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© Stephan Rabold 2015, Showtime

source; http://www.sat1.de/tv/homeland/bilder/der-mann-im-kaefig

#this picture hit me in the gut #or maybe in the heart #peter quinn #homeland #homeland season 5 #homeland 5.09 the litvinov ruse

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#always reblog the erotic ambulance #homeland #homeland season 3 #homeland 3. #homeland 3.08 a red wheelbarrow #homeland 3.09 one last thing #erotic ambulance

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I admire Astrid’s willpower.

#homeland #homeland season 5 #homeland 5.03 super powers #peter quinn #astrid is the best

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Happy Valentines Day, everyone.

Nothing says romance like getting shot in the back by the love of your life, and then putting her in a choke-hold and anaesthetising her. Motherfucker.

#happy valentines day #carrie x quinn #homeland #homeland season 5 #homeland 5.03 super powers #carrie mathison #peter quinn

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Love that lonely tuna appears to be a seminal Quinn scene for RF as well as for Homeland fans.

What is your one essential packing tip then if you have to live out of a suitcase?

#homeland #peter quinn #rupert friend #lonely tuna

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Yes, I know actors are good at acting, but it’s so nice when the cast of a show seem to genuinely get along.

#homeland #claire danes #rupert friend #i'm so used to him as quinn it's kind of weird to me to hear rf's english accent #also weird but good to see sarah sokolovic looking happy instead of pissy laura face

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Three thoughts:

Oh my god, I love Astrid so much.

This is basically Jonas’ entire season, perfectly encapsulated in a single gif.

It doesn’t appear that SAG restricts the number of cast members who can be named in a nominated ensemble (at least, judging by the list for Game of Thrones). In that case, it’s a shame Homeland didn’t also include Alireza Bayram as Qasim.  He must have had at least as much screen time as Bibi.

Homeland || 2016 SAG Award Nominee ↳ Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

#homeland #homeland season 5 #astrid #jonas hollander #qasim #astrid is the best #wtf this stupid show is making me care about awards shows

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11 Things I Don't Want To See In Homeland Season 6

Crusty vomit

Bad wigs

Unconscious Quinn

A deep, emotional scene with a toilet in the background

Dar Adal’s love life

Mysteriously garbage free NYC

Carrie as Otto’s business partner or (worse) non-business partner

Crossover with Billions in which no-one notices that this hedgie looks just like Brody

Crossover with Billions in which Brody turns out not to be dead after all

Laura Sutton

Dana

#homeland #homeland season 6 #guess i was wrong and Quinn is not dead

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Ugh, Quinn’s story from 5.05 on was just suffering upon suffering.

I agree with this, especially the first few paragraphs. I too can really enjoy the pain of a tragedy done well, and often find unhappy endings the most dramatically satisfying kind. But Quinn’s story through the back half of season 5 was relentless pain, torture and lack of agency - I think this is why I’m still angry and frustrated about how it played out, now that we’re a few weeks out from the finale and the immediate grief about his death and his life is receding.

When a tragedy hurts in such a good way, it’s because it isn’t inevitable, it’s because there was a possibility of another way. The possibility of a happier ending shouldn’t be a mirage in the desert, a faint glimmer, but something that could have been achieved. Not only was Quinn without agency in the last few episodes of the season, but the backstory provided in the finale makes it clear that there was never any hope.

Depressing thoughts on Peter Quinn’s death with provoking footnote.

I was just thinking, even though I deeply, unethically and unhealthily love tragedies, that Peter Quinn’s death was so incredibly sad and unfair, this almost passed the cruelty of it. It was horrible to watch, and it started from the episode where he gets shot. I had a foreboding feeling that I was beginning to watch Quinn’s long, sad, lonely and painful goodbye.  

