Real life is not lived in seasons even less in piece-meal portions, fed once a week unless it is the week-end break for a normal citizen. It is not strange that expectations are overwhelming for a high-strung personality facing that last episode after months of watching. I felt kind of numb watching this last piece as I already had painted my canvas of anticipations according to previous and the episode came out a perfect match with my painting, asking myself, could the Homeland team come up with something more heart-felt? I guess not, it is just the name of the game and as I am up in the ages, already seen the most, what would I expect? The people that made this up are much younger than me and do live another mental state, perhaps on a another planet where everybody are under 40 years of age (I feel sorry for the dinosaurs, Saul and Dar as they both seem out of time with a changing world).
There are problems with the whole story all through season 5 but I will keep myself commenting those only to the last episode. When writers or screen-writers does what they did here I would call them not fully potty-trained or even charlatans and when they sneak in things to smear Russia I would go even further. Let us take the detainment of Ivan, the Russian master spy and ring leader. It would not be possible to hold him for long, only hours before the Russian state department would barge in making a deal getting him back to Russia in exchange for something, putting a lid on the whole ordeal. A situation like this would not be contained within agencies with pawns like Dar Adal and Saul Berensen, it would get all the way up the hierarchy's of the nations with ambassadors called in.
Then we have "grand theft" from another great television series, "the brotherhood of the rose" from 1983. Here two parent-less boys at an orphanage are picked up by the CIA handler John Elliott. John sponsors them all the way up to adolescence coaching them into the roles to become CIA operatives/assassins. In Homeland season 5 last episode, At the sick-bed of the unconsciousness Peter Quinn, Dar Adal tells Carrie how he got in touch with Peter first-time, Peter was picked up at an orphanage at the age of 16, then sponsored and coached into becoming a CIA operative/assassin. The problem with us older people is that we have seen it all and we hate when it repeats us still being alive.
Now to the worst, the the smearing of Russia as a nest of prostitution and trafficking. When Allison after having complied with Russian instructions about leaving false information about the location of a to be terrorist attack, is taken to a Russian safe-house for fixing her self-inflicted shoulder wound, she finds herself inside a brothel full of supposed to be trafficked prostitutes, This is nothing but embarrassing US propaganda against Russia. Things like this does not make a better
world. You should think twice about doing things like this and for this one, you should be ashamed.
So, where will this story continue? Obviously we have a cold war scenario that continues as it never ended. A good thing with the past 26 years is that Russia is on its feet again. Who wanted a depressed Perestroika Russia? Who wanted a depressed Russia taking in "burger aids" to get them into the mood of "imports"? I do not think that any nation outside of the former Soviet borders saw to anything else than making more market when the Soviet borders opened up. Well, Russia seem to be thriving again without the help of the west, on the contrary, it is a completely internal job with Vladimir Putin at the helm for now.
Back to the Homeland story again, I do not know if I will follow more of it as the ones writing the story seem unable to keep my expectancy up with regards to history or even cinematography. My advice to you, bring some people in that is at least 60 years of age or you'll perish from movie history not so far away from this writing.
When you are touching reality like you are doing in this flick, you better do it right. The consequences from not being true to history and reality could be dire. Don't let people with political aspirations influence your art as obviously you have done previously.
Let Homeland be world partisan and guide us to a better and peaceful world.
I had fun watching Homeland but I must admit I expected much more from you the creators, especially from the last 3 episodes. To follow you further I must be able to recognize a will from your side, that the story aims for bettering the world we live in. Don't belittle the rest of the world and don't try to smear your adversaries when you continue creating. Paint the adversaries of the US in the same shades and colors as your own and the whole thing will change into interesting for the young ones and all the way up to people like me, Nobody wants a paid race....
#homeland #Syria #ISIS #Russia #Putin
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