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Zero One posted:Spy-craft isn't all glamorous We heard every millisecond of that man crappin'. Dr_Strangelove fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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That Mossad guy is an interesting character. I love this interaction.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 03:54 |
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Language, Adult Situations, Graphic Pooping Viewer Discretion Is Advised e: So this episode is an extra half hour? Or whole hour?
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 03:55 |
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precision posted:Language, Adult Situations, Graphic Pooping Extra fifteen minutes
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 03:57 |
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Oh hey, new Fargo preview. drat that show is looking good as hell. Gotta remember to make the OP next week.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 03:58 |
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ARPANET
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 04:00 |
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gently caress this is brutal. Philip's gonna let him go, isn't he?
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precision posted:gently caress this is brutal. Philip's gonna let him go, isn't he? Access to the ARPANET is pretty tempting.
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This Oleg is a playerprecision posted:Language, Adult Situations, Graphic Pooping Tonight on a very special The Americans. . . *plop*
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 04:06 |
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Well now Stan knows Nina is playing him... this is going to get intense.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 04:07 |
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No, he doesn't. He thinks that Oleg knows that Nina is an agent. Stan still doesn't know that she is a double.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 04:12 |
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Zero One posted:No, he doesn't. He thinks that Oleg knows that Nina is an agent. Stan still doesn't know that she is a double. Oh, duh, I forgot the specifics of the later part of last season. Never mind.
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precision posted:Oh, duh, I forgot the specifics of the later part of last season. Never mind. That guy is probably going to get killed by Stan to protect Nina, who will then use that to forcibly turn him.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 04:56 |
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You could just sense when Phil and Mossad Guy were having that chat about homelands that during the writer's meeting for that episode, the head writer said "now, before we get started, whoever suggests that one of them should say 'we're not so different, you and I' gets transferred to George Lopez's new sitcom."
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 07:39 |
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For a moment at the end there I thought Leonid was going to try to throw himself overboard the ship or hang himself. Sucks for him. Why was the episode longer? Why can't all episodes be ~50 minutes and be HBO length?
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 09:07 |
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drunkill posted:Why can't all episodes be ~50 minutes and be HBO length? Because FX has to have commercials.
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I thought Beeman might kill Oleg right at the port, but of course that would've been a risky move with his lack of information. The radio news Arkady was listening to at the end was sad. My dad was also punished for leaving his country the "ballsy" way while others who just hid and waited it out were officially forgiven.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 10:46 |
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precision posted:gently caress this is brutal. Philip's gonna let him go, isn't he? I thought it was heartbreaking, too It served as a good reminder that Philip and Elizabeth are still monsters under that nice suburban exterior
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Twee as gently caress posted:I thought it was heartbreaking, too At least telling the Mossad agent that he would make it home for Passover during the hand-off helped Phillip show the professor that he got sold by his own people, that everyone is a loving monster.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 18:43 |
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I've always wanted to see Baal take a poo poo.
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Mu Zeta posted:I've always wanted to see Baal take a poo poo.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 20:23 |
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Yeah, that scene in the car was pretty intense. You could tell it was getting to Phillip.
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Yeah, that scene in the car was pretty intense. You could tell it was getting to Phillip. It was only getting to him because he wondered if he'd be the same way if he were ever caught and faced with the reality of Paige and Henry growing up disgraced. At least the scientist's family would just think he was dead.
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# ? Mar 27, 2014 22:59 |
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I was really hoping at the end that the scientist would look out the port hole and see some palm trees in Israel. But I guess it's actually just
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 03:36 |
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Mu Zeta posted:I've always wanted to see Baal take a poo poo. lol was that really him also, that meeting at the docks was amazing hahaha. "Clark has some explaining to do" "*sighs* I'll let him know" that made me laugh pretty hard
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 07:14 |
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hey history people, what would Anton the scientists' life be like back in the Soviet Union? Are we talking torture, house arrest, or just a "go work in the goddamn fields"? Or would they coerce him into building the same technology for them?
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 09:14 |
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Dr_Strangelove posted:This Oleg is a player I love his character, he's so cocky in ignoring Arkady's anger and simply doing whatever the gently caress he wants. And he's actually smart and competent, unlike the normal useless twat put into a cushy job with family connections. He probably underestimates Nina quite badly and he may end up in Siberia or with a bullet in the head by the end of the season if he thinks he's got her under control. His Citroen DS is also a great character touch.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 09:54 |
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Narcissus1916 posted:hey history people, what would Anton the scientists' life be like back in the Soviet Union? Prison laboratory. At least until Gorbachev started freeing political prisoners as part of Glasnost. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Mar 28, 2014 |
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Is anyone else wondering what Paige wanted to tell Elizabeth, or do you think it was typical teenage stuff? I was thinking for a minute that she's figured something out about her parents.