It was such a long, uninterrupted chain of unfortunate events, it makes me wonder whether he may be the most unlucky tv character I’ve ever met. And believe me, it’s not like I’m new to televised narratives…

He tried to commit suicide to protect the only person he ever loved and chased and lost, to be eventually killed in a most offensive, undignified experiment: he died in a televised demonstration of chemical terrorism, in front of millions of people’s eyes. I can’t think of anything sadder for him than the fact that he intentionally stood tall up against that glass window, looking straight at them. Has anybody else noticed this?

Then he couldn’t even have the luck of dying properly. He was left blinded by the sarin, among all things he was left to suffer, just for his sufferings to be prolonged by being ‘saved’ by a Carrie he could never see again. Induced coma, induced awakening, hearing (?) Carrie’s voice for one last time, trying to communicate with her, not being able to say one word before falling back and deeper into it. And then the brain haemorrage and surgery, the damages suffered so bad that waking up from a minimally conscious state was a far-fetched hypothesis. 

All this for someone who was alone all his life, saw horrible things, did horrible things and eventually died horribly, not even for a minute being able to be comforted by the fact that his only love was there with him and that the attack did not happen. 

I believe this may be therapeutic for me, to write it down. I was left very deeply touched by Quinn’s writing. He was the good guy who sacrificed himself by accepting the darkness for all who couldn’t, and he was never able to unload it from his own shoulders.

I secretly hope the writers chose the ‘minimally conscious’ route to imply that he was not brain-dead, thus he could have a glimpse of what was happening around him, or at least a feeling of Carrie’s presence, and Dar’s, and Saul’s.

Note: minimally conscious is above ‘brain dead’ and ‘vegetative state’ and just below ‘severe disability’ in the altered states of consciousness scale. I tangentially work with these patients through a colleague. So I wonder if that choice was intentional. If they wanted Carrie to euthanize him though, it makes me kind of sick ‘cause minimally conscious is not just vegetation… your brain is fucking stuck but it’s there… Better not to think about this. 

#homeland #homeland season 5 #peter quinn #so fucking sad

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Moomins! Little my!

Yay, Moomins!

Little My is my favourite, hence the avi. I identify with her, because we’re both little, stubborn, sarcastic and independent. And she’s also confident, adaptable, adventurous and a great friend, which are all characteristics I’d like to develop more. And she likes winter sports and tales of doom!

#little my #moomin

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But I know now that was a false glimmer.

#homeland #carrie x quinn #carrie mathison #peter quinn #so fucking sad

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If I learned anything from all the time I spent obsessing about The X-Files, it's that random numbers are rarely truly random.

Or rather, a coincidence is not a coincidence if 3 March is a partner's birthday / kid's birthday / wedding anniversary of someone on the Homeland exec team.

I don't think that 303 is a coincidence! That would be a wacky coincidence. Directors really think about these details. (Not that it necessarily means anything important...)

This is Homeland, not Breaking Bad. 

#homeland #the x-files

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WHAT A HUGE TROLL

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Wtf is that new Rupert tweet about?!!

this is the tweet if anyone hasn’t seen it

I think this “project” probably isn’t homeland but I don’t even care because he says he plays quinn. PRESENT TENSE. My chest is filled with hope and butterflies. 

#homeland #rupert friend #twitter #from under the bridge

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I agree with this, I think.

I’m still struggling for perspective on the finale, and I’m not yet in a position where I can manage a rewatch.

Mostly I feel sad because of Quinn’s death. His death and his life - it was all so tragic and awful and hopeless. We thought there was hope and there really wasn’t. It hurts.

But I’m also upset at the way the story was executed. Quinn’s arc this year was one of the weak points of the season. He was without agency for the second half of the season, and we had very little character insight from Quinn himself. I wanted to learn from Quinn why he would never be free, not from exposition by Dar Adal to bring the story in a neat circle.

