Originally Posted by nomad2king:
“IMO She insisted that the drone strike go ahead, simply because Haqqani had killed the nephew. Up until then she was calm about the situation. Nobody else tried to call off the strike before then.”
You have a point... though I'm sure Carrie's ties to Saul were stronger than her commitment to Aayan, shocking though his execution was.
I think she'd care more about Saul being in Haqqani's clutches and likely to be subjected to torture and possibly an eventual craning than the loss of an asset which had achieved it's purpose - even if it is one she'd had sex with.
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I've mixed feelings about last night's finale.
I don't need massive cliffhangers or death and destruction in order to feel that a season has reached a suitable end but last night was too much of Carrie in cars and pulling up onto drives. Plus I think it was a bit odd having such potentially major players as her long absent mother with bolted-on half-brother appear as a way to tell Carrie that she can get it together with Quinn... but ooops, he'd gone already. Presumably this was to set up a nice bit of future angst for Carrie when Quinn goes missing... perhaps if Dar Adal knows he was seen in Haddaqi's car by Quinn, the likelihood of Quinn coming back is low anyway... and now he knows that Carrie knows...
And bits jarred... so the soon to be ex-CIA director pitches up at the after-wake of an employee's father and sits down with Saul and a black ops specialist... don't know how else you'd get them together but was the scene needed anyway?
Then with all the focus on the Saul video preventing him returning to office... wasn't he on the video of Haqqani shooting Aayan anyway? And that was uploaded to Youtube so is freely available out there. Yes, I suppose it was less damaging than the one Dar Adal returned... but who really believes that's the only copy? If Saul is back as CIA director - or something close - he's potentially Dar Adal's puppet... and how did Dar Adal make contact with Haqqani safely anyway...? Did I miss how Carrie knew where Dar Adal lived? Too many oddities and loose ends for me to feel it was a good final episode.
I have really enjoyed this season - more so than season 3 - and it's had some exceptionally tense episodes that have left me quite exhausted after watching but last night seemed too disjointed. I think the writers were so busy setting up next season they forgot to give us some satisfaction in concluding storylines this season. There comes a point where I think the viewer can be manipulated by a series too cynically and too much - one of the reasons I don't watch soaps - and I don't want Homeland and its characters (some of whom I'm very fond of, including Carrie) to treat its viewers that way.
Originally Posted by solare:
“Quinn could have had one last shower before departing on his mission.”

Yes. That would have been closure of sorts for me.