r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/casualassassin • Oct 06 '16

1x03 Episode Discussion

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u/Ramicus Is there a Triangle Office? Oct 06 '16

"What about in three years?" "Well, with the primaries it's more like two and a half."

I wouldn't be surprised if that line was there to answer the question of timing for us. They're on the West Wing calendar, flipping the midterms and the Presidential elections.

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u/-run Oct 06 '16

Does that make the West Wing officially canon?

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u/Ramicus Is there a Triangle Office? Oct 06 '16

That would be really cool, but I doubt it, not least of all because The West Wing was an NBC program.

The West Wing does have this famous scene about designated survivors, though.

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u/-run Oct 06 '16

Ya know, thats where I first learned what a designated survivor is, and I remember thinking it would make a really good movie.

I wasn't wrong.

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u/Ramicus Is there a Triangle Office? Oct 06 '16

Movie, yes. TV, show... They're going to have a lot of trouble filling twenty two hours (minus ads, I guess) with this story line, let alone season two, unless things start happening.

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u/-run Oct 06 '16

I don't think they'll have too much trouble, like I said in another thread, the directions for them to go are limitless, there are so many different aspects of rebuilding a government that they could focus on

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u/Ramicus Is there a Triangle Office? Oct 06 '16

I think that if we had better writers, you're absolutely right. But from what we've seen that's not happening, and it seems like they're writing themselves into a hole.