I want to draw little fangirl hearts around this entire comment!
Heh--the whole comment's basically a fangirl heart to begin with!
Claudia's not wrong about that, though.
Yup, she is. But it goes to show how hard it is to live up the standard that Elizabeth herself tried to set. And Claudia's motivations are probably more compassionate than Elizabeth's original doubts about Philip. (Not to mention Claudia's current doubts about him. Though I wonder if she changes her mind a bit at the end of this ep--I doubt she believed in his love for Elizabeth before.)
In fact, that just makes me think how one of the thing I love about the show is it can have people make those big "I know you so well" speeches and have them be completely wrong and based on projection. But they're not always wrong. It depends on a lot of things, often the character's way of dealing with other people in general. For instance, Philip doesn't often make sweeping generalizations about people. He holds back and waits for more info or only makes limited judgments based on experience. It's really pretty consistent if you think back on things like that he's said throughout the season vs. Elizabeth's grander accusations to Claudia, for instance. Or Philip himself.
Is it the washing machine or the dryer?
Maybe the dryer would be easier to move?
Meeee toooo. That one little scene completely changed the way I saw Claudia during the rewatch.
This is another thing I love about the show--so often in spy movies they have the actors telegraph their "real" feelings when they're supposed to be being spies. In this show you're genuinely unsure about everyone until some speech where they seem objectively likely to be being truthful. Then you can watch again and it still makes sense.
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Date: 2013-11-24 06:24 pm (UTC)Heh--the whole comment's basically a fangirl heart to begin with!
Yup, she is. But it goes to show how hard it is to live up the standard that Elizabeth herself tried to set. And Claudia's motivations are probably more compassionate than Elizabeth's original doubts about Philip. (Not to mention Claudia's current doubts about him. Though I wonder if she changes her mind a bit at the end of this ep--I doubt she believed in his love for Elizabeth before.)
In fact, that just makes me think how one of the thing I love about the show is it can have people make those big "I know you so well" speeches and have them be completely wrong and based on projection. But they're not always wrong. It depends on a lot of things, often the character's way of dealing with other people in general. For instance, Philip doesn't often make sweeping generalizations about people. He holds back and waits for more info or only makes limited judgments based on experience. It's really pretty consistent if you think back on things like that he's said throughout the season vs. Elizabeth's grander accusations to Claudia, for instance. Or Philip himself.
Maybe the dryer would be easier to move?
This is another thing I love about the show--so often in spy movies they have the actors telegraph their "real" feelings when they're supposed to be being spies. In this show you're genuinely unsure about everyone until some speech where they seem objectively likely to be being truthful. Then you can watch again and it still makes sense.