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There's loads of stories if you google spy honey traps. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/12/the_history_of_the_honey_trap Maybe it's unlikely a station chief would be getting up to that kind of shennanigans in real life, but then it's highly unlikely Carrie would still be employed by the CIA in real life anyway.
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Oct 31, 2014 13:21
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Junkenstein posted:There's loads of stories if you google spy honey traps. It would be impossible. The amount of clearance and information Carrie has access to in the position would preclude her getting personally involved with an asset, but hey, the show needs drama.
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Nov 2, 2014 19:40
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As with most everything, The Wire did it better first. This time with regard to having sex undercover. See: McNulty's undercover hooker three way.
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InfiniteZero posted:As with most everything, The Wire did it better first. This time with regard to having sex undercover. See: McNulty's undercover hooker three way. That was an amazing scene, especially with the British guy playing an American pretending to be a British guy with a terrible accent.
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Poetic Justice posted:Her dropping out of contact for that long is extremely normal for a high level CIA agent, even one with a well known position to the public. The failing was more on Quinn being so hosed up he didn't cover for her, and was too afraid to make the call in her place, which he has authority to. High level agent maybe not station chief during active investigations
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CalvinandHobbes posted:High level agent maybe not station chief during active investigations The show really isn't selling her role as a station chief. It's like she can just wander about and do whatever when in reality she'd be in the office/meetings constantly and would never be allowed to just wander out into Pakistan to chat up an asset. The silence in the room after Carrie/Asset's talk over the phone where he outed their having hosed was hilarious, plus that other CIA guy's look was perfect; a blend of awkward "uh, do I say anything" and "holy poo poo we all know she hosed this dude" pentyne fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Nov 3, 2014 03:43
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drat that was good, best eps this season?
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It only took 5 episodes on pants on head idiotic plot to deliver one fantastic episode. ...Anyone else here watched the show when it first started? Season 1 was train ride of awesomeness that didn't stop and just kept getting better up until that moment when Brody was in the bunker wearing the vest. Now I feel like I'm watching the limp corpse of that show twitch on the operating table and someone jammed an adrenaline needle into its heart for a brief moment before the spasms wear off and its back to "prelude to the lumberjack ending"
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pentyne posted:...Anyone else here watched the show when it first started? Season 1 was train ride of awesomeness that didn't stop and just kept getting better up until that moment when Brody was in the bunker wearing the vest. Now I feel like I'm watching the limp corpse of that show twitch on the operating table and someone jammed an adrenaline needle into its heart for a brief moment before the spasms wear off and its back to "prelude to the lumberjack ending" S1 of Homeland was easily its best and don't think it'll ever come close to that.
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Geno posted:S1 of Homeland was easily its best and don't think it'll ever come close to that. Writers: "We have a mind blowing story and we know how it will end creating one of the best seasons of television ever" Showtime: "Wait up, Damian Lewis is crazy popular, keep him alive." Writers: "But that ruins the entire show and-" *cut to Showtime producers tapping a wad of cash on the table. Writers: "Fine, whatever you say."
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pentyne posted:It only took 5 episodes on pants on head idiotic plot to deliver one fantastic episode. I am calling this now, Damian Lewis is the mastermind behind this whole thing 
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Brutal. Hopefully we get more episodes like that.
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Nov 3, 2014 13:19
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Hell of an episode. But you'd think that someone like Saul, Spymaster Supreme, ex head of the CIA, would've been a tad bit more careful at the airport a week ago. That was dumb, Saul. Real dumb. You don't see Leon Panetta or David Petraeus getting kidnapped by Pakistani terrorist warlords, do you? No Saul, you don't. Please don't die, Saul. 
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Nov 3, 2014 13:24
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So Saul saw the guy he was tailing go into an airport bathroom quickly followed by some other guys. What was the plan when Saul went in after them? What was the best case scenario? Was he planning to recreate the bathroom fight from True Lies?
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Senjuro posted:So Saul saw the guy he was tailing go into an airport bathroom quickly followed by some other guys. What was the plan when Saul went in after them? What was the best case scenario? Was he planning to recreate the bathroom fight from True Lies? Saul has seen too many spy movies.
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Geno posted:S1 of Homeland was easily its best and don't think it'll ever come close to that. General rule of thumb: S1 of (SHOWTIME SERIES) was easily its best and don't think it'll ever come close to that.
