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I don’t care about Matt so much. He’s so petulant and Nice Guy-ish and unprofessional. He was already too similar to Ethan on Body of Proof, but the way he just wanted to leave Stevie in the bar, trying to get Daisy to do so too, and bringing up Daisy’s personal business in meetings and not being able to handle Scott at all, so not cool. I’m geting kind of annoyed with the show pushing him as some kind of proxy male lead, with his arcs being secondary only to Elizabeth’s.

Already in this ep, we’re seeing the evolution of his professional and romantic arcs. After not being taken on the trip, and then getting scolded by Elizabeth, he was able to save the day with his speech. And his subplot with Daisy’s putting him in the position of the sympathetic character, the one who’s supposed to win the girl. Daisy’s similar amount of screentime was spent in trying to do her job, getting yelled at, and apologizing on the professional front and then turning down Matt. I actually very strongly hope that’s the end of them and the show won’t revisit it.

(Also, was it just me, or was Elizabeth kind of super-harsh with Stevie at the end? Instead of simply telling her it wasn’t what she thought and they couldn’t tell her more, you don’t deserve any explanations (and also a weird reference to privacy, considering the NSA’s involvement) and then the adults living at home crack. Like, it’s already pretty tough coming from a sibling or friend, but from a successful woman to her suddenly flailing (and knowing that quite well) daughter? Ouch.)

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I dunno, I dunno, this is the part I was iffy about in the first ep as well, where McCord seems very much a White Feminist. And one who seems to mostly hold the government line, where whatever disagreements she had with the policies were all centered around American lives.

In ep 2, they talk of the drone strikes in Yemen being what “set them off”, as if they’re overreacting, and quickly assert that no innocent civilians were killed, invalidating the protest, even though if that assertion was correct in this case, it most definitely is not always. And of course the local media is wrong later on too, it’s just the Yemenis constantly being actively evil or misled, but always wrong.

Then you have McCord having to change her stance as if thinking mercenaries are bad is some ivory tower academic belief that has no place in real life. And that’s rewarded in the narrative when they turn out to be these incredible heroes, one of their deaths held up as an incredible sacrifice that deserves special attention and care till the end of the episode.

What we see of the Yemenis too, the yellow filter and this polished American looking out his window as “Arab” music plays while people bang at gates and shout loudly in untranslated Arabic.

I want to keep watching this show, which is why this stuff chafes, I’m not just looking for issues. But urgh.

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I dunno, I dunno, this is the part I was iffy about in the first ep as well, where McCord seems very much a White Feminist. And one who seems to mostly hold the government line, where whatever disagreements she had with the policies were all centered around American lives.

In ep 2, they talk of the drone strikes in Yemen being what “set them off”, as if they’re overreacting, and quickly assert that no innocent civilians were killed, invalidating the protest, even though if that assertion was correct in this case, it most definitely is not always. And of course the local media is wrong later on too, it’s just the Yemenis constantly being actively evil or misled, but always wrong.

Then you have McCord having to change her stance as if thinking mercenaries are bad is some ivory tower academic belief that has no place in real life. And that’s rewarded in the narrative when they turn out to be these incredible heroes, one of their deaths held up as an incredible sacrifice that deserves special attention and care till the end of the episode.

What we see of the Yemenis too, the yellow filter and this polished American looking out his window as “Arab” music plays while people bang at gates and shout loudly in untranslated Arabic.

I want to keep watching this show, which is why this stuff chafes, I’m not just looking for issues. But urgh.

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I dunno, I dunno, this is the part I was iffy about in the first ep as well, where McCord seems very much a White Feminist. And one who seems to mostly hold the government line, where whatever disagreements she had with the policies were all centered around American lives.

In ep 2, they talk of the drone strikes in Yemen being what “set them off”, as if they’re overreacting, and quickly assert that no innocent civilians were killed, invalidating the protest, even though if that assertion was correct in this case, it most definitely is not always. And of course the local media is wrong later on too, it’s just the Yemenis constantly being actively evil or misled, but always wrong.

Then you have McCord having to change her stance as if thinking mercenaries are bad is some ivory tower academic belief that has no place in real life. And that’s rewarded in the narrative when they turn out to be these incredible heroes, one of their deaths held up as an incredible sacrifice that deserves special attention and care till the end of the episode.

What we see of the Yemenis too, the yellow filter and this polished American looking out his window as “Arab” music plays while people bang at gates and shout loudly in untranslated Arabic.

I want to keep watching this show, which is why this stuff chafes, I’m not just looking for issues. But urgh.