Yeah, I wonder if this is something different between the two of them or just a little adjusted? Like Leanne seems to be saying that if she's dead she wants her children to understand her. Where Elizabeth probably really would want that, she doesn't like lying...yet she's clearly got a horror of them finding out that she lied to them. Like she's the one that wishes she could raise them as socialists and tries to get little comments in here and there that are mildly pro- or at least not anti-Soviet. So I'll bet there's a reason that it's Elizabeth who's facing this letter Leanne would have written rather than giving that to Philip.
Looks like they really might use the Collins in interesting ways to bring out Philip and Elizabeth. In general, that's something that's really interesting even in the first two eps, the way that last season the two of them were usually shown working together, though we still saw them have plenty of missions apart. Now it's like because their relationship is strong, the show's letting us follow them as individuals rather than as a unit. Then I think we see them come together and try to help each other.
I mean, I'd absolutely love to see the two of them have an honest conversation about how they feel about lying to their kids. They had the fight in the pilot where Philip almost brought it up as just a small part of the defection plan and Elizabeth slaps him in the face. But that wasn't really a frank discussion about it. A letter from Leanne would open some huge issues if Elizabeth told Philip about it. Although I can equally imagine her never telling him about it.
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Date: 2014-03-10 01:02 am (UTC)Looks like they really might use the Collins in interesting ways to bring out Philip and Elizabeth. In general, that's something that's really interesting even in the first two eps, the way that last season the two of them were usually shown working together, though we still saw them have plenty of missions apart. Now it's like because their relationship is strong, the show's letting us follow them as individuals rather than as a unit. Then I think we see them come together and try to help each other.
I mean, I'd absolutely love to see the two of them have an honest conversation about how they feel about lying to their kids. They had the fight in the pilot where Philip almost brought it up as just a small part of the defection plan and Elizabeth slaps him in the face. But that wasn't really a frank discussion about it. A letter from Leanne would open some huge issues if Elizabeth told Philip about it. Although I can equally imagine her never telling him about it.