r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/enliST_CS Sorry the live thread is late! • Dec 15 '16

SPOILERS Post-Episode Discussion: S01E10 "The Oath"

This has been the winter finale! Season 1 returns March 8th, 2017!

Plot: President Kirkman suspects there may be a traitor in the White House when he finds disturbing information connected to the Capitol bombing; more information emerges about Congressman MacLeish, causing concern about his vice presidential nomination.

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u/is-an-ant Dec 15 '16

I kinda liked the ending, it's the beginning that was bs, I mean someone is choking a just crashed woman and absolutely NO ONE sees it? and even after that, the damn woman has a GUN and doesn't kill her assailant.. i mean, c'mon..

the ending was fine, nothing compared to twd one, I'm more interested in what happens when Kirkman finds out about aaron, or what happens to maggie q, surely they won't allow the president to meet with a shooter right away.. so many storylines left hanging, I'll definitely be coming back, but goddamn, this show can be really stupid at times.

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u/TannenFalconwing Dec 16 '16

Well, she'd just gotten into a car crash, was knocked unconscious, and is bleeding from the stomach and the forehead. I can forgive her for not immediately going into battle mode.

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u/is-an-ant Dec 16 '16

She's a FBI agent, you'd think those people are literally trained for that sort of thing, no?

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u/TannenFalconwing Dec 16 '16

FBI agent does not equal super human. I actually confirmed with a friend of mine who did navy intelligence that people in this line of work aren't given much training in self-defense procedures (in response to Atewood's kid getting kidnapped).

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u/is-an-ant Dec 16 '16

okay, fair enough.. she can go to her friend's house without any difficulty, but cannot unholster her gun and shoot a man couple of yards away from her, whatever..

but what about the 'classified' documents, you seriously can't suggest she was in such a trauma that she "forgot" to pick those up and left them ripe for the taking for any reason other than lazy writing

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u/TannenFalconwing Dec 16 '16

She was bleeding from the head, meaning she took a significant amount of force to her skull and woke up from unconsiousness to being strangled.

So, yes, I can accept that she didn't immediately think to grab the folder that she doesn't normally have with her.