Harsher in Hindsight: Trevor speaks of Fishbait as a sleeper agent due to his 9/11 views that the West didn't put the Saudis in lawsuits since most of the hijackers were Saudi and he doesn't believe that other religions have extremists. Cue reports of radical Buddhists targeting Muslim minorities in Burma and Sri Lanka in 2017 and 2018.
Michael Nasry, after seeing his brother Omar killed despite being unarmed.
Rip, especially after his divorce.
Bear. At the beginning of Season 1, he is about to become a father. Flash forward a few years and we learn that his daughter Sarah died when she was only a few months old, and he and his wife are having difficulty conceiving another child. And to make things even worse for him, Bear's wife leaves him at the end of Season 1. Then she gets shot by Chloe and dies at the end of Season 2 right when he has decided to try and make up with her.
Second Season Downfall: Viewer reaction to Season 2 was much more negative compared to the first and it definitely showed in the ratings, where S2 lost almost exactly half its viewership. A number of commonly cited factors are killing off Rip and relegating him to a freaking Spirit Advisor of all things to a shell-shocked Bear, the casting of Olivia Munnas a hardened CIA interrogator who is presented as the one everyone should listen to because she knows what she's doing, the ramping up of the SEALs' family drama up to eleven, and introducing new teammates who are just plain unlikeable jerks like Trevor and Chase. All in all, it is no surprise the show got axed.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Nasry's sub-plot of using ordinary teenage girls to assassinate Seal Team Six operators didn't get resolved since History decided to end the show after season 2.
