Bishop

I am thrilled with Bobbie - and Felicia and any vet that gets to play characters that I know and love and have loved for decades. With all the newbies on GH, I have zero problem with Bobbie yelling at Nelle or Felicia conspiring with Bobbie to unmask her. I don't care what they did in the past because I hate when newbies are written to one-up the vets. Just look at how Fin was able to ride in and save GH. I guess it never occurred to the writers to let Monica or Tracy do that or even Michael - you know, the people who actually love and adore GH and have been a part of the story and history for years? I am happy that the writers, lately, are giving more airtime to the vets because they are the ones that keep me watching. Fin and Hayden? Eh. Franco? No. Jordan? No. Kiki? Not really. Curtis? Uh, yes. Nell? No. My point is that I can enjoy the new characters ONLY IF they are secondary to the vet characters. Unfortunately, the writers were giving the newbies way too much front storytelling and airtime, and I was bored out of my mind. Now, at least, I'm seeing more of the vets (i.e., Bobbie, Felicia, Tracy, Monica, Michael, Laura (hopefully Kevin soon), Ned and Lucas). So yeah, more please.

Well that's assuming he is staying at Hilltop. Daryl, like Rick - and Maggie and the rest - want to get this battle started. Nothing is happening at the Kingdom except people sitting around and refusing to fight. I think Daryl is correct that it's Morgan that has to sway Ezekiel. Daryl is going to the Hilltop, I am guessing, to make plans with Maggie, Sasha and Jesus, and if he has to leave again to keep them safe and return to the Kingdom, he will. The point is that Daryl and the others want to formulate a plan, not sit around and put their head in the sand - which is essentially what is happening at the Kingdom.

So? Grown-ass woman and adults in general aren't above breaking or suffering from depression or emotional traumas. Daryl wasn't treating Carol like a child imo. He was treating her as someone he loved and cared about. Morgan spared her as well. Frankly, I have a feeling Carol may have sensed Daryl was lying because he hesitated. Maybe she's deliberately lying to herself to spare herself. Who knows. I certainly did not see Daryl treating her like a child. He saw someone he loves, broken and TELLING HIM that she couldn't handle it if anyone she loved was hurt or dead. She literally said that to him and then - with tears streaming down her face at just the idea of someone having been hurt or died - asked him if everyone was okay. I think it would have been selfish for Daryl to tell her the truth in that moment because that would have been what HE wants. He wants her in the fight, but not at the cost of her sanity and her emotional well-being. Carol will learn the truth eventually and she'll make her choice.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. It was nice that the characters got to actually talk and communicate with each other with extended dialogue. It was even nicer that it was Daryl that got to do a lot of that discussion because he has been written to be the least talkative of the group for the past three years or so. It's been annoying. Daryl use to be a more talkative and interactive character, and so it was nice to see his character actually have discussions beyond one word or one sentence. His scenes with Richard, Morgan, and Carol were all well done. He and Richard are on the same page in terms of wanting to inflict pain and revenge on the Saviors, but the minute Daryl gets the sense that the woman Richard is thinking of using as bait might be Carol, the plan shifts. I loved how Daryl could sense the person Richard was talking about was Carol and wanted confirmation, and then once he had it, he was completely against the plan Richard had laid out and then threatened Richard that if anything happened to Carol, he'd kill him. Later on, when Daryl and Morgan are talking, it was good that Daryl told Morgan that he was going to have to get Ezekiel on the same page as Team Grimes and that Morgan wasn't going to be able to sit out this coming fight. Lastly, the entire Daryl/Carol scenes were emotional, dramatic and nicely executed. Carol has been pissed off for weeks, but at the sight of Daryl standing in her doorway, all the walls came down. I'm not inferring romance (although who knows that may happen eventually) - I'm simply saying that Carol saw someone she has loved and cared about since the beginning of the plague standing on her porch, someone she had not seen for a while, and she wasn't expecting it. I especially loved hearing Carol explain later by the fire why she couldn't fight or didn't want to fight. She explained that if someone hurt him or anyone of the group, she would fight, but it would break her. So Daryl lied. He told her everything and everyone was fine because it's what she needed to hear. I got the distinct impression that Daryl is on a one-way mission for himself. The way he left Carol, almost not saying goodbye, and then going back to give her a final hug. I just got the impression that Daryl was going to get his revenge against Negan, and he might not see her again, but he wished her well and wanted her safe. That was my impression, anyway. As for why Daryl left without warning Carol about Richard, it's because Daryl threatened Richard that if anything happened to Carol - anything - he would kill him. Why would Richard then go out and try to kill Carol and how does Richard know that Daryl didn't tell Morgan or Carol? Also, Daryl is not a prisoner at the Kingdom. So he can come and go at his own risk. The part of the episode that fell flat for me was the entire Jadice, Junkyard Army. I don't know. They were just a bit bizarre for me, and it sounds like they've been hiding in that junkyard and just taking from others. I don't get the impression that they really fight at all or have been up against a lot of Walkers. I did like the Rick/Gabriel scene, and it was nice to see the smile on Gabriel's face when he realized that Rick and company had risked their lives to come find and rescue him. The show is on the right path.

