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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Yea that whole death scene was hilarious. Hey let me dump all this plot info for you while I bleed out of my neck for like 5 minutes. It's like the writers didn't know who killed his parents until the finale and just shoved it in there. I have p much no doubt thats what happened
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Elizabeth saw Jared meeting with the undisguised Kate several episodes ago and commented on how strange that was.
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May 23, 2014 02:49
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Yeah, something subtle from Jared would've been great, like if they left it at, "Make sure The Center knows, m-make su- [inaudible]." Have Elizabeth and Philip try and puzzle it out in the car, set you up for that revelatory clue about Claire. It wouldn't have come limply rolling out that way.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I get a laugh out of Liz's hypocrisy. "Don't you DARE go and believe in a power higher than yourself. It's STUPID to believe that there's something more powerful than you to which you must devote your life for their Cause". Well, to be fair, the Cause concerns an ideology that is actually being implemented by an actual country she's a part of. Whereas from her point of view, the church concerns a fictional story about a fictional messiah. It's not as though being anti-religion requires you to be nihilistic. It's just a matter of different philosophies/ideologies. It's not really any more hypocritical than it would be for one of Paige's church buddies to be anti-communism.
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Fetus Tree posted:The whole son being the killer was kind of dumb to me and seemed like something they retroactively shoehorned in after deciding they wanted to do the secondary immigrant agent thing. I'm not sure at what point they decided Jared did it, but I didn't get the impression it was a last minute thing. After they ruled out Larrick, they didn't really introduce any other suspects.
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Which is why I think they tacked that on. They didn't even need to solve that this season, or at all. That whole thing seemed like shoehorning in the second generation spy thing which will probably be big next season.  its not a big deal, just thought it was weak compared to the rest of their stuffAlso i didnt see anybody else post about this. When stan is in the FBI office he is talking to a superior while standing in front of a huge picture of reagan, and then later and her kgb guy or w/e do the same in front of a picture of Lenin and it was like the same shot. Was cool. Ill see if i can screen cap it later, if nobody beats me
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May 23, 2014 03:47
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mobby_6kl posted:
Imagine Dana from Homeland delivering Paige's lines Fetus Tree posted:Re: becka on californiacation They just stopped showing Dana's storyline & scenes midway through the latest season of Homeland because they were so lovely and annoying.
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May 23, 2014 03:54
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Steve112sms posted:Well, to be fair, the Cause concerns an ideology that is actually being implemented by an actual country she's a part of. Whereas from her point of view, the church concerns a fictional story about a fictional messiah. It's not as though being anti-religion requires you to be nihilistic. It's just a matter of different philosophies/ideologies. It's not really any more hypocritical than it would be for one of Paige's church buddies to be anti-communism. Liz also quotes Lenin on religion directly with "religion is the opiate of the masses." It's very much about what Paige's reasons are, not what Paige is actually doing.
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May 23, 2014 03:55
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I could never get into homeland I tried twice and it just didn't stick with me.
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savinhill posted:They just stopped showing Dana's storyline & scenes midway through the latest season of Homeland because they were so lovely and annoying. lol I actually just finished catching up on Homeland today and until I read your post I didn't realize they'd cut out her whole storyline. That's how lovely it was, once it was gone I never once missed it, or questioned what was going on with her.
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May 23, 2014 03:59
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Jared's last scene was pretty ridiculous, and a lot of what he said could have been excised and moved to the conversation between Mags and the Jennings. However, I do think that the speech, and the performance behind it, was great at illustrating a level of fanaticism that gave even Phil and Liz some pause.
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Fetus Tree posted:I could never get into homeland Americans:Homeland::T-bone Steak:baconator So don't worry about it.
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TheAngryDrunk posted:I'm not sure at what point they decided Jared did it, but I didn't get the impression it was a last minute thing. After they ruled out Larrick, they didn't really introduce any other suspects.
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May 23, 2014 07:39
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Not implausible if the gun had a suppressor.
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May 23, 2014 07:43
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pentyne posted:I'd be nice for season 3 to really set up a division between Phillip and Liz where he starts to see the writing on the wall re: Russian being completely out of its depth and close to collapse, but Liz is still "no that's capitalistic propoganda, our children belong to The Cause Glorious Russia will triumph". The problem there is at the time few people outside the central committee were truly aware how dire things were, in large part because of secrecy but also what information was available was often unreliable. No idea how long the show will run, but it'd be really interesting if they included the USSR's dissolution and the continuity in Russia's foreign operations, since the spy programs obviously didn't disappear overnight in 1991.
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Yeah the KGB itself didn't think a collapse was imminent, and when it was they panicked and straight up attempted a coup that probably actually accelerated the fall of USSR. The August 1991 coup is something I'm really looking forward to seeing depicted in the show. Stuff like glasnost and perestroika were incredibly controversial among soviet hard-liners, so they could very plausibly spin Elizabeth and Philip falling out over it.
