Episode discussion post: "The Walk In"
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12 March 2014 in the U.S. and Canada
16 March 2014 in Israel
29 March 2014 in the UK
This is a discussion post for episode 203 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season two, episode three.)
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From Sound on Sight
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From TV Ate My Wardrobe
From the Houston Chronicle
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From The Cloture Club
More to come once they're available!
12 March 2014 in the U.S. and Canada
16 March 2014 in Israel
29 March 2014 in the UK
This is a discussion post for episode 203 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season two, episode three.)
Original promo trailers
Episode recaps
From the Washington Post
From Vulture
From Hitfix
From the AV Club
From the Huffington Post
From IGN
From Collider
From Television Without Pity
From Sound on Sight
From tv.com
From TV Ate My Wardrobe
From the Houston Chronicle
From spoilertv.com
From showratings.tv
From The Cloture Club
More to come once they're available!
Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 01:20 pm (UTC)There are two basic ways to find a submerged submarine. You can search for it 'actively', for example doing sonar pings, but that gives away where you are. (As with using a torch to find someone, they can hear the pings from much greater distances than you can find them with it.) Or you can search 'passively' and the classic way to do that is to listen for it, taking advantage of the way that sound travels further and quicker in water than it does in air.
So you want quiet submarines. One of the big problems is the noise the propellers generate. As the blades spin round, the rapidly changing pressure in the water causes bubbles to form - it's called cavitation - and reducing this is a critical aim of propeller design, because they are then crushed by the water pressure, especially at depth, and this can be heard for quite a distance.
Partly because Soviet subs were significantly noisier when moving, there was a major intercontinental system set up to listen for them, and the Soviets really wanted to make them quieter...
... so this is a big thing that they're after.
Re: Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 01:53 pm (UTC)Re: Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 02:32 pm (UTC)Re: Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 02:34 pm (UTC)Re: Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 03:39 pm (UTC)Re: Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 03:42 pm (UTC)Okay, now I really am going to have to pull the DVD out...
Re: Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 05:49 pm (UTC)(God, my mom loves submarine movies and I *hate* them. They egg on my claustrophobia. That and they always show Russian sailor shirts and stripes make me dizzy.)
Re: Submarines and propellers - why this is important in real life
Date: 2014-03-13 02:23 pm (UTC)-J