"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
09/16/2014 at 21:56 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
09/16/2014 at 21:56 • Filed to: None | 1
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I've been watching The Blacklist on Netflix, because after paying NBC piles and piles of money, Netflix is featuring season 1 right smack when you open the app. I've now watched 7 episodes, and I'm noticing a trend. Spoilers after the jump.
Ok, last warning, here's the spoilers. But hey, be a pal, don't tell me stuff after episode 7 because that's as far as I've gotten, thanks!
The basic premise of the show is that James Spader is a former military higher up who decides to become an international criminal/arms dealer/seller of US secrets/assorted other nefarious things, for vague reasons involving something bad that happened to his family but hasn't been revealed.
After a couple decades of criminaldom, James Spader decides to turn himself in to the FBI and help them catch other bad guys, in exchange for immunity, which the FBI says they'll give him, except not really. James Spader insists on only working with this one FBI agent girl who may or may not be his daughter, we don't really know, but she's all emotional, and her husband may or may not be some kind of evil spy dude, but we don't really know.
This crack FBI team being helped by James Spader's arch criminal guy, presumably with the goal of catching these bad guys who James Spader helps them find, has yet to actually arrest a single bad guy. Every single one of the first 7 episodes ends with a climactic showdown with the bad guy (or gal) of the week, where one of two outcomes happens:
1. One of the FBI agents ends up having to shoot the bad guy to stop them in the act of doing something bad. Typically something like "DROP THE GUN OR I'LL SHOOT YOU!" then the bad guy of course tries to go for their gun and the FBI agent shoots them. Well, there was one episode where they arrested the bad guy, then he escaped, and then the FBI shoots him.
2. James Spader kills the bad guy, even though the bad guy didn't necessarily need to be killed. Because James Spader is a bad guy and kills other bad guys because he feels like it. Oooh that James Spader is such a bad guy.
I'm sticking with the show for now, because it's generally entertaining, and there are other subplots and continuing plot threads aside from all of this killing the bad guy of the week. But I'm hoping that just once, they'd actually catch a bad guy instead of killing them. For the sake of variety.
UPDATE: I just watched the eighth episode, and lo and behold, they arrested the bad guy! He was a particularly lame bad guy though. But hey, maybe someone working on the show realized, oh hey we've killed seven bad guys of the week in a row, maybe let's arrest one for a change.
Dusty Ventures
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09/16/2014 at 23:44 |
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This is what I will say about the rest of the season:
Because seriously. Things gonna get cray-cray.