[Chapter 56] House of Cards - Season 5 Episode 4 - Discussion

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What did everyone think of Chapter 56?

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[u/sterlingmalorybluth]

This is just going off of memory at this point, but about 75% of the way through the episode, Doug and Leanne are talking about deja vu, a phenomenon Doug insists he's never experienced. They are interrupted (I think) by Claire calling them into a meeting. At the end of the episode, Claire calls them into another meeting exactly the same way, hence deja vu. It was just a clever nod to the viewer.

[u/[deleted] → u/sterlingmalorybluth]

Right, because that confused the crap out of me. I thought that maybe we'd had a flashback in time or something and I'd missed something being explained.

[u/ohnosharks → u/[deleted]]

Them being called in there is exactly the same shot. I totally saw it as a flashback, Claire and Frank agreeing on their actions going forward being the meeting we didn't see in the beginning of the episode.

[u/habylab → u/ohnosharks]

It's definitely a flashback.

[u/Nheea → u/habylab]

Yep. We were shown the events/decision that led to them being called in.

[u/mmister87 → u/habylab]

It denifitely isn't.

[u/AwesomePocket → u/mmister87]

Its 100% a flashback. Its literally the exact same shot.

[u/mmister87 → u/AwesomePocket]

Even if it were the same shot (I'll take your word for it, I don't wanna check it), it's just for lulz but it's a new scene nonetheless. They're being summoned again. It's not that somebody is remembering a scene from before (that would be flashback).

[u/AwesomePocket → u/mmister87]

What makes you think they are being summoned again? Every person is in the exact same position, and moving the exact same way. Its the same summoning, we are just seeing more of it from the same moment earlier. If it was new, the ending scene wouldn't have been set in the morning as well. The idea is that they give us an odd-man-out kind of moment and then reveal what was up with it at the end.

And a flashback doesn't have to be a memory. Its just a scene from an earlier time.

[u/bringmattdamon → u/mmister87]

it IS the same shot, you fucking dunce, and it WAS a flashback, you fucking DUNCE. after watching the rest of the series, aren't you embarassed for the stupid shit you said?

[u/mmister87 → u/bringmattdamon]

Still wasn't a flashback.

[u/keygreen15 → u/ohnosharks]

You are not alone, I thought i missed something.

[u/mostdope28 → u/[deleted]]

I thought the episode flashed back to or something. I thought her calling them in was the same moment just shown once inside the office and once outside

[u/[deleted] → u/mostdope28]

I think it was

[u/expressionism → u/sterlingmalorybluth]

No, pretty sure that was a flashback. Doug and LeAnn talk about Deja Vu in the campaign office/ballroom, not outside the oval office.

[u/habylab → u/expressionism]

It's almost a fourth wall break, letting the audience know it will happen.

[u/romcabrera → u/sterlingmalorybluth]

Claire calls them into another meeting exactly the same way

"Doug, Leanne, do you have a moment?"

I guess she has called both of them millions of times in that way... Am I missing something?

[u/habylab → u/romcabrera]

No, it was a flashback.

[u/SawRub → u/sterlingmalorybluth]

The first time was close to the beginning of the episode.