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Like Saul isn't a dead man anyway. Then again, movie style extraction probably. Also, they were fooled by a simple shell game?
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Season 2 and 3 took a while to get cooking as well. I don't know why people gave up on S4 so fast. Last night's episode was great, I shouted "NO" out loud at my TV when Aayan was killed.
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I'm still wondering what Duck Phillips wrote on that note to Quinn.
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Geno posted:I'm still wondering what Duck Phillips wrote on that note to Quinn. I was thinking that Quinn would use the pressure marks to read what he said.
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Nov 3, 2014 20:06
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I want Carrie to disappear or something, with Quinn replacing her as the main character.
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Nov 3, 2014 20:39
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Calvin Johnson Jr. posted:I was thinking that Quinn would use the pressure marks to read what he said. Jeez, that didn't even occur to me. Good thinking.
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HOT SQUATS posted:Last night's episode was great, I shouted "NO" out loud at my TV when Aayan was killed. They reinforced over and over how disposable that character was to everybody. If you developed anything more than a Game of Thrones level of attachment to him, you were setting yourself up for disappointment.
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InfiniteZero posted:They reinforced over and over how disposable that character was to everybody. If you developed anything more than a Game of Thrones level of attachment to him, you were setting yourself up for disappointment. I knew he was going to die, but I wasn't ready for it right then. He got such a raw deal too. His uncle was like "your gf is a CIA slut, thanks for the medicine, tho" and that was the last thing the kid ever heard. Also, I had just watched Life of Pi. HOT SQUATS fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Nov 4, 2014 00:18
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Whatever happened to that guy Brody died to put in power in the last season? He seemed so important, but they haven't mentioned him at all.
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Geno posted:S1 of Homeland was easily its best and don't think it'll ever come close to that. Everyone should definitely check out Hatufim (Prisoners of War) the Israeli show homeland is very loosely based on. Although Hatufim is less 24esque need to save the country (well the first season anyway) and more aftermath and reintegration after being abducted.
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Nov 4, 2014 04:53
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Nov 4, 2014 05:57
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So many people here have no appreciation of the slow burn. Does no one remember The Wire? Like oh my god there's only one harrowing scene every episode. This poo poo is building to something.
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Well, given the US' stand on negotiations with terrorists, I wonder if this means curtains for Saul. Maybe he will come back in season 5 ("4 years later") and - drumroll - has been turned into a mole and plans to blow up the president in a suicide bombing.
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HOT SQUATS posted:Season 2 and 3 took a while to get cooking as well. I don't know why people gave up on S4 so fast. Actually the first half of season 2 was good and the show collapsed in the second half. Then the third stayed mostly lovely but it was the end of the Brody plot so if you went this far you might as well see it through. Then season 4 starts and the show goes in a new direction so you're sitting there thinking, alright let's give this a chance, but then it turns out it's still bad.
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I wonder if Saul would agree with Carrie's decision to call for a strike. Agree it was a great episode.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Like Saul isn't a dead man anyway. Then again, movie style extraction probably. All these cars are like, red. How am I supposed to know what order they drive in? What am I, a CIA agent? Also, no way in hell would saul not want the drone to drop a hellfire on the entire party. ditty bout my clitty fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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I dunno bout y'all but I'm enjoying the Pakistani Carrie and Duck Phillips storyline (at least until they start sleeping together).
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Leviathan posted:I dunno bout y'all but I'm enjoying the Pakistani Carrie and Duck Phillips storyline (at least until they start sleeping together). Won't be anywhere as gross as Duck Phillips and Peggy sleeping together. 
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Homeland Season 4: The Death of Pi
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Senjuro posted:So Saul saw the guy he was tailing go into an airport bathroom quickly followed by some other guys. What was the plan when Saul went in after them? What was the best case scenario? Was he planning to recreate the bathroom fight from True Lies? Saul thought the two guys that went in after killed the ISI dude. When he saw only those two leave, he thought, "well, wtf happened. ISI dude dead?" Then, Saul went into investigate only to find out he got played. Also, True Lies is sooooooo good...
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flashy_mcflash posted:Has anyone GIFed them pushing Saul in the wheelchair through the airport? I don't know why but I was howling in that scene. There's basically no way to not make that kind of thing look like Weekend At Bernie's.
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