Good all around. Wished they had more of Jolene though.
Don't chess players at Beth's level show up at a tournament with seconds to discuss strategy? Beth only had hers on the phone.
Why did Beth's handler let her out of the car alone when she was supposed to be going to the airport?
Not sure what you mean about seconds to discuss strategy...but if I'm reading it right, I'd say to refer back to that scene where she was coming into her room, looked down the hall and could see her opponent in his own room, discussing the strategy of their game with a couple other people.
And earlier in the series something was said about the Russian strategy, how they work as a team...Americans don't on account of their individualism, remember that?
Oh jeesh, you mean "seconds" as in a second person...yeah never mind. I don't think she had anyone to come with...she'd isolated herself from virtually everyone at that point, I believe. Kind of why that phone call was such an emotional scene...it brought everyone back together for her.
I think she got out of the car because she was thinking back to what her Mother said about how others will try to use you to their own ends, how she'd spend her whole life trying to please others. It was maybe symbolic of her realization that the man had no power over her, that she was going to do as she would choose and wasn't going to be used as propaganda against the Russian people. The same Russian people she chose to go play chess with...it was kind of cool that she didn't buy into the rhetoric of the time.
I don't know, I JUST finished watching a few minutes ago and that was my take. Also that I was blown away by this series in general...just good story telling right here =]
I'm thinking that her handler would have gone with her considering how paranoid he was when he first with her.
shareOh yeah...well you know how you can justify something while watching it so that it makes sense? I don't know if its right or wrong, but I concluded that he'd overblown the "SO DANGEROUS" bit in order to better keep her close, under his control, to better facilitate his use of her as a mouthpiece for American propaganda.
Seems like he WOULD have jumped out after her if he really believed it was as dangerous as he'd led her to believe. So seems like he was exaggerating a bit there, maybe.
That's my take, it'd be interesting to hear another.
Chess players at that level don't win every game either. There are a lot of draws. I guess that would make the drama more drawn out though....
Very good show. Very rare for a woman to become a grandmaster, and rarer still to contend for the championship, but it could happen.