I only watched the first season of Lost
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shallownessBlindspot 1.11
Ended on Jane in an interesting place, deviating from her past self’s plan, because she isn’t the same person, with the same references, but not rejecting it either. Predictably, what I’m most interested in is that her past self/Oscar seems to have been a different dynamic to Jane/Kurt (although, ouch, after kissing him, they do need to talk, and although what happened subsequently was seismic, she’s treated him badly.) I’m also not convinced I buy her being Taylor Shaw (or not until they explain that tooth). The fact that she remembered fragments surprised Oscar, but they couldn’t know precisely what would happen after the memory wipe, what she’d encounter to jog her memory.
The idea that she did this to herself and its consequences for others hung with Jane all episode – made her feel for the scientist played by Timeless Lady. I loved that we saw the flashback of supersecret tattooists – not so much for the close-ups of the inking, but just the acknowledgement that they existed.
Oscar’s claims about the FBI/Jane’s team, to whom she is loyal, need backing up for me: Mayfair has done something dodgy, yes. Tasha’s gambling made her blackmailable, but that seemed to have been a recent development, and Paterson was reckless, and ergo may have been in the past. We’ve got nothing on Weller and Reid (who was at his nicest towards Jane in this episode, I thought). Oscar wasn’t just talking about the institution. Anyway, he claims they’re the good guys, but this shadowy ‘they’ is not the team we and Jane have invested in, so have fun fighting the show’s gravitational pull.
I don’t think Jane likes the idea of carrying out secret missions for her past self, but she’s curious. She had also just been tortured, but managed to front out terrorists as part of the team. I…don’t know what to make of their killing the Turkish liaison but letting the westerners go join the plane passengers (begging for Lost jokes). Of course Jane and Weller climbed up into a plane that was taking off. And she can probably fly a plane. And they shared lots of little moments.
At home, we had a new character, Fisher – a total Hey, It’s That Guy, but I think he was clean-shaven in the past things I’ve seen him in – investigating David’s death and gunning for Mayfair’s job. After being so dismissive of Patterson, who’s emotional pitch for getting the ‘person who did this’ (queuing up the audience’s ‘ooh’ because we know it’s Jane), he got to watch her do her more than competent thing and save Jane, Weller and the plane. Best bit: her snapping about maths being done in the head. I predict he is not going to get Mayfair’s job, or not for more than an episode.
And Paterson taking time off to grieve was set aside because this episode needed to follow the previous one immediately.
Ended on Jane in an interesting place, deviating from her past self’s plan, because she isn’t the same person, with the same references, but not rejecting it either. Predictably, what I’m most interested in is that her past self/Oscar seems to have been a different dynamic to Jane/Kurt (although, ouch, after kissing him, they do need to talk, and although what happened subsequently was seismic, she’s treated him badly.) I’m also not convinced I buy her being Taylor Shaw (or not until they explain that tooth). The fact that she remembered fragments surprised Oscar, but they couldn’t know precisely what would happen after the memory wipe, what she’d encounter to jog her memory.
The idea that she did this to herself and its consequences for others hung with Jane all episode – made her feel for the scientist played by Timeless Lady. I loved that we saw the flashback of supersecret tattooists – not so much for the close-ups of the inking, but just the acknowledgement that they existed.
Oscar’s claims about the FBI/Jane’s team, to whom she is loyal, need backing up for me: Mayfair has done something dodgy, yes. Tasha’s gambling made her blackmailable, but that seemed to have been a recent development, and Paterson was reckless, and ergo may have been in the past. We’ve got nothing on Weller and Reid (who was at his nicest towards Jane in this episode, I thought). Oscar wasn’t just talking about the institution. Anyway, he claims they’re the good guys, but this shadowy ‘they’ is not the team we and Jane have invested in, so have fun fighting the show’s gravitational pull.
I don’t think Jane likes the idea of carrying out secret missions for her past self, but she’s curious. She had also just been tortured, but managed to front out terrorists as part of the team. I…don’t know what to make of their killing the Turkish liaison but letting the westerners go join the plane passengers (begging for Lost jokes). Of course Jane and Weller climbed up into a plane that was taking off. And she can probably fly a plane. And they shared lots of little moments.
At home, we had a new character, Fisher – a total Hey, It’s That Guy, but I think he was clean-shaven in the past things I’ve seen him in – investigating David’s death and gunning for Mayfair’s job. After being so dismissive of Patterson, who’s emotional pitch for getting the ‘person who did this’ (queuing up the audience’s ‘ooh’ because we know it’s Jane), he got to watch her do her more than competent thing and save Jane, Weller and the plane. Best bit: her snapping about maths being done in the head. I predict he is not going to get Mayfair’s job, or not for more than an episode.
And Paterson taking time off to grieve was set aside because this episode needed to follow the previous one immediately.
