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!

[sistermagpie]

Oh, I think what Philip is saying about America is true as well--it's got to mean something to him to have reliable food and water. If it wasn't real for him he probably would never have even thought of those examples of things that were good in the US. I can just see it also as a metaphor in a meta way. Elizabeth is, I think coldly fanatical about it. I was thinking about this again in this week's rewatch when Nina was saying that her generation is comfortable with the consumer goods etc. I think plenty of people always felt like Nina and Philip, but maybe there used to be more fanatical people like Elizabeth saying that was terrible.

Do your parents watch the show too?

Re: So much better on rewatch!

[alley_skywalker]

No. My parents don't watch many tv shows and they mostly watch Russian channels that we get on satellite. Maybe if I watching it at home they'd watch it with me (mayyyybe) but I'm at school most of the time so...