I feel kind of totally overwhelmed by that episode! Between the amazing scene of Philip FREAKING OUT at Paige and the wonderful, gut-wrenching montage set-piece at the end, I am done. I have lost the ability to can. OMG.
The montage at the end first -I love love love that it was so much about how their lives are so fundamentally conflicted, driving each other away and tying each other together all at the same time. THEY JUST ALL FEEL SO MUCH AAAHHHH. In, like, the most tragic way. and I didn't know the song until I saw it mentioned in comments, but it was perfect.
I don't think Paige's new friend is KGB but I do think that there's probably going to be SOMETHING there. Like, maybe the friend - as an outside entity - is better able to tell Paige what about her family life is REALLY WEIRD and what isn't. I also liked that Paige on the bus is a TERRIBLE liar!
I was so happy the link to "aunt Helen" worked so well! I was totally impressed. Paige is obviously not finished snooping yet though and oh my god I don't know if I am going to survive it.
Flashbacks were awesome (Elizabeth is ROCKING that sixties fashion, helloooooooooo) and I am so pleased to see some of their earlier life, but I was kind of surprised that we saw NOTHING from back in the day that indicated Elizabeth was even vaguely doubtful about giving Jared the letter. I mean, having children would obviously be a pivotal moment in terms of her feelings about that, but as a good Soviet soldier I would have expected a bit more pushback from Elizabeth on that, I felt?
Also, yo, Elizabeth, your colleagues are planning for their children's future in the event of their death, you share a very dangerous profession, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO THINK ABOUT THAT ISSUE BEFORE YOU SEE SAID COLLEAGUES BRUTALLY MURDERED. Also, Philip, if that "my dad died when I was six" thing is as biographical as it really seemed like it was, you KNOW parents can die before their children. It happens. PLAN FOR THESE THINGS.
This was the first episode where I kind of wondered if maybe Nina was getting feelings for Stan, but then her little smile made me go straight back to nope, she hates his guts. She fakes it REALLY WELL though. Damn. Also, I wonder how much report Oleg saw and whether it's telling him anything he isn't supposed to know.
I really liked that even though Stan could realise that married guys don't do their own laundry, he still completely didn't take Sandra seriously. And that complimenting her appearance was not enough to stop that being clearly a dick move. Sandra trying to explain why that comment hurt her, and then basically giving it up, made me sad. Sandra, honey. :(
I will have to rewatch all the flashback scenes a billion times. The fundamental conflictedness in their conceiving children - that these are kids who were produced on demand, by people with very little in the way of consent, but who are hanging onto the last bits of consent they have... ouch. And I think that's what Philip's asking her if she's sure was about, and her pause after - a sort of acknowledgment that the whole situation is so complicated and confusing and frankly non-consensual at that point.
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Date: 2014-03-13 09:22 pm (UTC)The montage at the end first -I love love love that it was so much about how their lives are so fundamentally conflicted, driving each other away and tying each other together all at the same time. THEY JUST ALL FEEL SO MUCH AAAHHHH. In, like, the most tragic way. and I didn't know the song until I saw it mentioned in comments, but it was perfect.
I don't think Paige's new friend is KGB but I do think that there's probably going to be SOMETHING there. Like, maybe the friend - as an outside entity - is better able to tell Paige what about her family life is REALLY WEIRD and what isn't. I also liked that Paige on the bus is a TERRIBLE liar!
I was so happy the link to "aunt Helen" worked so well! I was totally impressed. Paige is obviously not finished snooping yet though and oh my god I don't know if I am going to survive it.
Flashbacks were awesome (Elizabeth is ROCKING that sixties fashion, helloooooooooo) and I am so pleased to see some of their earlier life, but I was kind of surprised that we saw NOTHING from back in the day that indicated Elizabeth was even vaguely doubtful about giving Jared the letter. I mean, having children would obviously be a pivotal moment in terms of her feelings about that, but as a good Soviet soldier I would have expected a bit more pushback from Elizabeth on that, I felt?
Also, yo, Elizabeth, your colleagues are planning for their children's future in the event of their death, you share a very dangerous profession, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO THINK ABOUT THAT ISSUE BEFORE YOU SEE SAID COLLEAGUES BRUTALLY MURDERED. Also, Philip, if that "my dad died when I was six" thing is as biographical as it really seemed like it was, you KNOW parents can die before their children. It happens. PLAN FOR THESE THINGS.
This was the first episode where I kind of wondered if maybe Nina was getting feelings for Stan, but then her little smile made me go straight back to nope, she hates his guts. She fakes it REALLY WELL though. Damn. Also, I wonder how much report Oleg saw and whether it's telling him anything he isn't supposed to know.
I really liked that even though Stan could realise that married guys don't do their own laundry, he still completely didn't take Sandra seriously. And that complimenting her appearance was not enough to stop that being clearly a dick move. Sandra trying to explain why that comment hurt her, and then basically giving it up, made me sad. Sandra, honey. :(
I will have to rewatch all the flashback scenes a billion times. The fundamental conflictedness in their conceiving children - that these are kids who were produced on demand, by people with very little in the way of consent, but who are hanging onto the last bits of consent they have... ouch. And I think that's what Philip's asking her if she's sure was about, and her pause after - a sort of acknowledgment that the whole situation is so complicated and confusing and frankly non-consensual at that point.