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Some Questions I'd Like To Pose...
Feb. 28th, 2014 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quantumrealitySome questions came to mind as I re-watched The Americans last weekend, and having not really come to any good conclusions I'd like to pose them to the community and fandom at large:
1. Where do Phillip and Elizabeth get all those cars? I believe I counted at least three, if not four, they use on a semi-routine basis (even to the point of being able to crash the '77 Olds and not apparently sweat over the cost of repairs if the insurance company denies the claim) and paying for them, putting gas in them, and maintaining them all cost money.
2. Where/how do P & E get their money? Some of it is obviously legitimate - profits from the travel agency, but how much of it is other-source, and how do they manage to hide the fact that they're probably getting money from clandestine sources?
3. Do P & E go to the brazen extent of being authorized agents for Soviet package tours sponsored by Intourist? (Then again, such a feature might have given them ways to find sympathizers who could be tapped as low-level agents from time to time.)
4. Where do the diplomatic and KGB staff live, if not at the Rezidentura? What's their budget like? How much hassle do they deal with in getting hard currency, since they're obviously allowed to purchase petty-cash type items (judging from the apparent routine-ness of Vasili's tea shop visits)?
Any thoughts would be very welcome. :)
(PS. If this is too off topic for the comm, I'll gladly move this all to my personal journal)
1. Where do Phillip and Elizabeth get all those cars? I believe I counted at least three, if not four, they use on a semi-routine basis (even to the point of being able to crash the '77 Olds and not apparently sweat over the cost of repairs if the insurance company denies the claim) and paying for them, putting gas in them, and maintaining them all cost money.
2. Where/how do P & E get their money? Some of it is obviously legitimate - profits from the travel agency, but how much of it is other-source, and how do they manage to hide the fact that they're probably getting money from clandestine sources?
3. Do P & E go to the brazen extent of being authorized agents for Soviet package tours sponsored by Intourist? (Then again, such a feature might have given them ways to find sympathizers who could be tapped as low-level agents from time to time.)
4. Where do the diplomatic and KGB staff live, if not at the Rezidentura? What's their budget like? How much hassle do they deal with in getting hard currency, since they're obviously allowed to purchase petty-cash type items (judging from the apparent routine-ness of Vasili's tea shop visits)?
Any thoughts would be very welcome. :)
(PS. If this is too off topic for the comm, I'll gladly move this all to my personal journal)
