Philip and Elizabeth. Are you rooting for them, against them or
neutral ?
shareFor them. Since I'm not American, I don't feel biased about what they're doing against the citizens of the USA. Even if I may not condone it, I accept that that's what spies do in order to protect their country, whatever their nationality. Their death toll is neglectable compared to the number of innocents killed in a single day of any bombing-for-freedom campaign.
Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.
-that- is precisely the perspective that Americans (I am one) don't see, because we are not presented with the casualties of American policy.
we are presented a narrative which condemns our current bogeyman, be it Russia, China, N Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, N Vientnam, Iraq, Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, Palestine, the list goes on.
we are inundated with -those- nations atrocities over and over and over while our and our allies' own atrocities (always, and i mean always greater in extent than any adversary) are ignored. the effect is a black hat nation thinking it is the misunderstood good guy. we are not misunderstood, we are not the good guy.
if anyone wants to contend on that question of relative carnage, have at it.
back to the thread - phil is a likeable killer, elizabeth less so - but they are the heroes. they are the most talented, intrepid folks on the horizon. there is something very awesome about being that talented, manipulative, ruthless, adept.
stan better get on the stick, he's going to look real stupid when they found out his best civilian buddy is a Russky spy. A knock-down drag-out between them will be something to behold.