I thought the entire Simon/Jace scene was hysterical and fun. Jace's advice works very well for him, but Simon is not Jace and he can't pull it off. Maia likes the can't-stop-talking geeky Simon and that's what she wanted. I think I actually prefer Jace and Maia because it's always more fun to watch people who dislike each other to fall for each other rather than those who are obviously attracted to do so. Eh. I know the Malec stuff is popular, and I like them as a couple myself, but it seems like the ONLY storyline for Alec is about his relationship with Magnus. Alec doesn't have a storyline unless it's all about Magnus, and now they are simply becoming another couple on the show. Magnus at least has relationships with other characters, but Alec's scenes are always about Magnus or talking about Magnus. It's boring. Alec is also a Shadowhunter. He's more than just being Malec. Izzy is going down a dark path, and I'm not sure what Altertree wants with her being addicted to vampire venom. I still think he's in cahoots with Valentine, and why has Valentine suddenly given up his pursuit of Jace? He's an easier target now that he's hanging out at bars. I don't get the direction of the Valentine/Jace storyline right now. We spent about three or four episodes with Valentine obsessed with getting Jace - or was it all about the getting the sword?

Agreed. I deleted it from my dvr, but Jensen did a great job. I just feel it could have been a fantastic episode because it was something that one of the brothers hasn't had to deal with at all - which is saying a lot. I did like Sam's line that watching his brother lose himself was worse than watching him die, andd I would have liked more of those moments - brother moments. I don't dislike Rowena, but they've done the witches, hexes, find a potion or a spell and fix it stuff to death already. This was an opportunity to delve into the brother relationship in a different way. Heck, they should have had Mary in this episode more than Rowena - to have her watch losing her son where he has no memory of her. Maybe that will snap her out of her funk. Oh well.

I was disappointed. There was so much more that they could have done with this episode, and instead, Dean seemed child-like throughout most of the storline. I didn't get the horror of losing his memory and who he was with the exception of that one fantastic moment with Dean trying to remember his name as he talked to himself in the mirror. That was heartbreaking, but other than that, the episode was basically "Sit here, Dean, and be a good boy, and we'll fix everything." I would have preferred if there was more drama between Dean and Sam with Dean forgetting. It could have been a great brothers episode, and instead it was sort of a Rowena/Sam episode. It wasn't terrible, but with all the hype, I was expecting much better. Also, how does Dean know to handle a gun so well if he forgot everything? I mean, he was a dead shot with both of those witches. Muscle memory? I guess. (shrug)

I agree. I don't care how they get Roman on the team - go as crazy as they need to - but get him on the team because he and Jane are the best parts of Blindspot. I AM enjoying the show, and I'm glad that Weller has been extricated from the Nas/baby-mama drama. I give some leeway to the writers to try and right the ship. They know how badly they screwed up by ditching the first season premise of Weller working with Jane to uncover the clues and then gave him two women who have no business in the storylines. The one really great thing about season two changes was the introduction of Roman. I hate what they are doing with Reade and Zappata. WHAT are they doing with Reade? Now he's a coke-sniffing potential drug addict? Zappata is a lovestruck partner? WTF? Basically, the show should now focus on Jane/Roman and Patterson and get Weller back on track (which seems to be happening). At this point, I don't care abut Reade or Zappata, and that's sad.

