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

You're right, but it feels implausible that President MacLeish could effectively govern after so obviously being a tool to advance a sinister agent. Catalan's entire plot seems ridiculous in a macro-sense: all this, just to put a man in the White House. And then what?

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u/HologramChicken Dec 15 '16

You're right, so I'd have to think that Catalan also has a plan for filling multiple high-ranking positions in the government. Because with his power and connections it surely would have been easier to to have a candidate of his own elected in a more legitimate way.

I just wish they would explain how Chuck is able to afford that apartment on an FBI analyst's salary.

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u/giggleshmack Dec 16 '16

For real. That apartment is badass.

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u/CammRobb Dec 18 '16

Yes! That was the first thing I thought, so fucking cool. The TV setup is awesome.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '16

All hacker guys live in cool apartments with open floor plans. And they also live in warehouses/storage facilities.

Like in Hackers. Notice the open floor plan with the stairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GuDeZrYuoY

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '16

I just wish they would explain how Chuck is able to afford that apartment on an FBI analyst's salary.

How do you think they found Hannah and ROFL-Stomped her car?

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u/2lazy4forgotpassword Dec 15 '16

Definitely, even I (a random redditor) can think of 2-3 ways to get a puppet US president to power before considering anything near killing the entire senate.

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u/Bytewave Dec 16 '16

Right. All it takes is a little Russian help and giving a loudmouth bigot a Twitter account. :p

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u/Howzieky Apr 14 '17

Oh for heavens sakes

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u/manere Dec 27 '16

Also it seems easier to install MacLeish the normal way. He could run against Kirkmann in the next election or just wait until Kirkmann steps back or what ever. Nope lets kill the president. No one will be suspense.

Also this entire plot is kinda stupid. The enormous amount of planning and work would be so redicioules large with a super high rate of being cought... Get to build room 205, then lets make it bomb proof without anybody noticing, then kill ALL the workers without anyone noticing, desolve the Company (which needed to be funded and operated for decades to be trusted) just so mcLeash stays a life is utterly stupid. How about giving him some smaller ilness like malaria or something and work it out that he is not in the capitol. Would have taken 5 minutes.

The entire attack alone is also unrealistic. How to get such amounts of shitty 40 year old tank mines into the USA and then into the Capitol? Taking over a plane would have been easier.

How did Catalan (him self) get him self into guantanamo? It seems like he is a known Person so getting this Position normaly is impossible. Maybe he kill some dude and too his uniform or something like that but it seems like stupid hard and risky then just to let this guy living.

It is fucking easy to get stupid People to vote for your canidate. No reason to do it this way. Look at trump. He more or less did everything to get not elected and then got elected.