More re Homeland (a bit grumpy)

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Next week's TV Guide arrived this morning (I keep meaning to cancel it but forgetting), and I read the blurb for ep 8 of Homeland, which, as is the way of things with this magazine was on the spoilery side. Grousing about that behind cut, so if you want to avoid any and all spoilers, don't read.



So, unless there's some other big plot twist coming, it looks like Brodie's former fellow prisoner that he thought he'd beaten to death is still alive and working for Al Qaida. Is this the point at which Homeland suddenly stopped being President Obama's favourite show, can anyone tell me? Not that he would ever say so, of course. He's far too discreet, and a good thing too, since every time he so much at hints at anything to do with race, a bunch of rich, spoilt middle aged white men all start screaming 'racist' at him.

But it's not just that. The whole 'Brodie is a Muslim' thing is still bugging me. I know I'm jumping the gun, because there may well be more back story to come, but at the moment, it just seems rather meaningless. You don't just convert because there doesn't happen to be a bible available. On the other hand, if your conversion is a condition of your captivity, why do you still insist on that conversion having some meaning once you're released, since, as of what we've seen so far, it apparently doesn't.

Am I being too hard on Brodie? Probably.

Final gripe: unless Brodie was dreaming about a financial product rather than a person, the name Isa is pronounced Eeesa, not Eyesa. It's in fact the Arabic version of Jesus, which I'm sure you all knew.

End grouse.

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I have the last few Homeland episodes saved, but we haven't watched them yet. I was rather disappointed with the telegraphing in the first episode, so we weren't sure whether to bother. Is it worth it?

On another note - we cancelled our TV paper too as it seems so silly to keep getting something we don't use...!

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Our TV book is now cancelled, and I can't advise you to watch any more Homeland because I spoilered myself last night and am now more pissed off than ever.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I felt like the only person in LJ fandom who didn't fall in love with "Homeland." I thought it was an interesting show at the beginning, but it kept getting more and more ridiculously twisty by the end, as though the show didn't trust its characters enough and had to make the plot more and more silly (IMO, of course.) Also, I really disliked Claire Danes acting (I know, I know, I am in a huge minority there, but she had the same expressions in everything I've ever seen her in.)

If you are interested, I wrote up my impressions of the show through seven episodes. I watched through the next two, but then didn't bother with the rest.

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I'd be interested in reading your impressions, yes. Link me?

I'm now wondering if I should bother with any more of it. I spoilered myself last night (read some stuff about season 2), and now I'm crosser than ever. I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything better from the makers of 24, but is the only thing they can think of to do with this storyline to ramp up the paranoia even more?

How about less plot twists and more balance.