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Homeland Marathon

posted 7 years ago by TroyD23
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I don't know if any of you have been watching the Homeland marathon on Showtime the last few days? I have and I must say that I have noticed a lot of little things I must have missed watching them the first time around. The early seasons are much better !!!!

[–] Funnibone31 7 years ago

I've been watching here and there...Season 4 is still my favorite. I'm still ehh about season 3, was still weak to me on rewatch.

[–] hilaryjrp 7 years ago

The Good Soldier (Season 1, Episode 6) poses two questions the series never answered and the audience deserved answers to: 1) Who called Elaine to warn Rahim Faisal not to come home; and 2) Who slipped "Affie" the razor blade. I'm posting this because you say

I must say that I have noticed a lot of little things I must have missed watching them the first time around

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and I agree. Every time I rewatch, Brody becomes more a victim of both his PTSD, the CIA, forever pulling him back into trauma, and the series' "blind spot" (get it? blind spot?) about never identifying the mole. This series' appeal was the "homeland" and a whole pile of everyday people we sympathized with: Lynn, the courageous "harem" girl; Mike Faber, Carrie's father, and most of all, the Brody family. These were simple everyday Americans, and the audience deserves to know who pulled the strings that set a guy with PTSD onto his fatal path. I will not pay to watch this series again until someone reports the mole has been identified, because the only person possible is Saul. And Saul became so stupid in Season 4 and so lethal in Season 5, I could no longer put credence in him as a benevolent character.

[–] TroyD23 7 years ago

I feel your pain !!!! I think everybody wants to know who the mole is/was....Wouldn't it be something if in the series finale, we learned something new about Saul???

[–] Funnibone31 7 years ago

I don't think the writers actually knew who the mole was,l when they were writing, which is why they've never commented on it in every interview they've been asked.

[–] stvd111 7 years ago

upon rewatch, I think Saul is the mole. There is something fishy about his behavior at times that seems to scream he is not who he says he is. The most obvious times of this are when he takes a polygraph. He gets purposely worked up and over reacts. I think towards the end he will be revealed as the bad guy, and Dar adal will be the good guy who was meant to look adversarial to obscure Sauls true nature.

[–] hilaryjrp 7 years ago

I think towards the end he will be revealed as the bad guy, and Dar adal will be the good guy who was meant to look adversarial to obscure Sauls true nature.

Good insight. The message of the entire series would then be that the CIA itself is insane. But since that's something most viewers have probably felt to some degree or other from the beginning, I'd pay for a season to see what if anything national security agencies do when they discover that one of their most trusted leaders has a severe God complex.

I've often wondered whether Saul's religious faith is real, or if it's a thing he uses to put on a show...even when he's alone...in fact especially when he's alone.

[–] Sluggr-3 7 years ago

Forget Homeland, Berlin Station is the REAL spy show. The only use for s06e01 is as a torture device to force those who watch it into confessing. It was that painful.

My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2

[–] Waldimore 7 years ago

The only thing I missed was in Season 4 about Sandy. The first time around, I didn't realize that Sandy was in league with that Pakistani IG officer, and feeding her info from the Ambassador Steven's husband in exchange for her info. I also got the sensation that they may have been in a sexual relationship as well, hence meeting at an apt.

But to me, they never made it clear. The only thing you get is when she shakes down the ambassador's husband, but even then, all she admits to is knowing that Sandy was getting info from him.