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Someone on Tumblr ranked the top five wigs of the season: http://bit.ly/YiJDyt

Also, this:

 

First time she has spoken to him in Russian?

 

Yes

 

Guess that explains why they stuck so rigidly to the unrealistic "English only" edict all season.

To make that scene all the more powerful.

 

I think the payoff was worth it.

 

Yeah, it was a nice little thunderbolt.

 

I'm surprised Elizabeth's Penny Lane getup from the finale was included. Too bad.

 

I really don't get why this bothers you. They are supposed to discard their entire identities, to not be Russian. The no Russian edict makes sense.

 

I understand that. But it's just unrealistic to expect the edict would be followed 100 percent of the time. Not by human beings.

And it wasn't, as it turned out. The fact that it was broken in Episode 13 --- at the very end of Episode 13 --- only serves to prove this.

It was done for effect. For good effect, yes, but effect nonetheless. There easily could have been a handful of other Russian "slips"--- and there would have been in real life --- but they would have watered down the effect of the final one (and likely exposed a bad accent ;D ).

As I said before, just a minor nitpick. Never bothered me all that much.

 

The caviar in Episode 2(?) was another example. I thought that was really cool.

 

Add on that Claudia, in the finale, emphasized Elizabeth had lost sight of the cause, of her homeland, of everything that was connected to Russia. So to end with "Come home" in Russian was definitely a reminder that the idea of "home" and its various meanings is not lost whatsoever.

 

Yeah, the more time that goes by and I have time to process, the more in love with that finale I am. I'm past my "nothing really happened" disappointment.

It all tied together so nicely. Philip's operation on Martha ran into Amador's loner dickishness and got Amador killed, which caused Stan to go over the edge and kill that young KGB kid, which caused Nina to turn on him, which caused his operation to go south and let Philip and Elizabeth escape. An operation that only came about because of the haphazard bug planting that they had objected to, but that Moscow insisted on because of their increasing paranoia about the missile defense system.

Very elegant.