Homeland Season 3 *Spoilers*

If Brody to take on a Dexter ghost dad role I will give up on this show. If they're doing a total reboot then it could well be interesting.

Staplor wrote: »

If Brody to take on a Dexter ghost dad role I will give up on this show. If they're doing a total reboot then it could well be interesting.

But is he really dead?

clairefontaine wrote: »

Yes.

First of all a writer/producer died last spring and another writer went off to so another project.

Then you have Claire Danes producing season 3. So what you have is the Claire Danes vanity project. She is a two note actress. Did anyone. Office the chemistry totally changed between Carrie and Brody? That safe house scene was weirder than weird. My guess is that the relationship changed off screen; CD no longer co worker with DL but boss and employer of DL.

Finale was so bad in so many ways I just don't know where to start with all its problems, but CD has to start getting a clue.

Well, DL is a traitor (even he can't remember who he's actually loyal to) - she's still a working field agent. Add in the fact that he's now a daddy to a kid she doesn't really want. That'd mess your head up.
As for producers - most don't have any power and its used as an excuse to not give people payrises. But this show has way too many on the credits. That might work for South Park or The Simpsons where the episodes are self-contained but not in a piece thats meant to work as a whole. It looks more like writing by committee than a creative dictatorship.

how did she get pregers if he was a junkie in he flats at the time?

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I've been pondering this in my useless life over the last few days. In whose interests would it be to fake the hanging and keep him back as a space ace ?
And who could do that ?
Nobody unless an outside player more powerful than Javadi is introduced. Or the ashtray didn't do the job.

Saul is/was calling the shots with Javadi,he could want him alive out of loyality or for Carries sake or yet another crazy Homeland plot twist.
Javadi might also want him alive as he's aware of Carries affection for him and may be useful as a bargaining chip
Don't think they'd kill such a central character.

Ok so to get this timeline of season 3 right, we're talking less than 4 months since the Langley bombing (as Carrie is only 4 months pregnant) and all these things happened:

Brody escapes the country, ends up in South America, is captured and becomes a junkie. Then he is brought back to the US, put on a crash course detox and boot camp to turn him into a killing machine, is sent over to Iran where he is caught, convinces them he is actually on their side, and then manages to take out the top man .... all in less than 4 months!

Life imitates art it certainly isn't!

If only things moved this quick in real life we might get this middle east situation sorted before Christmas!

A couple of things I found funny in the final episode (I've given up on the series following season 3 as it has descended a long way from season 1 so don't get annoyed at these things any more)
Brody just walks out of the room and building after killing Akbari, the most protected man in Iran we were led to believe, looking as guilty as he could possibly look, and not one person thinks he looks suspicious.
Brody, the most wanted man in Iran, is brought to his execution, through an angry hate filled mob, in one little old police car with absolutely no protection in front or behind the car - I'm sure some of that mob would have preferred to tear him limb from limb rather than have an old fashioned hanging.
Carrie, in the midst of this angry hate filled mob, makes it as clear as she can that she is with Brody, and then just walks away from the hanging - again I'm sure some of that mob would have turned on anyone they felt was with Brody at that point in time.

I think the writers were confused about whether they wanted this to be a politically driven show or an old fashioned love story and clearly lost focus on the former at the expense of the latter.

oxygen_temp wrote: »

I see Clare Danes is a producer on the show. I wonder how much pull she had on setting it up for a season 4. If out hadn't of been fir her would they have made the logical choice and let it die off. These massive sorry rewrites never really work imo

I usually start to worry about where a show is going when I start to see the main actors involved as producers or when they start to direct episodes.

Season 4?!
I assumed it was the finale, of like, ever.

Season 4 is gonna be serious, grade A rubbish.

I think someone else said it already, but if Brody had blown himself up in season 1 and the whole thing came to an end it would have been one of the greatest shows ever. Even if he hadn't and the show finished with us left wondering about him it would have been a classic. Ah well.

Still, despite where it's gone now, I have enjoyed a lot of it. Every now and then you need some pulp. Fúck sake, I watched all of Lost. I'm loving the Blacklist.....
Hopefully there'll be a lot more Quinn and Saul and have Carrie on maternity leave next year.

Check this out - it's a brilliant p1sstake of the Dana saga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibTWwWy_b7k

I wonder if season four will focus on Saul getting his job back with Quinn in place of Carrie?

Let Carrie go and use her as a background character from here on since she doesn't have much to do without Brody.