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Supernatural- Whoops, guess I didn't comment on this week's ep. Its a Charlie ep, which is always good because Felicia Day is awesome. So in Oz, to defeat some threat, the Wizard used a key of Oz on her to unleash her inner darkness. So, there's two of her, a good Charlie and a bad Charlie.
Bad Charlie basically beats a bunch of people up to find the drunk driver who killed her parents and get her revenge. Dean catches up with her, but he's an idiot and forgets that he's not interacting with the real Charlie, just the manifestation of all her darkest impulses. So why would evil Charlie just want to talk it out nicely with the guy.
So she wastes the guy who kill her parents. And there's all this talk about "Oh, now Charlie will have to live with it!" but it wasn't her who killed the guy, it was her evil self. Blah Blah Blah, its a part of her, but I think everyone has darkness in them, but good people have goodness in them to keep it in check. So, yeah, if you just separated the two, that's not you, that's your darkest self doing bad things because it doesn't have your good side to be all, "That's not very nice".
Anyways, Good Charlie and Sam try to find an old Man of Letters who had traveled to Oz once in order to figure out a way to fix the broken key of Oz she has so she could re-open a portal back there to have the Wizard put her back together. Only when they meet the man, they learn the truth- he had been split like Charlie had, and the Wizard is his dark self!
So, he shoots himself to get the wizard to show up, and its a whole thing where the Wizard is beating up Sam and Dean, whom Evil Charlie had followed to the house, beats the crap out of her in a Mark of Cain fueled rage. But, good Charlie fights through the pain transferred to the link between her selves and kills the good half of the Wizard to end him. They get out just in time to stop Dean from killing evil Charlie.
Almost killing his basically little sister is enough to snap him out of it and re-double his efforts to get rid of the mark. He's worried about not being able to fight the darkness, but Charlie tells him, unlike Cain, who no longer had Abel, Dean still has Sam and other people who care about him to keep him sane.
The Americans- Its interesting the parallels in this show with now. Like its weird to see the Russians talking about pulling out of Afghanistan and having to watch tapes of the Mujahideen execute Russians. How topical! But yeah, so Oleg's openly all, "the way to save Russian lives is not to be there in the first place" in meetings. So, Arkady takes him aside and tells him to cut this shit out because they don't know which way Nina's replacement leans. And again, its interesting the parallels between their situation on today, though the difference is, it seems, speaking out against the current political climate in American will just torch your career. Back then, in the USSR, it could actually be dangerous.
Speaking of, so we learn Nina has been convicted of treason. Oleg tried begging his father to use his connection to save her, but he won't. Stan's basically, "So that's that?" when he hears of her conviction from Gaad, who heard it from the CIA. So, is she like gone from the show? Or will she get out of it and be back in the game somehow?
Lots of danger in this ep though- so Elizabeth meets with a disgruntled CIA lady to get a list of names of CIA operatives working in Afghanistan. But, after she gives her the list, the lady changes her mind and calls it in. And so Elizabeth has to flee and is almost caught by Gaad. He ends up with a broken nose, she ends up with a very bruised jaw, eye, and shoulder.
And since they lost the list, Philip has to use that one asset of his played by Hank's blind gf from Royal Pains to try and get the info out of some ISI guy instead. Unfortunately, she's falling for her mark, and confesses she loves him, but "she's doing important work". Not sure how that translates into something the guy should strangle her for, but he does. And wow, Philip can stay composed! Like you can tell he's prolly pretty upset about Annelise being strangled to death with him in the next room, but he just plays it off, using it as a way to get the guy under his thumb.
Other stuff, their new handler tells them he can't go to the Centre and say the Jennings continue to refuse to make Paige into a spy. So, Elizabeth is all, she's been hanging out with her in church, and Paige has "the right political views". Of course, later Philip and her get into an argument because he knows that's bullshit and she's telling their bosses what they want to hear. So they have that same argument again, where Philip wants Paige to grow up and just be free and not get sucked into their world, whereas Elizabeth kinda wants this for her.
And I think it all stems from the fact that Elizabeth is the believer whereas for Philip its just a job. Like he accuses his wife of grooming their daughter into buying into their ideology and becoming a spy. But she points out, she is Paige's mother, and to her, the communist way is right, so she's trying to get Paige to follow what she thinks is right. Like, if they weren't spies, and were a family back in Russia, she prolly would be encouraging Paige to lean this way politically!
I guess the other interesting thing about this show is since its based in history, you know no matter how hard the Jennings and the Centre try, they're fighting a doomed battle because the USSR lost in Afghanistan, so even if it seems like they get a win in upcoming eps, it has to go wrong because that's the way things went.
