None of this is going to be decipherable, it's been less than five minutes since what was meant to be the end of the episode and even if I predicted this since Red made the request, I'm still absolutely livid.
Here's the thing: they both lost. Red and Liz. But more than anything, Liz lost. Before I start, I just want to say that I love both of their characters no matter how badly written Liz has been at the sake of Red's character and I have never resented Red's character for that, until now.
I'm gonna start with Red here. There's less for me to bitch about with him and at the end of the day, this was meant to be Liz's episode no matter how hellbent these sexist, misogynist writers were to focus this entire episode on Red's goodbye. Speaking of, that's where I'm starting with all this. Red's goodbye. This episode started off fine and I wasn't angry. But the minute Red's request was revealed is the minute it changed. Firstly, Red was right when he started to question whether or not it was fair to ask Liz to kill him: IT ABSOLUTELY WAS NOT! You're going to ask the girl you want to protect, the girl who's innocence you've been fighting for your whole life, to kill you knowing the whole time that you can't give her the fucking letter because she wouldn't want to kill him? Are you shitting me? THAT'S NOT OKAY! Now I am not blaming Red for who Liz became, but come on, I think we can all agree Red entering Liz's life wasn't the best mistake. Berlin caught onto Liz because Red attended Liz's wedding. I'm not saying he's responsible for all that happened, but there's a certain sense of responsibility there. He cannot ask her to do this. Sure, he gave her every out, but just think of how fucked up that is. Especially if they're trying to bait the HellTheory the way they want to and say that he's her mother. Secondly, THE WAY THE SPEND THIS WHOLE EPISODE ON CELEBRATING RED KNOWING THIS WAS MEGAN'S EXIT? LIVID! This more than anything pissed me off. If we were given a proper send off, if the writer's allowed Liz to get closure, I wouldn't be as mad, but this is infuriating. This right here supports every complaint that writers have had for the way they have written Liz. They consistently, constantly, any time they can, prop up Reddington at her expense and this is the embodiment of it. Speaking of, let's talk about Liz, now shall we?
Liz Keen. My beloved. My character wife. My sweetheart. I adore her. I didn't love her for the way she was written, I loved her despite how she was written. Elizabeth Keen was the most hated character on this show--hell she's the most hated character I've ever seen anyone talk about. But the more people hated her, the more I loved her. She has been through hell and back and now that we've reached the end for fucking what? From the beginning, all Liz asked for was the truth. The premise of the show was the truth as to why Red was in Liz's life. It started off being dependent on Tom and Berlin and it ended because of love. All Liz wanted was honesty. Slight tangent, but the way Red conditioned the truth on Liz to kill him? I know that was for the sake of keeping up the mystery the writer's somehow expect the audience to give a damn about, but that was cold. The truth doesn't fucking matter without Liz. The story of The Blacklist is the story of Raymond Reddington, the man we come to know as Raymond Reddington and the truth of their relationship. For as upsetting as that has been, for them not to have answered it before killing her off, was a slap in the face. It does not matter. There's no moving forward after this. Liz lost. Everything Liz hoped for, she didn't get. She lost everyone--she lost Sam, she lost Tom, she lost her innocence, she lost Jennifer, she lost her job, she lost her daughter, she lost the truth, she lost everything. There wasn't a moment in the show that Liz won. The moment before she was killed, Liz was on the path toward forgiveness. Liz was ready to have her normal life, Liz was going to have that. But no, she lost that too. Her whole fight since the beginning and she didn't get the answer. She died before she could get it. She forgave Red, she loved Red, she truly and finally accepted him for whoever he was and she was killed before the truth could finally be let free. The only thing she asked for, the one thing she wanted. Forget about all of Liz's failings as a character and a person, she died with nothing and that more than anything is what angers me.
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