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Selections from the complaining past. Consider this a master post of me b**ching about Keen2 in real time in season three -

Liz proposing (or accepting said proposal). Listen, even if you still like the guy, maybe date? You don’t even actually know him.

So the main problem with the show is Liz makes no sense lately. If the writers could have at least had her sit down and explain to someone what on earth she is thinking. Like, why she feels the need to re-marry Tom right the f**k away.

#I honestly don't think the marriage will happen #but if the writers would write Liz halfway consistently it would improve show quality by 500%

So last episode Tom talked about wanting to do good in general (it seemed), so I guess that’s progress. That’s the kind of thing you would be looking for in a redemption arc. I just wish it was a redemption arc I remotely cared about.

Tom is way more interesting as a bad guy, IMHO.

So Liz watches the adoption video Tom made back when he was undercover and therefore, ya know, lying about everything. See, that would make me pause. Right? Because he seemed super sincere back then. But turns out he was working for Berlin. But apparently Liz doesn’t see the massive flashing warning sign and takes it as another sign of how awesome Tom is for her.

#I thought her trusting him based on a convincing video he made back when he was clearly not who he said he was #that was kinda weird

I highly doubt Liz and Tom are actually ending up together. If they are, it makes me mad, not because I hate Tom, not even because I’m bored whenever his scenes come on, but because it’s just being horribly written. Liz is a few eggs short of a dozen the way they’re going about this.

I don’t understand how you can watch your ex kill someone, see that someone’s grieving family, provide a college education for the dead guy’s daughter because you feel so guilty about it, and then go on to bone and re-marry said ex.

Don’t get it..

So, I really wanted it to end with Tom spiriting Liz away to whoever hired Solomon. Like that was the plan all along. Betrayal. Ah, sweet betrayal.

DundundUUUnnn…

#oh but that would be more interesting than a microwaved love story

#my bad

Two seconds of Jacob and Gina has more chemistry than two seasons of Tom/Liz did. To me anyway. I don’t know why the writers felt the need to replay something we’ve already gone through. We’ve been here before. A lot. Many times these two have exchanged the vows.

(On Kaplan yelling at Red in the nightclub):

There was a guy in the delivery room that blew Liz’s cover a few years ago by betraying your employer. And apparently he doesn’t know where the brake is on a car. But I don’t see you yelling at him.

I could have dealt with Tom being in the picture where the baby was concerned, him and Liz hashing it out and deciding to take it slow and see what happens while Jacob tries to put a life together. Instead it was all “lalala, forgiveness, lalala, normal.” And then let’s get remarried. ????

I will not be okay until someone in the blacklist universe tears Tom apart for his role in all this.

Elizabeth was safe. She was hidden. She was a normal person with an adoptive father, a promising boyfriend, and budding career. Her greatest worry in life right now should be whether her hunk of a surgeon husband is banging nurses on the side.

Enter Tom Keen. The man who (according to current canon) was hired to keep an eye on her from afar and make sure no one shot her in the head. But the dumbass couldn’t follow simple instructions, let his man parts do the leading, and ended up in a relationship with her. He gets fired for this and is employed instead by the enemy.

Now, everything is shot to hell. Liz is on Berlin’s radar. Her life is in a constant state of peril and she doesn’t even realize it. Red is forced to insert himself into the picture.

There is a way the writers could salvage this and still keep everything they want (including their precious Tom Keen), but they seem unaware their “redemption arc” has a problem, so I doubt they’re going to do it. Probably too late now, in any event.

My only consolation now is that bulgy eyes will be gone soon.

Someone damn well better make him feel at least a little bad for all of this. But everyone will probably just comfort him as if he wasn’t the person who ruined all Red’s plans.

Red did stay away. He stayed away for twenty-some years. He too lived through updates and photographs. You know why he had to re-enter her life? (*sigh* never mind. no point in ranting that old rant again.) ...

I don’t mean to pile on Tom. It’s not like he knew any of this would happen. It just bugs me that its never mentioned at all. I just wish Red would slap him with it once and get it over with. I haven’t been too concerned with it until now because I thought the writers had another card up their sleeve as to why Tom got with Liz, but it appears more and more that that’s not the case. So now I want Red to chew him out for exposing Liz to Berlin.

I never wanted Tom redeemed. I like him as a morally gray, even bad guy. I was bored by puppy, perfect husband Tom in the first season, ditto for the third. I don’t think he even had to be turned into a “good” guy in order to have the spin off. They put Solomon in the spin off, for crying out loud.

(after seeing that Tom and Liz were in on the fake death) -

Well, now I hate Liz. And Tom. And pretty much everyone.

When Liz woke up in the hospital at the end of Devry, I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Held out hope that the writers knew what they were doing.

lol

#anti-tom keen #anti-keen2 #this is basically so I don't reblog everything #and for my own amusement #I should probably post something positive today #hm

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