It's really, really fun for me to watch you going back through this show and making some of the same comments that other people made back when it first aired. :) I hope you don't mind me sticking around to keep reading!
Here are my thoughts on yours (spoiler-free, I promise):
I'm both impressed and horrified (impressorrified?) at how thoroughly gray they've chosen to make Philip and Elizabeth.
I was mostly just delighted. I mean, we've had a lot of anti-heroes in good television drama in recent years--Tony Soprano, the main guy on Breaking Bad, etc.--but you're never supposed to thoroughly love them. This show has chosen to make Philip and Elizabeth thoroughly sympathetic and yet do just as horrible things as the traditional anti-hero. And it worked from day one, at least for me. Fascinating and awesome.
I guess that midnight ear-piercing escapade doesn't really point to Elizabeth being a spy, but Paige surely thinks her mother is at least a bit odd now.
Ah, but surely she thought her mother was a bit odd long before that? I think about that sometimes--how Paige explains away her mother's strangeness in her own head.
But this episode still feels like too much too soon, I guess.
You're not the first one to say that, you should know. I didn't feel that way at all at the time--I read the early episodes as her starting to feel something for Philip and still feeling around in the dark about what exactly that was, and her behaviour is completely consistent with that--but you're definitely not alone.
Last episode, they got a babysitter for the kids when they went on a spy mission. This time they...jetted off to Philadelphia while the kids were sleeping?
I was bothered by this too. There's more of that sort of thing to come, too. It sort of gets addressed later (I'm hoping that's vague enough to not qualify as a spoiler), but not soon enough or directly enough to my satisfaction.
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Date: 2013-06-02 02:06 pm (UTC)Here are my thoughts on yours (spoiler-free, I promise):
I'm both impressed and horrified (impressorrified?) at how thoroughly gray they've chosen to make Philip and Elizabeth.
I was mostly just delighted. I mean, we've had a lot of anti-heroes in good television drama in recent years--Tony Soprano, the main guy on Breaking Bad, etc.--but you're never supposed to thoroughly love them. This show has chosen to make Philip and Elizabeth thoroughly sympathetic and yet do just as horrible things as the traditional anti-hero. And it worked from day one, at least for me. Fascinating and awesome.
I guess that midnight ear-piercing escapade doesn't really point to Elizabeth being a spy, but Paige surely thinks her mother is at least a bit odd now.
Ah, but surely she thought her mother was a bit odd long before that? I think about that sometimes--how Paige explains away her mother's strangeness in her own head.
But this episode still feels like too much too soon, I guess.
You're not the first one to say that, you should know. I didn't feel that way at all at the time--I read the early episodes as her starting to feel something for Philip and still feeling around in the dark about what exactly that was, and her behaviour is completely consistent with that--but you're definitely not alone.
Last episode, they got a babysitter for the kids when they went on a spy mission. This time they...jetted off to Philadelphia while the kids were sleeping?
I was bothered by this too. There's more of that sort of thing to come, too. It sort of gets addressed later (I'm hoping that's vague enough to not qualify as a spoiler), but not soon enough or directly enough to my satisfaction.
-J