Cyrillic as around twice the characters as the English alphabet. If you don't know it's Russian, you wouldn't crack the code because you wouldn't see the pattern if you were looking for 37 characters.
I agree with you on the "one-time-pad" thing.
"Agent Carter" season one discussion and spoilers
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I agree with you on the "one-time-pad" thing.
Man, was that last episode fantastic. I'm really enjoying this show, plus have Neal McDonough back as Dum-Dum was great.
However there was one thing just holding it back. When they were flying and parachuted in, they showed them stepping out of the plane but then poof they were on the ground. It's things like this that bring Marvel down. What happen in those moments between jumping out of a perfectly good airplane and landing on the ground. Are we to believe there were no issues at all. Could one of them had chute malfunction? Did they drift away from their landing site? We need to know these things. I know SOMEONE is with me on this, right? This may make me reconsider watching Agent Carter.
However there was one thing just holding it back. When they were flying and parachuted in, they showed them stepping out of the plane but then poof they were on the ground. It's things like this that bring Marvel down. What happen in those moments between jumping out of a perfectly good airplane and landing on the ground. Are we to believe there were no issues at all. Could one of them had chute malfunction? Did they drift away from their landing site? We need to know these things. I know SOMEONE is with me on this, right? This may make me reconsider watching Agent Carter.
That was a joke right?
I finally got around to watching the episode this morning, and it was another good one.
I liked getting the backstory for Dottie and the Black Widow/Red Room program. I wasn't quite sure what was up with the handcuffs on the beds. Was that just to make sure they didn't run away? I am curious to see what was up with her mimicking Peggy. I do have to kind of laugh, because this is the second time in the last year or two Bridget Regan played a character who seemed innocent at first, but was actually a baddie.
I loved getting to see Peggy getting to go on a real mission, and the presence of Neal McDonough's Dum-Dum and the other Howling Commandos only made it better.
I'm not quite sure what to make of Thompson, it was pretty bad to do what he did and then just cover it up and accept the medal. But at the same time, it seemed like they were trying to make us like him more by having him open up to Peggy.
I did like the scene between Jarvis and Dooley. I'm glad to see at least one of the SSR agents is starting to realize there's more going on with Stark then there appears to be.
I finally got around to watching the episode this morning, and it was another good one.
I liked getting the backstory for Dottie and the Black Widow/Red Room program. I wasn't quite sure what was up with the handcuffs on the beds. Was that just to make sure they didn't run away? I am curious to see what was up with her mimicking Peggy. I do have to kind of laugh, because this is the second time in the last year or two Bridget Regan played a character who seemed innocent at first, but was actually a baddie.
I loved getting to see Peggy getting to go on a real mission, and the presence of Neal McDonough's Dum-Dum and the other Howling Commandos only made it better.
I'm not quite sure what to make of Thompson, it was pretty bad to do what he did and then just cover it up and accept the medal. But at the same time, it seemed like they were trying to make us like him more by having him open up to Peggy.
I did like the scene between Jarvis and Dooley. I'm glad to see at least one of the SSR agents is starting to realize there's more going on with Stark then there appears to be.
I really hope you're right! Unfortunately, I think the problem is me. Whenever I start to watch a show that is currently airing, a little blinky light goes off on some network official's desk. This causes that official to call down to whoever runs the giant broadcasting machine and frantically command, "Quick! Pull it! Pull it from the airwaves!"
I'm pretty sure this is how network tv works, anyway.
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I'm pretty sure they use the same numerical system as the rest of the world. Or are you suggesting that instead of sending "001" through code, they actually send "zero zero one?"
They may be. It could make the code tougher to crack that way.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that Peggy could crack a single-use pad cipher. By definition, as I understand it, that's a cipher based on a unique encryption protocol that's used only once and then discarded, so that it's impossible to break unless you actually have the cipher in your possession. If they wanted it to be something she could break based on passed experience, they should've used different technobabble for it.
Yeah, if it was a Caesar Cipher or something like that, I could understand it.
Oh well, don't think about it too much, it didn't affect the story.
Oh well, don't think about it too much, it didn't affect the story.
Sneaking into the enemy camp while everyone is asleep and leaning over the enemy commanding officer is a good way to get yourself shot regardless of your intentions.
Thompson may have screwed up, but there's still plenty of defense for his actions.
Remember George Washington? (I love this story) George listened to thousands of the enemy party on hard that bitter Christmas eve, then he managed to shift a couple thousand troops across two miles of river using only a very limited number of boats during subzero temperatures after the English passed out, but before sunrise. What followed was a wholesale massacre. Thousands of English soldiers were killed while they were sleeping or too hung over to stand, god forbid fight, before a surrender was "negotiated" because Washington had reduced their numbers to a point where he could retain unproblematically prisoners.
If those Japanese soldiers were surrendering, I doubt that they would have been armed.
6 guys without rifles?
There's something fishy here.
Is it possible that everyone at the kill-site was in this conspiracy?
If those Japanese soldiers were surrendering, I doubt that they would have been armed.
6 guys without rifles?
There's something fishy here.
Is it possible that everyone at the kill-site was in this conspiracy?
If they were, Thompson wouldn't have needed to bury the white flag.
If they were still still armed, any white flag they were carrying is laughable.
What if it's all a lie?
What if none of it happened?
Maybe Jack wants to see what Carter will do if she thinks that she has leverage on him?
I said earlier last time he did some thing weird, that if she controls him, she has to reveal her wrong doings to give him accurate instructions on how to help her be traitorous.
What if it's all a lie?
What if none of it happened?
Maybe Jack wants to see what Carter will do if she thinks that she has leverage on him?
I said earlier last time he did some thing weird, that if she controls him, she has to reveal her wrong doings to give him accurate instructions on how to help her be traitorous.
I suspect he made up the part about them standing over the CO to add credibility. I wouldn't be surprised if he dozed off on sentry duty or something, panicked when he saw three enemies inside the perimeter and shot without thinking or even looking closely.
Not saying his actions were inexcusable by any means. This kind of thing happens all the time in war. Personally my opinion of him has gone up, not because he admitted it as much as the fact that it haunts him. For all his put downs of Carter he treats her far more honestly then Sousa, who's attitude comes from a place of pity. Even if he's motivated by compassion, as a disabled person himself, he should know better than that. At least Thompson actually respects Carter now.
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Did you accidentally call being a woman a disability?
In that society it practically was, but no, what I meant is that a person with a disability should know how shitty it feels to be pitied. It's condescending.
I think I'm wired to one of those, too.
I don't want to start anything about casting Japanese people in a bad way, but at the time, in WW2, I doubt there would have been anyone on Okinawa that would have given blasting six Japs that might have been surrendering a single thought, much less a second thought. Almost all Japanese soldiers were killed or commited suicide. Japanese were programed to believe that surrendering was worse than death and they really took it out on the Allied POWs. Also, you don't need a rifle to kill (grenades, knives, strangling), anyone leaning over the CO at night, I don't care how many "white flags" they had, is looking to be shot. I think if Thompson didn't get rid of the flag, his CO would have. I don't think anyone would have cared in that situation. And I think Thompson is the only one who does, and that's the point. He didn't say "they had a white flag and I killed them anyway" he said, "after I killed them I saw they had a white flag" That makes a huge difference. But YMMV and so on.
He admitted to Peggy that it didn't happen that way.
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