More re Homeland (a bit grumpy)
Apr. 3rd, 2012 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightNext 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.
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.