Aldertree clearly has an agenda - getting Izzy hooked on vampire venom and making sure Jace is no longer at the institute (by giving him an impossible choice) makes me wonder if Aldertree is in cahoots with Valentine. Just a thought. The whole Izzy/Clary thing was boring. I still can't figure out what the purpose of that storyline is/was, but the stuff with Alec and Magnus I enjoyed. I like how different they are, and I thought all the scenes were well done. Luke/Simon/Maia was good as well, and I can't figure out if the writers are trying to go with a Maia/Simon/Clary triangle. I do like Simon as a character, but he's also a bit annoying. So I'm not sure I want to see two women fighting over him, but whatever. I hope Jace is not being relegated to the sidelines. At this point, Jace can be easily taken by Valentine now that he is not longer at the institute. So I wonder if Valentine will make a move. Either way, I just hope there is more stories coming up for Jace than washing battle gear or interrupting romantic moments. He really is a fish out of water at the moment with Clary being his sister, Magnus and Alec being together, and now him not being at the institute. I wonder where his character arc is going to go now.

I, too, was surprised that they killed Jocelyn. I have not read the books, but considering all the trouble the characters went through to find her and then revive her, only to have her murdered was a shock. I also like that it was Alec that killed her because he has always treated Clary as an interloper, and now she has a legitimate reason to have issues with him - even though it wasn't his fault. I like the twists this season is taking, and it's so much better than last season. The Jace plot is my favorite as well. I think Sherwood is killing it, and I'm intrigued with the Jace/Valentine relationship. I think the writers are really giving the actors stuff to chew on. I feel sorry for Jace because he's just such a tormented character. His father is insane, he was orphaned, his mother tried to kill him, and now he finds out he was experimented on by said father. Oh, and he's related to the woman he loves. Yeah, Jace is not having a good time right now. I thought the trial was done well too. It was emotional, and I liked that Jace couldn't pledge his allegiance to the clave. There's corruption on all sides.

The descriptions can both relate to him - and Jane. I think it's more accurate to say that Roman is an abused man suffering PTSD, and since the man has never really known love, he doesn't know how to traverse social relationships. Even when he admitted to his sister that he liked Kat and liked spending time with her, Remi and Shepherd immediately ended it. Shepherd (and I think Remi) didn't like the idea of Roman connecting with anything or anyone outside the mission. So even when he tried to engage with others socially, he was stopped, and yet, Remi had a love affair with that guy (can't remember his name) who worked with her in Sandstorm. So I guess you can only have a social relationship with like-minded terrorists. Or maybe Roman was just not allowed. Either way you look at it, it's sad all the way around.

You make valid arguments, but what colors the argument for me is that Jane is trying to save her brother. So even though I agree that her actions are making decisions for Roman, she isn't doing it as an act of malice. She was actually worse than Roman pre-wipe. If you watch Remi in action, she seems to have no moral grounding. She is totally committed to the mission, and although she loves her brother, she was willing to wipe her memory knowing full well that she would forget him. She realized how horrible a person she use to be, and that she's a better person now. She wants that for her brother as well. Is it right for her to choose that for him? I guess it depends on pov. She wiped his memory against his will, but is there a chance he will be grateful to her later on? Maybe, maybe not. That's part of the story. SHE is hoping that he is grateful, and I'm hoping the writers don't turn him into the psychopath that everyone claims him to be. You're not wrong, but I just feel that by Jane wiping his memory, she's actually giving her brother a chance to make choices in the future that are different from the man terrorist Shepherd (and Jane) groomed. But Kat is a sociopath. She likes a guy who kills without hesitation and is detached, emotionally. That's not normal. Also, whose to say that Kat really liked him for who he was? Roman/Ian was a good, loving person at one point and was basically beaten and abused into this terrorist lifestyle. That's not liking him for "who he was." Whose to say that this mind-wiped version of Roman is the true Ian? It's hard to say, but it's why I'm intrigued by the writing and this particular storyline and character and where it might go. It's fun to pick apart.

