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NBC Series Finale Photos from The Blacklist (Part 2 of 2)

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I can’t believe it’s all ended. Ten years watching this show and adoring Ressler, now gone forever.

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Well, I’m good. I mean, the truth is, every day’s a struggle and not just with recovery, um, which so far it’s…look, I’m - I’m ok. It’s just mostly, uh, I have a hard time letting go of the past.  I mean, it’s in my nature to want to fix things and…

Take your time, Donald

This is hard for me to accept. I lost someone I loved and it can’t be undone. I mean, I became an addict, I hit bottom, uh, I wish it didn’t happen but it did. And letting that go and leaving that be...it’s hard for me. But, uh, here I am. And today I’m 311 days sober.

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NBC Promo Pics for Episode 10.02 (Part 2 of 3)

“THE BLACKLIST”

“THE WHALER”

ORIGINAL

03/05/2023 (10:00PM - 11:00PM) (Sunday)    : The Task Force works to infiltrate a high-stakes poker game tied to Wujing with the help of new team member, Siya Malik. Red and Cooper have opposing tactics when Agnes is bullied at school. 

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NBC Promo Pics for Episode 10.02 (Part 3 of 3)

“THE BLACKLIST”

“THE WHALER”

ORIGINAL

03/05/2023 (10:00PM - 11:00PM) (Sunday)    : The Task Force works to infiltrate a high-stakes poker game tied to Wujing with the help of new team member, Siya Malik. Red and Cooper have opposing tactics when Agnes is bullied at school. 

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Say Goodbye to Red | NBC’s The Blacklist: The Final Season

Official trailer for the final season of The Blacklist!

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Okay, now I'm officially sad....

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It’s officially the 10th & Final Season of The Blacklist. It’s definitely been a gas!

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Hey Jeanette, ich hoffe es geht euch gut. Ich habe schon seit Staffel 1 das es zwischen Reddington und Ressler eine Verbindung gibt. (Ausser Liz ) immer wieder kommen Bemerkungen und Verhaltensweisen von Reddington die mysteriös sind. Einen schönen Abend.

(Translation: Hey Jeanette, I hope you're doing well. I've known since season 1 that there was a connection between Reddington and Ressler. (Except for Liz) Reddington's remarks and behavior are always mysterious. A lovely evening.)

Hey Anon :-) I think they wanted to imply there was a connection between Red and Ressler after they both had the same “rare” (it’s not really) blood type in Anslo Garrick.

And for a while I wondered if Red was in fact related to Ressler and not Liz. I wouldn’t have minded if Red and Ressler turned out to be family and Red no relation at all to Liz (which he wasn’t in the end). As long as they owned it and didn’t dance around like they did on Red’s relationship to Liz 🙄 But it was not to be.

In usual form, their shared blood type was something revealed in one episode that was never mentioned again. It became obvious that having the same blood type was nothing more than a plot device to enable the field blood transfusion.

In the end, their only “relationship” is one of hunter and hunted who found themselves having to work together, and then developed an amazing bond when Red saved Ressler’s life. One that Ressler begrudgingly acknowledged, and for years I loved their back and forth. I loved their snark with each other. I wrote TONS of fanfic scenes about this bond and Red saving Ressler numerous times. I loved it. Couldn’t get enough of it.

Their ignoring this bond in Season 9 was just one of the many things wrong with it. If we’d got some amazing Red and Ressler content throughout the season, it would have been much better. I don’t know why they dropped all of that just because Liz was no longer around. I barely remember any Red and Ressler scenes apart from Ressler on Red’s jet, and Red knowing that Liz wanted a life with Ressler. We should have got so much more out of their complicated relationship this season but (as usual) Ressler was mostly ignored after Between Sleep and Awake.

Maybe in Season 10? I won’t hold my breath though! Thanks for the ask!

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Hey jeanette, ich habe staffel 9 gesehen. Und bin maßlos enttäuscht. Nicht nur das fehlen von liz ,sondern auch die statistenrolle die man Ressler hat zukommen lassen. Nur die Folge mit Theodor war sehr schön. Auch infolge 22 die Aussage von Ressler über Keen war sehr nebulös. Klattenhoff hat besseres verdient.

(Translation: Hey Jeanette i watched season 9 And I'm hugely disappointed. Not only the absence of Liz, but also the extra role that Ressler was given. Only the episode with Theodor was very nice. Also as a result of 22 Ressler's testimony about Keen was very nebulous. Klattenhoff deserves better.)

Hey anon, I 100000% agree with you. Season 9 just didn't do it for me. So many things were not right with it.

It didn't bode well that the opening scene of the season revealed that Dembe was now an FBI agent. (And not only an agent, but apparently an inept one who had his FBI badge on him while being undercover.) Ugh.

