Talk:House of Cards (American TV series)/Archive 3

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Spoilers Still in the Cast List

I thought that User Naaple got the consensus changed awhile ago and it was decided that it would make more sense for plot information in the cast list to be put in the more appropriate plot summary, which I also notice isn't anywhere close to the more detailed summary that Naaple had before. Then why are there still spoilers in the cast list? It seems like every couple days someone tries to edit there because they got it spoiled for them, and frankly, there's no point in the spoilers being in that section in the first place. It should be in the plot section. I suggest placing the most needless spoiler information there. You can keep big details like "he becomes President" but details about how should be reserved for the plot summary. Listen to the people trying to change this because these are actually good edits and it is how something like Wikipedia works in the first place. Someone should be able to use this as a basic reference quick reference on a cast member, like Frank Underwood's Machiavellian tendencies or overall arc direction and goals. Breaking Bad's cast list is an excellent example, or Smallville, Buffy the Vampire slayer, Batman, the chart for the Wire, etc. etc. really almost any other basic cast list for TV I can look up on Wikipedia except for this article and Revolution. And many other articles don't have nearly the controversy this article does on the spoilers, including Mad Men and other just as popular shows. There's a reason for this. These ones come too far out of nowhere and aren't relevant to basic character descriptions, they are instead plot points. Or instead of "after Frank murders [blank] this character does this" do "during season 2" or "later in season 1" etc. So why are the spoilers still there and why are the changes to them being reverted? I understand Wip: Spoiler but these are needless and come out of nowhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.71.208.135 (talk) 05:31, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

WP:SPOILERS. If people don't like it they don't have to read it. MisterShiney ✉ 06:25, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Precisely. Its called self-control for a very obvious reason. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Self control assumes that the average reader would know there is going to be plot information in a cast list. --SubSeven (talk) 19:52, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

It's an overview. That means it isn't going to tease us about a character, it is going to give us an encapsulated story to date of the character. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 05:25, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I know this is old, and I didn't dare visit this page until I finished season 3, but I've gone through and added several changes to the cast. I think a quick 1 or 2 sentence summary followed by "in season 2/3" works out well, and gives a fair opportunity for the reader to get some quick info and stop when they're about to read onward to a season they haven't seen yet. I (fortunately) don't see any spoilers for season 3 in the cast section. Sound off if I missed something.∴ Naapple TALK|CON 07:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Metacritic graph but no Rotten Tomatoes graph

How come there is a graph for Metacritic but not one for Rotten Tomatoes?

Can Rotten Tomatoes please be added as a line on the same graph above Metacritic, as it's a more notable website?

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 01:50, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

I made a mistake, please help

Hi,

Someone changed the creator's name to Donald Duck and I tried to fix it. I tried to insert a link to a wikipedia reference but it didn't work. Someone please help :(

Edit - Nevermind, it works now. Can I somehow delete this?— Preceding unsigned comment added by ItLandedinTheSalad (talk • contribs) 00:35, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

"The Deep State Is Not Quite House of Cards"

If it's true that dramatic license and audience share mitigate against entertainment such as this being very informative, shouldn't there be a section in this article about the dramatization vs. the reality?

In "The Deep State", page 177 ("The Deep State Is Not Quite House of Cards"), Mike Lofgren (28 yrs. working in Congress, the last 16 as a senior analyst on the House and Senate budget committees) explains about the actual social ecology of politics. -lifeform (talk) 01:16, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Clinton parallels

The parallels to Bill and Hillary Clinton with the Underwoods cannot be coincidence. There are multiple references to use for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.240.68 (talk) 14:10, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Agree, 2600:8805:5800:AD00:9C9D:6AB3:CBF8:A317 (talk) 03:54, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Question regarding this article’s title

Why is this article named “House of Cards (U.S. TV series)” rather than “House of Cards (American TV series)”? “U.S.” isn’t an adjective. Wouldn’t the former title be better?

“U.S. TV series” is more popular than “American TV series,” but I don’t understand why. Papí • talk 20:00, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Oh, great, I can’t get the links to work. Papí • talk 20:09, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Please see WP:NCTV. Drovethrughosts (talk) 21:26, 5 June 2017 (UTC)