But I don't think Roman ever loved Kat, which is not the same as not being able to love someone. There were two instances where Kat told Roman she loved him (one when they were in bed, and one when she had been shot) and both times he didn't answer her back. However, when he was alone with his sister, Remi, and she was telling him that Shepherd didn't like him spending so much time with Kat because he was losing focus, Roman admitted that he liked Kat. Clearly Roman felt something for her. There was no reason to manipulate his sister or pretend that he liked Kat if he didn't. He just wasn't in love with her at that point, but I think he liked the idea of being on the road with her and living his life apart from his sister and Shepherd. Kat said that Roman hated being ordered around (which I thought was an interesting insight since we've been led to believe that Roman seemed comfortable in his role as terrorist/soldier). The more layers that get peeled away from Roman, the less I believe he's a psychopath. The doctor said that Roman never loved Jane and is incapable of loving her. We've seen clear evidence that the opposite is true. Roman lashing out in anger at his sister for putting the mission ahead of him and wiping her memories; him weeping in her arms when the pain of past memories and of losing his sister overwhelmed him; and when he was faced with the option of shooting his sister or staying true to his "mother" and the mission, he chose his sister - and took a bullet for it. Later on when he's bleeding and Jane is tending to the wound, Roman is upset about what he was forced to do - save her and shoot their "mother," and that he wasn't sure what he was suppose to do at that point. I don't believe a psychopath would react that way, with those emotions. He wouldn't care. He certainly wouldn't care about a woman and her child in a diner and whether or not they got caught in the crossfire of a gunfight, but he was. At the same time, there is a layer of gray with Roman. When Kat was shot and had died, Roman didn't really have an emotional reaction. That isn't normal, but then I thought about it, and the fact that he has no memory of this woman, apart from one or two flashbacks, would explain his lack of emotion. For him, without a memory, she's a stranger, and you would feel bad at the death of a stranger, but you wouldn't be crying or emotional either. So that's one explanation for Roman's lack of reaction. I noticed one other thing in rewatching the episode - Kat said that the old Roman would have been the one to suggest killing the two cops to prevent them from talking, and she also said the old Roman would never have held her hand. What was twisted was when she said that she preferred the old Roman, the colder, more distant Roman who didn't do public displays of affection. So what does that say about Kat? She likes the colder, detached killer/assassin over a warmer, perhaps more affectionate version of a human being? That may explain why he never fell in love with her. For me, psychopath means that a person is incapable of caring about anyone and therefore, unable to connect with anyone emotionally or mentally. For someone like Roman with mad fighting and killing skills, that would be a very bad thing. A psychopath has abnormal and violent behavior, but Roman demonstrated restraint when he was about to go out and take on the guards. Remi reminded him that those people don't know that they are on the wrong side. A psychopath would have still gone out and killed them all. Why would he care? Roman did the opposite. He spared all of them when he easily could have killed them. So I'm going to take him at his word that he doesn't like to kill, and I also think Roman was right when he said that even if he was a psychopath or had those tendencies, it's because Remi (and Shepherd) turned him into one. That flashback was telling in that Remi didn't seem the slightest bit happy that Roman was happy and that he liked Kat. In fact, she looked pissed about it. She basically told her brother "Dump the girl that you clearly like and never see her again with no explanation, and tomorrow I plan on wiping my memory and forgetting all about you." Is it any wonder Roman has social issues? I do think he is anti-social, but not to the point of being a psychopath or even a sociopath. He's just a man who has been severely abused throughout his entire life and has never been allowed a normal existence. I'm not sure Roman understands what a normal relationship is or what love actually looks like.

I think the mind wipe helped Roman break free of his sister and Shepherd's control of him. In the flashback, we get a real look at Remi's influence and isolation of Roman. Even the idea that Roman might be getting closer to someone else, and she reigned him in. I'm sure she used the "I'm the only family you have, and I'm the only one that is going to have your back." Roman said as much to Kat. So in that regard, the mind wipe helps. However, true to your point, Roman doesn't remember how much he loved his sister or how she loved him (and I believe she did as Remi). So it's this fine line to walk for him as a character. I agree completely. Roman needs to remain a gray character - not all good but not all bad either. The minute he becomes a psychopathic killer bent on revenge, it's over for the character. It's one thing to kill as a brainwashed and abused child, but now he has options with the mind wipe. To start from a new perspective, and I think/hope the writers are smart because they fixed the Weller problem pretty quickly when the ratings started going down. They removed Allie and Nas from his life as romantic partners and refocused the Weller/Jane relationship. I don't know what they were thinking when they came up with the "lets put him in a relationship with three different women all at the sametime" scenario, but at least it's gone. I would love to see more of Weller/Jane and Jane/Roman and eventually Roman/Patterson because I think these are the shows strongest characters when written well, but I can also see Roman and Reade on missions and Zapata/Patterson. The core cast is good and the characters are good. So now it's just up to the writers to craft better, more focused stories and forget about all the romance stuff. It should either happen organically or not at all.

