• Philip says that the person/people who were tailing their kids was pulled. That seems to be a definitive "no" in response to the question we were discussing last week about whether Kelli was somehow involved with the KGB. Anybody still arguing this side of that? :)
Nope ;-) Unless they're setting us up for a complete twist on twist.
On first viewing, it seems like Gaad was just going to be gone now, i.e. that he was being removed from his post or something and we just wouldn't see him again. But upon second viewing it seems to me that there's just going to be someone else directly supervising his work from now on. Is that everyone else's read?
I don't think he's going away, but a new char involved, I don't know how much he'll be involved anymore. Maybe he'll be pushed to another sub-department.
Oleg's conversation with Nina later suggested that he suspects that there might be a level on which this is true for Nina as well: "It's not so hard to deceive with the eyes, the smile, the things we say. But the body--the parts of the body that can love--they want to tell the truth."
That sentence actually seemed menacing to me.
• On a lighter note, I loved Arkady's positively precognitive "I think Yuri Andropov will be General Secretary someday."
This past week I was trying to figure out the order of Soviet leaders in The Americans era, and since I did not have wiki handy, I knew I was missing somebody. So with this line I had my lightbulb moment.
A little thing: Philip said that "George" had traced Anton's number. Is this someone we've seen/heard of before?
Based on the subtitles: no.
4. A dark-haired woman (the same one Anton was kissing? yes? no?) appeared out of nowhere and hit Philip.
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Re: Post-second-viewing: Jae
Date: 2014-03-20 07:58 pm (UTC)• Philip says that the person/people who were tailing their kids was pulled. That seems to be a definitive "no" in response to the question we were discussing last week about whether Kelli was somehow involved with the KGB. Anybody still arguing this side of that? :)
Nope ;-) Unless they're setting us up for a complete twist on twist.
On first viewing, it seems like Gaad was just going to be gone now, i.e. that he was being removed from his post or something and we just wouldn't see him again. But upon second viewing it seems to me that there's just going to be someone else directly supervising his work from now on. Is that everyone else's read?
I don't think he's going away, but a new char involved, I don't know how much he'll be involved anymore. Maybe he'll be pushed to another sub-department.
Oleg's conversation with Nina later suggested that he suspects that there might be a level on which this is true for Nina as well: "It's not so hard to deceive with the eyes, the smile, the things we say. But the body--the parts of the body that can love--they want to tell the truth."
That sentence actually seemed menacing to me.
• On a lighter note, I loved Arkady's positively precognitive "I think Yuri Andropov will be General Secretary someday."
This past week I was trying to figure out the order of Soviet leaders in The Americans era, and since I did not have wiki handy, I knew I was missing somebody. So with this line I had my lightbulb moment.
A little thing: Philip said that "George" had traced Anton's number. Is this someone we've seen/heard of before?
Based on the subtitles: no.
4. A dark-haired woman (the same one Anton was kissing? yes? no?) appeared out of nowhere and hit Philip.
I thought it was the girlfriend too.