I wanted to answer this about 12 hours ago but had to run to work.
1. I loved Cole after he risked his life to save Hassan! He's really grown on me although I liked him right away I now see he's more than a pretty face. I also like that his inexperience is part of the storyline. I liked that Hastings was trying to use it against him and the way that part of the plot is working out.
I agree that they did a better job on Hassan's family. I also loved when he admitted to the affair. I started shipping them right before they had to break up. Yeah, I'm easy. As far as Farad goes, I think they did a better job explaining Omar's brother betrayal's than Graem's (yeah I went there). Farad hates the West and doesn't trust them, it's not just regime change, at least that's what I think. Plus it puts him in the same category as the villains of season two, at least the ones who were afraid that Palmer was too "soft". I'm totally ready to be proved wrong.
Arlo is skirting the sexual harassment edge *way* too close - Dana should be putting him down harder. I find Dana/Jenny's ex creepy as hell. I want to know what she did, and I'm hoping that the ending involves that guy dying a slow horrible death. It doesn't bother me as much as it does a lot of other people, as I want to see where it's going. Katee's totally selling it, whatever is going on. And I really like her and Cole together, I want to see them kiss, dammit.
What you said there about Jack no longer being the wild card is so so so true. I think that's why the first few hours felt so weird because he wasn't going to do anything crazy. We have Renee for that now. I actually think the further she goes into the darkness the more Jack will follow her.
I don't think it's being better, I think it's more that she's willing to do whatever it takes. I was thinking about season seven in light of her undercover time. I think you're right what you said above, that it does work. I think of it as her seeing the Russians doing awful things to people and they're the bad guys. Except when she met Jack, he wasn't bad, he was doing it for "good reasons". Larry's whole speech about the laws and what makes them different and what she'd clung to during her undercover time suddenly isn't so clear cut.
It explains why Larry almost babysat her - and omg I loved that line last Monday "me and the babysitter." Oh she's so angry that Jack's treating her like a child, telling her she's not up for the field (would he do the same thing to a male agent? Wait, we already saw season four...). Uh also healed Jack tends to get kind of 'holier than thou' when giving advice to the ones left behind. Renee isn't his student anymore, she's not anyone's anything anymore. She's dangerous. I love it. I can't wait to see more. I look forward to her eating my brain whole.
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1. I loved Cole after he risked his life to save Hassan! He's really grown on me although I liked him right away I now see he's more than a pretty face. I also like that his inexperience is part of the storyline. I liked that Hastings was trying to use it against him and the way that part of the plot is working out.
I agree that they did a better job on Hassan's family. I also loved when he admitted to the affair. I started shipping them right before they had to break up. Yeah, I'm easy. As far as Farad goes, I think they did a better job explaining Omar's brother betrayal's than Graem's (yeah I went there). Farad hates the West and doesn't trust them, it's not just regime change, at least that's what I think. Plus it puts him in the same category as the villains of season two, at least the ones who were afraid that Palmer was too "soft". I'm totally ready to be proved wrong.
Arlo is skirting the sexual harassment edge *way* too close - Dana should be putting him down harder. I find Dana/Jenny's ex creepy as hell. I want to know what she did, and I'm hoping that the ending involves that guy dying a slow horrible death. It doesn't bother me as much as it does a lot of other people, as I want to see where it's going. Katee's totally selling it, whatever is going on. And I really like her and Cole together, I want to see them kiss, dammit.
What you said there about Jack no longer being the wild card is so so so true. I think that's why the first few hours felt so weird because he wasn't going to do anything crazy. We have Renee for that now. I actually think the further she goes into the darkness the more Jack will follow her.
I don't think it's being better, I think it's more that she's willing to do whatever it takes. I was thinking about season seven in light of her undercover time. I think you're right what you said above, that it does work. I think of it as her seeing the Russians doing awful things to people and they're the bad guys. Except when she met Jack, he wasn't bad, he was doing it for "good reasons". Larry's whole speech about the laws and what makes them different and what she'd clung to during her undercover time suddenly isn't so clear cut.
It explains why Larry almost babysat her - and omg I loved that line last Monday "me and the babysitter." Oh she's so angry that Jack's treating her like a child, telling her she's not up for the field (would he do the same thing to a male agent? Wait, we already saw season four...). Uh also healed Jack tends to get kind of 'holier than thou' when giving advice to the ones left behind. Renee isn't his student anymore, she's not anyone's anything anymore. She's dangerous. I love it. I can't wait to see more. I look forward to her eating my brain whole.