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Originally Posted by domer2
finale felt lazily rudderless to me
writers just twiddling their thumbs
That's what happens when FX tells you before the start of the season they're giving you two more seasons regardless of the ratings (it's the only way the storytelling pace of this season makes sense). They can't blow their wad this early. We still need
to happen toward the end of next season.
Basically they set up that Philip's son is coming to find him, and Paige's rebelliousness is going to put them in all kinds of danger of being exposed. Coupled with the William revelation, it's showing that the big mistake these agents might have had was that they had kids. They ruin everything, and make it impossible to have the "invisibility" William had. William never would have been caught if the Centre had not pushed so hard.
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Originally Posted by jcohen
i still don't get why oleg gave that information to stan. with any amount of thought he would realize it'd out KGB agents. it seemed like the show basically needed that to happen so they just had oleg do it, but i don't really understand his motivation
That's just deus ex machina stuff to drop plot and propel the story forward. You've watched four seasons of a show that never pays off anything that could be paid off properly (a game being played, a con being shown, etc.). At some point, you just have to realize that's their thing and go with it. The biggest fans of the show defend it as "oh the writers let you fill in the blanks yourself". There were also several murders and a suicide that happened this season that had absolutely no payoff or investigation, despite all kinds of red flags being around the scenes. No one putting together that the Administrator of the lab William worked at killed himself is pretty outlandish (it would lead right to his wife, who would say she had a friend she doesn't see anymore who wore a lot of bad wigs). You can be optimistic that they can pay something like that off down the road, or you can go on past history. I think it makes no sense they killed the woman Elizabeth was running in season 3, unless they're paying it off down the line as another clue of a dead person having something to do with spycraft. I just don't think they will, or they'll jam it into the plot in some nonsensical way like the Gaad death.
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Originally Posted by RollWave
This season finale felt like a mid season filler episode. a couple storylines advanced a little bit.
It's hard to expect much with a Joel Fields/Joe Weisberg written episode. Those two do nothing but tease when they write together.
Strangely, it appears there was absolutely no conning to either side of the Oleg/what's her face storyline. It was just two people banging. She should have been major collateral damage for what he told Stan, but they never even went there (yet?).
I'm disappointed that people in this thread still can't learn Adderholt's name. He is by far the single smartest law enforcement person who has ever been on this show. He has broken everything (mail robot, Martha, William, and more). He's the one that got what William was saying about the family/kids, and how it tied in. Stan is an idiot, and he's going to ride Adderholt's coat tails to success, until he doesn't. It will be so glorious to see when Stan finally realizes what an idiot he is, especially when he had it figured out in the first episode of the series.
I also found it bizarre that they put them going back to Russia on the table. There are two seasons left. That's not gonna happen, so it makes those stakes zero. As others have said, it was a disappointing finale after the last two episodes and the build up to the William capture. But at least Gabriel finally doesn't need a cane anymore.
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Originally Posted by Nhlnut
Not sure where the story is going to go, but hope they get to Gorbachov and glasnost.
They just showed us they're in early 1984. We won't see them for about another year. Henry is supposed to be like 12 right now, and looks like he's going on 15. Paige is supposed to be 15 and is going on 20. So that will give them a good set up for a time jump. As long as we get the Russian Fashion Show Wendy's commercial (a true classic), I'll be happy. If that doesn't end up in this series, it will be a big loss for everyone. I would love to see Elizabeth's reaction to the commercial.