The Blacklist 6x10 Thoughts
Mar. 18th, 2019 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaThe Cryptobanker [No. 160]
Meh.
+ This sort of mix-up is why Red needs to start telling Liz about his plans. This wasn't Liz's fault at all, I'm blaming Red and bad luck. Actually would it have even worked if Liz hadn’t shown up? I don’t know. The secretary was already heading back with the snack to give to the warden. The disguise + keycard + dog was enough to get him past the guards and doors but she would have made it back at pretty much the exact same time she did without Liz as she did with Liz, and still would have entered the warden’s office to give him his snack. A good effort but doomed to failure. I’m guessing largely because he had to jump up his time table so rapidly.
+ Honestly I'm having a bit of an issue with the fact that Red hasn't simply escaped jail yet. I have a hard time buying he or Dembe wouldn't have been able to do it.
+ I loved Red’s smile at Liz’s worry for him.
+ It’s nice to hear Liz defending Red and being so complimentary about him, absolutely. But at the same time I'm left... dissatisfied with how Liz's feelings for Red have been portrayed this season and that's really becoming more apparent. I've always had an issue with the lack of serious follow-up to Liz's enraged declaration to destroy Red last season which ended up weirdly missing in this season. I think that if the first couple episodes had had Liz committed to that anger at Red and only start regretting and second-guessing herself after turning him in then this would work better for me. But I think I just need to let this go because it is what it is.
+ "With me, you're enduring. Permanent." - Liz. I liked this.
+ I have to shake my head at Liz seeing Red as a selfless person and her thinking that Red plead guilty for the Task Force. Red plead guilty because it was literally the only thing he could do. If Sima had told the jury about his immunity deal it would have inevitably gotten out and that would have been it. It would have been all over for Raymond Reddington and the empire he'd built and the contacts he'd made and whatever end goal he has with the Blacklist. There would be no coming back from that. And he knows it. So, much like how the blacklist is all about completing his own goals with the side benefit of taking out a bad guy, here protecting the Task Force was the side benefit of protecting his Reddington cover.
+ Red is really not someone who views every relationship as transitory. I mean, what?
+ I liked Aram shooting the cryptobanker and then being all worried about it and the contrast to how Samar just didn't care and then casually hurt him to make him spit out the password.
Meh.
+ This sort of mix-up is why Red needs to start telling Liz about his plans. This wasn't Liz's fault at all, I'm blaming Red and bad luck. Actually would it have even worked if Liz hadn’t shown up? I don’t know. The secretary was already heading back with the snack to give to the warden. The disguise + keycard + dog was enough to get him past the guards and doors but she would have made it back at pretty much the exact same time she did without Liz as she did with Liz, and still would have entered the warden’s office to give him his snack. A good effort but doomed to failure. I’m guessing largely because he had to jump up his time table so rapidly.
+ Honestly I'm having a bit of an issue with the fact that Red hasn't simply escaped jail yet. I have a hard time buying he or Dembe wouldn't have been able to do it.
+ I loved Red’s smile at Liz’s worry for him.
+ It’s nice to hear Liz defending Red and being so complimentary about him, absolutely. But at the same time I'm left... dissatisfied with how Liz's feelings for Red have been portrayed this season and that's really becoming more apparent. I've always had an issue with the lack of serious follow-up to Liz's enraged declaration to destroy Red last season which ended up weirdly missing in this season. I think that if the first couple episodes had had Liz committed to that anger at Red and only start regretting and second-guessing herself after turning him in then this would work better for me. But I think I just need to let this go because it is what it is.
+ "With me, you're enduring. Permanent." - Liz. I liked this.
+ I have to shake my head at Liz seeing Red as a selfless person and her thinking that Red plead guilty for the Task Force. Red plead guilty because it was literally the only thing he could do. If Sima had told the jury about his immunity deal it would have inevitably gotten out and that would have been it. It would have been all over for Raymond Reddington and the empire he'd built and the contacts he'd made and whatever end goal he has with the Blacklist. There would be no coming back from that. And he knows it. So, much like how the blacklist is all about completing his own goals with the side benefit of taking out a bad guy, here protecting the Task Force was the side benefit of protecting his Reddington cover.
+ Red is really not someone who views every relationship as transitory. I mean, what?
+ I liked Aram shooting the cryptobanker and then being all worried about it and the contrast to how Samar just didn't care and then casually hurt him to make him spit out the password.
