这不是评论，这只是搬运^^
AV CLUB 专栏作者Todd Van Der Werff 对HOMELAND S03E08 A Red Wheelbarrow 的评论。仅为节选，外加一些感想。
本集标题：A Red Wheelbarrow，大概是国土迄今出现过的最有文学含义、也最难理解的标题了。
源自美国意象派诗人William Carlos Williams最著名的一首短诗：
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
看过几个翻译版本，没一个特别满意的。意象派的诗歌本来就不适合翻译成另一种文字，不仅根本无法理解，原来的韵律感也会丧失殆尽，还是想象成一幅画面比较好XD
作者认为这首诗的关键词是“depends”，也正是这个词和第八集的剧情联系了起来。
That’s ultimately why you do the personal storylines, even if they don’t actuallywork, per se. This is a show about people whose lives are ground up by systems that see them more as expendable pieces in a giant system than it is a show about the missions these people go on. Its larger point has always been and still is, even in this often clumsy season, that any time you attempt to predict what people will do or control their behavior, you will fail, because people are complicated, messy creatures, and the spy game wants to make them into characters in a surveillance-based video game (or TV show), easily pushed around by men higher up in the food chain than they are, men who do not always realize that they will be buried just as easily when the time comes. It’s a tricky little word, “depends.” To depend on somebody is to know that they will always come through, and to depend on something happening is really saying that you need it to in order to keep your own hope alive. So much on Homeland depends on everything going right, sure, and even more depends on these people behaving exactly as Saul or Javadi or Dar hopes they will, but, ultimately, so much onHomeland depends on depends.
简单来说，这集就是要说明Saul的庞大计划如果要精确实施，必须“depends”依赖于计划中每个人的行动，只要其中一个环节出了问题，那么计划很可能全盘失败。Homeland的优秀之处在于，它表现了即使在国家机器控制的间谍活动中，个人的意志也是决定成败的关键，没有人是按部就班的棋子——这就对应了诗歌中的“so much depends upon…”
比如目前和Saul关系最亲密的三个人，他的妻子(Mira)、门徒（Carrie）和新门徒（Fara），出于各自感情的个人行动都会影响到他的计划。Mira的情人如果是个间谍，Carrie不听命令试图阻止对bomber的谋杀，Fara面对Javadi时那一剪刀如果真的扎了下去……那么他所计划的一切就可能都成了泡影。
作者对Carrie为了私情不顾大局差点破坏整体计划的行为表示只能“翻白眼”，不过很欣赏她后面在急救车上的表现：
But when she’s in the ambulance afterward, when she’s yelling at Quinn (somewhat hilariously, as Claire Danes finds the inherent bitter humor in Carrie’s lines) and trying to puzzle out just what’s wrong about the picture she sees before her, the series has dragged me back into a place where I feel like she’s the only one who can put all of this together.
话说我当时看到下面这段对话时笑了出来，当时还惴惴不安于是否太没心没肺，现在看来觉得这段hilarious的大有人在啊XD
C: Something's going to happen!
Q: Yeah, you got shot.
C: No shit. YOU shot me!
急救车上的Carrie，不抱怨不矫情，脑子还在飞速运转，一想到Franklin没有按计划安排bomber出国避难，而是直接杀了他，就意识到something's going wrong. 叫Quinn靠近也不是为了咬他一口出气，而是问Saul去哪了，这才是我喜欢的BAMF嘛，第一季的感觉又回来了！^^
和很多观众一样，作者对于“Carrie怀孕了，而且孩子他爸是Brody“的情节安排十分不满。除了狗血之外，他给出了如下理由：
That doesn’t really apply to Carrie’s pregnancy, which I was half convinced she was going to terminate in this episode. But, no, it’s Brody’s baby, so she’s going to try to hang onto it, even though she’s pumped the fetus full of both lithium and alcohol. (She’s going to make an excellent mother.) Homeland seems convinced Carrie’s pregnancy is something the audience should be invested in, but it ends up manifesting as this sort of ghost of the show that was, and every time the show brings it up, it reminds me of how much more compelling things would be if we simply left that show behind and focused on the Saul and Carrie storyline the series has built this season. Is this the most compelling storyline in Homeland history? No. But it at least suggests a way forward for the show, a way that the series can keep evolving and hopefully get back to the state of that marvelous, unpredictable first season. Having the ghost of Brody hanging around was kind of interesting for a couple of episodes, but that ship has long since sailed.
看来编剧们想当然地认为国土的观众对“Carrie怀孕”会非常感兴趣，但实际上它只能说明他们如何深陷过去的泥潭中不能自拔。每次这个情节一被提及，我就想到如果这部剧能够像本季开始那样完全集中在Carrie & Saul身上该有多好！
即使Carrie 和SAUL的故事线并不完美，但至少向我们表明了国土仍有进一步挖掘、进化的可能，有重回第一季辉煌的可能。让Brody的阴影继续停留在国土，或许短时间内会比较有趣，但从长远来看并无好处。
不吐槽，只想回复作者：我不能同意更多了！
最后他自己的吐槽太好玩了，每句都是经典啊！
Seriously, though, somebody make me a .GIF of Carrie racing through the parking lot with the words “FOR BRODY!!!!” flashing at the bottom of the screen.
I now hope that Quinn and Carrie get married and they tell their children later that they realized they were in love when he had to put a bullet in her. Ah, young love!
——看这段的时候笑喷了LOL
Look: There’s no way this baby is surviving the season, right? There’s no way this show becomes about Carrie Mathison, super mom, particularly if Brody somehow rejoins the story and becomes a stay-at-home dad (though now I’m imagining him cooking up pancakes for an unruly brood and giggling). And that scene with her doctor is basically the writers telling Carrie she’s going to lose the baby in so many words. I mean, Alex Gansa said, in my interview with him before this season, that there’s no way these two would be able to go to PTA meetings or what-have-you, so take that as a sign.
——嘛，其实如果这剧不是HOMELAND,那这样一家三口的画面我觉得还是很有爱的，可惜了……
I hope Saul gets to hang out with the crazy pedophile doctor guy from “Tower Of David” for a while. I suspect they would have an amusing scene together.
——这尼玛什么恶趣味！
That’s William Sadler as the president’s chief of staff (and, presumably, the guy who gives Saul the $10 million). He’s best known to me as Jaye’s father from Wonderfalls, but he’s a great character actor whose presence here suggests the White House will become a more important part of the series going forward.
5. As much as I liked that the Langley bomber was just some guy and/or Javadi’s son, I found myself briefly hoping it would be Virgil. What a twist!
——这是表示大家都在想念Virgil了吗？编剧真该多安排他出场的=_=
第12集完结
