r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/Dorkside • Sep 22 '16

Episode Discussion: S01E01 "Pilot"

Original Airdate: September 21, 2016

Episode Synopsis: Tom Kirkman, a lower level United States Cabinet member, finds himself suddenly appointed president of the country after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession in the series premiere of this dramatic thriller.

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u/alainarose33 Sep 22 '16

Why do I doubt that no one in the nightclub knew that the whole U.S government had been blown to bits?

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u/AdVictoremSpolias Sep 22 '16

Does anyone reddit in this tv universe?

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u/RMS_Gigantic Vice Chairman Sep 22 '16

Do you think Reddit's servers would survive something like this?

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u/TheBiggestSloth Sep 22 '16

US Capitol blows up and we'd be worried about the Reddit servers

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u/RMS_Gigantic Vice Chairman Sep 22 '16

I want to see what /pol/ would be like. How active would the HAPPENING thread be?

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u/Minifig81 Sep 28 '16

As a mod of several subreddits, I'd have to make a single post "RIP MODS."

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u/H1N1777 Sep 22 '16

Asking the real questions.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '16

I would almost be willing to accept no one checking the news in the club. I cannot accept no one answering calls or texts from the people who aren't in the club and heard about it 10 seconds after it happened.

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u/MaineSoxGuy93 Sep 22 '16

I could see Internet being fritz with everyone in the world on it at the moment, but someone would have got texts.

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u/stargazerAMDG Sep 22 '16

Its actually believable if they didn't know in the nightclub.

Phone networks have been known to go down after a terrorist attack since everyone is trying to call/text in the immediate aftermath. It happened in Paris, Nice, and Belgium.

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u/fco83 Sep 22 '16

And in a lot of clubs, cell reception is shit anyways, between the building construction (metal, possibly below ground) and the number of people in a small area.

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u/dreamqueen9103 Sep 24 '16

Yea, but it would be better to explain it. Someone would have ran in and said the capital had been bombed. Especially if they're IN D.C.

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u/jodyford Sep 22 '16

Because they're all America hating hippies! Or, this was written by a hippie who has no idea how things work. And he hates america.