I honestly can't think of a single moment on the show that was about Stan knowing exactly what goes into creating and inhabiting a false identity. I also can't think of a single moment that shows his own lingering. He spent years as a white supremacist but there's no moments where that behavior accidentally comes out. Even his relationship with Aderholdt seems completely consistent with an ordinary white middle aged guy in the 80s rather than an ex-neo Nazi. He's sometimes been violent, but it never seems to cross a line that fits with the FBI guy.
I see plenty of scenes that show Stan having been away in a stressful job for years, but it seems more consistent to someone who was fighting a war or something rather than a guy who was undercover, much less specifically being a Nazi. Even the times when he's got a hunch it doesn't seem to need the undercover past to explain it.
His original suspicion of the Jennings to me seems best explained by paranoia and their car because otherwise it's too much like him being a psychic detective.
This isn't a problem for me with Stan at all--like I said I find him as a character totally consistent. I just mentally usually change "deep undercover" with "away on a hard assignment."
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Re: Approving of characters
Date: 2018-04-09 03:30 am (UTC)I see plenty of scenes that show Stan having been away in a stressful job for years, but it seems more consistent to someone who was fighting a war or something rather than a guy who was undercover, much less specifically being a Nazi. Even the times when he's got a hunch it doesn't seem to need the undercover past to explain it.
His original suspicion of the Jennings to me seems best explained by paranoia and their car because otherwise it's too much like him being a psychic detective.
This isn't a problem for me with Stan at all--like I said I find him as a character totally consistent. I just mentally usually change "deep undercover" with "away on a hard assignment."