I've been sticking with it. I like the FBI team on this better than on The Blacklist, mainly because they are a bit messier. I also like the uncertainties, moral and otherwise. We've been encouraged to like Mayfair, to the point where (in my view) she doesn't seem to deserve what's happened to her. On the other hand, every other group the tattoos have taken down have been very evil, making it unlikely they got it wrong in her case.
As for Jane Doe... she was clearly manipulated over Mayfair. They've been calling her "Taylor", so if she isn't Taylor then the manipulation goes very deep. Makes me wonder if anything she's got from the tattoo people is real. Maybe the whole thing wasn't her idea like they told her it was.
Well we clearly saw here in a recorded cell-phone video clip say it was. So unless she did that under duress...? Which is possible I guess
Maybe she planned to use the tattoos and the memory loss but someone has subverted that and is using her for their own ends.
Still, particularly given the flashbacks at the end where she seemed to remember the conversation with Mayfair's ex, I suspect that she was just misled from the beginning into thinking Mayfair was worse than she was and the whole plan was devised based on false information.
Well we clearly saw here in a recorded cell-phone video clip say it was. So unless she did that under duress...? Which is possible I guess
Maybe she has an identical twin sister.
As I recall, they've established both that Jane has Taylor Shaw's DNA and that she isn't Taylor Shaw. If so, it's not too far-fetched to think she might be a clone, in which case there might be other clones.
We've been encouraged to like Mayfair, to the point where (in my view) she doesn't seem to deserve what's happened to her. On the other hand, every other group the tattoos have taken down have been very evil, making it unlikely they got it wrong in her case.
To them, Mayfair is evil because she got people imprisoned on evidence that would not stand up on court. NOT saying these people were innocent, but that the evidence was not legally obtained.
So to punish her, they murder a woman and frame Mayfair for it. Totally proportionate response ;-)
I'm having trouble seeing the people behind that tattoos as the good guys - just another bunch of hypocritical fanatics who believe the ends justify their violent means.
I'm having trouble seeing the people behind that tattoos as the good guys - just another bunch of hypocritical fanatics who believe the ends justify their violent means.
Indeed. I was very disappointed when they used the "America is corrupt and broken and we're doing this to fix it" trope. Wish they'd come up with something more original
To them, Mayfair is evil because she got people imprisoned on evidence that would not stand up on court. NOT saying these people were innocent, but that the evidence was not legally obtained.
So to punish her, they murder a woman and frame Mayfair for it. Totally proportionate response ;-)
We had thought that, but on her USB stick there were 3 folders, and only one of them was about that (Daylight). The other was Orion, which the tattoo people have mentioned but I don't think we know what it is, and the other was something I don't recall seeing before at all. So Mayfair was involved in more than illegally obtained evidence.
I'm having trouble seeing the people behind that tattoos as the good guys - just another bunch of hypocritical fanatics who believe the ends justify their violent means.
I was vastly disappointed to learn they were trying to destroy the system in order to create a new one. A cliché, but also I felt they were too well-resourced and intelligent to be doing something that to me seems so dumb.
Aside from that, I liked the threat of erasing Jane's memory again. Her boyfriend was a bit of a dick, really. Shame she had to pick up the stupid-ball for that final scene. If she'd said anything meaningful while she was being accused by Kurt she could have defused the situation somewhat. Just declaring that she wasn't Taylor would have helped.
Mayfair's death was another example of the "Kill the lesbian" trope. All the more because there were so few major character deaths in the season. Patterson's boyfriend David being the other one. (I don't count Kurt's dad because he was always going to die.)
I think Mayfair will be back, not convinced she's a gonna just yet.
Just binged the whole series and really enjoyed, yes there are similarities to the blacklist but I think i actually preferred Blindspot this time round. Nice mix of characters and looking forward to S2 especially with Archie Panjabi joining.
Season 1 of Blindspot probably beats season 3 of The Blacklist for me. The similarities don't bother me, because they both have enough of their own stuff going on.
Anyone know how long it's off for? I tend to watch most things on demand these days so usually miss closing credit announcements that a show is taking a break.
Edit: A quick search and I gather we've caught up with the US?
What do you think of her hair style? It's all ragged. When we first saw it, I though it reflected the trauma she'd been through, as if her captors had just hacked it off without letting her access a proper barber. However, she's now been in the normal world for a long time, her hair must have grown out some and she surely has been to a proper professional hairdressers - yet it looks the same. She must like it like that. It's a choice.
What do you think of her hair style? It's all ragged. When we first saw it, I though it reflected the trauma she'd been through, as if her captors had just hacked it off without letting her access a proper barber. However, she's now been in the normal world for a long time, her hair must have grown out some and she surely has been to a proper professional hairdressers - yet it looks the same. She must like it like that. It's a choice.
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Its just turned into a formalistic crime drama thing.
That's fine by me. Some of my favourite shows are formulistic crime dramas
As for Jane Doe... she was clearly manipulated over Mayfair. They've been calling her "Taylor", so if she isn't Taylor then the manipulation goes very deep. Makes me wonder if anything she's got from the tattoo people is real. Maybe the whole thing wasn't her idea like they told her it was.
It's been getting VERY good - the last few episodes do contain some rather good twists and turns.
The encouraging thing to hear is that, apparently, there are going to be a lot of answers in the season two premiere.
Maybe she planned to use the tattoos and the memory loss but someone has subverted that and is using her for their own ends.
Still, particularly given the flashbacks at the end where she seemed to remember the conversation with Mayfair's ex, I suspect that she was just misled from the beginning into thinking Mayfair was worse than she was and the whole plan was devised based on false information.
As I recall, they've established both that Jane has Taylor Shaw's DNA and that she isn't Taylor Shaw. If so, it's not too far-fetched to think she might be a clone, in which case there might be other clones.
Maybe the the finale will clarify.
To them, Mayfair is evil because she got people imprisoned on evidence that would not stand up on court. NOT saying these people were innocent, but that the evidence was not legally obtained.
So to punish her, they murder a woman and frame Mayfair for it. Totally proportionate response ;-)
I'm having trouble seeing the people behind that tattoos as the good guys - just another bunch of hypocritical fanatics who believe the ends justify their violent means.
I was vastly disappointed to learn they were trying to destroy the system in order to create a new one. A cliché, but also I felt they were too well-resourced and intelligent to be doing something that to me seems so dumb.
Aside from that, I liked the threat of erasing Jane's memory again. Her boyfriend was a bit of a dick, really. Shame she had to pick up the stupid-ball for that final scene. If she'd said anything meaningful while she was being accused by Kurt she could have defused the situation somewhat. Just declaring that she wasn't Taylor would have helped.
Mayfair's death was another example of the "Kill the lesbian" trope. All the more because there were so few major character deaths in the season. Patterson's boyfriend David being the other one. (I don't count Kurt's dad because he was always going to die.)
I think Mayfair will be back, not convinced she's a gonna just yet.
Just binged the whole series and really enjoyed, yes there are similarities to the blacklist but I think i actually preferred Blindspot this time round. Nice mix of characters and looking forward to S2 especially with Archie Panjabi joining.
Edit: A quick search and I gather we've caught up with the US?
A good point
I guess she has other priorities!