What's going on with The Unit

Last night was the second part of the season premiere of The Unit (which features a new opening song, by the way). While I was initially excited about a confrontation between the Unit and the CIA, I wonder if this wasn't a squandered opportunity to raise the quality of the story-telling.

It's hard to characterize the ideology of the script-writer--left-wing conspiracy nut? Right-wing supporter of the military and patriotism? Certainly there was criticism of those who see themselves as the last patriots and defenders of the country, willing to do whatever it takes in order to protect it, including kidnapping, operating illegal prison facilities and ships, torture, and execution. And what of the cabal that is working behind the scenes, and has the American presidency in its pocket? While the members of the Unit believe that they are serving their country and are answerable to the American people, would not these revelations undermine their faith and trust in the government?

But, it looks like that next week things will be back to normal. But the lack of character development/drama for the colonel's (ex-)wife (and other characters) and greater exposition of this story-arc was disappointing? There wasn't enough politicking shown, but perhaps that is consonant with the plot--after all, the politicians, including the president, are the tools of the people who actually have power. No Japanese-style exhibition of all the machiavellian machinations taking place. Besides, given the dynamics of the show (and its budget), things can only be shown on a small-scale. Still, it is interesting that only Alpha team was framed--what about the rest of CAG? Wouldn't they be trying to help out their fellow soldiers? Where is the group loyalty?

The series up to this point has taken the stance that the use of torture to extract information is useless. When Mac is captured by Federal agents (or private persons working for the powers that be?), we sympathize with him as he is beaten in an attempt to make him sign a confession, and we despise torture as a result. But then Jonas Blaine and his team also resort to torture, shooting out a kneecap in order to get the information they need (and taking a page from Jack Bauer on 24). They also threaten the use of force on their enemies in the future. (I think they avoid threatening the families as well, but I'll have to rewatch the episode.) This is understandable--after all their enemies declared war on them first, and are subverting the American government. I suppose that there may be no legal means available to bring the ptb to justice, but at the end of episode Brown does say that the Unit has the evidence of their crimes that it needs to keep them at bay. But will that stop them from doing other illegal acts in the future? It would seem not--they just wouldn't get the Unit involved or draw its attention. After all, the Unit isn't an intelligence agency, so it's not their job to do surveillance on these people.

Very puzzling why the producers of the show wanted to take it in this direction and yet draw it to such a quick conclusion, without satisfying its audience.

What does Eric Haney himself make of this episode?

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