Supernatural- Whoops, guess I didn't comment on this week's ep. Its a Charlie ep, which is always good because Felicia Day is awesome. So in Oz, to defeat some threat, the Wizard used a key of Oz on her to unleash her inner darkness. So, there's two of her, a good Charlie and a bad Charlie.
Bad Charlie basically beats a bunch of people up to find the drunk driver who killed her parents and get her revenge. Dean catches up with her, but he's an idiot and forgets that he's not interacting with the real Charlie, just the manifestation of all her darkest impulses. So why would evil Charlie just want to talk it out nicely with the guy.
So she wastes the guy who kill her parents. And there's all this talk about "Oh, now Charlie will have to live with it!" but it wasn't her who killed the guy, it was her evil self. Blah Blah Blah, its a part of her, but I think everyone has darkness in them, but good people have goodness in them to keep it in check. So, yeah, if you just separated the two, that's not you, that's your darkest self doing bad things because it doesn't have your good side to be all, "That's not very nice".
Anyways, Good Charlie and Sam try to find an old Man of Letters who had traveled to Oz once in order to figure out a way to fix the broken key of Oz she has so she could re-open a portal back there to have the Wizard put her back together. Only when they meet the man, they learn the truth- he had been split like Charlie had, and the Wizard is his dark self!
So, he shoots himself to get the wizard to show up, and its a whole thing where the Wizard is beating up Sam and Dean, whom Evil Charlie had followed to the house, beats the crap out of her in a Mark of Cain fueled rage. But, good Charlie fights through the pain transferred to the link between her selves and kills the good half of the Wizard to end him. They get out just in time to stop Dean from killing evil Charlie.
Almost killing his basically little sister is enough to snap him out of it and re-double his efforts to get rid of the mark. He's worried about not being able to fight the darkness, but Charlie tells him, unlike Cain, who no longer had Abel, Dean still has Sam and other people who care about him to keep him sane.
The Americans- Its interesting the parallels in this show with now. Like its weird to see the Russians talking about pulling out of Afghanistan and having to watch tapes of the Mujahideen execute Russians. How topical! But yeah, so Oleg's openly all, "the way to save Russian lives is not to be there in the first place" in meetings. So, Arkady takes him aside and tells him to cut this shit out because they don't know which way Nina's replacement leans. And again, its interesting the parallels between their situation on today, though the difference is, it seems, speaking out against the current political climate in American will just torch your career. Back then, in the USSR, it could actually be dangerous.
Speaking of, so we learn Nina has been convicted of treason. Oleg tried begging his father to use his connection to save her, but he won't. Stan's basically, "So that's that?" when he hears of her conviction from Gaad, who heard it from the CIA. So, is she like gone from the show? Or will she get out of it and be back in the game somehow?
Lots of danger in this ep though- so Elizabeth meets with a disgruntled CIA lady to get a list of names of CIA operatives working in Afghanistan. But, after she gives her the list, the lady changes her mind and calls it in. And so Elizabeth has to flee and is almost caught by Gaad. He ends up with a broken nose, she ends up with a very bruised jaw, eye, and shoulder.
And since they lost the list, Philip has to use that one asset of his played by Hank's blind gf from Royal Pains to try and get the info out of some ISI guy instead. Unfortunately, she's falling for her mark, and confesses she loves him, but "she's doing important work". Not sure how that translates into something the guy should strangle her for, but he does. And wow, Philip can stay composed! Like you can tell he's prolly pretty upset about Annelise being strangled to death with him in the next room, but he just plays it off, using it as a way to get the guy under his thumb.
Other stuff, their new handler tells them he can't go to the Centre and say the Jennings continue to refuse to make Paige into a spy. So, Elizabeth is all, she's been hanging out with her in church, and Paige has "the right political views". Of course, later Philip and her get into an argument because he knows that's bullshit and she's telling their bosses what they want to hear. So they have that same argument again, where Philip wants Paige to grow up and just be free and not get sucked into their world, whereas Elizabeth kinda wants this for her.
And I think it all stems from the fact that Elizabeth is the believer whereas for Philip its just a job. Like he accuses his wife of grooming their daughter into buying into their ideology and becoming a spy. But she points out, she is Paige's mother, and to her, the communist way is right, so she's trying to get Paige to follow what she thinks is right. Like, if they weren't spies, and were a family back in Russia, she prolly would be encouraging Paige to lean this way politically!
I guess the other interesting thing about this show is since its based in history, you know no matter how hard the Jennings and the Centre try, they're fighting a doomed battle because the USSR lost in Afghanistan, so even if it seems like they get a win in upcoming eps, it has to go wrong because that's the way things went.
