Re: Paradise "Wildcat Is Down"

On Apr 12, 2025 at 12:24:08 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:48:18 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

On Apr 12, 2025 at 11:38:46 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:
 

 On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:56:42 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
 <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
 

 Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

 On 4/11/25 10:47 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 

 Hey! I was able to watch without knowing the revelation, although the
 Wikipedia article spoils it.

 

 I was impressed with Dan Fogelman's writing. Fogelman has done some good
 work for tv, The Neighbors (starring Jami Gertz and Lenny Venito),
 Galavant, and Pitch. He does the 27 simultaneous timelines thing as he
 did in the pilot episode of This Is Us, also starring Sterling K. Brown
 and with a huge revelation. That's annoying.

 

 Brown plays Agent Collins.

 

 His kid is played by the son of the actor who played Wallace on Veronica
 Mars. The president's shrewish ex-wife is played by the evil Tess from
 Smallville. The president (seen only in flashback) is played by the
 goofy Prince Edward from Enchanted.

 

 Freckled-face Julianne Nicholson plays another supervising Secret
 Service agent (I think);

 

 She is definitely not that!

 

 Sarah Shahi is listed but didn't appear.

 

 She doesn't appear until episode #2.

 

 Jon Beavers is another agent, Billy, whom Collins relies upon who was
 coincidentally poisoned and unconscious during the assasination.

 

 Not poisoned - just sleeping.

 
 That was just coincidence? Ok

 
 He's a bit of an idiot. More so than one might expect for a Secret
 Service agent on the President's detail, but it helps the story move
 forward.

 
Were they really even Secret Service anymore at that point? And were they all
actually former USSS agents?
 
I got the impression that they were essentially just personal security since
the world ended and the USSS didn't even exist anymore and that some of them
may not even have been USSS before it all collapsed. Like the psychopathic
little girl agent. She didn't strike me as former USSS, just someone Sinatra
had embedded into the president's security.
 

 
I don't know about the girl but the two guys in question were both
USSS. Since the guy was officially President when they went into
hiding I would say he was still the President and they were still his
official Secret Service protection detail. After all isn't the entire
idea is to have continuity of leadership even in the case of a nuclear
war?

Well, he was still walking around and being treated as president long after he
would have termed out of office, so things aren't being run "legally" anymore
in the first place.