Just a warning - This is going to be a long post because there was a lot to chew over last night. I thought the episode was very good. It held my interest until the very end, and for the most part, the writers have quickly fixed what has been the biggest problem with the show this season. That problem being Weller. Goodbye Nas! I don't care how fast it happened. I don't care that realistically, they would never just break up and become instant colleagues again. I don't care. I'm just glad Weller and Nas are no longer a thing and the office, for the most part, is back to normal. Aye-freakin-men! I also loved that Weller and Jane were back to being the characters they were at the end when Jane visited him at his apartment. I was afraid Nas might be there, but nope, Weller was alone, and he and Jane felt normal again. Reade and Zapata are also back to being colleagues. There was no sign of Zapata harboring secret feelings for Reade and I'm happy about that. It does seem like Reade is the new Weller in terms of hooking up with two different women in the same episode (and one of them made no sense), but I don't care. As long as Reade isn't with Zapata and it's not affecting the team dynamic. Now to best part of the episode - the Roman/Jane dynamic. The episode basically centered around one question - Is Roman capable of loving someone? That was the crux of the episode. Was the psychiatrist correct in that Roman didn't love Jane and was not capable of caring about anyone? At points in the episode, I truly wondered if Roman was, indeed, an anti-social personality, and you could see the fear on Jane's face at different points that perhaps her brother IS the anti-social that she's been told he is, but I still believe he is not. I have to say, I loved watching Roman and Jane in undercover mode. It just works for me, and I love watching Weller and the team be a part of it all too. I think it all works. Anyway, the most important moment in the episode for Roman's character is in that initial flashback when he first sees Kat. In it, we see Roman in bed with Kat, and the she wants to run off with him. She tells him that she can see that he hates being told what to do by Remi and Shepherd (that's a really interesting point). It's the first implication that Roman is not the good little soldier who likes doing what he does. Then when he's talking to Remi, she is cold and detached and tells him that he is not going to be seeing Kat ever again because Shepherd thinks he's getting too close to her. It's over. Roman realizes that his sister ratted him out. In that flashback, it's Remi that is cold, without emotion, and without empathy. Roman admits to his sister that he really likes Kat. He doesn't say he loves her, but that he really likes her. There's nothing wrong with that. Roman does't have to be in love with her, but the fact that he admits he likes Kat and wants to continue to pursue the relationship tells me that Roman is not without feeling or not capable of love. Remi, in contrast, seems heartless. She doesn't care that her brother likes Kat or that her brother seems happy. She wants him focused on the mission, and the mission is the only thing that matters. So Roman breaks it off with Kat. We don't know how Roman felt afterwards, but we do know that Roman in some ways resents his sister and Shepherd. I say this because he admits it a few episodes back when he and Jane are on that mission to get the chip, and Roman lashes out at Jane for turning him into the psychopath she believes him to be, and that he doesn't enjoy killing, and that she chose to abandon him by wiping her memory. Roman comes across to me as a man who actually wants to be loved and wants to love but he's been told his entire life not to allow emotion or feeling to get in the way of anything else. So he keeps people at a distance. That's different than not being capable of loving someone. He was told to kill his rabbit that he loved, he was told to break up with a woman he liked, and he was told to get over losing his sister when she chose to forget him - and all for the mission. It was just remarkably sad. It was also sad watching Jane come to the realization of what she had done. In that closing scene with Roman in his cell, she wasn't surprised when he told her that she forced the breakup, and when Roman felt he might not be capable of love, Jane was reassuring, but you could see the doubt on her face when he turned away. It all left me wondering, and that's a good thing. I don't think the episode was predictable for that reason. Last, the Weller reveal at the end that Shepherd watched him while he was in high school. Could Weller also be one of Shepherd's soldier orphans like Remi and Roman? Weller had no mother, and he was estranged from his father. So the opening was there. Hmmmmm

