Hello! There *are* other people out there watching The Americans! \o/
It's not a show I feel terribly fannish about in the traditional sense, but I think what's keeping me watching it is that the characters, particularly Elizabeth and Philip, but also Nina, and Gregory, and Stan, and the Jennings kids - none of them are flat. They've all got conflicts and layers. In particular, I really enjoyed watching the scenes where Elizabeth is fighting this inner battle between her loyalties to her country and her mission, but at the same time, worry about how their kids will handle it if something happens to them (since they'd most likely be brought back to Russia). Paige and Henry are part of their cover, part of the mission, but they're also her children, regardless of why they were conceived, and they give her a vulnerability and divide her heart between her loyalties to her country, and her loyalties to her very American children, technically, her enemy. Elizabeth's not just some cold-hearted spy. She's so much more, whether she likes it or not.
Um... phew! I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that, but it's later than I thought - saw your episode reactions on your journal - mind if I follow you?
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It's not a show I feel terribly fannish about in the traditional sense, but I think what's keeping me watching it is that the characters, particularly Elizabeth and Philip, but also Nina, and Gregory, and Stan, and the Jennings kids - none of them are flat. They've all got conflicts and layers. In particular, I really enjoyed watching the scenes where Elizabeth is fighting this inner battle between her loyalties to her country and her mission, but at the same time, worry about how their kids will handle it if something happens to them (since they'd most likely be brought back to Russia). Paige and Henry are part of their cover, part of the mission, but they're also her children, regardless of why they were conceived, and they give her a vulnerability and divide her heart between her loyalties to her country, and her loyalties to her very American children, technically, her enemy. Elizabeth's not just some cold-hearted spy. She's so much more, whether she likes it or not.
Um... phew! I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that, but it's later than I thought - saw your episode reactions on your journal - mind if I follow you?