Counterpart on Starz
Anyone else see this? JK Simmons plays two versions of the same man. The world split into two timelines about 30 years ago and there is limited communication and travel back and forth. Some spy/thriller stuff, and the two versions are a mousey low level guy while his counterpart is more on the spy side.
Supposed to be 10 episodes. Will probably watch.
Supposed to be 10 episodes. Will probably watch.
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Its def on my watch list.
I like the show a lot. JK Simmons is just awesome. Starz on demand has it available earlier than broadcast time, at least morning of the same day.
They are drizzling out just the right amount of information to support a quality spy story without blowing it into an overly complex plot. That's a precarious line to walk.
This season will make for excellent binging.
It's funny, I mainly know him as Tenzin from Legend of Korra, a very different character from Silk.
And neither different from, different to, nor different than feels right to me in that sentence...
Clare
1. Why are these people in the Prime world so convinced the flu was from the Alpha world? And why do they think it was a hostile act? I assume we'll get some explanation on that. Clearly the bureaucracy on the Prime side doesn't believe it, so why do all these other seemingly intelligent people?
2. Clare is a little girl when her parents die, presumably a few weeks or months into this flu outbreak. Immediately she goes to this school, where they appear to have already been training these kids to infiltrate the Alpha world in retaliation. Either they ramped things up awfully fast, or the flu took a few years to spread. I suppose that's possible, and maybe they've said that already.
3. How lax is the security on the Alpha side that all these duplicates can come over and remain untracked? Shouldn't they be fingerprinted and tracked (if not accompanied). Clare for example - you'd think there'd be some attention paid to who she claims to be (don't recall if she used an alias),and some effort made to find her counterpart before they authorize the crossing. Presumably there are moles throughout the bureaucracy built around the portal and maybe they've shown that more than I'm remembering. Seems like the infiltration would have to be extensive for any of this to work.
Apart from that, the depiction of the portal is interesting. No actual doorway, or even a defined "line" - just an underground hallway with two sides that seem to mirror each other. In the extras, one of the producers says something about hoping viewers piece together how the portal works from the visual clues given - paraphrasing from memory there, I could be off. So far there doesn't seem much special about it or much to work out. I'm curious if there's something about this whole situation that isn't as it seems. No idea what that would mean though.
2) the flu would have spread like it does now, but since this was something that would not have been prepared for over there, the results would have been catastrophic. The school was probably set up soon after they found out what happened. It also looks like they are taking orphans of the flu epidemic which would make them that much more effective since the kids would have motivation to revenge parents/family deaths.
3) everyone is a duplicate unless there are confirmed deaths. We already know that the school has very powerful backers and getting the agents into the other dimension while difficult is not impossible with the right cover story.
This is is of course just what I’ve lightly gleaned from the show and information they’ve dropped to us.
Plus... what if they're right? There's a certain Machiavellian genius in doing something like this to gain a preemptive upper hand over the other side so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a reveal at some point.
Seems like a better strategy would be to go after your own government and then try to seal the portal somehow, and put an end to all of it.
Also, as loose as the security appears to be, they'd have snuck all sorts of tech across and reverse engineered it by now.
Obviously that's not the story they're telling. It's hard for me to keep from thinking about this stuff.
As far as security goes, people and fake papers are much easier than tech since they get scanned and searched when crossing. It’s not loose security either, but rather people high enough with enough connections to get this stuff done.