I hope you don't mind me sticking around to keep reading!
Not at all!
I've never really been into anti-heroes--I like my heroes to have realistic flaws, but ultimately fall further toward the "good" end of the good/bad spectrum than anti-heroes do--so perhaps E&P's actions more disturbing/shocking to me than to other people. On the other hand, I seem to have split them into entirely separate people in my head: bad KGB spies who sometimes do terrible things to good people, and sympathetic protagonists who happen to come from Russia (but the KGB part is glossed over) and whose jobs involve doing horrible things (but the fact that those horrible things sometimes get done to decent people is glossed over). It's kind of weird.
Ah, but surely she thought her mother was a bit odd long before that?
Probably, but the midnight ear-piercing thing strikes me as a whole other level of weird.
You're not the first one to say that, you should know.
I think the pilot set it up (to me, at least) as a more traditional "Person A pines for Person B, who sort of knows but has their own reasons for not succumbing; much of the narrative is the story of Person B falling for Person A to the point where they finally admit their feelings, etc." Which this kind of is, it's just Elizabeth admitted said feelings a lot earlier than the standard timeline, and they're doing their falling-in-love while having a lot more sex than is usual for these kinds of stories. Then again, this is FX, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised...
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.
Alas. I guess logistics like that are kind of boring and don't necessarily serve to move the story forward, so I can live without them, but certainly a line or two would not have gone amiss. (Also, I am very curious as to when E&P sleep, because it sure seems like a lot goes on every night!)
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Date: 2013-06-02 08:06 pm (UTC)Not at all!
I've never really been into anti-heroes--I like my heroes to have realistic flaws, but ultimately fall further toward the "good" end of the good/bad spectrum than anti-heroes do--so perhaps E&P's actions more disturbing/shocking to me than to other people. On the other hand, I seem to have split them into entirely separate people in my head: bad KGB spies who sometimes do terrible things to good people, and sympathetic protagonists who happen to come from Russia (but the KGB part is glossed over) and whose jobs involve doing horrible things (but the fact that those horrible things sometimes get done to decent people is glossed over). It's kind of weird.
Ah, but surely she thought her mother was a bit odd long before that?
Probably, but the midnight ear-piercing thing strikes me as a whole other level of weird.
You're not the first one to say that, you should know.
I think the pilot set it up (to me, at least) as a more traditional "Person A pines for Person B, who sort of knows but has their own reasons for not succumbing; much of the narrative is the story of Person B falling for Person A to the point where they finally admit their feelings, etc." Which this kind of is, it's just Elizabeth admitted said feelings a lot earlier than the standard timeline, and they're doing their falling-in-love while having a lot more sex than is usual for these kinds of stories. Then again, this is FX, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised...
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.
Alas. I guess logistics like that are kind of boring and don't necessarily serve to move the story forward, so I can live without them, but certainly a line or two would not have gone amiss. (Also, I am very curious as to when E&P sleep, because it sure seems like a lot goes on every night!)