I'M NOT READING ANYTHING IN THIS THREAD YET
i just wanted to say that i just started watching this yesterday morning during the hurricane and i am almost done with season 1 and oh boyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I marathoned the first season last weekend and got caught up on season 2 today. Wow. The more TV I watch, the more I hate my younger self for refusing to watch any because I was convinced that it was an artistically inferior medium or some stupid shit like that.
That was a completely different sort of OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
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I uh, didn't like that twist.
a full team of swat styled terrorists? That's a bit I don't know how to say it right. Like this show is about individuals doing stuff. Not some terrorist but squad.
For the first thirty seconds or so after the terrorists showed up I had the "oh no, how shocking!" reaction that I assume they were going for, but it quickly gave way to disbelief. It was just so different from the tone that the show's had to far.
And it seems like this terrorist organization is making some pretty questionable decisions here. Like, instead of retrieving the package behind the wall immediately after moving the tailor out, they wait until the CIA shows up and then go in shooting? And if their operation inside America is this extensive, how did they not have anyone who could escort the tailor other than the operative who they've gone to great lengths to place high in the American government? Using Brody for a simple escort job struck me as a bit off at the time, but now it seems even more ridiculous.
They way I figure it, the swat team is very new into the US and have been brought in as part of Nazir's (sp?) new plot. By the time they were in place, CIA was already watching the Tailor's. I get the impression their operation has very few personnel.
Also, the reasoning behind Brody picking him up was that he was the only one in country who the tailor knew by sight. We saw how paranoid he was with Brody, who he knew, so we can imagine he would have been even tougher to wrangle by a stranger
I agree they didn't go in before because the place was just being watched, but they didn't have much of a choice once the forensics team went in
Also, the reasoning behind Brody picking him up was that he was the only one in country who the tailor knew by sight. We saw how paranoid he was with Brody, who he knew, so we can imagine he would have been even tougher to wrangle by a stranger
I agree they didn't go in before because the place was just being watched, but they didn't have much of a choice once the forensics team went in
That was the reasoning they gave, but given that the tailor must have had help setting up there and getting the bomb materials and so forth it all seemed like a very contrived way of requiring Brody to stick his neck out when that's the last thing the terrorists should be doing at this point. Based on the way Nazir operates I assume that the plan was to kill the tailor after he reached the safehouse (the tailor certainly seemed to think so), so it seems like the same thing could have been accomplished by hauling him there by force.
It's possible to justify everything that happens, but I can't help but feel like it's happening more because the plot requires it to than because it actually makes sense.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I watched the fuck out of the first season of this over the last few days.
goddamn
Such a good show. My only complaint would be the ending of the finale, I was expecting my mind to be blown and it was a bit of a let down.
Now I just have to wait another year until they get season 2 streaming online somewhere.
Well there's nothing mind blowing in terms of HUGE TWISTS or SHOCKING REVELATIONS but I thought the places the characters ended up were all satisfying and properly earned and the Dana/Brody phone call made me cry manly tears
I watched the fuck out of the first season of this over the last few days.
goddamn
Such a good show. My only complaint would be the ending of the finale, I was expecting my mind to be blown and it was a bit of a let down.
Now I just have to wait another year until they get season 2 streaming online somewhere.
Well there's nothing mind blowing in terms of HUGE TWISTS or SHOCKING REVELATIONS but I thought the places the characters ended up were all satisfying and properly earned and the Dana/Brody phone call made me cry manly tears
Before watching I had read online that the ending was SHOCKING!
and I guess it was...har har
What occured was not what I expected. It wasn't bad or anything, I had just built it up in my own head that something amazing was about to happen, and nothing did.
I normally hate the "oooh lookit how crazy I am gimme an Emmy" school of acting, but I really love Claire Danes in this even when she kinda gets in that mode. She does make pretty hilarious crazyfaces, but I've met people who're really like that in real life, it almost never felt unrealistic. And it helps that her issues are never totally gone, you can always see traces of it in her performance, depending on how her character's doing that day more or less so.
It's also that her obsessiveness and paranoia are kind of a thematic token of the whole country's mental health post-9/11. She's a person with a predilection towards those things in a field which only reinforces them, which makes her both a natural at her job and a complete wreck.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I came to this thread looking for Homeland news... came away disappointed.
But man, I am so excited for S3. I wonder if Dana will explain to the Feds why/how she knows what she knows about her father in front of her mother?
And how Carrie went right off the reservation the second after the explosion and she was staring at Brody. Those two "sparring" are hands down the best scenes in the show.
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Carrie breaking down and crying.
All of that was just so intense.
Satans..... hints.....
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i just wanted to say that i just started watching this yesterday morning during the hurricane and i am almost done with season 1 and oh boyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Now you know
i did not see that thing coming
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
And it seems like this terrorist organization is making some pretty questionable decisions here. Like, instead of retrieving the package behind the wall immediately after moving the tailor out, they wait until the CIA shows up and then go in shooting? And if their operation inside America is this extensive, how did they not have anyone who could escort the tailor other than the operative who they've gone to great lengths to place high in the American government? Using Brody for a simple escort job struck me as a bit off at the time, but now it seems even more ridiculous.
I agree they didn't go in before because the place was just being watched, but they didn't have much of a choice once the forensics team went in
It's possible to justify everything that happens, but I can't help but feel like it's happening more because the plot requires it to than because it actually makes sense.
(seemed a bit too 24 really)
Man, that is a dense pilot
goddamn
Such a good show. My only complaint would be the ending of the finale, I was expecting my mind to be blown and it was a bit of a let down.
Now I just have to wait another year until they get season 2 streaming online somewhere.
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Well there's nothing mind blowing in terms of HUGE TWISTS or SHOCKING REVELATIONS but I thought the places the characters ended up were all satisfying and properly earned and the Dana/Brody phone call made me cry manly tears
Before watching I had read online that the ending was SHOCKING!
What occured was not what I expected. It wasn't bad or anything, I had just built it up in my own head that something amazing was about to happen, and nothing did.
I feel terrible but I can't stop laughing.
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It's also that her obsessiveness and paranoia are kind of a thematic token of the whole country's mental health post-9/11. She's a person with a predilection towards those things in a field which only reinforces them, which makes her both a natural at her job and a complete wreck.
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Dexter season 8 trailer is up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckzE5vT0wc
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But man, I am so excited for S3. I wonder if Dana will explain to the Feds why/how she knows what she knows about her father in front of her mother?
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