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I got my SO into this show, and we've been binging to try and get her caught up. I had forgotten about the ARPAnet plotline in the second season, particularly the absolutely absurd way the scientist tries to explain packet switching. "So you write a postcard and it goes to heaven where god translates it and sends it to a mailman in virtual space on the highway to the future." Baronash fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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Rejoice, fans of Henry!Gonz posted:It's been discussed before, but if this show doesn't end with Elizabeth's emotionally shattered and utterly crestfallen face watching a TV screen on the morning of December 25th, 1991 while a sad song plays, then the writers have failed. Yeah, Elizabeth's reaction to everything she fought for and believed in collapsing and failing in the end has to be a component of the end of the series.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:08
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Her beliefs already seem to be wavering.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:09
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Henry's grown like a freaking weed.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:10
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Wait that's Henry?
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Mar 29, 2017 03:16
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Yep, and he's had a growth spurt. Am I the only Americans and NHL fan who thinks Philip's son looks like Nail Yakupov?
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Mar 29, 2017 03:22
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We blackmailed the poo poo out of him and everyone turned out happy 
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Mar 29, 2017 03:37
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Of course Pastor Tim has a copy of Marx
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Mar 29, 2017 03:40
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"I appreciate you trying to be Super  Spy, Jr. and doing something in line with what we've brought you into the fold to eventually ask you to do, but don't you DARE do anything like that again."
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Mar 29, 2017 03:56
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I just remembered when Elizabeth was having passionate sex with that hotel guy. That went nowhere after the mission I guess, kind of weird, it seemed like a plot thread
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Mar 29, 2017 04:01
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Fast Luck posted:I just remembered when Elizabeth was having passionate sex with that hotel guy. That went nowhere after the mission I guess, kind of weird, it seemed like a plot thread It showed that some of the walls she build up were breaking down and that she now felt like she was cheating.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:07
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drat Keri Russell looked even hotter in that wig and glasses as Brenda.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:57
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I would never have expected the Americans to go to my crapstick hometown for plot. I do find it funny that they thought there would be a Trader Joe's-like health food store in Topeka in the middle of the 1980s though.
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Mar 29, 2017 08:09
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Stan going to bat for his buddy Oleg 
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Mar 29, 2017 11:19
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Is this going to be the season where Phil finally loses the heart and stomach for "the cause"? He just looked super miserable having to go through all the motions for making the Topeka connection, and he seems to be finding more empathy in his conversations with the defector.
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Mar 29, 2017 15:21
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hatelull posted:Is this going to be the season where Phil finally loses the heart and stomach for "the cause"? He just looked super miserable having to go through all the motions for making the Topeka connection, and he seems to be finding more empathy in his conversations with the defector. The defector is illustrating a current USSR that is still experiencing post-war deprivation and dysfunction that the Directorate S operatives have been divorced from by merit of living in the US so long. It may not be empathy with the defector per se so much as a realization that all of Phil's work is for nothing and there's another Soviet generation wallowing in the things that they keep saying have ended, will end, etc. Assume that Phil is doing the math as such: If even 30% of the hyperbole being poo poo out by that dude is correct then what the hell is actually being accomplished and if things are falling apart in key aspects now, at this point, then is this a descent that can even be pulled up from
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Mar 29, 2017 17:20
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Vanderdeath posted:I would never have expected the Americans to go to my crapstick hometown for plot. I do find it funny that they thought there would be a Trader Joe's-like health food store in Topeka in the middle of the 1980s though. I noticed the shop window said vegan and I'm not sure if that was much of thing in the mid-80s.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:09
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phosdex posted:I noticed the shop window said vegan and I'm not sure if that was much of thing in the mid-80s. Veganism really started to take off during the counterculture movement in the 60s. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary for a health food store to be touting it by 1984/5.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:26
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Vanderdeath posted:I would never have expected the Americans to go to my crapstick hometown for plot. I do find it funny that they thought there would be a Trader Joe's-like health food store in Topeka in the middle of the 1980s though. I can't speak to Topeka directly but there were a lot of hippies leftover from the 60s who had finally got around to getting jobs and starting businesses and such so that they could become the Yuppies of the late 80s, and I definitely recall little health food stores like that in bigger Southern cities when I was a kid during the years the show is set in. To me it did look a little too much like a modern co-op though, they didn't put much effort into "rolling back" the look of everything. So Mischa is gonna kill Henry and take his place and nobody's going to notice, right? 
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Mar 29, 2017 23:37
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CBJSprague24 posted:Rejoice, fans of Henry! Vanderdeath posted:I would never have expected the Americans to go to my crapstick hometown for plot. I do find it funny that they thought there would be a Trader Joe's-like health food store in Topeka in the middle of the 1980s though. either, props to the prop guys: It's the red box at the bottom there, can't find the exact model but it's something like [url="https://"http://matoos.livejournal.com/22579.html"]this Электроника 409[/url]. Might still be around somewhere at grandfather's place.
