But that made me wonder about that line of MR's. It seems like if he just meant that they were too young to really know what they were getting into he would have said something like that. So I wonder if he means that in this place they were recruited.
Ha, now that I can read this (site has been a little glitchy for me today) yes, that's what I was wondering. He's said something like that before.
If, in reality, they came from other fields...well, actually that's even more fascinating to me because it suggests that they even more have this alternate life they would have had. But how did they pluck people out? Did the program look for signs that someone was good and approach them? Because if something like that happened, even if they were in the KGB, I can see that being translated into saying the job was chosen for them, even if they enthusiastically accepted it.
This is kind of what I was wondering about Philip and played around with in one flashback chapter of my fic, if he might've been like studying at a university or school somewhere and then gotten plucked out because one of his teachers/supervisors noticed he was especially talented with languages and had potential. It's kind of hard to know how they'd do it on the show though, because the factual accounts you read are so very different from what's on the show (and that works for me for dramatic purposes) that it's hard to know what they'll decide to make their reality.
And yes, I'd agree that could also mean the job was "chosen" for them, particularly given the lack of other opportunities they might've had. Matthew Rhys has said over and over again how Philip grew up in this impoverished environment. It's hard to know if he's saying that because it's been in a future episode, because Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg told him so, or because he researched the time period and just about everyone was, but it would be easy to see for someone who came from very little, why they'd jump at the chance to survive, and in fact have the potential to flourish, even if it came with some drawbacks. When you're in that situation, you're thinking short term survival rather than "would this bother me 20 years from now?"
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Ha, now that I can read this (site has been a little glitchy for me today) yes, that's what I was wondering. He's said something like that before.
This is kind of what I was wondering about Philip and played around with in one flashback chapter of my fic, if he might've been like studying at a university or school somewhere and then gotten plucked out because one of his teachers/supervisors noticed he was especially talented with languages and had potential. It's kind of hard to know how they'd do it on the show though, because the factual accounts you read are so very different from what's on the show (and that works for me for dramatic purposes) that it's hard to know what they'll decide to make their reality.
And yes, I'd agree that could also mean the job was "chosen" for them, particularly given the lack of other opportunities they might've had. Matthew Rhys has said over and over again how Philip grew up in this impoverished environment. It's hard to know if he's saying that because it's been in a future episode, because Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg told him so, or because he researched the time period and just about everyone was, but it would be easy to see for someone who came from very little, why they'd jump at the chance to survive, and in fact have the potential to flourish, even if it came with some drawbacks. When you're in that situation, you're thinking short term survival rather than "would this bother me 20 years from now?"