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haven't been on tumblr in a tick but just saw the blackkklansman in theaters and didn’t realize until I got there that ryan eggold was in it???? really took me by surprise. especially his role. very drastic change from the tom keen we all know and some love lol.

#nothing important #ok back into the void I go #that's all

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Aly, are there any female writers in the blacklist? I feel that their definition of female character growth is way off. Liz has not grown as a character in the 5 seasons. All she has done is become more stubborn and hot headed. Defining that as character growth is discounting the female gender. Oh see she's pushing back instead of staying quiet like a normal female character = character growth.

There are - Carla Kettner (also a producer), Marisa Tam, Taylor Martin this season (at least). There were others in past seasons. I’m not sure that’s really the point.

What is the point is whether Liz has grown as a character and I’m sorry - I have to disagree with your premise that she hasn’t. I think she HAS grown, maybe not in the way some would prefer. Believe me I have had my moments I’d like to thrash her when she’s singularly focused only on the past. (Or when she inexplicably forgives Tom for everything he’s ever done). I hate when her answers about her past are more important to her than what is happening in the present.

But Liz operates at a perpetual information disadvantage. From Red, from Tom… she’s always catching up and trying to figure out what the men in her life are hiding from her. FINALLY this season she is getting there. She profiled not only Red but the whole damn Task Force this past episode. Did she play on their emotions? Absolutely. As she said to Force Ghost Tom - he taught her how to do that (ouch). But Liz has grown. The Liz of S1 accepted whatever those she loved or liked told her. The Liz of S5 - not so much. She understands now that Red has secrets despite his love for her. She’s building her own team to figure out why.

Look - I think Liz’s relationship with Tom was incredibly damaging to her character. Liz became a kind of reactionary doormat for a while. I wish to this day that she had pulled one over on Tom like she did on Red. I think her character desperately needed that empowerment (and not in the chains on the boat way). And I think the fandom would have cheered her if her antagonist this season had been Tom rather than Red. If Liz had figured out he had something going on behind her back before he died. It’s really unfortunate that the writers loved his character (it seems) too much to allow her that moment. But I feel like Liz is creeping out of those ashes now and she’s done with standing in the shadows. She’s done with not having control of her life. So now that’s being directed at Red and not Tom and while I wish that had been different (because Tom deserved this wrath for SEASONS), she does have a right to be furious with Red right now for allowing her to believe he was her father for well over a year. Maybe even 2 in this ambiguous timeline.

I am NOT a fan of the Liz who stews people. But the Liz who engineers her own escape from the Post Office with a Blacklister without Cooper as the ear piece in her ear? Yes please. That Liz, I like. The one who remembers how Red manipulated Kaplan using her as bait and turns the tables. I’m very excited for Liz to finally know something Red doesn’t next season - because he doesn’t know that she figured out his secret - and to see how she plays that. How far will she push him? There is a LOT of potential there. I want Liz and Red to face off more equally in the end. All cards on the table. She has a right to know why he assumed her father’s identity. And I think in the end they will unite because she will understand and accept his purpose. But she needs to figure it out for herself and not wait for him to tell her (because he doesn’t WANT to tell her). I love both of them. I have faith they will get there.

You all have challenged my inbox with these super thoughtful asks the past few days and I really appreciate them. And apologies again for the length of the response. Brevity is not my strength.

#hell yea

for like three seasons now the finale has left the audience h a t i n g liz and ya know what I’m diddly darn pissed about it bc Elizabeth freakin Keen deserves better than to simply be whatever the crazy plot at the time needs her to be and not just this moldable angry character glob who continues to make the same mistakes over and over again in order to make red or tom or anybody else look smart and idk she as a character has this capability to and even just deserves to grow and to learn and to be a better person and idk it’s just frustrating to see it over and over again and then every time feel coldly towards a character I and many others have done nothing but desperately try to love

#almost a year's worth of frustration coming to the surface here lol #also no hate to megan boone she is a goddess who deserves none of the hate that I'm sure will be thrown her way this summer #what a crappy situation lemme tell ya

honestly I get it. I get why she’s angry. obviously I don’t love it when she and red are at odds, but i do understand why they are, especially now that I’ve had a few hours to digest it all. I more so am just upset that I’m gonna have to see anti liz posts on my dash for 8 months.

#blacklist spoiles

I would be much more cool with that episode if there wasn’t 8 months of waiting to do

#blacklist spoilers

ok so i did watch the finale because I’m #amess and tho that ending was shaky @ best she did literally say to kinda-toms face that she learned how to hurt and manipulate the ones who love her from him and honestly I lived for it

#blacklist spoilers

5x08 vs 5x19

#I'm subscribed to the blacklist youtube account #so this scene showed up on my youtube subscription list #so really I haven't seen an episode since I think the one with the therapist #but I saw this parallel from that one scene #and so here yall go lol #lots of glasses with these characters

wandasmaximoff

You make him seem like a lost cause, some people might’ve said you were a lost cause once.

#Elementary

& red is the father figure? lol ok

#Harold cooper #the coop man #Elizabeth keen #came back from the dead to gif this #because I watched it today and this was my biggest thought #ok b ye

beaniegara

i’m laughing fdkljgfdsodkdk

#dork

wondersmith-and-sons

#and that’s the show

#what dorks #how dare they

this is it. she’s the ballerina girl. I think my time with the blacklist might be put on hold. or ended forever. idk. but until then see ya later, guys. it’s been fun the last few months 👋🏻

#spoilers #even if not #Liz thinking he's her dad #A little too much for me