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Question/Observation From New "Homeland" Binge Watcher
Self | February 14, 2018 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 02/14/2018 10:11:42 AM PST by PJ-Comix

Okay, I recently started binge watching "Homeland" due to getting a Showtime subscription when I turned off my cable TV and switched to Amazon Prime. I just completed watching Season 1 of "Homeland" last night and I noticed several absurdities with the show. However, the biggest absurdity of them all is: HOW DID A VICE-PRESIDENT BECOME SO POWERFUL?

The President on the show is invisible so far but Vice-President Walden is so powerful that he can even order drone missile strikes? Really? In what alternate universe does this happen? Ordering military operations by himself is waaaaay above a vice-president's pay grade. I mean how weak does a president have to be to allow his vice-president to usurp his power in such a blatant manner?


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To: PJ-Comix
What is absurd is that a total whack job can (spoiler alert, drag the mouse over the rest of this sentence) like Carrie can not only be in the CIA, but achieve the level of authority she does reaches. But like pointed out above, this is fiction.
21 posted on 02/14/2018 10:48:44 AM PST by Gamecock (The greatest threat to humanity is not "out there" but "in here" in the recesses of the soul. TK)
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To: PJ-Comix

Actually, homeland this season has a deep state guy at CIA.


22 posted on 02/14/2018 10:53:21 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: PJ-Comix
The first episode of season 7 aired last week. It is a complete Trump Derangement Syndrome fustercluck. A paranoid female POTUS (they were so sure Cankles was going to win) who puts everybody in DC in prison who she suspects of plotting against her and a one-dimensional right-wing terrorist transparently modeled after Alex Jones.

Season 5 was the best, in my opinion, because it centers on the exploits of Peter Quinn.

Without Quinn the show is over.

23 posted on 02/14/2018 11:08:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
a one-dimensional right-wing terrorist transparently modeled after Alex Jones.

I thought he was meant to be like Bannon .

24 posted on 02/14/2018 11:12:37 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Speaking of Season 5 and echoing the poster’s original question, how could Carrie run all over Berlin chasing terrorists on behalf of the CIA and other law enforcement when she no longer worked for the CIA (she was working for a German philanthropist at the time)?


25 posted on 02/14/2018 11:13:40 AM PST by Cecily
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To: PJ-Comix
Simple answer that my wife gives me when I ask such questions:

"Simple. It was in the script, dear."

26 posted on 02/14/2018 11:15:58 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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I thought he was meant to be like Bannon.

I thought of Alex Jones right away. I've never seen Bannon as other than a photograph and I have never heard him speak.

27 posted on 02/14/2018 11:19:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Cecily

My only answer to that is that it’s just a fictional TV show.

I used to find it entertaining enough. Now, not so much.


28 posted on 02/14/2018 11:21:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; PJ-Comix
HOW DID A VICE-PRESIDENT BECOME SO POWERFUL?

Kevin Spacey showed the way in "House of Cards."

29 posted on 02/14/2018 11:26:01 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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"Good series, hopefully they don’t jump the shark like “24” did when they “normalized” muslim terrorists."

"24" was my last attempt at series television, when the shark jumped out of the tank, knocked the Fonz off the bike, and drove away forever...

After the Valencia nuke went off, and yet Kiefer drove across LA, towards Ground Zero less than 20 minutes later, just to beat up his brother. During the fight scene, the camera pauses to catch the mushroom cloud through a narrow window. Pretty damn close by. BUT...no scorched trees, no buildings on fire, no planes falling out of the air. Just an overheated barbecue in Santa Clarita. Uh huh.

Uh. Huh.

Realized then & there when watching something you have marginal interest in anyway, you're just being abused for your time. To sell soap.

30 posted on 02/14/2018 11:35:26 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Vive la revolution!)
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“The President on the show is invisible so far but Vice-President Walden is so powerful that he can even order drone missile strikes? Really? In what alternate universe does this happen?”

The alternate universe in liberals’ heads, where Dubya was just a figurehead and Darth Cheney wielded all the real power.


31 posted on 02/14/2018 11:39:57 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree. I’m not sure I want to watch without Peter Quinn.


32 posted on 02/14/2018 12:54:23 PM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: 1Old Pro

Good series, hopefully they don’t jump the shark like “24” did when they “normalized” muslim terrorists.


Oh, dear. Spoiler ahead ... that would be about a season too late. The shark was cleared by several feet, and they stuck the landing.


33 posted on 02/14/2018 1:15:39 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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