The Blacklist 2x05 Thoughts
Oct. 21st, 2014 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Meh.
+ "As a rule I consider jealousy a base emotion but in this case it's quite endearing." - Red. Between this, his following line about it "in no way compromising our relationship" and his pointed bit about her losing the bones it feels like he was deliberately trying to antagonise her. I don't think Red is very happy with her successfully keeping secrets from him nor with the fact that he's having a much harder time getting to her this season.
+ "Reddington is the bane of my existence. And yet, here he is trying to reconnect with his daughter… and I find myself feeling possessive. Possessive of him, jealous of the girl he's trying to protect." The big issue I had with this confession was that while it would have made complete sense last season for Lizzie to confess to being torn in her feelings for Red – since we actually saw that in how she reacted to and with him and in all their interactions (which went from her being angry at him to leaning on him for emotional support and back) - this season has had her being uniformly cold, distant and distrustful towards him and thus it ends up feeling – off. Unsupported. This season she isn’t torn. There have been none of those leaning on Red scenes or her opening up to him emotionally, or even him opening up to her. I’d buy last season Lizzie being possessive and hating it, with this season Lizzie ends up feeling a lot more like ‘show not tell’.
+ Liz’s confession about her feelings to Samar made no sense. Why the hell would she tell Samar that? They aren’t friends and Liz doesn’t even really trust her. That didn’t work for me. I did like Liz going in the room to save her and as a bonding exercise it worked. Just not to the extent that I could see Liz confessing secret Red feelings.
+ I feel like the girl Red has been looking for isn't his daughter. I figured she was but now it seems too obvious and the way Red said "who told you I was looking for my daughter" makes me think it isn't her.
+ I'm actually getting rather tired of all the mysteries and unanswered questions. What the hell is that key?
+ I love Liz's deception with her hired double. I especially loved that scene where Red calls his guy to make sure he's keeping an eye on Liz all the while Liz has already gone.
+ Aram is wonderful as always. I'm kind of shipping Liz/Aram. I loved that he tried to comfort/reassure her. "Whatever decision you made I'm sure it was the right one." He's adorable and sweet. Also probably the most competent person on the Taskforce.
+ Liz not shooting Beck was really dumb but what was even dumber is the Taskforce sending only Liz and Ressler after the bones. What was Samar busy? Are those random background agents are just for show? (Just kidding, of course they are.)
+ The stuff with the plague especially the wrap up was rather dumb and dealt with far too easily.
Meh.
+ "As a rule I consider jealousy a base emotion but in this case it's quite endearing." - Red. Between this, his following line about it "in no way compromising our relationship" and his pointed bit about her losing the bones it feels like he was deliberately trying to antagonise her. I don't think Red is very happy with her successfully keeping secrets from him nor with the fact that he's having a much harder time getting to her this season.
+ "Reddington is the bane of my existence. And yet, here he is trying to reconnect with his daughter… and I find myself feeling possessive. Possessive of him, jealous of the girl he's trying to protect." The big issue I had with this confession was that while it would have made complete sense last season for Lizzie to confess to being torn in her feelings for Red – since we actually saw that in how she reacted to and with him and in all their interactions (which went from her being angry at him to leaning on him for emotional support and back) - this season has had her being uniformly cold, distant and distrustful towards him and thus it ends up feeling – off. Unsupported. This season she isn’t torn. There have been none of those leaning on Red scenes or her opening up to him emotionally, or even him opening up to her. I’d buy last season Lizzie being possessive and hating it, with this season Lizzie ends up feeling a lot more like ‘show not tell’.
+ Liz’s confession about her feelings to Samar made no sense. Why the hell would she tell Samar that? They aren’t friends and Liz doesn’t even really trust her. That didn’t work for me. I did like Liz going in the room to save her and as a bonding exercise it worked. Just not to the extent that I could see Liz confessing secret Red feelings.
+ I feel like the girl Red has been looking for isn't his daughter. I figured she was but now it seems too obvious and the way Red said "who told you I was looking for my daughter" makes me think it isn't her.
+ I'm actually getting rather tired of all the mysteries and unanswered questions. What the hell is that key?
+ I love Liz's deception with her hired double. I especially loved that scene where Red calls his guy to make sure he's keeping an eye on Liz all the while Liz has already gone.
+ Aram is wonderful as always. I'm kind of shipping Liz/Aram. I loved that he tried to comfort/reassure her. "Whatever decision you made I'm sure it was the right one." He's adorable and sweet. Also probably the most competent person on the Taskforce.
+ Liz not shooting Beck was really dumb but what was even dumber is the Taskforce sending only Liz and Ressler after the bones. What was Samar busy? Are those random background agents are just for show? (Just kidding, of course they are.)
+ The stuff with the plague especially the wrap up was rather dumb and dealt with far too easily.
