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AND CAN WE JUST STOP FOR A MOMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGE HOW THE TEAM KNEW MENTIONING LIZZIE BEING DETAINED WOULD MAKE RED TRAVEL FROM GERMANY TO THE STATES NO QUESTIONS ASKED
The moment you go from YES! to NONONONO because you know, you just know that one day somebody will use that weakness against Red in a way that will let everything Anslo Garrick did appear to be child’s play…
The Adversary will use Red’s love for Lizzie not realizing Liz is his daughter and then Red will say “no, she’s your daughter” and all hell will break loose.
Or is Red using someone else’s love for her to use towards his own agenda/advantage somehow? Hmmmm… cool shit to ponder!
Oh God…… oh my God…. this is perfection. COME ON MONDAY!!!!
–BZ
The Blacklist: Kickass Reddington Quotes - The Best of the Best (So Far)
By: Baby Z
In anticipation of NEXT WEEK’S NEW EPISODE (FINALLY OMG) I compiled this best of the best “Kickass Reddington Quotes” using the following criteria: Which ones best encapsulate the show & Reddington so far. Here’s what I came up with:
“Let me put your mind at ease, I am never telling you everything.”
“The world is rarely a fair place, that’s why it needs people like me.”
“Every cause has more than one affect. Say what you will about Frederick, but someone was willing to burn the world down to protect the one person they care about. That’s a man I understand.”
“You may not like me. You may not understand how or why I do what I do, but I’m here because you want answers to questions you haven’t even thought of yet.”
“He’ll always be there for her, standing in the shadows, keeping her safe.”
“With all due respect, if the intel were worth having? Then I would have it.”
“We become who we are. You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can by its first few chapters and most certainly by its last.”
”If you kill HER, you’d better kill me… because I WILL kill you.”
“Lizzie, I want you to know — wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, if you are in need, I will be there.”
Which ones would you add?
–BZ
30 Day Blacklist Challenge: Day 24 (Paternity Result Theories)
Day #24 Share a theory or prediction on what you believe will happen in the upcoming episodes of The Blacklist.
Oooo Lord this is a tough one because there’s so many directions the show could take at this point. I’ll share 2 theories that I hope ARE the case:
1) Tom Keen is actually a major badass and not the boring, ever-so-perfect husband that he’s being portrayed as (or trying to portray?) Whether this means major badass for the good or the bad guys doesn’t matter to me, just that there is SOMETHING else behind his veil by way of badassery.
2) Red is NOT Lizzie’s father. This is controversial opinion and there’s a part of me that really wants him to be, however I think Red being her dad would have been a REALLY awesome idea IF AND ONLY IF the writers hadn’t spent every single episode so far trying to make the viewers suspect that he is. If it turns out that he is, it will seem anti-climactic now and would go against so much of how the show is written, shrouded in mystery. I’ve described it as the attempts at making us believe he’s her father HAVE to be on purpose - they have made it seem TOO obvious now that this is the case for it really to be the case.
P.S. I’ve also toyed with the theory that Ressler is related to Red (which were only amplified when it was discovered they share the same very-rare blood type) and I’m not entirely sure how I’d feel about it, would depend on all the variables surrounding and following it, I suppose.
–Baby Z
30 Day Blacklist Challenge: Days 11-23
Baby Z’s 30 Day Blacklist Challenge Days 11-23:
#11 Who was your favorite Blacklist Criminal and why?
My favorite criminal on the show is and always will be Red, but I’m assuming this question is really asking who my favorite criminal is from HIS Blacklist and to that I say Gina Zanetakos all the way. She was BAD. ASS. (I will say that I have loved all the villain guest stars so far and I suspect that Gina will be replaced with Alan Alda as far as my favorite, but we haven’t gotten enough of him yet to make that call.)
#12 Name your favorite supporting character.
My opinion is that in a show staring James Spader as such a brilliant character, the entire remaining cast is considered “supporting characters.” As far as fairly regular supporting characters go, I’d have to say I love Dembe, and like I said in the “Days 1-10” article - I really WANT to love Lizzie, I just need her to be more kick ass before that happens.
#13 If you were able to meet one member of the cast, who would you choose?
Spader. Easiest question so far.
#14 Share a song that reminds you of the series.
“99 Problems”
#15 Do you think Raymond Reddington can be trusted, why?
