can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord.

[intrikate88]

Twitter and Tumblr just aren't enough to contain my thoughts and I don't have Photoshop to work on them that way and I don't have time to write fiction, so META AT LJ IT IS.

So: The AmericansIt is not Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko being married badasses, unfortunately, but if anyone wants to make that spinoff (as well as the Sark and Rachel one,

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[findthesea]

KJGSKDHJAHKAJFF THIS WHOLE FUCKING POST JESUS I just put it in my memories because I want to save it and cherish it forever. I so wish I could put all my meta thoughts into words but at the moment I can't so I am so glad you did this.

The whole Phillip reciting (well, not reciting) the pledge thing is actually is SO FUCKING INTERESTING to me and tbh that's one of the (many) moments that grabbed me the most as a visual. I don't know why, I think because it was such a small moment but it represented SO MUCH about the "bigger picture." JFC this show + my emotions = brain splatter all over the screen.

Except no one had ever fought for Elizabeth to keep her from an awful man’s hands, and suddenly it’s all different. And Elizabeth just watches, because maybe this is the first time somebody has fought for her, not the mission or the Motherland, but her, and Phillip, in that moment, won’t trade a genuine American life and three million dollars for a chance to be her partner not only professionally but with her deepest, most personal secrets

[intrikate88]

LOL THE REASON I HAVE BEEN WRITING THIS POST FOR 24 ACTUAL HOURS IS BECAUSE MY BRAIN WAS TORN BETWEEN KJAFJKLADSFLIJADSFLKJ, WANTING TO FIC THINGS I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND, AND COHERENT META

[findthesea]

TOTALLY NEED THAT DISCUSSION GROUP I mean for flaily hands and all but also for totally ~serious~ stuffs and analyzing because that's literally all I want to do. Like I just want to keep looking for moments and symbols and everything that makes up this show and how it all contributes to the bigger theme and picture of the series.

Part of me really hopes that it's not me hyping this up and "omg the first ep was so good, and the second ep was so good, and wtf third ep what happened!" I honestly don't think that will be the case but I get worried anyway, lol. Just because the subject matter is so compelling and everything else is already so well done I can't see it falling apart.

Ice cream is my new favorite thing.

[hollywoodgrrl]

THIS IS AMAAAAAAZZZZIIIIINNNNING! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WRITING IT!!!

So many things to discuss on this show AND ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL?! I'm twirling around in all the possibilities of serious analysis and discussion that this show will bring (it better!).

Briefly I wanna talk about this:

And maybe what got Elizabeth through was the idea that she was too headstrong a fighter, not compliant enough-that what she had experienced had meaning and was for a purpose, to make her a better agent. To desensitize her to the men she would have to seduce information out of. Just some reason, to make sense of it.

But there is no reason. She was there. She was convenient. She was just a perk.You did such a great job analyzing this moment. As I watched the scene my first thought was that Timoshev would tell her it's part of her training. Sex will be a huge part of the way she would operate and this was just the roughest way of teaching her the lesson (kind of like the precursor to the famous "suck my dick" scene in GI Jane). But no, it was just a

[intrikate88]

I was so floored by that moment. Because Elizabeth has SO much fight in her. She put Timoshev's head through a wall using essentially the same moves he used on her. He'd never get taken across the street: Elizabeth would be bleaching brain matter off the drywall. Because she's special. That's why her training was so hard, why everything has been so hard, because her country cares that much, to make her so tough.

And then all of that fight just drains out of her when he says that the cadets were just a perk. Like, all of it, all that fury and caring just leaves through the soles of her feet. He's as much worth killing as she was worth hurting, and nothing matters at all, and she's going back to bed. She didn't get revenge and she wasn't rendered paralyzed by fear. It was all just gone.

I think that's all kind of startling for a moment that is more of a void than an event.

[jebbypal]

Lovely meta song fic :)

The music in the ep was great and really flashed me back to the 80s. But then again almost any predisney era Phil Collins does that to me too

[intrikate88]

Somebody better than me needs to analyze the music used; this song used to summarize the episode in the body-disposal scene really brought everything together so well, and I felt like it was good for outlining character analysis as well.