EPTok now that i watched it, i have to say the end is really meh and i am curious why frank doesn't knock on the table when he leaves anymore..
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Undead1993
Germany17651 Posts
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nkr
Sweden5451 Posts
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
woo! also do we really need spoilers | ||
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On March 05 2015 07:47 nkr wrote: The Doug story line really felt like a huge filler throughout the season. Really annoyed with it :/ + Show Spoiler + glad they ended it, it was filler for most of season 2 as well, doug was a pretty good character in season 1 and should be back on the front lines for season 4 so far the show seems to follow the path of Gerald Ford, although Frank is not Gerald Ford, he's a combination of the guy from the British show and LBJ. -becomes VP in 2013 (Ford became VP in 1973) -president resigns in disgrace in 2014, making Frank president (Watergate was 1974) -tough primary challenge from Reagan/+ Show Spoiler + Dunbar -wins primary but loses general? this would wrap the show up in 4 seasons | ||
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Hyperbola
United States2536 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + This season was so shit. I am so disappointed with the ending. Frank driving everyone away was the most hamfisted thing I've seen in a long time. Jackie, Remy, Claire. Explain to me how they have been allies for so long and they all just happen to leave eachother at the last second. Clearly Frank has better people skills if he can stay on the senate for 20 years. All this god damn relationship drama - honestly it left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Claire leaving was completely out of character. Frank talking to his wife like that was out of character. So many god damn characters were butchered for "plot progression" which is a horrible tradeoff considering I saw fucking none of it. There was no plot this season. How do I know that? Because nothing actually happened. Some UN legislation was passed and then it failed. Claire became ambassador and then she resigned. Some characters were introduced and then they left. Doug hit rock bottom and then recovered completely. America Works was created and then destroyed. Remy was hired and then quit. Jackie Sharp ran for president and then she stopped. Some writer tried to write a book and then he didn't. Frank is still president. He is still running for president in 2016 as he always going to. Nobody has won the primaries. Nothing happened. The only thing that could be counted as plot is now Claire hates Francis. 13 episodes for Claire hating Francis. 28 years of marriage and now over the span of a couple months Claire has decided she hates her husband. I don't watch this shit for relationship drama. I watch this shit for the same reason I watch GoT - political drama. It's too bad there was almost none this season. edit: I lied there was one redeemable quality this season: Hollywood Putin. I fucking loved that guy. | ||
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sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
Been bothering me how I can't figure out what that scene is supposed to mean or symbolize (if anything). | ||
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coverpunch
United States2093 Posts
On March 05 2015 11:32 Hyperbola wrote: Huge mega rant incoming. Beware of spoilers. + Show Spoiler + This season was so shit. I am so disappointed with the ending. Frank driving everyone away was the most hamfisted thing I've seen in a long time. Jackie, Remy, Claire. Explain to me how they have been allies for so long and they all just happen to leave eachother at the last second. Clearly Frank has better people skills if he can stay on the senate for 20 years. All this god damn relationship drama - honestly it left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Claire leaving was completely out of character. Frank talking to his wife like that was out of character. So many god damn characters were butchered for "plot progression" which is a horrible tradeoff considering I saw fucking none of it. There was no plot this season. How do I know that? Because nothing actually happened. Some UN legislation was passed and then it failed. Claire became ambassador and then she resigned. Some characters were introduced and then they left. Doug hit rock bottom and then recovered completely. America Works was created and then destroyed. Remy was hired and then quit. Jackie Sharp ran for president and then she stopped. Some writer tried to write a book and then he didn't. Frank is still president. He is still running for president in 2016 as he always going to. Nobody has won the primaries. Nothing happened. The only thing that could be counted as plot is now Claire hates Francis. 13 episodes for Claire hating Francis. 28 years of marriage and now over the span of a couple months Claire has decided she hates her husband. I don't watch this shit for relationship drama. I watch this shit for the same reason I watch GoT - political drama. It's too bad there was almost none this season. edit: I lied there was one redeemable quality this season: Hollywood Putin. I fucking loved that guy. It only gets made if it turns out someone has been weaving a giant web next season to isolate Frank in the same way that he did to President Walker. It all went pretty bad for Walker pretty quickly in season 2. | ||
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coverpunch
United States2093 Posts
