I was thinking about this and katiac's comment and I think one of the fun things about it is exactly what Elizabeth says when Philip asks her if she's kidding: I don't know. I don't know if she yet has anything specific in mind--she's probably intrigued by roleplaying with Clark just because that's the thing she was confronted with. Who is this Clark guy? What do you do when you're him? How are you different? It's a really intriguing premise!
But she probably doesn't have it all worked out in her head yet. This was her preliminary raising of the subject. Because she'd probably also be excited by Philip just doing something different as Philip. (And how great is it that they're having the conversation while they do the dishes together and Philip's the one with the dishtowel and glass in hand.)
But then, they're both Philip. And they're probably more "both Philip" to her than they are to him, you know? It's possible, like we've said before, that to her doing this roleplay would be Philip projecting certain qualities like she does when she's doing this. He'd still be himself, but acting a certain way. It's Philip acting the way he would act if he was shy or a fussbudget.
Where as for Philip Elizabeth's question about "would Clark ever be unfaithful?" might be more to the point because if he was going to "be" Clark with Elizabeth he'd actually be being Clark and that would require a more fully realized scenario (and would probably bring up some issues when he went back to be Clark with Martha having been unfaithful). It would almost be even more wonderfully twisted if he did it and then was guilty about it with Martha. I just love how "I don't now what you think he's like..." sounding almost a little fussbudgety. He's not speaking as Clark or anything but the words can't help but make me imagine Philip kind of getting between Clark and Elizabeth almost to protect him from her like he's Philip's colleague.
Re: Philip as "Clark"
But she probably doesn't have it all worked out in her head yet. This was her preliminary raising of the subject. Because she'd probably also be excited by Philip just doing something different as Philip. (And how great is it that they're having the conversation while they do the dishes together and Philip's the one with the dishtowel and glass in hand.)
But then, they're both Philip. And they're probably more "both Philip" to her than they are to him, you know? It's possible, like we've said before, that to her doing this roleplay would be Philip projecting certain qualities like she does when she's doing this. He'd still be himself, but acting a certain way. It's Philip acting the way he would act if he was shy or a fussbudget.
Where as for Philip Elizabeth's question about "would Clark ever be unfaithful?" might be more to the point because if he was going to "be" Clark with Elizabeth he'd actually be being Clark and that would require a more fully realized scenario (and would probably bring up some issues when he went back to be Clark with Martha having been unfaithful). It would almost be even more wonderfully twisted if he did it and then was guilty about it with Martha. I just love how "I don't now what you think he's like..." sounding almost a little fussbudgety. He's not speaking as Clark or anything but the words can't help but make me imagine Philip kind of getting between Clark and Elizabeth almost to protect him from her like he's Philip's colleague.