Watching Blindspot...

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 11:19 pm

...at Liz's wishes. Pretty good show, interesting premise. Anyone else?

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:50 am

Jarlaxle wrote:...at Liz's wishes. Pretty good show, interesting premise. Anyone else?

I still watch it when nothing better is on but after the writers started loading it up with a confusing backstory and a crazy romance plotline it has become quite tedious.

The ratings are drastically down from last season and I'm not sure it will be picked up for Season Three. If it goes I'm not going to miss it.

Big RR · Post by **Big RR** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:16 pm

I think it has started getting overly complicated, with way too many characters, as well. My problem with saying I wouldn't miss it is that there are very few shows I watch now.

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:34 pm

I've watched this show from the beginning...

It can be confusing at times, and it has some annoying jiggly faux hand-held style camera work, (though they seem to have lessened that) but it's still better than most of what's being produced...(not a tough bar to meet...)

As Big RR said, the ratings are down for this season, but because it's survived two seasons, (and it takes three seasons for a show to have enough episodes to recognize syndication revenue) it may very well get renewed...

(Elementary was on the chopping block after its second season, got renewed for that reason, and has now gone on for five seasons and will probably be renewed for a 6th...)

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:34 am

I don't mind lots of new characters and plot twists when they become integral to the main storyline and it doesn't take more than a couple of episodes to see how. For example, there isn't any room to flesh out the personal lives of that many central characters, so it would have been better not to do it the half assed way they have, by having each in turn facing some personal crisis that came out of nowhere and bears no relationship to the plot. The one guy spends one night of debauchery and instantly becomes a coke addict who is missing work and getting beaten up by the shady backstreet dealers he resorts to. Jane goes on her first date in, what, forever, and they are kidnapped and held for ransom. Cheap theatrics.

The radio in the tooth was a clumsy way to stretch the storyline out for a few more episodes. It was what, a few months before she notices a filling that wasn't there before? And the FBI of all places doesn't doesn't have some kind of technology in use that would block radio transmissions to or from the outside? And the whole getting it ripped out with no anesthesia was cheap melodrama.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:51 am

Lord Jim wrote:... As Big RR said, the ratings are down for this season...

I, too, agree totally with Big RR. Ratings are down from last season.

Oh, and Jane Doe has way too many tattoos. I'm surprised she's not battling ink poisoning by now. Regardless, only about 5% have been analyzed at this point. If the show continues for a few more seasons many of them will become indecipherable due to wrinkles and flab.

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 3:42 am

Lord Jim wrote:
(Elementary was on the chopping block after its second season, got renewed for that reason, and has now gone on for five seasons and will probably be renewed for a 6th...)

Oh god, no....

Hasn't he shagged her yet? Or are they waiting for him to rescue her from the shark?

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:23 am

Hasn't he shagged her yet?

No, but she shagged Mycroft early on...

Or are they waiting for him to rescue her from the shark?

I'm surprised Watson's super-spy Ninja assassin wife didn't rescue him from a shark during the last season of Sherlock...

You've got the complete wrong end of the stick about this show Old Darling...

It's actually a well written, well performed detective series with a lot of well crafted plot twists...

But of course you're such a close-minded, pole-up-the-butt "Holmes purist" you've never "lowered" yourself to watch even a single episode, so you wouldn't know this...

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:39 am

Ahem, I can recall someone very early on saying something like this:

Lord Jim wrote:Somebody around here, (maybe Crackpot) (ed. it was actually me) said that the producers were denying that they cast Watson as a woman in order to create sexual tension between Holmes and Watson...

Well, if they said that, that is a flat out lie; the sexual tension is so strong between them, you could cut it with a chainsaw...if the series goes on for two or three seasons, I have no doubt that they will be hitting the sheets....

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:39 am

Lord Jim wrote: But of course you're such a close-minded, pole-up-the-butt "Holmes purist" you've never "lowered" yourself to watch even a single episode, so you wouldn't know this...

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:09 am

Scooter wrote:Ahem, I can recall someone very early on saying something like this:

Lord Jim wrote:Somebody around here, (maybe Crackpot) (ed. it was actually me) said that the producers were denying that they cast Watson as a woman in order to create sexual tension between Holmes and Watson...

Well, if they said that, that is a flat out lie; the sexual tension is so strong between them, you could cut it with a chainsaw...if the series goes on for two or three seasons, I have no doubt that they will be hitting the sheets....

Yeah, but you have to remember that was posted by the same Nostradamus who said he was 100% certain he wouldn't have to face Trump getting the Republican nomination, so what does he know?

Though actually, when the show started, there was a lot of sexual tension between the two of them...

As the show has developed and evolved, the relationship has become more of a brother/sister thing, (when one or the other of them is involved in a relationship, they seem to have more of a protective attitude towards each other than a jealous one...)

But if at some point the show's producers think that the way to keep audience interest and improve ratings is to introduce a tryst or romance between them, I still wouldn't rule it out...

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:21 pm

W: .... and how do you best enjoy the sexual act?

H: Alimentary, my dear Watson

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 2:28 am

RayThom wrote:
Lord Jim wrote:... As Big RR said, the ratings are down for this season...
I, too, agree totally with Big RR. Ratings are down from last season.

Oh, and Jane Doe has way too many tattoos. I'm surprised she's not battling ink poisoning by now. Regardless, only about 5% have been analyzed at this point. If the show continues for a few more seasons many of them will become indecipherable due to wrinkles and flab.

She has no more than some models I have seen...and honestly, not that many more than some people I know. (My wife's best friend is nearly covered, neck to ankles.)

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:52 pm

My wife's best friend is nearly covered, neck to ankles.

Yeah, but on a clear day can you see Alcatraz?

MGMcAnick · Post by **MGMcAnick** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:52 pm

We started watching Blindspot when it started. We DVR most shows and skip the ads. That way they only take 45 minutes or so, especially if you skip the previews. I agree that Blindspot has gotten a bit tedious and hard to follow. We have watched a few recorded episodes, but it has definitely lost its luster.

One show that we used to like, and have given up on, is Quantico. It was interesting at first, but has SOOOO MANY flash backs that it's impossible to follow if you look away for an instant when they transition to another time.

oldr_n_wsr · Post by **oldr_n_wsr** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:58 pm

Never heard of it.

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