Season one group rewatch: the pilot

[jae]

This is the discussion post for the pilot episode in the group rewatch of season one. When you rewatched the episode, was there anything you noticed that you didn't notice the first time (and any subsequent times) you saw it? What things about it did you perhaps view differently after having seen the later episodes?

You can expect spoilers for the entire first season in the comments.

Comments

[apolla-savre.livejournal.com]

I hadn't made that connection (seeing what you want to see) but it makes absolute sense.

Poor Elizabeth. Poor Gregory.

And I don't think Elizabeth could ever give up the kids, they're pretty much the only thing in her life that's never betrayed her (except for Paige, to a degree, but I think Elizabeth realized that Paige didn't hate her, she hated the situation and couldn't understand why it was happening.) They're all she really has. She can be true to them because she's their mother and regardless of whether she raised them in Russia or the USSR, she would raise them in the same manner, just with different languages and available topics. To them, she's "mom", not "Nadezhda" or "Elizabeth Jennings". There's no dual personality with them. Of course, she lies to them about her background, her main job, and stuff.