The entire season was lackluster. There were a few bright spots, as you said, with Ressler and Theo in Between Sleep and Awake. And while Ressler got some good moments early in the season in the immediate aftermath of Liz's death, he was (AS USUAL) completely underused. Then, in the very end scene at Liz's grave where Ressler was speaking of the woman he loved that almost drove him to destroy himself, all he said in memoriam was 'she got to me'. Again -ugh.

The biggest problem I had with the entire season was that it was written to make Red smell like roses and be the innocent victim, instead of owning the fact he was the reason Liz died. His actions in 822 (and indeed, the entire show, really) caused her death, but no... instead we got a complete retcon and, 'hey, let's make Marvin the bad guy, that will be a surprise, right?' from the writers. Ridiculous.

Oh, that and 'let's make bungling Aram leader of the task force instead of the senior agent, Ressler' because Amir is leaving and we should completely man-up his character before he does. Which may be unkind, but that's how it felt to me. Ugh. How many ughs is that?

So I've gone from loving this show, living and breathing it and writing tons of fanfics, making videos, running Ressler and Keenler online events, and going to NY twice because of the show to 'I'm not even sure why I'm still watching.'

But there is only one reason I'm still watching - Diego. As long as Diego is there, I'm there.

Thanks for the comment!

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Hey , weißt du wann die Dreharbeiten zu Staffel 10 beginnen? Dankeschön

(Translation: Hey do you know when season 10 will start filming? Thanks very much)

Hey, I'm no expert and not sure exactly but probably around the last week of August or first week of September.

In past years they used to start filming end of July and early August, giving them some very hot weather to film in (and making for a very hot Ressler, in more ways than one!) I am glad for the cast and crew that it seems to be a later start now.

Thanks for the ask :-)

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Hey, was machen wir jetzt bis Januar ohne Donald Ressler 😢 Du machst einen tollen Job.

(Translation: Hey, what are we going to do without Donald Ressler until January 😢 You are doing a great job.)

Hey, yes, it's a LONG wait until Season 10!

Hiatus is always a good time to read (and write!) Ressler and Keenler fanfics, and binge watch past seasons.

I'd also love to see Diego do another movie over his summer break. He needs a good romantic comedy where he's not so serious :-) Which reminds me that I need to rewatch Radius! It's been forever since I watched it and I LOVE him in that, with all the angst!

Thanks for the ask, and hang in there!

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DONALD RESSLER - THE BLACKLIST 9X22

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Hello Marvin.

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#Repost @amirarison with @make_repost

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Fam.

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Hallo, ich wollte nur sagen das die Blacklist bis zum furchtbaren Ende von Staffel 8 wunderbar war. Meine 2 Hauptrollen waren Klattenhoff und Boone. 2 Supersymphatische und authentische Schauspieler. Bis staffel 8 War es Love and Crime. Aber alles danach War für mich nur durch Ressler in Ordnung. Vielen lieben Dank für deinen Job .

(Translation: Hello, I just wanted to say that the blacklist was wonderful until the horrible end of season 8. My 2 main roles were Klattenhoff and Boone. 2 Super likeable and authentic actors. Up until season 8 it was love and crime. But everything after that was ok for me only because of Ressler. Thank you very much for your job.)

I totally agree with you. I loved Keenler, and they FINALLY got them together, only to kill her off a few episodes later. Unforgiveable on the part of the writers. After they killed off Liz, I lost all my joy in the show. A show that I had lived and breathed for 8 years, had written tons of Keenler/Ressler fanfics about, and had willingly organized and participated in fandom events.

But all of that was destroyed in 822. Actually, it started when Megan took her 9 episode self imposed sabbatical, protesting her displeasure with the powers that be, or the network, or both. It was unbearable during those weeks. It didn't help that I lost so much respect for Megan during that time.

Like you, I now only watch the show for Ressler, but season 9 was very hard to watch. It wasn't enough that they killed off Liz (over their obvious falling out with Megan), but they jumped forward two years to distance themselves from 822 which I actually welcomed - until they then proceeded to make the entire season STILL about 822 and Liz's death.

I didn't mind the flashbacks to see how Ressler spiraled down, and where they had been since her death, but when they turned S9 into their crusade of making Red out to be completely innocent in her death, I was furious. Red got her killed, plain and simple. He was always the only one who brought danger into her life. So their making Marvin out to be the bad guy and completely destroying his character in the process made me so angry. And don't get me started on 'Agent' Dembe Zuma...

But I will continue to watch for Ressler, despite my misgivings with the direction the show has gone. I guess I can be thankful that Diego didn't suddenly announce he was leaving the show just like Amir and Laura. Though how much of that was the actor's choice and how much was network budget cuts, we may never know.

I guess we wait until January now for Season 10. But hiatus is not like it used to be. I used to hate this break, and count down the days until it returned and spend the months writing multi-chapter Ressler fanfics to tide me over. But not any more. Now I am almost thankful I don't have to watch what the show has become every week, compared to how great it was in the beginning. And that is sad.

Thank you for the messages over the past week, and your kind words.

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