Season 10 - Episode 4 discussion

[SweetTea]

I have to agree that this has been the best episode of the series thus far and a marked improvement over last week.

Was Ruth's meeting with Coaver planned or was she just hanging out there and he tracked her down? She seemed surprised to see him, but it also didn't seem like a place you could just pretend to run into someone - and was that the same place Harry was 9.8 on the phone with Lucas? Maybe it just looks like it.

As for Ruth and Harry on the park bench, I feel the need to defend Harry a bit in that does anyone ever really know every single thing about their partner/SO/spouse? And really, when have these two been at a point with each other that they would have sat down and started sharing things in their past? Disregard the fact that they can access files to learn things about each other (and overlook that this couldn't have come up before now because it didn't exist in the writer's minds.) Are there things that Ruth hasn't been forward with Harry about? I get that Ruth is feeling overwhelmed about all this and that the Elena/Sasha thing is big in the grand scheme of things, but unless they spent those 8 weeks he was off the grid sharing all their intimate details and even then he left this out, I'm not sure that she can hold it against him. Yes, the fact that he fathered a child by this woman is major, but from Harry's POV, as best we know, he hasn't seen Sasha since he was 4 yo and likely never expected to see him (or Elena) ever again. I get why it wasn't something he'd brought up in the course of their relationship.

Of course, I'll have to watch again, and probably again after that. Only 2 left ever, but I have a feeling they are going to be 2 fantastic hours of television. :-)