I think this depends on who you’re asking. Can the FBI trust him? No, but he has told them flat out that they shouldn’t. Can Lizzie trust him? All signs point to absolutely. Should Tom? HELL NO and I can’t WAIT for that to be proven. Can we as viewers trust him? Honestly - - “trusting” Raymond Reddington isn’t even a factor for me, it’s part of the appeal of the show is the mystery surrounding him. I adore him (both the character and Spader) no matter if we can trust him or not.
#16 If you had to choose between being a member of Team Red or being apart of the Federal Agency, what would you choose?
My pseudonym on this website is Baby, as in Baby Firefly from Devil’s Rejects soooo - what do you think? ;) I’d eat tutti fuckin frutti with Red every day until the day I die.
#17 Share your favorite couple on The Blacklist and why?
Besides Lizzie and Tom, there really aren’t any couples that we know anything about that I can think of, right? And they are definitely NOT on my favorites list. If it turns out that Tom Keen and Gina Zanetakos really are lovers (and Tom’s really some bad ass as opposed to the boring and annoying character he’s been portrayed as so far) that’d be pretty cool. And I don’t want Red with anyone romantically so I won’t even toy with any of that line of thinking ;)
#18 Who do you believe is the biggest Bad Ass on the Series?
The Almighty Red Reddington
#19 What would you change about the show so far?
I do wish there weren’t SOO many unanswered questions. I understand leaving the main plotline mysteries open but I definitely don’t want “The Blacklist” to turn into “Lost” - - frustrating viewers with 147 new questions every episode and no answers. So perhaps just a little more confidence that everything’s going to be addressed and they’re not just kind of aimlessly writing seasons without solid/concrete plans for each question/mystery.
#20 Share your favorite quote from The Blacklist.
Oh man, there’s so many great 1-liners on this show, it was the entire reason I decided to do a “Kickass Reddington Quotes” article every week, and it’s hard to pick 1 favorite per episode let alone favorite overall so far!! I’ll pick some favorites as far as what I think really encapsulates the show (they’re all made by Reddington btw):
“Let me put your mind at ease, I am never telling you everything.”
“The world is rarely a fair place, that’s why it needs people like me.”
“Every cause has more than one affect. Say what you will about Frederick, but someone was willing to burn the world down to protect the one person they care about. That’s a man I understand.”
“You may not like me. You may not understand how or why I do what I do, but I’m here because you want answers to questions you haven’t even thought of yet.”
“He’ll always be there for her, standing in the shadows, keeping her safe.”
“With all due respect, if the intel were worth having? Then I would have it.”
“We become who we are. You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can by its first few chapters and most certainly by its last.”
"If you kill HER, you’d better kill me… because I WILL kill you.“
"Lizzie, I want you to know – wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, if you are in need, I will be there.”
#21 Share the scene that you did not expect to happen and would you change it?
I did not see Luli being killed off so abruptly. I wasn’t really a fan of hers so I probably wouldn’t have changed it, but it was unexpected for sure.
#22 Share your favorite song that was used as on the seasons soundtrack.
Probably Red & Dembe. I’m sure I’ll warm to Lizzie more as the show progresses & I’ll get behind her & Red’s relationship more than I currently am but I’m not really enjoying their dynamic all that much. There was a sense of warming up to it a bit towards the end of the last episode (her concern over his well being after being taken captive and their subsequent phone conversation.) I like the tit for tat between Red & Ressler too, although I don’t know that I’d necessarily call it a friendship lol…
–BZ
The Blacklist 30 Day Challenge: Days 1 - 10
By: Baby Z
Regarding #30 day blacklist challenge, here’s days 1-10 for me. Days 11-23 will be posted shortly.
#1 Introduce Yourself and share your thoughts about the first time you watched the Blacklist and what made you continue to watch.
I’m Baby Z, co-admininstrator and writer for thetvtimes.co.vu. The moment I saw the first promo for The Blacklist, discovering James Spader was the lead character - I knew it’d be a must-see. I love pretty much everything about the show, but he’s definitely my main reason for obsessively returning episode after episode.
#2 Who is your favorite female character?
Ugh….this is a tough one because there’s really not many regular female cast members beyond Lizzie and Malik. While I think the person portraying her is great, I don’t trust Malik- so it’s definitely not her and I WANT to love Lizzie but her on and off again disdain towards Red, stupidity regarding her husband, and overall just not being bad-ass enough for me (yet?) make it really difficult for me to not snark on her regularly. She definitely up’d her game in the last 2 episodes of the 2013 portion of the first season so we’ll see. So I’m going to go with Gina Zanetakos, even though we’ve only seen her in 1 episode (so far?)
