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In Reply to: RE: a heck of a post you wrote there, I wonder if they are going to use Dana in the future so they make us care posted by PhilJ on October 07, 2013 at 22:08:00
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A close friend e-mailed me the following brilliant analysis of the current Homeland scenario:
I have no sympathy for the Brody family. It's sad they are victims of the tragedy of their father's/husband's nine years of brain washing and a brutal war between the world of the advanced northern hemisphere and the emerging southern, between the leaders of a political system whose history included being colonial subjugators and those who suffered that subjugation, between one religion who helped allow the enlightenment and that limited social advancement of its peoples, between a west who sees an ever little need for religion and those who see their religion and it's history of conquest and subjugation as their last best hope of preserving their idea of who they are rather than the early history of their intellectual enlightenment.
However, the daughter is so clueless as to her father and what he truly was and is ( he is not just the " crazy one who destroyed our family") as well as her clueless mother, who can't comprehend her daughter, that one can watch them and care little if they cope, survive or are destroyed by circumstances beyond their control or comprehension. To me the writers have not made them sympathetic enough to move them beyond the notion of collateral damage in a global war.
The daughter clings to a romantic fantasy that her fellow inmate not only understands her (they are complicit in justifying and rationalizing their dysfunctional coping actions to overwhelming forces) but justifies her and proves her and his superiority to the adults in her life. With the next episode her emotional, rather than what she thinks is her superior rational side, will move her to Islam and the need to reconcile with the father she can't admit she loves more than her mother and who betrayed her so greatly by abandoning her and caused her so much suffering for his sins. I assume she rationalize this as a defiant act against her mother and the US who have has persecuted her.
As for Carrie, her story and the CIA is at least more interesting. Though why Saul would have Carrie lie before a Congressional Committee and he couldn't come up with a false story to cover Carrie ( I know Washington usually requires a fall guy but couldn't one say that Carrie was seducing Brody to prove his duplicity and turn him as their agent?). I think they go on a bit too much in showing her mental deterioration because she is so good at it. But their comes a point she must face the fact that it was on medication when she alone saw Brody as suspect and that even if she was never bi-polar she would not be so perfect to see all and prevent all. She must accept that she is sick and needs medication of some degree and she is not perfect under any condition.
My problem with the show is that they couldn't let the Brody story go away. You would think they could come up with new ideas but instead they are clinging to Brody and his family for no reason that I know of except if they have Damian Lewis tied up in a huge contract like an overpaid baseball player you can't get rid of. Lewis is a good actor but he should have been a one season off guest star.Second problem is the repeat of the storylines with Carrie. You have to sit through Carrie's breakdowns over and over again. While that might be like real life, using it as fodder for why the CIA messed up is just insane at this point. Carrie is sleeping with a terrorist and the CIA is ok with it and Carrie is off the rails crazy? If that is the CIA's MO, then the terrorists did America a solid by blowing it up (except they missed all the lunatics unfortunately).
So the writers are focused in on this interpersonal lunacy rather than espionage which was made the first season so compelling. Why? You just know that Carrie will recover and figure out clues that no one else can. Because she's just special.
Edits: 10/11/13
I agree there are a ton of things I do not respect about the show (including points you mention like: Carrie is sleeping with a terrorist and the CIA is ok with it and Carrie is off the rails crazy?) but choose to ignore them in the interest of enjoying the rest of it.
thru the Brody fambly melodrama. Sis n law and her hubby are over for the weekend and don't have Showtime so we caught them up.
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