Just caught up on 4 episodes. This season has been very poor. Most of it is due to how predictable it is becoming and how narcissistic and terrible Carrie is as a character. I don't get excited about this show anymore and it hardly keeps my interest while I watch it. It looks like I'll be waiting until the season ends to binge watch the rest of it. Unless something good happens, it'll probably be my last season.
i won't be surprised if this show concludes that it was all a nightmare while Carrie was in a mental hospital.
Still better than the last 2 seasons since the total lack of Dana makes it so much easier to digest....
By far the most intense episode of this show. Wow. This week has redeemed a lot of their shannanigans up until now.
Spoiler Saul's screaming on the phone after his capture was the most heart-wrenching scene this show has ever done.
It seems like they could have had a better plan at extracting Saul. Send him into a town where he sticks out like a sore thumb. Really?
You have any better suggestions when you're trying to keep somebody alive in a remote/desolate area in the middle of nowhere? He was better off with the asset than sitting in the mountains... but they obviously weren't expecting to have every single aspect of their exfil plan be monitored/hashed out before they could put it into action. Obviously, Saul using the cell phone of the guard made it pretty easy to track.... and then they (Pakistan intelligence/Taliban) clearly have the ability to track their drones, etc. In the grand scheme of things, however, getting Saul back should not be the primary goal... they should still have been planning on killing Haqqani... and they should/could have used Saul's recently escaped location in order to send a drone over and bomb that compound.
I have a better idea. Once the Americans had pinpointed Saul in the desert, have him leave the phone somewhere and go to another location to be picked up by helicopter. Going into the town was idiotic. That, and the Director of the CIA saying "Should I be worried?" when he finds out the CIA station chief in Pakistan is missing, really bothered me this episode.
I was hoping Saul would die. I guess they have more use for his character down the road but I was waiting for him to die in this episode. At a minimum, I would like to see Saul beat the crap out of Carrie once he is free. I mean...just beat the hell out of her. I hope this transitions into a Saul vs Carrie thing going forward.
I think they mentioned that Pakistani air force had already been alerted... and had the entire region surrounded so an air support rescue was out of the question. What I don't understand is why they can't get the gov't's help... I know they're really corrupt, and have ties to the taliban, but that's not supposed to prevent cooperation to rescue a hostage, is it?
I was prepared for him to die... but that's probably exactly why the writers didn't do it (at least for this episode). Brody dying last year, then the med student asset dying this year, was starting to give me a GOT "numb to it" feeling that any and every major character could be offed at any moment.
I think this episode kind of tipped off what I said on the last page about that one younger looking Pakistani military guy (don't ask me his name) who had Carrie picked up when she was going nuts and brought to his house is not in on whatever his female counterpart is doing. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given up the mole and I think he only discovered him because he saw his female counterpart slip the mole the note when they were meeting and during recess. So, it seems now that obviously Carrie is not going to out the mole but use him to turn the tide maybe by feeding him false data to trick them and get Saul back.
Isn't that almost exactly what they did with that guy last year? Played him back into Tehran? In any case, it is convenient that the pakistani guy gave her the mole's name..... but I still don't understand what is in it for him telling Carrie that info?
I think he is crushing on her. He experienced the raw Carrie when she was tripping. He heard what all she said. She was kissing on him and he wasn't exactly pushing her away. He also has developed a trust for her. I think he is trying to do the right thing and he knows what his side is doing is the wrong thing. He's a bit torn. It wouldn't surprise me if a sexual relationship develops between he and Carrie. She has to trust him a bit now whereas she wasn't sure before what his motive was.
