Sunday afternoon musings
Thing one: some of you eat paleo, yes? Here's my thing. I was a gluten-free vegetarian, but I've been having so many more GI-related problems in the past few months, and I've now cut dairy and legumes, which seems to be helping. Except that there go my two primary sources of protein. So I've been sucking it up and making myself eat small quantities
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I think the conscious fear, the horror she is letting herself feel, is for her childrens' lives; the horror she isn't letting herself look at is having to choose between her country and her family.
If my favorite way of looking at Philip and Elizabeth's relationship is through the lens of and around the edges of their working partnership, the flip side is that I got a little impatient with the degree to which the show foregrounds their relationship as such. The romance roller coaster was a bit excessive. First he's the one who demonstrably cares more for her, while she pushes him away. Then she starts to fall for him and ends things with Gregory. Then he pulls away as he meets Irina again. Then they split up. Then they're back together ( ... )
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Yes, this. You put it better than I did.
With the marriage stuff, on one hand I really applaud the show for breaking the mold of so many critically acclaimed shows lately (oh, the middle-aged white dude anti-hero, cry me a river...) and foregrounding marriage and family in a show like this. But it's a fine line to walk--at least for my viewer buttons, which are just my own, admittedly--because too much relationship drama turns it into soap opera territory really quickly, I find. Especially given the medium's constraints that you point out. So I'm interested in all of it--and I think I'm kind of even rooting for them as a couple now, though I didn't care that much one way or the other initially--but I want it dialed back just a little bit. So maybe panning out to encompass the family as a whole will do more of that.
As for Alias, possibly ( ... )
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