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RE: wow... I was thinking she assists her dad, I guess we will have to stay tuned

Posted by House13 on October 9, 2013 at 06:43:25:
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.