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Hoopy Frood posted:Is anyone else wondering what Paige wanted to tell Elizabeth, or do you think it was typical teenage stuff? I was thinking for a minute that she's figured something out about her parents. Typical teenage stuff for sure. Paige was trying to talk about a hole in her life that she thinks religion can fill, and Elizabeth just didn't have a clue what she was trying to say. That's really all there was to the scene.
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CeeJee posted:His Citroen DS is also a great character touch. That is a sweet ride.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 16:20 |
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Can anyone possibly briefly explain what was going on in the carnival scene when Phillip was pulled in by the other directorate S agents to do a handoff? Who were the people that were following and what was the general premise? Is that something I should have figured out from the context, or was the ambiguity intentional? Thanks Really did not understand what happened in that scene, and feeling a bit lost about understanding what went down afterwards
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thehacker0 posted:Can anyone possibly briefly explain what was going on in the carnival scene when Phillip was pulled in by the other directorate S agents to do a handoff? Who were the people that were following and what was the general premise? Is that something I should have figured out from the context, or was the ambiguity intentional? Thanks It hasn't been revealed yet who was following and who killed the other directorate S family. There's definitely some ambiguity about different facets of the whole situation: were the other couple trying to deflect the heat onto Phil & Liz? was it a U.S. organization that killed them, Russians, or an unknown third party?
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 19:44 |
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Narcissus1916 posted:hey history people, what would Anton the scientists' life be like back in the Soviet Union? imo, Best case scenario would be house arrest + working on Soviet projects under duress, or death, vs. prison, working as a janitor or being arrested for being unemployed because he was fired for being a dissident. Even after the collapse some Jewish scientists, and scientists that worked in sensitive Soviet fields (space industry in particular), had trouble emigrating. For people interested in the topic here are some articles from the era: A article from 1981: Refusenik; MARK AZBEL: A SOVIET CITIZEN'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM "It is almost impossible for refuseniks to find work in their fields, and even menial jobs as doormen are in jeopardy if it is discovered that they are really laid-off Jewish physicists, chemists, or computer scientists. For applying to emigrate, they are fired; for not having a job, they are arrested." 1990: "Many scientists once denied emigration have now left the USSR, but others are still unable to obtain exit visas. Yuri Magarshack is doing science again. Today, he is an assistant researcher in the chemistry department at New York University. Yet for an 11-year period that ended last spring, the theoretical physicist was struggling to endure life as a refusenik - a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who is denied permission to emigrate. Dismissed from his job as head of a laboratory in Leningrad."
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 19:57 |
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savinhill posted:It hasn't been revealed yet who was following and who killed the other directorate S family. There's definitely some ambiguity about different facets of the whole situation: were the other couple trying to deflect the heat onto Phil & Liz? was it a U.S. organization that killed them, Russians, or an unknown third party? Is it clear what the point of that little operation in the carnival was? To me it seemed that the guy they picked up the package off (who was being followed) was going to come meet them, but since he had a tail, they needed to do a brush pass? Finding out who killed that family seems to be a major plot point, and i am kinda suspicious of Igor or whatever his name is (the new hot shot residentura). Fascinating character actually. Anyone else think that this week's episode was one of the better ones this season?
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 20:25 |
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I thought it was clear that Elizabeth's recon was leading in a positive direction. It just would have made things too muddled to deal with it this week beyond her getting the file. Her reprise as Clark's sister was glorious. The only potential fallout is for her to demand kinkier poo poo in the bedroom. I'm also glad to see Martha humanized somewhat, even if she's probably toast.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 20:32 |
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Suddenly I'm no longer laughing at how funny the word "refusenik" is.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 22:44 |
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lol i thought that word was hilarious too dont worry. i love this show btw. last night I was thinking how its pretty cool how half the time I forget that the embassy guys are even on the same side as Elizabeth and Philip (btw, are they named after british monarchs intentionally?) really liked the scene at the docks a lot, that was just so awesome and so well done.
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# ? Mar 28, 2014 22:55 |
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Narcissus1916 posted:hey history people, what would Anton the scientists' life be like back in the Soviet Union? He'd most likely be taken (provided he calmed down and played ball) to a 'closed' town like Arzamas-16 (today known as Sarov), which even to this day is their Los Alamos and remains closed. They'd want to get the best value out of him, and making him work in a lovely room in a prison doesn't work as well as placing him with other scientists in his field and telling them to ingratiate themselves and persuade him to teach them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city These are towns/cities that are literally surrounded by nothing. Escape or ex-filtration is nigh-impossible, but unlike Siberia, if you do your job, you get to be bored and well-fed as opposed to being bored, freezing, and starving. You were also able to leave the perimeter, not that you had many places to go. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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When you read about some of these decisions that Russia thought were actually good ideas in the goddamn late 1900s you wonder how they were ever considered a real actual threat, and/or how they ever got anything done at all. I mean Jesus Christ you don't fire your super-scientists because they believe in some harmless funny thing this is like Civilization 101 people. It would be like America firing every scientist that's an atheist.
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