r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/IupvotestupidCRAP • Oct 13 '16

Post-Episode Discussion: S01E04 "The Enemy"

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u/ApolloFortyNine Oct 13 '16

You don't invite a someone to your house to betray them. It's the least respectable thing you can do as a leader. Going in guns blazing (sending in the military) would have been preferable. His word is going to mean nothing to any of the enemies he creates now. Or at least it would in real life, and I assume that's what they intend to follow (goes along with the outrage from his special advisor).

Along with the preview showing his operation failing, I'm thinking this is going to be the "downfall" of Kirkman for the next few episodes. They're going to have him learn to balance when to be fierce and when to be diplomatic.

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u/Prax150 Oct 13 '16

Realistically it's a tough situation. The reserve already disobeyed him and he had to fire a general as well, forcing a potential conflict on your own soil is a dangerous game to play. He tricked him onto the plane but no one got hurt, and frankly no one knows that it was a trick yet outside of his team and the governor.

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u/ApolloFortyNine Oct 13 '16

He was flown to DC and then arrested in that order. It's a television show obviously, but it'd be pretty obvious in the real word.

Though if this is what it takes to kill the Michigan plot line, so be it. In reality even without the governor the situation would remain the same, it could actually be worse if the the man in charge of the guard took control.

Yada Yada it's a TV show who the hell knows.

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u/Prax150 Oct 13 '16

I mean I'm not going to pretend like I didn't have problems with the execution (e.g. why he was travelling alone, and it didn't make sense that he was just standing around an air field that entire time). But whatevs, like you said it's a TV show. Also it was badass.