#tom kirkman

[ava5225]

Tom Kirkman with glasses >

[martin-st-louis]

[ambi-whats]

Only he can save us now

[youknowithappened]

Tom: Hey, everybody, listen up - Leo’s down from New Heaven and I'm making chili for everyone tonight!

[Everyone looks horrified]

Aaron: Oh God...

Various: Great! Great!

Tom: Okay,you know what? Let’s do this. Everybody look down at the big seal in the middle of my carpet. Now look back up at me. Leo’s down from New Heaven and I'm making chili for everyone tonight!

Everyone: That’s great! I love chili! Terrific!

Tom: There! You see how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them to do?

[arowithanotp]

Part of a medieval queens role was to run the household and counsel her husband. She could serve as an intercessor to him on others behalf for instance. This power was available to her because of the sexual relationship she shared with the king and possible status as a mother to sons. She had a unique access to him that no one else had. Therefore a bad queen was one who was sexually transgressive. Her possible infidelity could threaten the entire court structure.

Hence the commonality of adulterous queens in Medieval Romances. If she is unfaithful and she has children, there is no guaranteeing their parentage (why fictional adulterous queens almost never had kids). It also threatens the king’s honor and relationship to his vassals. Even sympathetic depictions like Guinevere had the queens affair endanger or even collapse her husbands kingdom (Guinevere and Lancelot’s affair often kicks into motion the drama that kills Arthur).

Alex Kirkman, the president’s wife in Designated Survivor, primary role is as support and counsel for her husband. Both for her legal expertise and emotional insight. She is who encourages him when he is doubting himself, who suggests legal solutions, who is his de facto counsel. They also don’t know if her son is her husband’s or not. Even when ostensibly valued for being a fucking badass her husband’s respectability and reputation still hinges on her sexual relationships and the parentage of her son. In this essay I will—

[fictionalcraze]

I have been thinking of getting into making more graphic edits and graphic designing in general. This is my first time trying something like this and I am so happy abt how this one turned out.

And since reading this book I couldn't get it out of my head and all of sudden I had this idea for an edit and I had to make this lol.

I absolutely loved and adored this one so much. I have been in a reading slump since finishing the executive office series like last week. Couldn't get Jack and Ethan out of my head.

Like when I was reading this book, this is how I imagined Jack and Ethan. Felt like John Reese from the show person of interest and Tom kirkman from Designated survivor would be a perfect fit for Ethan and Jack. Also in general I imagine John for almost all of my book heros😂But for Ethan he's like tailor made.

When u find a book character and a tv character so similar? It's the best feeling in the whole world. I never thought i would find a book version of John or Tom for tht matter. But these 2 characters frm these 2 shows would have made an incredible power couple , tht I'm soo glad I found this book series. Gosh I absolutely love fiction so much.

Anyone who loves john frm poi? I soo reccomend u to read Enemies of the state by tal bauer. Trust me, you'll absolutely love the hero of tht book too.

[buttabean]

Designed survivor be so good then BOOM character dead ?????? Like what every person under Tom’s administration has died like omg

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I’m watching the Korean version of “Designated Survivor” for the first time. Based on the first episode, it’s…surprisingly better? It follows the story of the original show, but it felt like the Korean team had a better grasp of the story than the Americans. What I mean is:

1) Park Mu-Jin feels more thought out than Tom Kirkman. In this version, you just had a feeling that this guy should NOT be President. Which is not a bad thing, it’s a sign of good character development. Mu-Jin is a good man and extremely intelligent…but he’s clumsy, has severe anxiety, and has no political sense. Don’t get me wrong, Kiefer Sutherland was good, but I never really saw him as the helpless underdog (maybe it’s because I couldn’t see him as anything but Jack Bauer). In the Korean version, you just feel extremely sorry for this guy and that South Korea is screwed under his leadership.

2) The seamless transition to Korean politics. You just get a sense that the Korean team knew how to make their version of the show work. The move from discussing Muslim terrorism to North Korea/the Korean War doesn’t feel forced at all. While not necessarily an improvement on the original, it shows that the writers were thinking hard about how to handle the change in setting and politics.

(Side note: The fear that the Koreas are going to go to war is a LOT scarier than the turmoil in the original show, imo)

3) The slower pace led to better characterization, especially for Park Mu-Jin (see above).

Overall, great first episode.