Homeland 2.02
Oct. 8th, 2012 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which I bit my nails a lot and knew I finally had to get myself an icon, because Carrriiiiiieeeeee.
Oh, Claire Danes is so good. That scene in complete silence on Carrie's part where she's listening to the next door phonecall between Saul and Estes about how crazy/reliable she is, and her own (courtesy of Brody) shattered confidence is eating away at her, and she's just barely hanging on by her finger nails... Rarely have I wanted a character being vindicated so badly. I told myself she needed to be right about her source, or the plot wouldn't be able to proceed (because there's no way anyone would have listened to anything she said ever again after a second "failure"), but I was emotionally drawn in so much that I couldn't be sure. So phew when Abu Nasir did show up. *wipes sweat from brow*
Also, somethingabigail_n commented on last week was pointed out in this week's episode again; Carrie's ability to connect to other women being a crucial feature of the show. Not just with her asset here, but also with the female soldier who brought her back to her sister's home in the end and was the only one who actually said "thank you" to her.
Meanwhile, no-longer-on-a-suicide-mission Brody starts to let more of his real feelings through when with his family, as when he tells Jess disgustedly about the VP's gathering (after the Veep, who so far wins some sort of prize for vilest person of the show, told him about the latest plans) that helping veterans would be best accomplished by blowing the lot of the VP crowd up. Speaking of Jessica, I was fine with her scenes this week, and considering that last week she made the connection between Brody being a Muslim and Carrie maybe not so crazy after all when standing at her lawn, I wonder whether she'll remember this remark of Brody's? Because the plot thread with the Marines trying to get behind the mystery of Walker's actions and death could tie into that, if Jessica starts to talk to Mike again and he tells her about Brody's "if Walker was the distraction, what then was the real plan?" outburst.
BTW it makes sense to me that Brody is more careless this season; last season he was working himself up to a definite and clearly set goal which would end with him dying. Now he's facing an uncertain life time with ever shifting goal posts, he hates the company he's keeping with the VP, he's not sure about just how much Abu Nasir will ask of him, and he's not been trained to be a long term undercover agent.
Dana and Walker Jr. was a neat twist; given that so far as I said the VP has been the vilest character of the show and very much our boo-hiss villain (even Nasir had his son to humanize him somewhat, even if he clearly was using Isa from the get go to manipulate Brody, and Estes, while being pretty unsympathetic, was given enough scenes to show he's human, too), I wonder whether Dana's newly struck up relationship plus Jessica being cultivated by Sylvia the wife will be used to add some layers to the VP? Without making him less of a villain, mind, because all his scenes with Brody early on in the episode continue to put him into the Dick Cheney school of Veeps who must never ever get to the red button itself.
The tag scene was a genuine shocker: I had not expected them to bring back Brody's taped confession so early, let alone in this way. ZOMG. I mean, obviously something must happen to explain why Brody doesn't get arrested in the next episode, and I doubt it's going to be the revelation that Saul secretly works for Abu Nasir as well. They played a bit with Saul as a red herring last season, but it would not make sense with the rest of his scenes. Estes was also hinted as a possible mole, but again, I don't think so (his assistant, otoh...), though Saul could suspect that, and maybe that will be his reason for not immediately moving against Brody. But he now knows Carrie was right. Her success in Beirut alone would not make him work for her reinstatement, methinks, because she also was genuinely reckless (and could have gotten him and her asset captured in that last stunt), but Brody's confession will, and Estes just might feel guilty enough about his own actions to at least concede her being declared some semi official advisory. We'll see.
Oh, Claire Danes is so good. That scene in complete silence on Carrie's part where she's listening to the next door phonecall between Saul and Estes about how crazy/reliable she is, and her own (courtesy of Brody) shattered confidence is eating away at her, and she's just barely hanging on by her finger nails... Rarely have I wanted a character being vindicated so badly. I told myself she needed to be right about her source, or the plot wouldn't be able to proceed (because there's no way anyone would have listened to anything she said ever again after a second "failure"), but I was emotionally drawn in so much that I couldn't be sure. So phew when Abu Nasir did show up. *wipes sweat from brow*
Also, something
abigail_n commented on last week was pointed out in this week's episode again; Carrie's ability to connect to other women being a crucial feature of the show. Not just with her asset here, but also with the female soldier who brought her back to her sister's home in the end and was the only one who actually said "thank you" to her. Meanwhile, no-longer-on-a-suicide-mission Brody starts to let more of his real feelings through when with his family, as when he tells Jess disgustedly about the VP's gathering (after the Veep, who so far wins some sort of prize for vilest person of the show, told him about the latest plans) that helping veterans would be best accomplished by blowing the lot of the VP crowd up. Speaking of Jessica, I was fine with her scenes this week, and considering that last week she made the connection between Brody being a Muslim and Carrie maybe not so crazy after all when standing at her lawn, I wonder whether she'll remember this remark of Brody's? Because the plot thread with the Marines trying to get behind the mystery of Walker's actions and death could tie into that, if Jessica starts to talk to Mike again and he tells her about Brody's "if Walker was the distraction, what then was the real plan?" outburst.
BTW it makes sense to me that Brody is more careless this season; last season he was working himself up to a definite and clearly set goal which would end with him dying. Now he's facing an uncertain life time with ever shifting goal posts, he hates the company he's keeping with the VP, he's not sure about just how much Abu Nasir will ask of him, and he's not been trained to be a long term undercover agent.
Dana and Walker Jr. was a neat twist; given that so far as I said the VP has been the vilest character of the show and very much our boo-hiss villain (even Nasir had his son to humanize him somewhat, even if he clearly was using Isa from the get go to manipulate Brody, and Estes, while being pretty unsympathetic, was given enough scenes to show he's human, too), I wonder whether Dana's newly struck up relationship plus Jessica being cultivated by Sylvia the wife will be used to add some layers to the VP? Without making him less of a villain, mind, because all his scenes with Brody early on in the episode continue to put him into the Dick Cheney school of Veeps who must never ever get to the red button itself.
The tag scene was a genuine shocker: I had not expected them to bring back Brody's taped confession so early, let alone in this way. ZOMG. I mean, obviously something must happen to explain why Brody doesn't get arrested in the next episode, and I doubt it's going to be the revelation that Saul secretly works for Abu Nasir as well. They played a bit with Saul as a red herring last season, but it would not make sense with the rest of his scenes. Estes was also hinted as a possible mole, but again, I don't think so (his assistant, otoh...), though Saul could suspect that, and maybe that will be his reason for not immediately moving against Brody. But he now knows Carrie was right. Her success in Beirut alone would not make him work for her reinstatement, methinks, because she also was genuinely reckless (and could have gotten him and her asset captured in that last stunt), but Brody's confession will, and Estes just might feel guilty enough about his own actions to at least concede her being declared some semi official advisory. We'll see.
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Date: 2012-10-08 03:00 pm (UTC)In any case, this is shaping up to be an interesting season. The question is whether TPTB are intent on keeping Brody around for S3.
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Date: 2012-10-08 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-18 01:11 am (UTC)My response to the final scene was "OMG, they're going to kill Saul?"
But I will wait until Sunday when I should see episode three.
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Date: 2012-10-20 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-20 03:37 pm (UTC)