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shallowness) wrote2018-10-05 08:37 pm
shallowness) wrote2018-10-05 08:37 pm
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Watched on Wednesday night and posting about it now
I got a chance to watch the pilot for Blindspot, AKA what Jamie Alexander did next/that kept her from playing Sif a bit, which has always intrigued me. I’m dubious about whether I’ll watch it next week – perhaps if my brain is equally exhausted and I haven’t sorted out DVDs to watch.
The opening scenes were uncomfortable to watch – so much female vulnerability. The main female character is naked (to show off the tatts) and emotionally on the wrack as she’s woken up with no memories and is carted around by the FBI. Meanwhile, the big strong guy whose name is on her back is busy rescuing three very young women who have been abducted and terrorised by a man with a gun. !!! (Yes, there was a woman on the team with him, but that’s not the overriding memory.)
Things got a little better for Jane Doe when she got to see the doctor (but not before she’d had to take a stressful polygraph test) who gave her some empowering advice. Alexander was giving the material far more welly than it deserved.
And then it turned out that Jane could speak ‘Chinese’ and an obscure dialect, acquit herself well in a fight and shoot spectacularly. So, it wasn’t just her mysterious tattoos with clues about forthcoming crimes that made her an asset. I, of course, was hoping that she was a time traveller, but it seemed like the answer would be no, it’s riffing off Memento and the Bourne series.
They were forcing the UST between her and Kurt Weller (aka chief FBI agent on the ground). She seemed to have imprinted on him, for some reason, and was very tactile around him. I thought the handler, lurking in shadows and flashback, and, yes, killing people, was hotter. The supporting cast, including Marianne-Jean Baptiste, who’s character might have been called A Nod to Amanda Waller, and Rob ‘off Take the Lead’ Brown, were pretty diverse, but…the supporting cast. The camera work was exceedingly frenetic. There didn’t seem to be anything behind it, a la Person of Interest, although I got to make an X-Men joke as they went to the Statue of Liberty. I also thought the top-flight investigators had missed out on the who did the tattoos line of enquiry.
So, although Jamie Alexander has ridiculously pretty eyes, I dunno.
The opening scenes were uncomfortable to watch – so much female vulnerability. The main female character is naked (to show off the tatts) and emotionally on the wrack as she’s woken up with no memories and is carted around by the FBI. Meanwhile, the big strong guy whose name is on her back is busy rescuing three very young women who have been abducted and terrorised by a man with a gun. !!! (Yes, there was a woman on the team with him, but that’s not the overriding memory.)
Things got a little better for Jane Doe when she got to see the doctor (but not before she’d had to take a stressful polygraph test) who gave her some empowering advice. Alexander was giving the material far more welly than it deserved.
And then it turned out that Jane could speak ‘Chinese’ and an obscure dialect, acquit herself well in a fight and shoot spectacularly. So, it wasn’t just her mysterious tattoos with clues about forthcoming crimes that made her an asset. I, of course, was hoping that she was a time traveller, but it seemed like the answer would be no, it’s riffing off Memento and the Bourne series.
They were forcing the UST between her and Kurt Weller (aka chief FBI agent on the ground). She seemed to have imprinted on him, for some reason, and was very tactile around him. I thought the handler, lurking in shadows and flashback, and, yes, killing people, was hotter. The supporting cast, including Marianne-Jean Baptiste, who’s character might have been called A Nod to Amanda Waller, and Rob ‘off Take the Lead’ Brown, were pretty diverse, but…the supporting cast. The camera work was exceedingly frenetic. There didn’t seem to be anything behind it, a la Person of Interest, although I got to make an X-Men joke as they went to the Statue of Liberty. I also thought the top-flight investigators had missed out on the who did the tattoos line of enquiry.
So, although Jamie Alexander has ridiculously pretty eyes, I dunno.