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?
Actually, homeland this season has a deep state guy at CIA.
Season 5 was the best, in my opinion, because it centers on the exploits of Peter Quinn.
Without Quinn the show is over.
I thought he was meant to be like Bannon .
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)?
"Simple. It was in the script, dear."
I thought of Alex Jones right away. I've never seen Bannon as other than a photograph and I have never heard him speak.
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.
Kevin Spacey showed the way in "House of Cards."
"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.
“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.
I agree. I’m not sure I want to watch without Peter Quinn.
Good series, hopefully they dont jump the shark like 24 did when they normalized muslim terrorists.
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