showtime's Homeland =[a tolerable claire danes, mandy patinkin & that girl from firefly naked]

well that would make sense... but would the terrorists really send in an elite team for "just" C4 ? also, come on there's no way the homeland screenwriters are missing out on a chance to introduce a nuke/dirty bomb to the story

also i been wondering -- since the episode where roya had brodie steal the target list from estes' office, she had ensured him he would be able to draw estes away, and it was galvez who interrupted & pulled estes' away, so i've had suspicions about galvez being a possible mole for a while. but now he's dead(?) so idk what to think.

also you don't need a coffin-sized lead-lined case for c4. You can carry c4 in your pocket without setting it off; you can hide that amount of c4 under your bed.

oh also can they please get rid of the whole mike and sidekick with crutches storyline ? it sucks and omg that dude jumps to conclusion so easily. mmm there's one bullet missing in the ammo box and walker was killed with a single bullet - boom! case solved ! didn't brody use the gun to shoot a deer, in front of mike, in a previous episode btw or am i misremembering ?

::backs cautiously away from Clay::

Ha, I think I have this information from watching... mythbusters.

i'm trying to imagine how mythbusters demonstrated this... did they put like 3kgs of c4 in a barrel and then had at it with a flamethrower and then admit with a disappointed look on their faces that this wasn't gonna explode that easily ?

didn't brody use the gun to shoot a deer

That's what I thought too. In fact I think he shot it twice. So the real mystery is where did he get the extra bullet? (Also I'm vaugue on this but I thought that Tom guy got shot with his own gun anyway)

Brody snatched Walker's gun away right before he shot him but Brody had his own gun too I think

oh also can they please get rid of the whole mike and sidekick with crutches storyline ? it sucks

otm

i'm trying to imagine how mythbusters demonstrated this... did they put like 3kgs of c4 in a barrel and then had at it with a flamethrower and then admit with a disappointed look on their faces that this wasn't gonna explode that easily ?

m/l this is exactly what happened.

this was the first week i didn't hate the Detective Mike storyline, just because it led to those scenes where it felt like Saul was bewildered that they were on the same TV show

so i've had suspicions about galvez being a possible mole for a while. but now he's dead(?) so idk what to think.

been sort of thinking this since late season 1, and this is the first time i've seen anybody else say it. really doubt it now

every time brody gets all indignant its like man try not being a terrorist next time u baby

btw this happened: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/homeland/1423664/

kinda lol to think ppl thought last week's ep was a breather before return to full on craziness... and then we get this episode.

also i guess galvez might still be a mole considering how many times they made sure to mention that he was not doing well in this ep. and quinn is hilarious, all "i'm checking myself out" and then getting naked in front of carrie and his lol reply to her surprise.

last week was nuts, terrorists assassinated that whole crew

why am I still watching this

a question i ask myself after every episode

btw this happened: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/homeland/1423664/

― Gukbe, Monday, November 12, 2012 2:20 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha "oh no, she's having one of her jazz freakouts"

just gonna leave this here...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mde1urvjYO1qzsj1oo1_500.gif

snl parody was weaksauce imo - well, except for the "small mouth" bit

cut to mandy with his head in his hands listening to sexxin is utterly hilarious.

I just started watching this

omg so good! love it already, only 2 eps in

latest episode was really solid

look out caries got a wrench

that was awesome how they killed the vp and brody was so into it

i'm not really sure why & how pacemakers can be wirelessly accessed to kill the people using them but hey i'm all for creative deaths. question now is whether carrie's got more love for brody or the usa, will she rat him out ?

also, unless i missed something, wasn't brody's phone being monitored all the time by quinn & friends ? sure, they got abu nazir's team but they still don't have the main target and brody was their main link to nazir so it's pretty unfortunate that they stop surveillance just when abu nazir calls brody.

seemed like carrie already decided not to tell abt brody murking the vp otherwise she prob wouldve said something to saul on the phone

xp - <3 this show, but it really does reveal itself to be quite a house of cards plot-wise when you start to ask questions like that.

seems like itd be p easy to figure out brody did it w/some minimal investigating even if they werent monitoring his phone

the impt message to send out to saul was that abu nazir was hiding out in an abandoned factory (i'm hoping for a robocop style season finale) and maybe she felt trying to explain the pacemaker thing on the phone would have made her sound like (even more of) a crazy person. ok, yeah i guess she has sided with brody.
anyways yeah, questioning this show's plot points leads to a lot of eye rolling

feel like 'abu nazir is abt to assassinate the vice president right now' could be considered a p important message

yeah but vp was a dick so it's ok not to tell saul.

ha yeah i was kinda thinking everyones just whistling pretending they didnt see anything because that guys so awful

the impt message to send out to saul was that abu nazir was hiding out in an abandoned factory (i'm hoping for a robocop style season finale)

http://i1.cdnds.net/10/42/M/ustv_mido_hamada.jpg

thx, now I am enjoying the mental image of this dude ^ stumbling around drenched head-to-toe in toxic waste.

anyways yeah, questioning this show's plot points leads to a lot of eye rolling

yup last two episodes have been great even though there are tons of parts where I'm shouting "wha???"

like not telling Saul the VP's about to get killed, or Brody standing in a hotel room yelling "NAZIR!!!!!" at his phone when there are probably Secret Service minders right out in the hall

Is Estes trying to protect against some type of "Bush did 9/11" reveal where they have deeper involvement with Nazir somehow? Just bombing the madrassa with a drone strike doesn't seem like a big enough secret to go deep black-ops to prevent it coming out ...

feel like killing brody would kinda be the way to go even w/o that drone strike, i mean yr just gonna let this terrorist wander around america

i'm hoping for a robocop style season finale

lol otm

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/59abc778d2be574f01ce1fad55e187556227e6c7_m.gif

doesnt end well for crying carrie tho :(

for a sec i thought brody was going to spill all the beans to walden and then pacemaker geek's internet would cut out

p amazing how a dude doing secret stuff in a room before someone comes in never gets boring

they've probably done that every single episode and i've always been GET OUT BRODY GET OUT AHHH

for a sec i thought brody was going to spill all the beans to walden and then pacemaker geek's internet would cut out

haha yeah exactly. I was like "what if he lives??"

p amazing how a dude doing secret stuff in a room before someone comes in never gets boring

xp - yeah, I'm pretty much a total patsy for that stock gimmick myself.

i had a good laugh when brody started looking for a magnifying glass to make him all detective-y. if only walden had not had a magnifying glass in his office, he would have lived and brody would have gone on a revenge mission against nazir for killing carrie. i'm trying to imagine the convo between nazir and brody:
-giveme the number or i kill carrie
-i can't... i can't read the number it's too small
we hear a couple of shots fired

galvez is totally the mole, isnt he. shit. i mean COME ON he's out of the hospital and WHOOPS major fuckup on catching nazir

heh http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/12/a-homeland-conspiracy-theory.html

That theory seems... plausible? Damian Lewis' bug-eyed performance on the phone with Nazir did seem a little off. I've rarely, if ever, correctly predicted where this show is going, though, so I'm looking forward to wherever it leads, no matter how batshit.

probably one for "too much time on ilx" that i thought dude's name was darragh dhal right

http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/homelands-chris-is-asked-to-leave-the-room.html