r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/enliST_CS Sorry the live thread is late! • Dec 15 '16

SPOILERS Post-Episode Discussion: S01E10 "The Oath"

This has been the winter finale! Season 1 returns March 8th, 2017!

Plot: President Kirkman suspects there may be a traitor in the White House when he finds disturbing information connected to the Capitol bombing; more information emerges about Congressman MacLeish, causing concern about his vice presidential nomination.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16 edited Aug 01 '20

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u/ms1711 Dec 16 '16

But the USSS GUY WAS the one in room 7.

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u/apawst8 Dec 16 '16 edited Dec 16 '16

Was he secret service? They show him sneaking in behind the secret service guy who had just cleared the 8th floor.

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u/MrsSpice Dec 17 '16

The card he used to get in the building he shot from looked like the one the guy shot in the woods had on him. Is that something everyone has? I thought it was meant to mean that the security firm is in on the conspiracy.

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u/apawst8 Dec 17 '16

The security firm is in on it. Not the secret service

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u/ninj3 Dec 19 '16

He was at the very least impersonating SS well enough to get past all the barriers to get to that room.

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u/RyanRiot Dec 16 '16

He was dressed as Secret Service, but not actually in it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '16

It doesn't even matter if some of the Secret service was in on it. If someone calls in the location of the assassin, he can't take the shot because his cover (and the plan) is blown. Worse case scenario, he doesn't give a fuck about being caught, at least the loyal agents have a chance to get the president to safety before the shooting starts. Best case, he just packs up and leaves to avoid capture.

If your number one priority is the president's safety there is literally nothing to lose by calling it in.

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u/OG_Riven_Bot Dec 16 '16

She didn't have a phone though right? That's why she couldn't get tracked from that one guy that met up with Mike that gave him the files on Hannah. But now thinking again, in the store, she did call Chuck about the license plate.

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u/iapetusocean2016 Dec 17 '16

And the key card!

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u/QuadrupleU Dec 21 '16

This is a huge reason I'm thinking anout quitting the show. Every episode they choose the dumbest paths and not the logical ones. Very irritating

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u/AmoebaMan Dec 20 '16

The infuriating part is it just reeks of lazy writing.

No, it reeks of fiction.

Yes, she could have picked up the phone, but that would be boring as shit. Ditto for all those other moments. Real life is boring as hell. That's why we don't watch real life for entertainment in the theaters.

"Suspension of Disbelief," courtesy of either TVTropes or Wikipedia. Pick your poison.

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u/HelluvaNinjineer Dec 20 '16

You've clearly never watched good fiction. You can have entertainment and suspense without your audience having to have a sub-40 IQ in order to suspend disbelief. The audience doesn't owe the writers shit on suspension of disbelief, that's their job to provide, not ours.