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shallowness) wrote2018-12-07 08:03 am
shallowness) wrote2018-12-07 08:03 am
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and they used the word 'spies' in this episode
Blindspot 1.10
This show made me gasp when the three operatives jumped Jane and dragged her into the van. (And then I snarked about whether the kiss she’d sneaked out for was worth it.)
It tears through its guest characters. In an episode that was mainly about bringing David’s killer down, they confirmed that they had killed off Lou Diamond Phillips’s character, which I’d been dubious about, and then they killed oily CIA man, now a torturer on screen. Huh.
And I may be quite pleased with the show, but enough with the torture, pls. (Although I quite enjoyed ranting that Jane didn’t remember anything and killing her wouldn’t remove the fact that the FBI had her tats in a database and would continue to investigate them. So torturing Jane would gain little. Idiot.)
The most poignant moment was Jane’s lack of memory meaning grief was all new to her. I was mildly indignant of Kurt’s rather flip ‘you’re lucky’ because no, being an adult, facing mortality and the violent death of an innocent who was led to it by your tattoo (but he was the heedless puzzle solver and his killer was a Russian agent, Jane) while you’re making up your coping mechanism? Ouch. That was an important moment though, as it set the background in which Patterson was all ‘I should have grasped love!’ to Jane, which led to the kiss. It looked like a good kiss, although Kurt seemed happier about it, but then he wasn’t quite as motivated by grief, although not unaffected by it. It’s been building, but I wasn’t sure they’d go there so early in the run – I keep being pleased and surprised by the pace of the story.
So, inevitably, enter Tree Tattoo Man to save her, for which, thanks. The ex-fiancé has a name: Oscar, and is not ugly either. As Jane took in that she, or rather her past self, had planned all this, I took in that the bob suits her better than the long hair.
Before that, we learned that Jane can ride a motorbike, though no-one commented on that in the show, and can speak Russian. Tasha: of course you can. (Well, Bulgarian is more esoteric, so, yeah. And maybe Jamie Alexander doesn’t want to learn reams of foreign languages, so she switched back to English quickly.) No-one really picked up on Jane’s belief based on her memory that she was an orphan, and the torture did jolt a memory of her in uniform hearing CIA guy mention project Orion.
There was a shedload of implication to the Russian moles being selected to appeal to their masters’ targets as spouses re: Jane being directed towards Kurt Weller and his Taylor Shaw backstory. But then one of these moles went and fell for her spouse (and the one who tied up his wife and killed himself in front of her had the humanity to say he was sorry!)
I did not think much of the doctor letting Patterson railroad him into letting her work and see pictures of her dead ex. (Perhaps he fancies her.) You’re meant to be looking out for Jane’s wellbeing, sir, and if you can’t stand up to someone who needs to let themselves grieve, what kind of a doctor are you?
Patterson was good at her job for an emotional wreck, although her relative meltdown in the interrogation room was predictable. The way Weller, Tasha, Mayfair and Jane (hmm, I don’t remember Reid helping her directly) helped did justify her ‘I couldn’t have done today without you’ claim, although I still thought she should have let her mother come and worked through the hard emotional stuff she needed to. Admittedly, that would have made for a different type of episode.
Tasha was resigning! You won’t need to now, love, because your blackmailer is dead! Learn from this, because I’m growing to like you.
Jane has a wall of clues of her own in the safehouse, mainly of tats, which inspired a flashback montage that included footage from scenes she wasn’t even in, which always annoys me. The tat of the week was of the library, I guess. I need to start mentioning the location work.
I don’t know how much more information Jane will get from the phone message or Oscar – she’s got plenty to process, and they’ve got to have a tat-related case of the week. But I could stand to see a scene or two of protective!worried!Kurt failing to be professional!Weller.
This show made me gasp when the three operatives jumped Jane and dragged her into the van. (And then I snarked about whether the kiss she’d sneaked out for was worth it.)
It tears through its guest characters. In an episode that was mainly about bringing David’s killer down, they confirmed that they had killed off Lou Diamond Phillips’s character, which I’d been dubious about, and then they killed oily CIA man, now a torturer on screen. Huh.
And I may be quite pleased with the show, but enough with the torture, pls. (Although I quite enjoyed ranting that Jane didn’t remember anything and killing her wouldn’t remove the fact that the FBI had her tats in a database and would continue to investigate them. So torturing Jane would gain little. Idiot.)
The most poignant moment was Jane’s lack of memory meaning grief was all new to her. I was mildly indignant of Kurt’s rather flip ‘you’re lucky’ because no, being an adult, facing mortality and the violent death of an innocent who was led to it by your tattoo (but he was the heedless puzzle solver and his killer was a Russian agent, Jane) while you’re making up your coping mechanism? Ouch. That was an important moment though, as it set the background in which Patterson was all ‘I should have grasped love!’ to Jane, which led to the kiss. It looked like a good kiss, although Kurt seemed happier about it, but then he wasn’t quite as motivated by grief, although not unaffected by it. It’s been building, but I wasn’t sure they’d go there so early in the run – I keep being pleased and surprised by the pace of the story.
So, inevitably, enter Tree Tattoo Man to save her, for which, thanks. The ex-fiancé has a name: Oscar, and is not ugly either. As Jane took in that she, or rather her past self, had planned all this, I took in that the bob suits her better than the long hair.
Before that, we learned that Jane can ride a motorbike, though no-one commented on that in the show, and can speak Russian. Tasha: of course you can. (Well, Bulgarian is more esoteric, so, yeah. And maybe Jamie Alexander doesn’t want to learn reams of foreign languages, so she switched back to English quickly.) No-one really picked up on Jane’s belief based on her memory that she was an orphan, and the torture did jolt a memory of her in uniform hearing CIA guy mention project Orion.
There was a shedload of implication to the Russian moles being selected to appeal to their masters’ targets as spouses re: Jane being directed towards Kurt Weller and his Taylor Shaw backstory. But then one of these moles went and fell for her spouse (and the one who tied up his wife and killed himself in front of her had the humanity to say he was sorry!)
I did not think much of the doctor letting Patterson railroad him into letting her work and see pictures of her dead ex. (Perhaps he fancies her.) You’re meant to be looking out for Jane’s wellbeing, sir, and if you can’t stand up to someone who needs to let themselves grieve, what kind of a doctor are you?
Patterson was good at her job for an emotional wreck, although her relative meltdown in the interrogation room was predictable. The way Weller, Tasha, Mayfair and Jane (hmm, I don’t remember Reid helping her directly) helped did justify her ‘I couldn’t have done today without you’ claim, although I still thought she should have let her mother come and worked through the hard emotional stuff she needed to. Admittedly, that would have made for a different type of episode.
Tasha was resigning! You won’t need to now, love, because your blackmailer is dead! Learn from this, because I’m growing to like you.
Jane has a wall of clues of her own in the safehouse, mainly of tats, which inspired a flashback montage that included footage from scenes she wasn’t even in, which always annoys me. The tat of the week was of the library, I guess. I need to start mentioning the location work.
I don’t know how much more information Jane will get from the phone message or Oscar – she’s got plenty to process, and they’ve got to have a tat-related case of the week. But I could stand to see a scene or two of protective!worried!Kurt failing to be professional!Weller.