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comes along bort posted:The problem there is at the time few people outside the central committee were truly aware how dire things were, in large part because of secrecy but also what information was available was often unreliable. Phillip has shown signs of starting to see that the US isn't the unambiguously evil monster to the pure and honorable USSR. Some of the times when Liz starts her rants about how monstrous the US and how much better the USSR is you can see Phillip doesn't really buy it anymore. After the news gets out that they stole the fake propeller data and sunk a sub Liz is horrified and blames Reagan personally, while Phillip is more "poo poo that was a waste of time" pentyne fucked around with this message at 10:28 on May 23, 2014 |
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May 23, 2014 10:25
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I think I might be done with this show, the "second-generation" illegals thing is completely retarded. Why would you risk trying to turn a hitherto clueless child into a plant at the CIA/FBI/DoD when you can just do what you've been doing already, which is turning people within the organization, which is how it was actually done with great effect in the 70s and 80s and how it was already working in the show.
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Yeah, depending on how this second generation thing goes I might be out too. Then again it could just hilariously blow up in their face after an episode or two and then they go back to their other E: i really like this show i just have zero interest in watching any significant time devoted to Spy Kids: The Show
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May 23, 2014 10:53
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jscolon2.0 posted:Liz also quotes Lenin on religion directly with "religion is the opiate of the masses." It's very much about what Paige's reasons are, not what Paige is actually doing. Karl Marx said this not Lenin
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coma posted:I think I might be done with this show, the "second-generation" illegals thing is completely retarded. Why would you risk trying to turn a hitherto clueless child into a plant at the CIA/FBI/DoD when you can just do what you've been doing already, which is turning people within the organization, which is how it was actually done with great effect in the 70s and 80s and how it was already working in the show. In the finale alone two plants got killed, one of which snapped and murdered two agents, while another turned them down after months of being worked. So it ain't going so great at the moment. nooneofconsequence fucked around with this message at 12:48 on May 23, 2014 |
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Panda Bear posted:Karl Marx said this not Lenin *facepalm* Point being, Liz hates religion simply because it's religion.
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nooneofconsequence posted:In the finale alone two plants got killed, one of which snapped and murdered two agents, while another turned them down after months of being worked. So it ain't going so great at the moment. Well both of them were basically being blackmailed, so that's not surprising that they couldn't be pushed endlessly. Someone converted on ideological basis would behave completely differently. Second-gen on the other hand is completely ridiculous, but as long as they don't turn the show into spy kids and just use it as one of the plots to set up a conflict between Phil and Liz and the Center, that's fine by me.
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I liked the season overall, but the second-generation plot feels pretty contrived to me. I'm just not buying that even Elizabeth would be seriously considering this after freaking out about the fate of her children all year. She seems pretty resigned to the idea that they're going to be caught and/or killed someday, and obviously the deeper their kids get into the spy game, the worse that turns out for them. If they weren't the stars of a tv show centered around absurdly over-the-top spy antics, maybe Center could sell them on it by allowing Philip and Elizabeth to tone things down to preserve their cover so Paige could join the CIA as a more white collar spy, but obviously we aren't waiting several years for Paige to start having spy adventures while the parents sit around being boring Americans. The Cold War will pretty much be over by then anyway.
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coma posted:I think I might be done with this show, the "second-generation" illegals thing is completely retarded. Why would you risk trying to turn a hitherto clueless child into a plant at the CIA/FBI/DoD when you can just do what you've been doing already, which is turning people within the organization, which is how it was actually done with great effect in the 70s and 80s and how it was already working in the show. There is that, the historical precdent for what kinda spying the KGB preferred, and the administrative instability of the KGB and related 'security' services during the late 70s-80s. That's a lot of disbelief for me to suspend, but the average viewer probably doesn't know much beyond what critics reviews and current media reports are like, and they may be totally receptive to the idea of intergenertational deep cover spy planning and wonder if that is how Putin really invaded Crimea. v  v
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coma posted:I think I might be done with this show, the "second-generation" illegals thing is completely retarded. Why would you risk trying to turn a hitherto clueless child into a plant at the CIA/FBI/DoD when you can just do what you've been doing already, which is turning people within the organization, which is how it was actually done with great effect in the 70s and 80s and how it was already working in the show. I'd honestly be surprised if they went in that literal a direction. That's like network level dumb. If anything it'll be a background threat which serves to drive a deeper wedge between Philip and Elizabeth. I hope at some point the show has them either go back to Russia (not likely) or somehow put them into a situation where they confront the fact it's not the same place they left 20 years prior.
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Sinteres posted:The Cold War will pretty much be over by then anyway. Based on Henry's line about Wrath of Khan it's 82 now. Paige is what, 14 or 15 now?
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jscolon2.0 posted:Based on Henry's line about Wrath of Khan it's 82 now. Paige is what, 14 or 15 now? Yeah, so she's still 7 or 8 years away from finishing college, putting us at or beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall (and almost certainly beyond the time frame of the show unless they start skipping years). I guess the easy out here is for Philip and Elizabeth to remember all the damage their job has done to them over the years and decide not to do that to their daughter, but other than that I don't really know where this can realistically go.