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Mar 29, 2017 23:43
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precision posted:I can't speak to Topeka directly but there were a lot of hippies leftover from the 60s who had finally got around to getting jobs and starting businesses and such so that they could become the Yuppies of the late 80s, and I definitely recall little health food stores like that in bigger Southern cities when I was a kid during the years the show is set in. To me it did look a little too much like a modern co-op though, they didn't put much effort into "rolling back" the look of everything. Yeah, it looked a bit modern which is why it pulled me out of the scene. That and the aerial shot they had of Topeka was recent since the Capitol Building's dome was still an oxidized, rusted mess in the 80s and some of those buildings weren't there until I was a teenager in the late 90s. It's just funny to me because I imagine the production team trying to find archival footage for Topeka in the 1980s and coming up with nothing because it's such a boring and sad place.
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Mar 30, 2017 01:36
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yeah a lot of those little health food co op places in the midwest and south have been going since the 70's to me the bigger fuckup was the previous episode they were supposed to be in Illinois but there were mountains in the background the whole time, looked like the Catskills
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Mar 30, 2017 01:49
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I cannot believe this loving show builds up the Henry math teacher thing in not one but two scenes and then just goes nowhere with it. I'm sitting on the edge of my seat for the whole episode for that and then just nothing.
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Mar 30, 2017 02:16
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Earwicker posted:yeah a lot of those little health food co op places in the midwest and south have been going since the 70's There's uh some hills in southern Illinois and quad cities area! My biggest disappointment was that I wanted to see mid-80's Chicago instead of farmland.
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Mar 30, 2017 05:42
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The Center recruited Henry behind his parents back, he's never shown because he's off on various missions just as complicated as theirs. When they find this out it will be the greatest crisis of the entire show, and will lead to their abandoning communism and the USSR for good. The last scene will be Henry shooting both of them. Henry will kill Phillip's real son and it will be exactly like Hallorann in the Kubrick Shining movie.
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Mar 30, 2017 09:27
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The Center recruited Henry behind his parents back, he's never shown because he's off on various missions just as complicated as theirs. When they find this out it will be the greatest crisis of the entire show, and will lead to their abandoning communism and the USSR for good. The last scene will be Henry shooting both of them. And/or it's my joke post and they've given him his own attractive 20-something Soviet sex teacher like they did with the kid who went crazy.
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Mar 30, 2017 09:30
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BIG HEADLINE posted:And/or it's my joke post and they've given him his own attractive 20-something Soviet sex teacher like they did with the kid who went crazy. Your post implied that Henry was in a training he was possibly artificially prolonging due to enjoying his time with his sex instructor. My post posited that he was doing secret spy poo poo. I didn't steal from you!
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Mar 30, 2017 09:35
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Okay? >.>
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Mar 30, 2017 09:36
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I'm sorry, I got a little agitated because my complicated wig came slightly undone at the exact second my high waisted jeans fell a little.
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Mar 30, 2017 09:41
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Side angle: Henry is ~Zero Cool~ and by getting caught he forces The Centre to disavow Phil and Liz.
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Mar 30, 2017 09:44
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I'd rather he just had a cool punk girlfriend and was getting into the D.C scene, honestly.
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Mar 30, 2017 10:09
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So the new episode trailer heavily implies that Stan's new girlfriend is a spy.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:23
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Henchman of Santa posted:So the new episode trailer heavily implies that Stan's new girlfriend is a spy. Cool, I got that vibe based on the initial meeting description and first appearance.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:45
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Pontius Pilate posted:There's uh some hills in southern Illinois and quad cities area! My biggest disappointment was that I wanted to see mid-80's Chicago instead of farmland. if they did a Chicago scene it would probably just be filmed in NYC like the rest of the show. I see parts of Brooklyn and Queens that I recognize all the time
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Mar 30, 2017 13:49
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Cool, I got that vibe based on the initial meeting description and first appearance. And Stan gormlessly telling Philip that getting a beer with her was like bro'ing out with Philip 
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Mar 30, 2017 18:27
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SO I had been DVRing this and watched the first one of this season and it kind of made no sense. Then I came into the thread to see... Nina executed? Yeah, so no surprise that I am totally lost as the first one DVRed is not the season premier. gently caress
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Mar 30, 2017 20:27
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Fog Tripper posted:SO I had been DVRing this and watched the first one of this season and it kind of made no sense. Then I came into the thread to see... Nina executed? Is it possible you missed some of last season? Nina died last year.
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Mar 30, 2017 20:35
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Baronash posted:Is it possible you missed some of last season? Nina died last year. It is quite possible. I had been watching it on Amazon prime. I may have to rebinge it to see what I may have missed. So did I watch the season premier last night? They sneak into the base, dig up the body, young guy falls in and they shoot him?
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Mar 30, 2017 20:46
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Fog Tripper posted:It is quite possible. I had been watching it on Amazon prime. I may have to rebinge it to see what I may have missed. So did I watch the season premier last night? They sneak into the base, dig up the body, young guy falls in and they shoot him? Yes, that was the season premiere. Nina's death is halfway through season 4.
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I assume Phil's other son shows up on their doorstep next week. I can't remember, does he know his son is coming? Any ideas where that storyline may go?
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