I love everything you said in that last paragraph!!!
I think my read is that this episode is about Philip feeling like he's losing his identity, and Elizabeth is his grounding anchor. It must be a real struggle when it becomes hard to reconcile your past self with your present, feeling like your memories of something you love is fading. I think Gen saw this as a continuation of the Pilot-idea that Philip has become so ingrained in America that he's forgotten what he's fighting for and while I think that's kinda true, my take from his actual episode is just that he misses it and wants to remember and wants to hold on to the part of his life that was actually truly real.
I love this episode so much because all the Philip scenes to me were so cohesive in this one escalation of an idea - whether same or different to the one I had.(from 'you miss it' to 'i like the cold' to 'i hide what i do not who i am' to 'are your children your children' to 'they took your humanity you may as well be dead' to 'i remember')
Re: Philip and his memories
I think my read is that this episode is about Philip feeling like he's losing his identity, and Elizabeth is his grounding anchor. It must be a real struggle when it becomes hard to reconcile your past self with your present, feeling like your memories of something you love is fading. I think Gen saw this as a continuation of the Pilot-idea that Philip has become so ingrained in America that he's forgotten what he's fighting for and while I think that's kinda true, my take from his actual episode is just that he misses it and wants to remember and wants to hold on to the part of his life that was actually truly real.
I love this episode so much because all the Philip scenes to me were so cohesive in this one escalation of an idea - whether same or different to the one I had.(from 'you miss it' to 'i like the cold' to 'i hide what i do not who i am' to 'are your children your children' to 'they took your humanity you may as well be dead' to 'i remember')