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Naylenas posted:Americans:Homeland::T-bone Steak:baconator Nah, Homeland season 1 was great. Shame they didn't make any more seasons so it never became a huge mess and a terrible show.
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I loved the first half of season 2 and the last few episodes of season 3 were good too. Homeland could be edited down to an amazing show.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Nah, Homeland season 1 was great. Shame they didn't make any more seasons so it never became a huge mess and a terrible show. The first bite of a baconator ain't too shabby either.
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Wow, and I thought zoux was weird for refusing to watch a show that hasn't been renewed. It's absolutely hilarious to me that anyone would consider quitting a show because of what they think might happen next season based on five minutes of dialogue. Most likely this will just be a source of tension, and Paige will remain blissfully unaware of what her parents do. Even if they go through with it, there's no reason to assume that, given the timeline of the show, it would progress further than just introducing her to Soviet ideology. That actually would have the potential to be really interesting. It's not like they'll all of a sudden have Paige acting as her parents' getaway driver.coma posted:I think I might be done with this show, the "second-generation" illegals thing is completely retarded. Why would you risk trying to turn a hitherto clueless child into a plant at the CIA/FBI/DoD when you can just do what you've been doing already, which is turning people within the organization, which is how it was actually done with great effect in the 70s and 80s and how it was already working in the show. The writers have done a pretty good job showing how turning people is difficult and potentially dangerous. They had that one man last season who tried to bargain with the FBI and turn in the General. You had Larrick this season, who was on the verge of turning Phil and Liz in. And Stan, who basically fell into the KGB's lap, ended up not being willing to go as far as they wanted. If they had an agent of their own in Stan's position, then Echo would have been theirs for the taking. Also, the Russians tried it: quote:Tim Foley was among the children most extensively groomed for a future spy career, officials say. Though he wasn't American-born, his parents lived in the U.S. for more than a decade, under the assumed names Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley. Mr. Foley was 20 when his parents were arrested and had just finished his sophomore year at George Washington University in the nation's capital.
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JohnSherman posted:Wow, and I thought zoux was weird for refusing to watch a show that hasn't been renewed. It's absolutely hilarious to me that anyone would consider quitting a show because of what they think might happen next season based on five minutes of dialogue. Most likely this will just be a source of tension, and Paige will remain blissfully unaware of what her parents do. Even if they go through with it, there's no reason to assume that, given the timeline of the show, it would progress further than just introducing her to Soviet ideology. That actually would have the potential to be really interesting. It's not like they'll all of a sudden have Paige acting as her parents' getaway driver. To be fair it was introduced in an extremely ham-handed fashion, which could lead people to reasonably believe they'd follow through with it in equally stupid measure. e: And of course Alan Sepinwall thinks it's the greatest thing ever. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 09:40 on May 24, 2014 |
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It turns out Paige is secretly Anna Chapman all along
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zVxTeflon posted:It turns out Paige is secretly Anna Chapman all along That's the great thing about this - supposedly all the 'spies' that got snapped up along with her had basically done nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program Chapman got taken down passing a fake passport to a fake 'illegal' in a sting operation, and even that Wiki page claims that's the highest-profile thing she'd ever done. Also, christ those are *horrible* mugshots. Most of them look drugged, but I'm guessing they were taken after a marathon interrogation session. This is the best part of it all, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program#Communication_techniques "Custom steganographic software developed in Moscow was used where concealed messages were inserted into otherwise innocuous files. This program was initiated by using the Control-Alt-E keys and entering a 27-character password, which the FBI found written down." Great OPSEC there, guys. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 11:29 on May 24, 2014 |
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Where was the location where they filmed Mags telling them Paige was next? It looked pretty cool.
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CelestialScribe posted:Wait, so what was the file Arkady blackmailed Stan with? Just having proof he hosed Nina is enough to cost him his clearance *forever* and in so doing, pretty much ruin his life. I'm also rather certain the file had the printouts of what Oleg requested, which would tack on jail time. It just begs the question of whether or not Arkady leaks the material to the FBI simply out of spite for wasting his time and setting him up to look incompetent and incapable of developing high-level agents. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 10:24 on May 28, 2014 |
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SCARYJEINFELD posted:I'm going to miss Larrick, he was a piece of poo poo but in a different story he would be hero (or atleast anti-hero) instead of the big bad. Just did a marathon of both seasons, since I watched half of the first season and then watched the second half on oxy and playing games and I remembered nothing but the barest points of the last two episodes. loving amazing second season, as well as the first of course. Larrick was a great threat to have built up throughout the season, and the way they made legitimately interesting and likable characters out of Oleg and Arkadi owns. This show has literally no weaknesses right now.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Nah, Homeland season 1 was great. Shame they didn't make any more seasons so it never became a huge mess and a terrible show. The first half of season 2 was just fine, I thought. Though to be honest, the way season 1 went down it would have been better left as a standalone.
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