I'm making it a meme!
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I know, thanks to Google Analytics, that there are people reading my journal who never comment. Which is perfectly fine! Commenting is not a requirement, and no one comments on everything they read. However, I'm nothing if not curious. Just the other day, I noticed that there are a few folks who have been checking my journal almost every day for over a year, and yet I have no idea who you are. But I would love to! So I'm attempting to lure out the lurkers: if you wish, please come and say hello! I'm not trying to call out anyone or guilt-trip you into commenting more. I'm just curious who you are!
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Date: Feb. 22nd, 2013 09:01 pm (UTC)Presidential appointees have high turnover rates... My uncle was one. But you're probably looking for a cabinet position, like press secretary.
That's because the ulterior motives made the show an espionage thriller, which was drastically subverted in favor of a love story in the end. Sense be damned, the best bad show on television strikes again! lol Sure, I can suspend my disbelief and stomach the dramaturgy, but the basis of the show needs to salvage itself next season; we need a return to the conflict of morality in geopolitics, spycraft, and counterterrorism. I kind of wish Emily Nussbaum's conspiracy theory about Brody "faking it" had turned out, if only to keep Brody's character relevant. If he's no longer a threat or a source, he's only integral to the love affair.
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Date: Feb. 25th, 2013 02:44 am (UTC)That's because the ulterior motives made the show an espionage thriller, which was drastically subverted in favor of a love story in the end.
Hmmm, Carrie/Brody was always the center of the show for me, not the spycraft or the plot. I would say it's more about the love story going from a complicated, suspenseful, and dysfunctional relationship to a relatively straightforward one. I'm actually glad that Brody ran off to Canada - hopefully he'll stay a while - because it's clear they don't know what else to do with that relationship.
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Date: Mar. 3rd, 2013 12:10 pm (UTC)I should've explained: Security Studies is a subfield of International Relations that centers on counterterrorism, national security, covert action/counterintelligence, intelligence/foreign policy, et cetera. Not many people are familiar with it.
Well, I guess I prefer Carrie/Brody revolving around the spycraft plot, not the reverse. *shrugs* Perhaps I'm too infatuated with the issues of morality in geopolitics the show piled on in season one. After all, this definitely isn't Hatufim. But the longer Brody sojourns in the wilds of Canada, the more time this show has to regain perspective. So many characters seem to suffer some form of goal displacement at the moment... Estes is dead either way, so this show has earned my undivided attention next season regardless of "all this squishy bullshit."
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Date: Mar. 4th, 2013 08:55 pm (UTC)On a semi-related note, have you been watching The Americans? It's kind of reminding me of all the things Homeland did well, without all the cuckoo-bananas stuff (yet). Also: 1980s spycraft!
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Date: Mar. 14th, 2013 01:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Mar. 14th, 2013 07:40 pm (UTC)I've been watching Justified, too. I'm somewhat underwhelmed, but I'm only midway through season 2.