The Blacklist - Season 3 Discussion Thread

[Spot's Meow]

Ressler really is a super douche, as well as a hypocrite. I loved the "nothing personal, but you sucked in bed" comment.
Is anyone else forecasting a tragic ending to this pregnancy story? For one because Keen's life always seems to go shitty, but also because I don't see a baby in the picture in the coming seasons.

 

[Borgminister]

Like the self-contained stories of late. Although I wish Monk would've been a more formidable opponent.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Ressler really is a super douche, as well as a hypocrite. I loved the "nothing personal, but you sucked in bed" comment.
Is anyone else forecasting a tragic ending to this pregnancy story? For one because Keen's life always seems to go shitty, but also because I don't see a baby in the picture in the coming seasons.

I don't see them keeping a kid on the show. However, adoption works as a plot device for later episodes so I can expect that more than a miscarriage or abortion. Or Tom can go play Mr Mom in one of Red's hideaways, but that seems comically unlikely even for this show. Although, a spinoff series of 'Mr Kaplan, Foster Fixer' has potential.

 

[auntiehill]

Like the self-contained stories of late. Although I wish Monk would've been a more formidable opponent.

Yeah, I didn't really get that. The guy seemed like a lightweight compared to the monsters Red usually brings down. You'd think he wouldn't need the FBI for just for Liberace Monk.

After Red took him out, all I could think about was, "Who's going to look after the dogs?"

 

[Captain Shaw]

Yeah, I didn't really get that. The guy seemed like a lightweight compared to the monsters Red usually brings down. You'd think he wouldn't need the FBI for just for Liberace Monk.

After Red took him out, all I could think about was, "Who's going to look after the dogs?"

Wonder if he will give them to Aram Mojtabai.

 

[auntiehill]

^Aram can't take care of those dogs. He never leaves the FBI building! He & Cooper are ALWAYS there.

 

[Mr Light]

I was hoping Shaloub would be in more than one episode. That's what I love about this show in addition to Red; these cartoonish comic book villains.

 

[Procutus]

Show definitely had a far higher body count than usual. I felt like I was watching 24. Red's turning into Jack Bauer!

 

[auntiehill]

He's not shouty enough to be Jack Bauer.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Mr Patriot's chat with Red was no surprise but for deaths I was surprised at Liz's nonchalance over Red shooting that agent in the throat on the way out of the hotel. 'Don't call her Masha' is the new safety phrase, I guess?

 

[Mr Light]

I was confused by that. My friend I was watching it with insisted some rando shot the agent from behind. I thought Red did it, but there's no way Liz would have been cool with Red shooting a federal agent like that.

 

[sojourner]

It was a random shot from the gun fight.

 

[Procutus]

He's not shouty enough to be Jack Bauer.

"Dammit Dembe, we're running out of time."

 

[auntiehill]

^ Oh, please, no.

Mr. Light, it was some random, stray bullet that came through the door/hallway.

 

[Gov Kodos]

^Aram can't take care of those dogs. He never leaves the FBI building! He & Cooper are ALWAYS there.

So, Glen, best home for the dogs?

 

[auntiehill]

Yeah, kinda worried about the dogs with Glen. He's not exactly the caring sort. But he might be, if he thinks he can pick up chicks with them.

It never ceases to amuse me that even Raymond Reddington cannot intimidate the evil that is the DMV.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Would have loved a scene with Reddington looking after the dogs and having to bring them into into the the task force building before he found them a new home.

 

[Gov Kodos]

And Liz is starting to pick up Red's habit of telling side stories.

 

[137th Gebirg]

This one had a couple of disappointing technical problems.

One of the most glaring, to me, was the fact that Tom discharged a pistol inside a van saturated in gasoline. In a universe where the normal laws of chemistry apply, he would have blown the thing up the second he pulled the trigger, finishing the job. Thousand-degree sparks and petrol fumes generally don't play together well. He would have never made such a novice-panic error, even while under duress, considering the other things he's accomplished in this show as an operator in similarly dire circumstances.

The other big one was when Liz tried leaving her apartment with the kid and not looking through the peep-hole in the door to see "father" with the gun and "junior" tagging along. Liz has been through far too much as both an agent and a Reddington fugitive sidekick to make such a horrible tactical error. Thank God Red's goon wasn't permanently chased away by her haranguing when he smoke alarm went off. That could have been handled much better by all parties concerned.

And Ressler is still wins the top-shelf fuckwit douche award for his sanctimonious "I would NEVER give up my child for adoption" boyscout bullshit in front of Liz. That dude seriously needs an on-the-job accident.

I'm convinced that Red and Haram are the only ones in this entire band of misfits who have any kind of clue of what's going on at any given time. And yet, I keep coming back for more!

 

[Gov Kodos]

Mythbusters did a number of gas myths. It doesn't explode nearly as easily as Hollywood makes it appear.