There was a story to be told this season, which would have taken Quinn from the same opening point to the same emotionally devastating death, an enthralling, insightful story which would have illuminated his character - but we didn’t get that story. We got a lot of physical pain (and sitting around in a van). Part of this was the construction of the season - keeping the central characters apart for so long created other issues too - but I also don’t think the show really engaged with Quinn this season; the back half of his season was largely functional (tying in the jihadis plot) and unconciousness. So I’m disappointed, because at the beginning I didn’t think this was the story the show was setting up to tell: the misanthropic war machine, the personal connections breaking through, his struggle to get out of the rabbit hole once again.

Quinn was the character I empathised and engaged with most, so of course I wanted him to be happy and I wanted that happy ending. I really believed there were signs the show might be going to give him a chance (C/Q) and I was glad.

However. I never thought Quinn would be completely happy. I thought it was in character for him to leave for Syria at the end of Season 4. I didn’t think he would ever fully escape the CIA. But I did see a future for him where he was out of black ops and with Carrie - maybe a compromise happiness for both of them, but something that could work for two complex and troubled characters and within the show’s framework.

Maybe that was wishful thinking. I think perhaps the draw to the darkness was a fatal flaw and this was the only way it could have ended. I just wish Homeland could have shown this to us better. The two scenes that really explain this to me are both from Season 4: the Quinn/Carrie ‘I was a bad man’ conversation, where he describes black ops as an addiction - a rabbit hole which he fell right back down at the end of that season, despite clutching at straws with his desperate proposal to Carrie (that missed opportunity is so sad; I won’t be able to watch The Kiss in the same way again) - and when Astrid tells Carrie that he will never get out (especially telling post Season 5, now it’s clear how well Astrid understands Quinn).

Season 5 gave us the resolution and the explanation, but the execution was muddled and by the finale the Quinn we loved had already gone. 

And it’s so fucking sad.

Do you think it was right that they took everything from Quinn? They killed him in the most horrible way possible, no goodbye, no blaze of glory. No love from anybody. And the backstory made a victim out of him and stole his agency. I'm beginning to think they will do the same for Carrie but in a slow, different manner. She is once more where she started from, alone, lost, no place in the world. I think they'll victimize her, too. 1/2

The only good thing is Franny, but I see now they are not interested in that relationship either, and are willing to do anything to shock viewers. Hell, at this point I wouldn’t put it past it if they killed the kid, too. Nothing is too sadistic. I have lost all faith in this show. I loved Quinn, and am mourning. I have lost all hope in Carrie, whom I also love. She is the only one left to suffer, and suffer she will. I am sure of it.

I will say what I said last night to @regalkinghiddles which is: no one wanted this. No one thinks his death was just or right. No one. 

But I think I get it. I think I get what they were trying to do, when Quinn left in 4.12, when he returned from Syria. He was a changed person. Maybe he really didn’t belong to the darkness. But I think he believed he did. 

It was his fatal flaw, the reason he’s a tragic hero: that he didn’t understand how to get out from under it, from under the darkness. He could never get out. He tried, and failed, several times over. We loved him for it, because he was admirable, because he sacrificed himself for others, for Carrie. He was selfless and heroic.

He needed Carrie’s help, and she didn’t understand. I think she loved him deeply, but in a way that confused her, or in a way that she knew wouldn’t be enough. 

He just couldn’t get out from it. I’m not sure he believed he deserved to. 

#homeland #homeland season 5 #peter quinn #so fucking sad

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I’m so sad. Why did it have to be like this?

It didn’t have to be like this.

#homeland #peter quinn #homeland 3.05 the yoga play #homeland 5.12 a false glimmer

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Yeah, Homeland tumblr has been a bit of a Quinn eulogy festival the last couple of days, and it’s just fueling my hysteria. Save it till Monday. Also, nice gifset.

Peter Quinn Appreciation

#homeland #peter quinn

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The nineties: I had so many episodes of The X-Files recorded on the last four of these; we had a big cupboard in the living room full of VHS cassettes; I had to go into town and buy a magazine to get the latest news on my favourite show.

And now I can do it all - and obsess endlessly - with just my phone. I love the internet.

#the x-files #what is real life?