Blacklist 1x01
Sep. 26th, 2013 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arduinnaWow, I just got nuthin for tonight. My head is still full of Person of Interest, but not coherently enough to really make a post.
Hm, okay. I don't think I ever said anything at all about The Blacklist, so here, have some spoilery reaction:
I liked it more than I thought I would! James Spader's shaven head is unfortunate, but I'm guessing the character did that for easiest possible facial recognition, and that it will eventually grow back. I hope. It's a good role for him.
I'm a little surprised that no one on the show has yet wondered if he's really the agent's father, but perhaps they haven't watched as much tv as the rest of us. I have a hard time believing any other reason he'd be so obsessed with (and proud of, and protective of) her, though.
I appreciate that she's not the perfect FBI agent; the "profile yourself" bit was a titch heavy-handed, but it laid down some good groundwork for why she'd be so willing to stick a -- pen? knife? whatever, straight into Spader's carotid when she needed information right then; unlike a lot of current media, that didn't feel like "of course cops go for excessive violence, that's how they get things done". Instead it was very much a "whoa, okay, she's kind of a sociopath, too. A sociopath with a cause. Good to know!"
I was totally unprepared for the husband to be an international bad guy of whatever sort he turns out to be; that was really well-done, and wow, he seriously plays his cover to the hilt.
I was a little eye-rolly at the Cage of Danger that just happened to be there; seriously, do they think this guy's Magneto? (Well, no, it would have been lucite, not steel. but still.) And it's sort of a ludicrous precaution, when they can't even manage to keep him from escaping from a hospital while badly injured.
But that wasn't enough to turn me off the show; I'll be giving this one at least another week or two, to see how things go.
Hm, okay. I don't think I ever said anything at all about The Blacklist, so here, have some spoilery reaction:
I liked it more than I thought I would! James Spader's shaven head is unfortunate, but I'm guessing the character did that for easiest possible facial recognition, and that it will eventually grow back. I hope. It's a good role for him.
I'm a little surprised that no one on the show has yet wondered if he's really the agent's father, but perhaps they haven't watched as much tv as the rest of us. I have a hard time believing any other reason he'd be so obsessed with (and proud of, and protective of) her, though.
I appreciate that she's not the perfect FBI agent; the "profile yourself" bit was a titch heavy-handed, but it laid down some good groundwork for why she'd be so willing to stick a -- pen? knife? whatever, straight into Spader's carotid when she needed information right then; unlike a lot of current media, that didn't feel like "of course cops go for excessive violence, that's how they get things done". Instead it was very much a "whoa, okay, she's kind of a sociopath, too. A sociopath with a cause. Good to know!"
I was totally unprepared for the husband to be an international bad guy of whatever sort he turns out to be; that was really well-done, and wow, he seriously plays his cover to the hilt.
I was a little eye-rolly at the Cage of Danger that just happened to be there; seriously, do they think this guy's Magneto? (Well, no, it would have been lucite, not steel. but still.) And it's sort of a ludicrous precaution, when they can't even manage to keep him from escaping from a hospital while badly injured.
But that wasn't enough to turn me off the show; I'll be giving this one at least another week or two, to see how things go.
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Date: 2013-10-02 03:54 pm (UTC)Will you keep watching The Blacklist? Nobody else on Dreamwidth seems to be interested in it and Tumbler is hell to search if you don't have an account there. I'd like to see other people's reaction and I'm enjoying the show so far.
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Date: 2013-10-26 04:09 pm (UTC)And sadly, no, I don't think I am; I think it's an amazingly good role for Spader and the concept is intriguing, but it didn't grab me emotionally. In a different year I'd probably keep going with it regardless, but this year there's just too much to watch, and I'm having to be pretty brutal about what to keep up with.
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Date: 2013-10-26 04:52 pm (UTC)Spader is indeed very enjoyable in this. It's his kinda role. Sorry to hear it didn't grab you. You are right, there are an unusual number of interesting new shows out this season.