#3 Who is your favorite male character?
The almighty Red Reddington (I know, this surprises precisely zero people.)
#4 Who is your least liked character?
Another tough one as I can’t stand Tom Keen or Agent Ressler almost equally. Tom wins by a hair.
#5 Share a scene that made you laugh.
Virtually any scene that Red is handing Ressler’s ass to him on a silver platter is particularly gratifying to me. I love the scene when Red asks if Ressler slipped on a banana peel.
#6 Share a scene that made you cry.
Hands down the 2nd to the last episode of the show so far when Dembe was on his knees, the entire interaction between he & Red had me bawling.
#7 What would you consider to be the most embarrassing moment on The Blacklist?
Most embarrassing….. hmm… really I think that the FBI in the show is pretty embarrassing overall, between their lack of knowledge, their inability to take care of almost everything so far (at least without Red’s help anyway), and their general ineptitude is pretty cringe-worthy.
#8 Share something you wish hadn’t happened in the Blacklist. The entire torture scene when Anslo had Red captive was really difficult for me to watch, witnessing Red being chained up, beaten, injected with that drug, etc.., It was horrifying watching an adored character in such a terrifying situation. (I also felt similarly when The Stewmaker had Lizzie captive too…)
#9 Share something you wish had happened in the Blacklist.
Well, I’d like to say either that we got confirmation on who Red is to Lizzie or that we discovered Tom’s real identity, but at the same time if they’d revealed either of those details so soon into the show it probably would have been disappointing as well. So…. let’s go with I wish Lizzie was more leery of her husband than she appears to be.
#10 Share the character you find the most relatable and why.
Probably Red in that he pretty much proves that most people he’s surrounded by are morons. Hugely relatable to me ;)
–BZ
“Spader, with his quirky tics, is the biggest reason to watch this NBC drama. His magnetic hold over whatever scene he’s in is unmatched elsewhere on series TV.”
A BIG “HELL YEAH” from The TV Times regarding this.
The Blacklist: Are you Planning an Intervention for Me Yet?
The Blacklist: Spader Appreciation
–BZ
The Blacklist: A Second Reddington Look of the Week
By: Baby Z
Just because I miss him so much, and also? Meow. I think my crush on Spader is reaching epic levels. Like - - close to Nikki Sixx/Tommy Lee levels.
You can probably expect more pictures soon. Maybe daily.
;) –BZ
The Blacklist: Reddington Look of the Week
By: Baby Z
You guys!!! I don’t know if I can make it until January 13th for new episodes…. going thru serious Spader withdrawals!!
I guess this will have to do for now…..
*Sigh* –BZ
The Blacklist: Reddington Look of the Week
Dear GOD you just cannot deny how beautiful James Spader is in a gorgeously fantastic suit!
–BabyZombie
The Blacklist: Reddington Expression Awesomeness 2
…just wanted to share more brilliant Spader acting ability - this man can can say 1,000 words with one look.
The Blacklist: Reddington’s Blacklist Thus Far
The Blacklist: Good and Not Good News!
By: Baby Z
So, we’ll start with the good news, although this really shouldn’t be a surprise, and that is that NBC has renewed the show for a 2nd season of 22 episodes next fall.
Additionally, according to tv.com, it appears as though The Blacklist is NBC’s highest rated drama in 19 years. You read that correctly - NINETEEN!!
But we all know that with the good, comes the bad right? The show is returning on January 13th (a very long 6 weeks from the fall finale) - - but it is only returning for THREE EPISODES.
And then NO MORE NEW EPS UNTIL FALL OF 2014 people!!! While I’m beyond elated at the fantastic ratings and all the accolades so far that the show so righteously deserves, at the same time I’m so disappointed that we have to wait almost 8 months between seasons….
I’m not sure what role the winter Olympics played in there only being 3 new episodes in January, but I’m definitely not the happiest of Blacklisters tonight…
***EDITED TO ADD*** After researching a bit more, it’s still not completely clear what’s happening for the Spring season. According to IMDB this season was slated for 22 episodes, and I did find one article that said the show will return for 3 weeks on January 13th, then go on a 1-month hiatus (Winter Olympics??) before airing the remaining episodes from March thru May. Also mentioned often was James Spader’s scheduling difficulties due to his upcoming role as Ultron in the Avenger’s sequel. So I really don’t have any concrete answers but I do have a little more hope that perhaps there’s just going to be an Olympic hiatus and not an 8-month one.
