harsher.
The whole idea of EST is - I don't know – it seems intangible. I am like Elisabeth: I celebrate Christmas for lights on trees and cookies. Otherwise I am atheist. But for Philip I think that what he gets from it is the CLICK moment. He understands something when in EST. Problem is it is not because of EST. It's more like when you are sitting in park garden of some restaurant drinking beer and eavesdropping on what people at neighbouring tables are discussing, it's something completely different to your area of expertise and looking at people on bicycles and then boom you understand something you were trying to understand for some time. The exact conversation around you is not imperative for it. And that is how I see Est. So it is quite understandable that Elisabeth don't GET IT, she can't, she only can somehow get it how Philip can GET IT. And really when Philip start spewing EST talk I think he is being manipulated. He invents some new idea on basis of EST. But Elisabeth cannot really do it, she doesn't have his brain.
Funny is that I think Philip is begging to realize that simply running away from this kind of life will not make him happy. Or everything will not be sun and rainbows. Lets say he doesn't like the killings or on these lines. But when I look at his solution to his problem with bullies or how he angrily dealt with that guy in Pilot who liked young meat I think that he realizes that sooner or later he would kill or maim somebody else. Just because it is part of him. So running just because he is depressed is not an option. Now he has at least the advantage that he can blame the Centre. Or that it is at least how I see it.
I really liked the scene between Elisabeth and Paige. Paige – as every teenager – wanted the power. And power comes from being recognised as equal. Of course she had no idea what that would entail. But nobody really does. She just had the bad luck to pick short match. Now she has to deal with it. She probably on some level understand. But that doesn't mean she will not need some pushing. When she turned her back on Elisabeth and wanted to storm off she inadvertently pushed Elisabeth to reveal the harsh truth. But given that she immediately come back when Elisabeth ordered her to and didn't throw tantrum she “knows”. It makes me wonder how she was disciplined – if she was spanked?
When they introduced the “7 months later” I thought: F**k me. It's usually really bad idea. But after the credits rolled I realized that it was not that bad or even it was quite good. It made sense. Kids looked older so more to the actual actor's age. Situation stabilised.
Overall it was very good episode.
-P