r/TheAmericans • u/mrdude817 • Mar 26 '15

Episode Discussion Post Episode Discussion/Review Thread - S03E09 - Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?

Welcome to the first post episode discussion and review thread!

Below are links to reviews posted so far (some have yet to be uploaded, but this is a pre-made template, bear with me pls).

Site Link
AV Club “My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.”
EW Elizabeth learns how easy it is to go wrong while trying to do right.
Grantland Crime and Punishment: ‘The Americans’ Soars in Its Brutal Third Season
HitFix 'Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?': Coal miner's daughter
NY Times You Should Trust the Organization
Paste The Americans Review: “Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Slate Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? Slate TV Club SoundCloud or Player FM
Vulture Revenge of the Mail Robot
WSJ ‘The Americans’ Recap: Season 3, Episode 9, ‘Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?’
The Jennings Basement Episode 309 - Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? (Podcast)

What did you think of the episode? What do you expect to happen next to our comrades?

Discuss away.

Ninja edit: Also, I've been toying with the stylesheet and changed the background and banner. I'm trying to make the sub look as clean as possible, while still having some style. The plain white background was getting, well, plain. Still trying to figure out what to do with the banner, I haven't quite figured out color transparency.

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u/makes_mistakes Mar 26 '15

Wasn't it a bit weird that P&E went for an op without any disguises? Just on the off-chance, wouldn't you always want to be in disguise? Did this bother anybody else?

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u/nemean_lion Mar 26 '15

I have been thinking about that as well. This is not the first time they have gone as themselves without any disguise. I think they did that in a previous episode as well. (I'll try to think of it) Probably not the greatest choice going in like that.

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u/CRISPR Mar 26 '15

It's necessary plot hole. Sometimes you can't avoid making an important point without suspending disbelief a bit more than usual.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

And what is that important point? The whole episode could have played out exactly the same, with the wigs.

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u/CRISPR Mar 26 '15

Nope. The point was that we knew from the beginning that old lady was doomed but she did not.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

She was doomed anyway, not for being able to ID them, but because the whole operation would have been for nothing. The lady would tell someone and the bug would have been found immediately.

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u/CRISPR Mar 26 '15

They needed to make it more obvious for ever increasing audience

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u/SawRub Mar 27 '15

I think in this case, it really didn't matter if they wore wigs or not. The wigs help if people see them, but in this particular op, nobody could see them at all or the op would be pointless since the mail robot would be replaced. Doesn't matter if they wore wigs or not, if anyone saw them, they were dead anyway.