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

Re: So much better on rewatch!

[treonb]

About Robert - I understood it first as the older spy coaching the younger one. And on first watching, I really had no idea what was going on anyway at that point. I was actually surprised in 'Gregory' when Robert suddenly became Philip's best friend.


Philip's theory that no FBI agent would be so stupid to to announce he's in counterintelligence, so Stan must be messing with him makes more sense than the truth. Honestly Stan, did you not read your orientation packet where it says not to tell people you're in espionage?

Philip says that? I missed it. But really, Stan's stupid.

Re: So much better on rewatch!

[sistermagpie]

Heh, well he doesn't say it in so many words but that does seem to be his thinking. He does say something about how Stan moving in is about the FBI trying to get them to do something stupid. I take Philip's cheerful announcements about his job as being part of that!