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nwin posted:So, with Walker resigning, he still could face jailtime, correct? I just read a few pages ago in this thread that Frank might be able to pardon him from this. Is that true? I wouldn't be at all surprised if Frank pardons Walker, even if it doesn't fit into any long-term personally beneficial plans I do believe that he respects the office of the President enough not to want to see a former President go to jail, even if he despises the man personally (or at least his weakness). Frank's gained the Presidency now, but he gained that and the Vice Presidency before that by playing political games. His big test now if whether he can actually win an election or even get votes outside of his constituency. His very first act being settling a hostile dispute between China and Japan is sure to be spun as an example of America being respected and feared on the global stage.
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DrSunshine posted:So was the dealings with China in S2 just foreshadowing for a foreign-diplomacy centered season in which Frank becomes the undisputed master of the world? I can get behind that. Raymond Tusk had a stick up his rear end about the Chinese even when Frank went down to St. Louis for the first time.
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Jerusalem posted:I wouldn't be at all surprised if Frank pardons Walker, even if it doesn't fit into any long-term personally beneficial plans I do believe that he respects the office of the President enough not to want to see a former President go to jail, even if he despises the man personally (or at least his weakness). I guess it depends on how much it clings to its Richard III roots. I highly suspect that things are just going to go to poo poo almost right away.
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I felt so terrible for Walker. Seems like a good guy who is surrounded by Vipers. When he started figuring out what Frank was doing, I was almost rooting for the guy. Now i've been thinking how this could all come back to bite Frank in the rear end tho. That letter he gave Walker and ended up burning? He never checked the content of the enveloppe before he threw it in the fire. I wonder if the writers might come back with this as a plot twist at some point. Maybe Walker actually kept it, or had a copy or something like that...
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Dalael posted:Now i've been thinking how this could all come back to bite Frank in the rear end tho. That letter he gave Walker and ended up burning? He never checked the content of the enveloppe before he threw it in the fire. I wonder if the writers might come back with this as a plot twist at some point. Maybe Walker actually kept it, or had a copy or something like that... Unlikely, Walker doesn't have the backstabbing and double-crossing character of Frank.
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Riso posted:Unlikely, Walker doesn't have the backstabbing and double-crossing character of Frank. The more I think about it, the more I think you may be right.. Its kinda sad tho. I want Frank to have a set back and actually struggle. So far, its all been too easy for him. At no point in either seasons did I feel like Frank might be in trouble. Everything bad that happened ended up being non-issues so far.
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Oh that is easy to explain. The show features a very unreliable narrator: Frank himself.
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Lycus posted:He dead. I don't see how this is in any way ambiguous.
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Mooktastical posted:I don't see how this is in any way ambiguous. Tv magic can bring him back. How many shows have killed a character, only to bring him back? Jasper in The 100 takes a spear to the chest, and is seen walking fine a few episodes later. my mom used to watch a show in which a guy dies like 10,times and yet keeps comming back. Never doubt the possible mediocrity of writters
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Dalael posted:Never doubt the possible mediocrity of writters Point proven. But seriously, if Dexter could survive a hurricane, Stamper might survive a bludgeoning. I don't want him to though. Like Dalael said earlier, I too want to see Frank struggle. He's so competent that everything seems to be seamless. I have a feeling this will all change this season, or else this really will be a series of FU's rise to global domination.
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Dalael posted:Tv magic can bring him back. How many shows have killed a character, only to bring him back? He's just taking a nap. All night. Without moving. With his eyes open. After getting his head bashed in.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:He's just taking a nap. All night. Without moving. With his eyes open. After getting his head bashed in. Yeah he's not coming back. If they bring him back after the conclusiveness of that shot, I will consider the shark jumped. Good shows can deceive their audiences (Breaking Bad did a few times) but not just bald faced lie like that.
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WYA posted:I still dont really understand what happened to Zoe What happens when you get pushed in front of a subway?
