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i like that paige is still wearing her cross. it makes it more believable that they tracked away from that storyline. it makes it seem more "kids go through phases and she's drifted after everything that's been happening recently" and less just straight up "this storyline got dropped" e: either that, or like the kimmy thing, her churchgoing is still happening and just isn't being depicted because it isn't relevant right now
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withak posted:I think that including some ridiculous feature makes for a pretty good disguise. The witness focuses on the terrible mustache or silly hat, and his description can be made useless seconds after making your escape by ditching the offending item. Yeah. One attention-grabbing characteristic tends to make everything else kinda melt out of a person's memory when trying to give a description after the fact. They're not just trying to look different from their normal look and blend in; they're trying to keep the stuff they can't take off forgettable. e: this is also what makes a pilot's/stewardess' uniforms useful
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i really, like REALLY hope that henry's absence is because he's fallen in with the now-legendary mid-eighties dc punk scene more likely though is he's playing dnd or drinking
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the american spy smiles and nods in a silent "good morning" to a passerby as he walks to work in his first day undercover, gets immediately made as a spy and arrested
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Mar 25, 2017 07:39
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watch this drat show do nothing with that martha tease. shes just alive in moscow that's it lol this show loves to play with tv/movie drama conventions like that. i especially like how it forces some of the characters' paranoia on you by focusing dramatically on passerby and strangers, cueing them up with visual tropes to be a spy or make a move or whatever, and then just moves on and you're left with no clear idea who that was
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mobby_6kl posted:Would he really be an illegal immigrant? He got in through JFK, it's not like you can just walk across the border with Austria as if it were Mexico. So, asylum maybe? But then a soviet citizen might attract FBI attention... He's in the country with no legal right to be there; he's an illegal immigrant. He could potentially claim refugee status / defection and gain the legal right, but that would mean basically throwing himself on the mercy of the FBI and potentially getting deported if he doesn't clear their defector screening. E: there's no way he's going to do that, especially considering his forged documentation and language skills are apparently good enough to pass international customs. If he keeps his head down and keeps moving he's not likely to have any interaction with law enforcement, and if he does he would rely on the same stuff that got him through customs. He's got no reason to turn himself in and risk deportation. Cactus Ghost fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Mar 31, 2017 19:47
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hatelull posted:Was it explicit that it was Mischa's mother in Russia that was supplying him with the cash and passports to get out of the country? There was a plot in the earlier seasons where Phil is on assignment and runs into an old flame from his childhood that pretty much says "after you left, I had a kid and it was yours." She dies later in the season I think? Philip was told she went on the run after her and Phillip's tryst and was later captured in Canada. Presumably that's true, though we never saw it on-screen. The cash and documents were explicitly left by her (there's a letter from her that explains his father is a travel agent in DC). It must have been a cache of some sort she left behind or had sent to her son; she's been gone a while.
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There were, like, ten of them busted all at once. That could very well be an endgame they've considered.
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TheCenturion posted:Also, mad props on Momma Oleg dropping some truth bombs on how to survive. I really wasn't expecting them to bother giving her any depth. Up to this point she'd just been an annoying plot device who makes things happen by crying. Her little reveal instantly gives context to her emotional frailty with regard to her son's death and her remaining son's safety.
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Apr 4, 2017 07:42
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This episode was just one gut-punch after another. I love how on-point the writing is for Paige. Everything she does and says really feels and sounds like teenage poo poo. Like real teenage turmoil. When she spent all day in bed after her parents' first reveal; when they found her sleeping in the closet; just now when she said maybe she's just meant to be alone. Phillip's reaction to the news about the crops was genuinely uncomfortable to watch. Rhys' acting and Emmerich's direction were on point. Also Elizabeth trying to empathize with his anguish and falling short. And the scene with Mischa and Gabriel. "Not here." gently caress
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Apr 5, 2017 23:56
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If (when? probably "when") Philip finds out about Mischa and his handlers keeping it from him, it's going to be a loving bombshell of an episode. e: especially since there's no way Mischa isn't in a world of poo poo
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Apr 6, 2017 07:38
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Naylenas posted:Henry wants to join the FBI and Stan told him to do good in school. That's not a bad bet. It'd also make for some good tension about "do we tell him?" Because the Center specifically wanted second-generation spies who could clear US Government background checks.
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Apr 7, 2017 04:37
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There's no way Gabriel let Mischa leave.
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Apr 7, 2017 22:18
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Gabriel wouldn't have gone to that meeting alone, ideally without at least two other people if they were available. The only way Mischa doesn't go with them is if he fights his way out and is able to go to ground ... in a country whose language he barely speaks, with a dwindling supply of money, when he's already exhausted and emotionally devastated. Which, I mean... hes clearly shown resourcefulness and resolve up until now. He's a soldier, after all. I guess the episode didn't fully resolve it, though I got no impression that Mischa was going anywhere Gabriel didn't lead him.
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Apr 7, 2017 23:04
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So the CIA kept no-showing because of Stan's leverage, and now Oleg decided he's done waiting on them and burnt the evidence. Right? I wasn't sure what to make of that scene.
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Apr 12, 2017 13:12
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Wouldn't the pins all just drag a single-file line in the soot across the edge of the key?
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Apr 14, 2017 18:09
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Ah. Once a pin's section is filed to where the pin releases, it stops scratching the key. And being a therapist's office, she's got a perfectly normal reason to go back repeatedly until she gets it right. It might take her a couple months of weekly sessions but she'll have the key eventually. Clever.
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Apr 14, 2017 19:09
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I think what might manage to snap Elizabeth out of her ~zeal~ might be either a failed or successful suicide attempt by Paige. There's no way she'd be able to empathize with it. Her reaction would be anger. At Paige.
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Apr 16, 2017 00:46
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Phillip still had both his parents, his dad had a job, one good enough that his mom didn't have to work. They ate daily. They had clothes that weren't darned-together rags. From the perspective of someone (Elizabeth) whose ideal philosophy shuns the value of consumer goods and personal wealth while emphasizing family and communal effort, and within the almost unimaginably bleak context of postwar europe, "better off" doesn't seem unreasonable.
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Apr 17, 2017 07:53
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I think letting out his reservations about Paige and concerns about Phillip's state were his way of making some atonement for sending Phillip's son packing without telling him.
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Apr 21, 2017 15:31
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I’m not only ok with the show taking side trips seemingly just for the sake of showing more situations and slices of life from the time, i think it’s one of the things that makes the show great. Like Mischa; even if that never amounts to anything (which would disappoint for sure) the story of his illegal border crossing and the intense portrayal of his vulnerability and fear throughout were great in their own right. That was a reality a lot of people lived, and the show is richer for it. It also leaves uncertainty about resolution; there’s way too many B plots for them all to tie off nicely, which leaves the show’s outcome wide open. For example, Sons Of Anarchy tied up practically every single loose end in the show, which while satisfying, made the last two or three episodes feel like a foregone conclusion.
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im lollin at calling a 40-ish hippie in the mid-eighties a “hipster”
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