Question of the week #63

[treonb]

How do you think Henry will respond when he finds out his parents are Soviet spies? 

You can expect spoilers for the entire first three seasons in the comments.

(There's no expiration date on these questions, so if you're reading this post months later and feel like jumping in, please do.)

Comments

[sistermagpie]

Elizabeth certainly sees herself as part of something extraordinary, and she's not American.

Right, but I didn't mean that made her American, I just meant that it's not like she found some particularly unusual-for-an-American way to do it. She's protesting with a church, which is very standard in American history, even (often especially) when it's protesting against American policy.

I don't think she's like the most American character or stands out as particularly American next to, say, Stan, Sandra, Matthew, Henry, Gregory....any other American character. My beginning point was to say that I didn't see Paige as committed to a particularly American ideal any more than Henry is--she doesn't seem to consciously associate her values with "the American way" or attach them to any American exceptionalism. I just also don't see her as detached from it either, any more than Henry is. She doesn't even really know anything else.