On March 06 2015 07:28 sung_moon wrote: Was watching my friend as she began to watch S1 of House fo Cards, and does anybody remember the scene with the old woman yelling at Claire not to run in the graveyard, only for Claire to see a teenage couple making out there? Been bothering me how I can't figure out what that scene is supposed to mean or symbolize (if anything). I thought it was an age thing, that she admires the young couple throwing away social conventions to make out in a cemetery (who DOES that, btw) and can't figure out the old woman telling her it's disrespectful. I also thought it might parallel the funny hypocrisy that the show lionizes Frank for his affair while Claire's affair is a sign of weakness and a sort of betrayal. | ||
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Thrill
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HighPassage
United States82 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I hate, hate, hate what they did to Claire this season. Seriously, her writing was so refreshing and different from the way a lot of other females are written on television; she was like this stone-cold sociopath who gave approximately 1 - 2 fucks about anything other than Francis. The beginning of Season 3 seemed like more of the same, and then she's like: "YO, MR. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, HOLD UP. I GOT...FEELINGS." After that she just goes downhill, and she turns into the typical wife character. She wasn't the force that she was in Season 1 and 2, now the writers are just using her character to drag the show into more relationship drama. Like, come on. Fake Putin was a boss. Maybe they should make House of Kremlin instead. | ||
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JulDraGoN
Sweden370 Posts
I remembered the overall "story" but not the last couple of scenes, like what happened, who said what and why. It had escaped my mind. It wasn't even that long ago I watched it. That can't be a good sign. | ||
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SuperFanBoy
New Zealand1068 Posts
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dohgg
310 Posts
However... + Show Spoiler + Frank using the hypocrisy card vs jackie sharp on the confrontation, was the old and awesome frank we learned to love from the previous seasons  | ||
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vult
United States9400 Posts
Claire leaving I really like the Russian president though. He is great. | ||
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sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
On March 09 2015 06:26 dohgg wrote: + Show Spoiler + Frank using the hypocrisy card vs jackie sharp on the confrontation, was the old and awesome frank we learned to love from the previous seasons On March 10 2015 00:39 vult wrote: Season was meh. Doug/Rachel storyline was super filler and lackluster, ending in a terribly quick way for what the season was hyping it up to be. Characters are coming in and out, intentions are blurred, and nothing is clear cut, which is good, but they seem so flimsy and prone to manipulation that even Frank looks weak. Idk, not much action or suspense during the season, and + Show Spoiler + Claire leaving I really like the Russian president though. He is great. Literally the debate bit and anything Petrov were my favorite parts of S3. Wasn't really feeling Doug's storyline while it was playing out, and I absolutely hated the ending to it. + Show Spoiler + Poor Rachel. Maybe I get easily sympathetic with the "hard life" stories such as her's. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain17962 Posts
Most of this season reminded me of a badly done westwing mixed with relationship drama. Doug's entire storyline was unbelievable and filler. The hacker is completely 1-dimensional and had already served his purpose, why give him so much screentime? And finally, I agree with the rest of you that every scene with Petrov was awesome. | ||
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EtDecius
United States52 Posts
(was it the Justice with Alzheimers?) On topic, I agree with the criticisms of Season 3. Too many dominoes toppled over at once as Frank took his authority to an extreme. Claire has always been unlikable in my opinion and now Frank has alienated the audience as well as everybody else. Here's hoping Season 4 reins it back in. | ||
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Makro
France16890 Posts
i found the scene between frank and his russian counterpart too long for nothing, sometimes i just wanted to skip it, even if the quality of the dialogue was good the relation between frank and his wife throughout the season was handled really badly imo i know that considering he was at the top the only option left was to going down, but still overall it's meh however i liked the scene with doug, even if sometimes it was also too much that was my rant | ||
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
God is that show great. | ||
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Kronen
United States732 Posts
On March 12 2015 02:16 Yoav wrote: So watching bad-West-Wing this season had me grumpy, and I decided to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. I started rewatching the old West Wing. God is that show great. That show totally makes me wax nostalgic for the days when politicians could at least pretend to work together. Oh well, those days are gone. Thanks Karl Rove. The length of plotlines this season seemed awfully short as well. Every episode felt, for lack of a better word, episodic when compared to the longer lines of previous seasons. | ||
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