I love both Kamekona and Jerry. They both bring something wonderful to the show. Flippa is expendable, however. He's a character that has no impact one way or the other. Alex's comments about Catherine I think were harsh - but true. There's only so many times she could have jerked Steve around before he becomes stupid for continuing to try to make it work. I think Alex explained it best - Catherine is like his mother. His mother loved the job more than she loved him, and when she had to choose, she chose the job. Steve came to realize that about Catherine, and just like he can't ever change his mother nor will she ever be the mother he wishes he had, the same is true of Catherine. A life as a partner, a wife and a mother is not her desire as much as she may love Steve, and Steve wants a family life. He has already put down roots in Hawaii with this Five-O team. Catherine (and Doris) still can't stop moving. So from that perspective, it makes sense that Steve would never go down that path with Catherine again. The odds of her ripping his heart out at some point for a mission (just like Doris did to him) is 100%.

I agree with you about Clary, and since I haven't read the books, I am consuming the show and characters for the first time in the tv show. See, I always saw those scenes as Alec desperately fighting his feelings for Jace - who is oblivious (at least at first blush). I have never viewed Alec as being submissive to Jace or Jace seeing Alec as "less than" him. It's typical big brother actions, even though Alec is suppose to be older. I really think Alec's closeted sexuality is the reason for his posture and his reasons for how he defers to Jace, especially once Clary arrives. Much of Alec's anger at Clary is because she is taking a position in Jace's life that he craves. I also think Alec is afraid to push Jace on the issue of Clary (in season one) for fear of him choosing her over Alec, which is also why he tends to defer to Jace. I don't see Jace as taking advantage of that. Frankly, I think it goes over his head, but then again, I was happily surprised in one of the episodes when Jace DID know that Alec was gay and had feelings for him, and the two were fighting. That was a scene where Jace was trying to get Alec to accept the truth about himself and Alec was fighting him. I understand. Books are always better because they are able to flesh out the characters without the restraint of time and money, and we'll have to agree to disagree because I don't see Jace treating Alec the way you describe. I see Jace more as a confident, older brother to Alec who may tease him or fight with him, but when push comes to shove, he'll die for him - and vice versa. I would have to rewatch the first season again regarding what you pointed out, but the fact that I don't remember it tells me that I just didn't see it that way. Regardless, I think we both agree that the final moments of last night's episode was well done, and we at least got to really see how much Jace loves his brother and will die to save him. I know already that Alec will do the same considering what he has risked already. Overall, I'm happy to see much more character-driven episodes, and since I find Clary the weakest link of the characters, I'm fine with her being more in the background. I'm sorry, but everytime the action cut from either Jace, Alec, or Izzy and back to Clary and Simon looking for his mother, I felt the episode drag. I'm hoping the writers know where their bread is buttered.

I agree. I am new to Shadowhunters and never read the books. So I don't know the backstories, but since the show has become more dramatic, darker and focused on stronger characters - namely Jace, Alec, and even Valentine - I'm enjoying it much more. That was great acting on the part of Dominic Sherwood who really sold his love for his brother. (Alec/Matthew had to play unconscious the entire episode, but he got to shine last week). That is what was missing from last season from the characters - emotion where you believed what they were going through and believed what they were feeling. I, too, enjoyed seeing the flashbacks to get a sense of how these two became the brothers they are, but I think the kid actors were average at best. If I were Jace, I wouldn't trust her either. She tried to kill him only moments before, but I did like the scene between them, and I agree. Jace can't catch a break for nothing, but I am enjoying seeing the usually confident Jace's world tipped upside down. The poor guy. If they focus the story on Jace and Alec, as they are, I think that will bode well for the series overall. Now I didn't see that at all. I don't think Jace acts like an emotionally abusive husband towards Alec. Both Alec and Jace have their flaws. Alec is judgmental and cold a lot of the time, and the very way you describe how Jace treats him (which I don't think is accurate, imo) is exactly how Alec treats Clary. He's always blaming her whenever anything happens to the people he loves. I think Alec and Jace's relationship is depicted well. I've never had a moment where I disliked how either of them treated the other. Usually, I can understand where either of them is coming from, from a character perspective. I do agree with you that it was nice to see Jace's devotion to Alec because usually we only are ever shown Alec's devotion to Jace. So it was nice to see Jace risk his life and his freedom to save his brother as well as how emotional Jace got at the end when he thought he had lost Alec. We never see Jace like that, and it was played really well.

