Blindspot Season 1 Thread

[Nomad]

I generally don't like shows that begin with a mystery and then slowly unravel it over time (especially if the show is cancelled without providing the answers). But so far I haven't minded this one too much. And I guess each episode will have an anagram for a title ("Eight Slim Grins" = "The Missing Girl"), which gives me something to figure out while watching.

 

[Taylirious]

I am glad she knows who she is now rather than later. I am enjoying the series so far.

 

[Aragorn]

I'm slightly disappointed she didn't find out her name was Jennifer Reddington.

 

[Christopher]

Hold on... Didn't she do an Agents of SHIELD episode last season where Lady Sif had lost her memory of who she was?

 

[Admiral2]

Hold on... Didn't she do an Agents of SHIELD episode last season where Lady Sif had lost her memory of who she was?

Yeah, actually...she was beating up on a bunch of guys until Phil Coulson found her and helped her get her memory back. The episode was "Yes Men."

So hey...maybe somebody in "Tahiti" just wants her and everyone to think she's that Taylor girl.

 

[Taylirious]

http://tvline.com/2015/10/09/blindspot-full-season-order-nbc/

Full season!

 

[Admiral2]

I'm happy to have a full season of Jamie Alexander. Hopefully it stays good or improves enough to get more.

 

[Admiral2]

So, she's Taylor Shaw, but she's not Taylor Shaw. And she's African. And the lab girl has a secret agenda. And the lady FBI agent gambles? Cause why?

Wow. Is it possible to jump the shark on only the third episode?

 

[Christopher]

The plot here was a bit implausible. Why save the worst disease for last? I could understand doing one or two smaller trial runs to start, but nine? Also, the underlying Malthusian philosophy is outdated. It's now apparent that a large population can be sustained with sufficiently advanced technology for food production, resource management, etc.

Still, at least they explained why the crisis erupted just when they were looking into it. Still, whoever made the tattoos knew about their plan and did nothing to stop the earlier outbreaks. Could it be that whoever's behind this wants the FBI to provoke these crises by investigating them, as they did here?

 

[Admiral2]

I was thinking the same thing as I watched. It may just be that whoever prepped Jane/Taylor didn't just want the bad guys stopped. They wanted the bad guys forced into the light of day. that's happened every ep so far.

 

[Brolan]

I was thinking the same thing as I watched. It may just be that whoever prepped Jane/Taylor didn't just want the bad guys stopped. They wanted the bad guys forced into the light of day. that's happened every ep so far.

Couldn't any of this be done by an anonymous phone tip? As opposed to the silliness we have going on now?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

So, she's Taylor Shaw, but she's not Taylor Shaw. And she's African.

My guess is that she's a clone of Taylor Shaw that was born in Africa, which is how she got the trace deposits of Coltan in her tooth. They cloned Shaw to exploit her childhood connection with Agent Weller, and his guilt, much like the conspiracy could exploit Fox Mulder's memories and guilt about his sister on the X-Files.

I'm pretty sure this show is taking the Person of Interest model of being a stealth scifi show that looks like an action procedural at first to be more palatable for execs and certain audiences but then expands into some scifi concepts as time goes on.

I'm almost certain about the cloning thing, and for some hints dropped in dialogue and the implausibility of knowing future events in such detail, I'm leaning toward Taylor 2.0 (and other people like the guys in the van and her shooting trainer) being from the future, where a series of terrorist attacks and disasters have left the world devastated. They have some info about the crimes and criminals involved, but only bits and pieces, which is what they put on the tattoos. Why they'd want to be so cryptic about things instead of just providing the information outright is just one of those things these conspiracy shows always do.

The disease plot in this episode gave me a 12 Monkeys vibe, especially if my above suspicions turn out to be true.

 

[Christopher]

I'm almost certain about the cloning thing, and for some hints dropped in dialogue and the implausibility of knowing future events in such detail, I'm leaning toward Taylor 2.0 (and other people like the guys in the van and her shooting trainer) being from the future, where a series of terrorist attacks and disasters have left the world devastated. They have some info about the crimes and criminals involved, but only bits and pieces, which is what they put on the tattoos. Why they'd want to be so cryptic about things instead of just providing the information outright is just one of those things these conspiracy shows always do.

I was having the same thought, but I'm not sure. After all, these are some pretty major terror threats, so if one had happened, it might've precluded others from happening.

Still, if we both arrived at the same suspicion, there may be something to it. As for why the information is encoded as tattoos, maybe there's some rule about not revealing too much information regarding the future. Just sending Jane back to tell people about these disasters would risk revealing too much, so instead they wipe her memory and encode the information as puzzles. Perhaps that's to conceal from the people uptime that information was being sent back, or maybe it's because the FBI will investigate and uncover these things themselves and thereby give them more credence than they would if someone just said "Hey, I know this bad thing is going to happen because I'm from the future."

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Yeah, that makes sense.

The thing that first got me thinking about the time travel angle was in the pilot when they said Jane was a Navy SEAL, but made a note of how there were no female SEALs yet. They kind of played it off by saying it wouldn't be public knowledge since it's special forces, but that's not true. They wouldn't reveal the woman's identity while she was active duty, but the news that there was a female SEAL would be huge.

As soon as they said that (and combined with the other weirdness of the pilot), I turned to my friend and said "I bet she's from the future," and so far nothing has convinced me that it's out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Admiral2]

I was thinking the same thing as I watched. It may just be that whoever prepped Jane/Taylor didn't just want the bad guys stopped. They wanted the bad guys forced into the light of day. that's happened every ep so far.

Couldn't any of this be done by an anonymous phone tip? As opposed to the silliness we have going on now?

The police get thousands of anonymous phone tips a day. They tend to ignore the craziest sounding ones. This way, all the tips come at once and are directed to one specific person at one specific law enforcement agency in such a way that they can't be ignored.

 

[Christopher]

The thing that first got me thinking about the time travel angle was in the pilot when they said Jane was a Navy SEAL, but made a note of how there were no female SEALs yet.

Again, we're thinking along the same lines. Although that didn't occur to me until this week, because I wasn't sure whether this would be a genre show at all.

And concealing information about the future could be a reason for the total memory wipe.

 

[Taylirious]

Why does Jane Doe always ask dumb questions, like explain ___ to me??? Ugh.

 

[Christopher]

Why does Jane Doe always ask dumb questions, like explain ___ to me??? Ugh.

Umm, because she's had her entire memory wiped?

 

[Taylirious]

I mean the FBI stuff which she understands one moment and then doesn't like they use her to speak for the audience.

 

[auntiehill]

^ I think you just answered your own question.