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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[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 perk of the job for him. And once she finds out about it - that the system she put SO MUCH OF HERSELF INTO, the country she sacrificed SO MUCH FOR encouraged it??? - then and only then, comes the first crack in her unquestionable loyalty.

[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.