This was definitely one of my favorites as well, and it was a turning point for Holden. This is when he really started to mature and feel more comfortable in his skin as a 25 year old. Getting off on his own, being independent, exploring a relationship, etc., was a growth arc for him. He was a different character, emotionally, after this episode.

I think she loves him, but she's also very selfish and almost child-like herself. When things go bad for Letty, she self-destructs. Heck, Jacob is more emotionally mature than Letty, but that doesn't mean she doesn't love him. I think she's going to realize that Jacob belongs with her mother because Letty refuses to change. She's addicted to her lifestyle - stealing, lying, excess. This is why I consider her selfish. If she truly wanted to give Jacob a better life, she would change, but she can't. It still doesn't mean she doesn't love Jacob. It only means that she's a crappy mother despite her best intentions.

True - but that's probably a true statement for most of the shows on tv, frankly. I can generally ignore the holes in plots if I like the characters and am entertained. Blindspot has its flaws, but I do still enjoy the show. I just hope/wish the ratings pick up. Agree completely. Luke Mitchell is really selling the plight of Roman, and I think it's also because the Roman/Jane relationship seems so genuine. I actually see the emotion, the pain, the cost, the love between them without all the unnecessary and contrived drama (I'm looking at you Weller, Reade, Zapata). Also agree. That's the part I don't understand, and I think the writers are scrambling to correct it, although episodes have already been filmed. They KNOW the baby-mama drama for Weller was STUPID, and so they have removed Allie from the show. Excellent. Now, they have to do something about Nas, but they've already created a mess. So either they dump the character of Nas - which is the best choice - or they have Weller and her break up but continue to work together, and I'm not sure how that works. The writers, for whatever insane reason, thought it would be good to create a ton of female co-stars for Weller, which only alienated those who are Weller/Jane fans (based on the comments I've read). I think the writers are trying to course-correct because they see the slide in ratings. I think if viewers are patient, they can right the ship because overall, minus the contrived romance drama, the show is fun/good. I would recommend that the writers also nix the developing Reade/Zapata "romance." As others have stated - not EVERYONE on this FBI team needs to be involved with someone else on the team. It IS a bit incestuous and soapy. The strongest characters right now are Jane, Roman and Patterson. Weller is also a good character once they remove all that unnecessary drama from his life and put Reade and Zapata back into friends mode.

I can see why he went back to her. He was falling for her even before she fell for him. He didn't initially want to leave her after they first got together when she was forced to help him as a cover to kill that guy. Remember when she left him in the rain? He gave her his number in case she ever needed him. So he was falling for her from the beginning. He also got to see how much she loves her son, and he knows how desperate she was to keep him. He saw her falling apart, and I think he told someone that he had never seen her that devastated. So when she turns him in, he understand why - he understands what was at stake. What mattered to him, and what they stated in the episode was how she drove all night to get to him to save him, and how she didn't give up until he knew what she had done and to warn him. Yes, she turned him in, but she also saved him in the end. So he's basically right back where he started. He also knows how self-destructive she is, and so I guess was willing to forgive her for sleeping with Sean. I mean she has to be completely self-destructive to sleep with Sean, and Javier does make her better. Love Estelle and Rob. Those two would never work on paper, but darn if they don't sell it onscreen. I also love how Javier cares about them too. Rob has such a mancrush on Javier, and neither one of them deny it. I love it. I agree that Jacob should stay with his grandmother. I have no idea how Letty thinks she can take care of a child with her lack of impulse control and the fact that they are essentially on the run from the FBI. It's insane and it's selfish, but that's who Letty is. The problem is that the characters are so fantastic that I can't help watching.

