frelling_tralk (
frelling_tralk) wrote2017-04-19 04:05 pm
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Entry tags:
Dreamwidth rambling
Er I hope this doesn't cause any offense, but today I actually unsubscribed from quite a few of the DW accounts that I first added when we were creating them as LJ back-ups. All of those accounts still have mutual access, but I decided that I want to start to try and keep up with my DW flist as well (or "reading list" I guess) now that so many people have left for DW, and at the moment I find that I'm mostly just reading the same entries again that I've already read on LJ, so I've unsubscribed to friends that I'm already in touch with on LJ
For the moment I won't be cross-posting and using my own DW, but I am going to try and keep up with my "subscriptions" over there (is it just me, or is DW awfully impersonal??), and read through it after I've read my flist
For the moment I won't be cross-posting and using my own DW, but I am going to try and keep up with my "subscriptions" over there (is it just me, or is DW awfully impersonal??), and read through it after I've read my flist
no subject
I'm really hoping that it does end on the fall of the Soviet Union, I need to see Elizabeth's reaction to that. And also to the fall of the Berlin Wall! It's a pretty big time-jump from the early 80's though, and they never seem in a rush to move the timeline along any faster (hence the problem with the Henry actor starting to outgrow the part when he's only supposed to be like 12/13 in the show!), so I get the feeling that they're probably not planning to end it that far ahead. Maybe it will wrap up a few years before then, with hints of what's coming?
And Elizabeth has been so harshly indoctrinated that I don't see her ever walking away from her mission, that's what makes me think that that's eventually all coming to a head when we see Phillip questioning everything, and talking in EST about how he dreads his job every single morning. I can picture it all blowing up into a really massive confrontation if Phillip ever does get frustrated enough to decide that he really can't do this any more. But at the moment who knows, even with how much he hates what he does, he was still very firm recently on it needing to be him and Elizabeth working together...
And I haven't seen Allegiance, no
no subject
You never know with TV – on the one hand, good shows want to do something that isn't too expected and Phillip defecting would be just that. On the other hand, good shows don't do anything too outlandish just for the sake of a twist. And I think we can agree that this ia s a good show so I just don't know.
The reason I brought up Allegiance was because it took place in the here and now and it addressed how Katya, the main character, got her children to work for Russian Intelligence. So it came with some interesting twists and turns, especially in light of her own family history during (the fall of the) Soviet Union.