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sistermagpieI found myself thinking about this last night seeing a commercial for the show. :-)
What do you think Philip and Elizabeth's relationship was like before they came to the US? We know they met in 1962 and arrived in 1965. For those 3 years they'd have been training together in the USSR. They'd be speaking English to each other, but Russian, presumably, to others at least at times. They'd call each other Philip and Elizabeth and pretend to be those characters to the extent they do that when alone in their bedroom now. (Iow, they're Elizabeth and Philip but can talk openly about spying.) That means they probably could talk about how they felt about their work, their mission etc. They'd be studying things together. They'd be asking questions as Russians about the US together.
They still seem very careful with each other in the 1965 scene, Elizabeth refers to herself as living with "a strange man" even by 1968 (Philip reacts to this, but we don't know what he's thinking exactly), she didn't feel she could confide in him, didn't trust his commitment, but could judge him enough to think he'd make a good father, for instance. Yet her memory of icicles on the trees when their train left Moscow is, 20 years later, a bond.
So what do you think about this in-between beginning of their relationship? Before they actually became "Americans?"
Anyone have any thoughts on that?
What do you think Philip and Elizabeth's relationship was like before they came to the US? We know they met in 1962 and arrived in 1965. For those 3 years they'd have been training together in the USSR. They'd be speaking English to each other, but Russian, presumably, to others at least at times. They'd call each other Philip and Elizabeth and pretend to be those characters to the extent they do that when alone in their bedroom now. (Iow, they're Elizabeth and Philip but can talk openly about spying.) That means they probably could talk about how they felt about their work, their mission etc. They'd be studying things together. They'd be asking questions as Russians about the US together.
They still seem very careful with each other in the 1965 scene, Elizabeth refers to herself as living with "a strange man" even by 1968 (Philip reacts to this, but we don't know what he's thinking exactly), she didn't feel she could confide in him, didn't trust his commitment, but could judge him enough to think he'd make a good father, for instance. Yet her memory of icicles on the trees when their train left Moscow is, 20 years later, a bond.
So what do you think about this in-between beginning of their relationship? Before they actually became "Americans?"
Anyone have any thoughts on that?
