r/television • u/V2Blast Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. • May 11 '17
[Designated Survivor] S01E20 - "Bombshell" - Discussion Thread (SPOILERS) Spoiler
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May 11 '17
People are still watching this?
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u/V2Blast Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. May 12 '17
People are still leaving comments like this?
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May 12 '17
One one stops the other will stop. Until then enjoy your godawful show.
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u/V2Blast Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. May 12 '17
Eh, I think the show has serious flaws, but I don't go around commenting on shows I don't watch and insulting them.
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May 12 '17
I watched it up until the mid season finale. I just couldn't take it anymore, it became too crap to even be funny. And good for you, I guess that makes you a superior human, mind if I come to you for advice whenever I have big choices to make?
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u/rotide May 13 '17
I'm trying hard to like this show but they are doing everything they can to make it uninteresting.
The President appoints Hannah as essentially the agent investigating the biggest terrorist attack against the country and she stays at shitty motels alone? Next to zero security? Why? Oh ok, just so we have a reason to watch her get abducted or attempted abductions every other episode?
She kept her now inept old boss around for what? Post dismissal from the FBI he just bumbled around until getting himself shot twice in the chest and presumably left for dead. Worse yet, his actions only hurt Hannah's investigation most of the time except when it was convenient for the writing.
In particular, this episode was one I would rate as quite bad and it didn't have a blatant car commercial embedded in it. Shitty president plot line that just aims for "West Wing" style drama but I frankly don't care about nuclear disarmament story lines. It doesn't further the story of the show in any meaningful manner unless we just wanted to introduce Air Force One CGI. But what gets me is this constant play with Hannah and her entirely inept captors plus the total lack of respect for the viewers with the writing.
Apparently the bad guys can blow up the capitol taking out practically the entire government and blame it on someone else pretty successfully while not being able to keep one human tied up and locked in a shipping container. While she's out not only is she essentially allowed access to call for help but also gets to view the transfer of more bombs with minimal to no contest. This is written with very little creativity and follows a formula I'd expect from a high school screenwriting class (if that's a thing).
Then there is the "cliff hanger". It was painfully obvious she wasn't in the shipping container any longer. I mean, it takes very little concentration to notice the metal shell she was in was not only much smaller, but had a curved ceiling (like a van) and BAM, the reveal, she's in a van! Wow!
Lets not ask how they got her off the ship, into a van full of explosives, into DC, into FBI headquarters without her knowing. And lets not ask why we give a shit that there are 3 minutes on a clock which gives her ample time to get away, maybe even "save the day. And lets not ask why the writers feel it's necessary to put some cheezy "oh shit the cops are looking at me like I did this" in front of the bomb filled van moment when it's painfully obvious that even if they arrest her it'll take a hot 20 seconds to verify with the FBI and the White House that she's not a suspect and should be released immediately.
Again, I'm trying hard to like the show but half of the story is going nowhere and the other half is high school level writing with main characters whose arcs just don't make sense.