Let’s see – they’ve shown what, four episodes? While already bumping it from the schedule twice. Not exactly a good way to build a momentum/a loyal audience. 
Not to mention that next week is the real election. If that election goes into extra innings, non-stop news coverage will bump the schedule again.
I’m out. This show is badly written and it just isn’t the show I was hoping it would be.
A friend of mine has the West Wing DVDs. I think I’ll borrow them.
This is so stupid. The governors are deliberately refraining from appointing replacement senators as a negotiating tactic and Kirkman has apparently never hear of a recess appointment. I’d like to see Kirkman just resign on the spot and let everyone who’s complaining about him not being the legitimate President figure out who the hell is supposed to take over from him.
Stupid, yes. How does the President and the President’s staff, who are all political creatures, not know ahead of time that the governors have banded together? Does nobody at all talk to them? Did the governors suddenly work this out in the hallway before the meeting? Why didn’t the governor who knew him warn him about this?
It’s been six weeks and nobody has appointed a Senator yet? Six weeks is an eternity in Washington. The Senate should be up and fully running by now. Of course, that would diminish the two representatives and that can’t happen because they’re part of the core cast.
Even the secret room bunker bothers me. The finest structural engineers in the world are examining every piece of the Capitol to figure out every aspect of the bomb blasts - and they didn’t notice that the remains of a bomb-proof bunker surrounded the survivor? That would be noticed in the first three seconds. Even the hated day team from the original CSI would have figured that out long ago.
I had the same thought!
I completely agree with you. After watching this episode, I took the series off my DVR.
For the last few weeks, the wife and I have been watching The West Wing from the beginning, and let me tell you, this show has suffered for it.
The last straw was the “let’s not tell the President that we have suspicions about the potential VP we’re vetting until something dramatic happens” shit from the FBI (which is apparently comprised of two people).
I only heard about this show yesterday, so naturally I came to Cafe Society. Did not read the thread, as I didn’t want to encounter spoilers. All I read was the OP, and the irony really hit hard! Ah, the innocent days of last September… <My bold>
So the smart, devious inmate who might be the First Son’s father has the one reporter he’s contacted sidelined by the offer of a bigger story. Problem solved!!!
Until the smart inmate realizes that there’s more than one reporter in the country.
Seriously?!?
I don’t see that as completely resolving the issue, they just put it off. Obviously if the guy contacts every reporter in the country he loses his leverage.
Quite a few twists in Ep 7. I’m not sure why they dragged in a sub plot about Kirkman’s son Leo. I guess the writers are desperate to keep Kirkwood’s family central to the series.
It’s interesting to see Kirkman struggle with International Diplomacy. The USA Track & Field team’s trip to Russia was a clever way to show how a rapidly a diplomatic incident can unexpectedly develop.
FBI Deputy Director Atwood’s son may he the latest casualty of the conspiracy. Will Atwood sell out to them to save his son?
Do I even care? 
I admit that the conspiracy is still interesting. But they better not drag it out past season 1. They need to resolve it and move on.
Basically the writers, they have not decided if the claim is true or not, the actor is noticeably different looking than either Sutherland or Natascha McElhone, so its plausible.
I don’t really get the story line about the US coach. If he was already a double agent for the Soviets, what did they have to gain, really, over ‘framing’ him (or not, doesn’t matter which) over the drug charge? Yes, they got back a few spies that had been captured elsewhere, but so what? It burned the Coach for further use. Gained here, lost there at best.
And if they hadn’t expected the American’s to come up with the three way spy swap… then what were they trying to accomplish? Simply embarrassing the US over having a doped sports team? Again, against whatever little embarrassment that caused, they’d lose any advantage from the coach’s future spying efforts.
I must be missing something.
I have the two most recent episodes on my DVR, and have neither watched them nor read anything in this thread since my last post. No spoilers, please, but just your advice: should I keep watching the show? Does it get better? I’m inclined to drop it.
Yes, last couple of episodes are quite improved.
I’m leaning the other way. It hasn’t been quite bad enough yet to make me bail, but I definitely wouldn’t make any effort to catch a show I couldn’t watch live for any reason.
Some plot lines appeal (like the basic ‘who blew up the government’ conspiracy and to get the country’s government running again)) but others (pretty much everything about his wife and kids) push me away.
I think it’s slowly getting better. The Pilot was the best episode.
I’ve had to accept that this isn’t the show that I originally expected. I thought rebuilding the government would be the focus. The writers don’t appear interested in pushing that story right now
I often read the episode recap before watching. That does spoil it, but I much rather read the recap before deciding if I want to watch. I’ve skipped a couple episodes that didn’t seem that interesting. The recaps are enough to keep me current in the plot.
I wouldn’t do that with just any show. Spoilers can ruin some shows. But I think of Designated Survivor as a drama. Each episode is a chapter in a book. Recaps just save me time.
I’m committed to sticking with it through the first season. Give it a chance. They better wrap up the conspiracy soon. I can’t see dragging it out into the next season.
So, it’s obvious that Bunker Guy is in on the conspiracy. Congresslady certainly is not. How about Chief of Staff?
Wasn’t Chief of Staff seen meeting and accepting a folder of info about the Prez from kidnapping lady early on?
I had them and realized them that I would never feel like making them the top thing I wanted to watch so I might as well save the space.
The :eek:CONSPIRACY:eek: is just too stupid. The politics are just too unbelievable. Handing the investigation of the most important event in world history to a single low-level grunt in the FBI is as bad as an episode of Scorpion. I couldn’t take it any more. What I’m seeing here doesn’t make me feel bad for the decision.