Homeland: New show on Showtime

Duh...absolutely correct. But they could have at least still figured which car to track...however that would be too easy!

 

Well, they might have done - they just showed a moment of indecision. We don't know (yet) what they ended up doing. Okay, I'm done explaining away the writers' shortcomings!

 

The traditional arc over a season of Carrie becoming gradually more unhinged appears to be progressing as normal.

Also when we saw the 3rd 4x4 show up I was placing mental bets on whether Damien Lewis was going to climb out. Don't someone tell me he's not in this series!

 

He's dead, man. Just accept it.

 

last episode ( showed in France same time as the US with one day behind because time difference ) was really good indeed

i still think Saul ex CIA boss on his own without agents or bodyguards wandering around in Pakistan is unrealistic , no wonder he got caught .

two questions not clear for me

The "deadbeat rat" ambassador 's husband : was he blackmailed into this ( i remember him getting beat up ) but its not clear why he is acting like this

those drones ; are they in reality that easy to handle with joysticks and can they give so detailed photos like in the last scene ? ( 24 hours last season was over the top with those too )

thanks

 

Yes, they are easily handled via joysticks and getting high quality pictures is easy, as you can get decent pictures from satellites in orbit (which are at a much higher altitude than drones). However, the drones wouldn't be able hover (or loiter) over the same spot, as it seemed to be portrayed in the show.

 

Tonight's episode had an almost "What The F..." moment during the final scene.

 

They've totally give up on it in Australia. It's been knocked back to 10.30PM. After the repeats of Law & Order SVU.

 

Great season so far. I won't disclose any spoilers until more have seen the episode.

 

Yes, that was my initial reaction too, but then I figured it must be a hallucination. Another strong episode.

 

being that it was homeland........i was telling my wife that anything is possible.

 

Showtime has renewed Homeland for another season.

 

Just got caught up and I'm finding this season much more compelling than last which was a mess for me. I'm diggin it again.

 

I did NOT see that coming!

 

Loving this season. It's back on track.

 

Wow, the latest episode (Halfway To A Donut) was amazing. It definitely feels like it's getting back to the heights of season 1. Can't wait for the next one!

 

So, the way they marked each individual with a little red triangle? Why not do that with Saul's car back when they first saw him captured? This struck me a little bit like "C.S.I." - overreaching technology for dramatic flair. I get why they did it, but it seemed a little too sci-fi for this show. Does this ability actually exist? Seems like the individuals would have to have a transponder or something to make it possible.

I KNOW! It's a TV show! And I am certainly enjoying this season much more than the last one...!

 

To what end? How do the little red triangles changer anything?

 

i am looking forward the face to the inevitable face between carrie and the pakistani woman.....should be very interesting.

 

Interesting how people perceive things differently and have different tastes. This episode bugged me--Saul's escape didn't seem plausible, his being led to recapture didn't seem plausible technologically, Kahn's character and actions didn't seem plausible, the Director putting up with Carrie seems unlikely. . . . I enjoyed last season more to be honest. But it's still one of the best hours of television available.

 

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

 

I have my reasons but don't want to get into exchanges with you about them.

 

I have given up on this make-believe spy-soap opera after season 2 - I would watch again if they killed off Saul and Carrie - two of the most annoying characters of any current TV show

 

Thanks for threadcrapping sharing.

 

The city is a fixed location, so with a drone overhead its probably not too hard to keep an eye on the Taliban soldiers and Saul. As long as the drone has an uninterupted view of the area, that seems plausible. With Saul and the cars, they didn't know which car Saul was in and the cars were going in three separate directions, so one drone wouldn't be able to track them all for very long. Yeah, they probably should have anticipated that as the situation was happening, but were thrown off by seeing Saul there in the first place, and so in the confusion weren't sure which car he was in. There's a similar scene in the Ridley Scott movie "Body Of Lies" where the group that assumes it is being watched by drone place a valuable target in one of (I think) five identical cars and the cars all drive together in a circle kicking up a big dust cloud (they are in the desert) so that the drones can't tell which car has the target in it. Then they all exit the dust cloud in separate directions. I thought that was clever. Back to Homeland, I do agree that they should have been able to quickly analyze the video and presumably can re-wind like a DVR with live TV, but they didn't. I don't think marking the Taliban soldiers in the city the way they did last episode was technologically impossible.