I'd say the closest I've come to completely changing my mind about a character so far is Claudia. I really disliked her toward the beginning, really saw her as bad in a black-and-white kind of way, but in the last three or four episodes of season one, she took on some shades of grey and the show managed to convince me of them.
My opinion of Stan is also different than it was toward the beginning, but that one feels more like adding layers than changing my mind. Case in point: at the time of the pilot, I would have never believed that he would shoot a Soviet diplomat in the back out of anger, but the show made me believe it because it convinced me that the potential to do something like that was what was under the rigid control. Based on some of the snatches of possible second-season plots that we've gotten from the producers, I'm a little bit afraid the show will move too fast on adding new layers to Stan and I'll have trouble believing it, though. I hope that won't end up being the case.
As far as ideology goes, it took me a few episodes to get a handle on where Philip was ideologically--whether he'd really totally bought into the rah-rah America stuff and was just going through the motions on the rah-rah-Soviet stuff, or whether it was more complicated than that. I eventually came to think of him as completely unideological, though. I think he sees the good and bad in both systems and can convincingly argue for either, but isn't a true believer of either camp.
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Date: 2013-06-03 11:58 am (UTC)My opinion of Stan is also different than it was toward the beginning, but that one feels more like adding layers than changing my mind. Case in point: at the time of the pilot, I would have never believed that he would shoot a Soviet diplomat in the back out of anger, but the show made me believe it because it convinced me that the potential to do something like that was what was under the rigid control. Based on some of the snatches of possible second-season plots that we've gotten from the producers, I'm a little bit afraid the show will move too fast on adding new layers to Stan and I'll have trouble believing it, though. I hope that won't end up being the case.
As far as ideology goes, it took me a few episodes to get a handle on where Philip was ideologically--whether he'd really totally bought into the rah-rah America stuff and was just going through the motions on the rah-rah-Soviet stuff, or whether it was more complicated than that. I eventually came to think of him as completely unideological, though. I think he sees the good and bad in both systems and can convincingly argue for either, but isn't a true believer of either camp.
-J