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WYA posted:I still dont really understand what happened to Zoe Imagine House of Cards is a game of poker, with no bet ceiling. Zoe went in with 5$, and tried to bluff. Instead of calling her bluff, Frank shoved her in front of an uncoming subway.
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WYA posted:I still dont really understand what happened to Zoe She didn't mind the gap.
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WYA posted:I still dont really understand what happened to Zoe She caused a whole bunch of people to be late to work. I always wondered why they went with a fake station and metro line for that scene - did WMATA come down hard against using a real place or something? You'd think they could get some extra tourist bucks. sniper4625 fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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sniper4625 posted:She caused a whole bunch of people to be late to work. WMATA might have had a problem with the scene involving a person shoving another person in front of a train.
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PassTheRemote posted:WMATA might have had a problem with the scene involving a person shoving another person in front of a train. That's what I thought, just wondering if it was ever conclusively stated anywhere. Not really a big deal, given that probably 90% of the audience wouldn't have realized.  My immersion!
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sniper4625 posted:That's what I thought, just wondering if it was ever conclusively stated anywhere. Not really a big deal, given that probably 90% of the audience wouldn't have realized. Awww c'mon. Give people more credit. Look at that scene again. No real metro is that clean.
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Mooktastical posted:Yeah he's not coming back. If they bring him back after the conclusiveness of that shot, I will consider the shark jumped. Good shows can deceive their audiences (Breaking Bad did a few times) but not just bald faced lie like that. The season 3 cold open will be in a cloning facility outside of DC where a dozen tubes with copies of Stamper are being stored. As the scene plays out, one of the tubes is activated and the Stamper clone wakes up. He reached for a box, grabs a cell phone from it and cooly explains he a bad night. Preferably using a bludgeoning pun. Or just go full  and bring him back, acknowledge he did die, then never bother explaining the how.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The season 3 cold open will be in a cloning facility outside of DC where a dozen tubes with copies of Stamper are being stored. As the scene plays out, one of the tubes is activated and the Stamper clone wakes up. He reached for a box, grabs a cell phone from it and cooly explains he a bad night. Preferably using a bludgeoning pun. "Sorry for being late, sir. Had a bit of a bad night -- I was out of my head for a while." "How soon can you get down to my office?" "I'll be there in two hours, sir." *opening music*
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Dalael posted:Awww c'mon. Give people more credit. Look at that scene again. No real metro is that clean. The DC Metro is 
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Stamper was not a good person but like Frank, he's an interesting character for the purposes of seeing how a pragmatic sociopath operates with other likeminded sociopaths. What I love about this show is that Frank seems to be the only full-blown psychopath. Everyone else in his employ seem to be under his influence or willing to submit to it, yet show flashes of sentimentality here or there. Claire obviously loved Galloway (despite not hesitating to destroy him) and broke down for the first time after failing to pass the sexual assault legislation for Megan Hennessey. Stamper is a different beast in that he's possessive and manipulative, but he's not against showing what seems to be genuine regard for others (giving his ten year pin to the casino waitress). It's fun to pick these people apart and figure out what actions are directly the result of Frank's corruption and what they would implicitly do regardless. Or whether they just all came together because they were like-minded individuals. This is a show where I would love an origin story or two.
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New S3 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9QTLXYCCc Looks like Russia will be a big deal, with Underwood squaring off against a Putin analogue named Petrov (Russian flags aplenty, protestors wearing "STOP PETROV" shirts). Also, lots of on-the-nose shots of Frank and Claire being physically distant.
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And the guinea pig hacker was in a few of the shots too. Everyone out to get Frank.
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Jerusalem posted:Does anybody know who is playing Petrov? For a moment I thought it was Lars Mikkelsen but on closer inspection it didn't look like him, I was really excited about it too You were right the first time. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-01-12/sherlock-and-the-killing-star-lars-mikkelsen-joins-house-of-cards-series-three
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The crisis in Ukraine seems to be taking a weird turn. Not sure how the President of the United States would respond to not-Putin making out with his wife. The protesters look like they are wearing shirts labelled "STOP PETROV." QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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