[Netflix] House of Cards - Page 14

Feel really bad for Walker. Though he was weak mentally, I really enjoyed his character.

Fuck the writers for fucking Freddy over.
What the fuck was the random Meachem 3some with Frank and Claire? Quite possibly the most unnecessary scene ever.

Everyone has either gone full R or completely forgot what their character was all about. Jackie Sharpe suddenly has a change of heart, drops out of the race and supports Dunbar, after being a cruel pragmatist in S2. (I know Frank fucked her over in the debate, but I felt unsatisfied with how she barely seemed to care afterwards). We have Doug who's super fucking obsessed with a girl he's treated like absolute shit, who obviously doesn't want anything more than to be left alone. So he almost does the right thing, then decides to be an asshole and run her over.

Though I agree that Frank wasn't as clever and shit in this season, half of that was because of how awful Claire was in every single facet of the season. She absolutely blew as an ambassador, as a first lady, as a ruthless pragmatist. Then Frank puts her in the place she deserves to be with his last episode tirade on the hypocrisy of her bullshit dilemmas. It's like Frank couldn't even fathom the dumb ass writing decisions they gave Claire. I never liked her much-- she always seemed fake (both on the campaign trail and in person), where as Kevin Spacey plays a very likable and folksy politician-- even if he's a grade A asshole behind the scenes.

Thank god for Frank vs. Petrov, because by the end of the season even I didn't want AmericaWorks to work. Good job to Remy Danton for getting out of the limelight while the rest of the show devolved into a relationship drama with an unrealistic ending.

Sigh. This season started out decently and just got less and less unique and more like a stock soap opera drama.

Claire becomes a lot more likable if you consider her perspective from a changing America. She grew up in a time of patriarchy so thirty years ago when she was scheming, her only out was a strong man who would do anything. She rides the Frank train for awhile, but the feminist movement is in full swing. She can have a political future and wants to realize her full potential. She will have no legacy because anything her and Frank accomplish will only be attributed to Frank. She definitely bit off more than she could handle this season, but I think people calling her Skylar is just ridiculous. She isn't supposed to be liked, but I think you can feel sorry for her situation a bit more if you think about the climate she grew up in and how America has changed in the past thirty years. She is having a crisis of conscience about what she has accomplished in her life and it is causing her to make different decisions.

I agree that the writing wasn't as good as the previous seasons, but I can live with the direction the show is going. Claire kills Frank and becomes president in season 4 might be an interesting storyline as well.

She might have a political future if she were actually good at anything. I mean seriously, the only time she displayed any sort of cleverness was with the watershed bill in S1. They didn't even really show HOW she got that general assembly bill passed in S3; only the "yea Israel we just gave Zimbabwe $50mill more than you haha!!!" which showed no behind the scenes action. Her "shame on you Petrov" speech and her inability to be anything close to a memorable UN ambassador makes me seriously doubt she would have any lasting political role in S4, unless they just say fuck the plot line. Just think about how badly Frank has hit Dunbar for being under qualified-- it's not like Claire has had experience being a solicitor general let alone a politician.

In season 1 Claire was running a charity, she fired all of her staff, hired a women, promising to let her run things.
When she didnt obey, Claire then threatened to forcibly abort her unborn child and sterilise her so she could never become pregnant again. This season she seems to have feelings and actually care about other people, she is lady macbeth that has grown a conscience. After hungering after power whatever the cost, she fails when given responsibility and then decides she doesnt want it.
Of course there is the question of what happens next, if she doesnt want to be 'in the shadow' of Frank is she going to run for president herself? is that even possible? If Frank is elected president does Claire become his most vocal critic and nemesis? It feels like this whole season was just building up for the next one though I am still interested to see where they take it.

The main character introduces conscription and has military law in effect at one point. Which is where I thought AM works was going. There is no more unemployment, everyone has been conscripted..
There was that line from Kevin spacey saying the only thing stopping him from murdering Petrov was that it would start a world war. The british version never got that far but imagine if the show went there.

Also events from franks past, some that we never saw that happened before the series started, begin to catch up with him.
He spirals out of control and his wife along with the bodyguard she is sleeping with have him assasinated. His wife does not have as central a role as the netflix version but I am really interested to keep watching to see where they take it.

i mean, still a politic related drama, i lol'ed when china came out

rofl i loled so hard when seth said, you are fucked up man