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Homeland: Claire Danes will be watching you.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Aside from the joyride, that was one of the finest hours of tv I've ever seen.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Oh man.

    Carrie breaking down and crying.

    All of that was just so intense.

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Jeez I knew that other CIA guy was kinda crazy about his job but woah

    Anzekay on
  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    He was Bad Cop

    All Bad Cops stab people

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    Jeez, this last episode. Pretty sure Danes and Lewis just cemented Emmy wins.
    The entire interrogation might be some of the best TV I have ever had the opportunity to watch.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    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

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  • Old Red InkOld Red Ink Registered User regular
    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.

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    ohhhh boyyyy i'm on season 1 finale o boyyy

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    I know, right?

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    now im fully caught up

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    See

    Now you know

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    hallo! new episode!

    i did not see that thing coming

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I am behind on this as I played five hours of hunter's creed last night.

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    That was a completely different sort of OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
    RIP Danny :({/spoiler]

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    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.

  • Old Red InkOld Red Ink Registered User regular
    Yeah, it felt way too over-the-top.
    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.

  • 101101 Registered User regular
    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.

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    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

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  • Old Red InkOld Red Ink Registered User regular
    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.

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    it did seem a bit ridiculous to me too as well, but oh well

    (seemed a bit too 24 really)

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    los blancos amor homeland

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    Just watched the first episode

    Man, that is a dense pilot

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  • MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    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.

  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    I really hate his kid.

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  • MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    I really hate his kid.

    Be careful what you say, he's a blue belt.

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Whenever someone tells you someone is "wearing two hats today"

    THAT IS ALWAYS BAD REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Maximum wrote: »
    Maximum wrote: »
    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

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  • MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Maximum wrote: »
    Maximum wrote: »
    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.


  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    That reminds me. Claire Danes' crazy/hysteric face is hilarious.
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    I feel terrible but I can't stop laughing.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    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.
  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Carrie is an extremely broken person, but she's broken in a way that also makes her exceptional at her job

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Carrie is an extremely broken person, but she's broken in a way that also makes her exceptional at her job
    is it strange that i'm reminded of the conversation Daniels had with Olivia in Fringe, about how she is makes her good at what she does

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Yeah, funny faces aside, Danes' performance in this show has been consistently fantastic all the way through.

  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    Couldn't find the Dexter thread in SE and this is all I could find that is somewhat related:

    Dexter season 8 trailer is up.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckzE5vT0wc

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    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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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    Sorry Sorce

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