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

[sistermagpie]

Yeah, that's what seems to bleak to me is even if they got the kind of hero's welcome that Claudia and Elizabeth are promising Gregory, it would still be a nightmare because of the kids. Either the kids would stay in the US as citizens but be in foster care, or they'd go to Russia where they would be totally miserable. If Elizabeth thought it was hard to adjust to the US back in 1965 imagine if she got dumped there without speaking a word of English and everyone knowing she was a potential enemy. And that's if they get the hero's welcome. There's other possibilities that would be even worse where the kids might have no one. It's like the only good ending is if Elizabeth and Philip never get caught.

Which they seem to basically both acknowledge by the end of the season when they make plans to split up so that one of them can run with the kids to Canada. They've really only got each other to depend on.