I hadn't thought of that possibility, but I like it. The psychiatrist was too quick to say Roman couldn't be helped and needed to be locked up. If they removed him from FBI custody in transit to a mental facility, Shepherd could get her hands on him again. Apart from an MRI test, how did she come to the definitive conclusion after ONE session that he's a psychopath beyond help? It was a little too convenient. I think the writers realized they had screwed up by writing Allie and the baby into the show and simply wanted to write her off asap. I think the reason for the ratings decline is largely due to their treatment of Weller. He, and his relationship to Jane, was a major selling point of the series. This year, however, they had him get involved with not one, not two, but three different women because he clearly still cares about Jane too. It's a MESS. They know it. We know it, and they are trying to fix it, I'm guessing. Nas has to go too. I see zero reason for her to stick around. Either Weller is in charge or not, but we don't need two people running things at the FBI. I don't mind that Allie was written off conveniently and quickly. I just wanted her gone. Now they need to do the same with Nas. If the writers can fix what they broke - namely Weller's character - and put the show back on track with Weller/Jane working on puzzles with Patterson and the rest of the team AND adding Roman to the mix in tackling Sandstorm, I think they can right the ship. Sorry, but I love Roman. He's a great character who I find even more interesting than Zapata or Reade. I like them, but they are boring. My bigger question is why would Sandstorm put all those tattoos on Jane's body in the first place because the FBI is solving the crimes and saving lives. So is that Sandstorm's strategy? Keep the FBI busy so that they are not chasing Sandstorm? I'm at a loss to understand the reasoning behind the tattoos at all. I still love it. I like the puzzles.

I am very happy that the writers have gotten rid of Allie and the baby drama. Imo, I think they realized that they screwed up with giving Weller three women (one he's having a baby with, one he's sleeping with, and one he loves) which they should have been able to see was a disaster from a mile away, but whatever. If they are fixing it, that's a good thing. See ya Allie. The episode was good, and I liked that we got to see Weller and Jane in the field acting more like the season one team I remember. Nas still has to go because I don't understand her purpose at all. That being said, the episode didn't spend ridiculous amounts of time on her, which helped tremendously. Overall, the episode was your usual "terrorist wants to kill lots of people, and the FBI has to stop it." Mission accomplished. The Zapata/Read drama is starting to annoy. I hate when they write women like this - "No, I don't like you, and I'm not attracted to you. Let's just be friends." Then of course, he moves on, and she's left pining from the sidelines. Ugh! As a result, I have zero sympathy for Zapata. You had your chance, you clearly like him, and you told him to move on. He is. Also, why does everyone have to be paired with someone in the group. I feel like the writers want to create unnecessary drama for Zapata and Reade to give them a story. It's dumb. Just let them be good friends and have them handle the cases each week. Romance is not necessary. Now, as for Roman - I don't agree with the psychiatrists assessment. I'm not an expert in anti-social behavior, but Roman has been seen to show mercy and even compassion. Yes, he is an extremely efficient killer and fighter, but when he and Jane were on that mission to get the chip, he CHOSE not to kill any of the people coming at him in the corridor. He easily could have killed them all, but after talking with Jane, she made the point that not all the people they encounter know they are on the wrong side. This affected Roman, and he made the decision NOT to kill. He has shown anger and emotion at the idea that Jane abandoned him and chose to erase her memories and leave him behind. Then, last week, he makes a conscious decision to warn the woman in the diner to get her child and get out. Why would he care if he's a psychopath and without empathy? That kid that Roman killed as a child - wasn't he the kid that scarred him and also took his beloved coin? I'm not saying that's a good reason to kill, but I found it interesting that the people holding him wanted him to kill, but Roman couldn't kill his rabbit. He loved it. However, he could kill the other boy tormenting him and physically harming him. It was brutal and sad because the adult in the room looked at Roman with satisfaction after the stabbing. That's twisted. I DO believe that Roman is a severely abused man who is suffering from that abuse, and he does have social problems. I just don't believe he's a psychopath or that he can't learn to let people into his life. If you think about it, Roman witnessed the murder of his parents, got locked in an orphanage and was abused, was "rescued" by their terrorist mother who then went on to abuse him more. The only person who ever had his back and loved him was Jane, and then she chose to forget him by willingly having her mind zipped and leave. So yeah, the guy has trust issues. I just hope the writers aren't going to make him the psycho killer because I really like this character - a lot!

When Yellow Jacket came to get Holden, and during the attempt, Holden got shot. Charlie scrambled out the back of the cabin during the shooting and went on the run while Jeff got Holden into his car to get medical help for his gunshot wound.