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#blindspot rewatch 2x02

nachosncheeze · 2 years

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Blindspot Parallels - I couldn't protect you; now we'll make it right (1x23 & 2x01/3x09 & 3x11)

If you had just told me the truth sooner.... What would it change? Us. It would change us.

See also: She's more than just one mistake (1x08/2x01)

Bonus: But it's gonna take time (2x02/3x11)

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ladyriot · 2 years

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10 Things That Made Me Ship Nas / Patterson on Rewatching Blindspot

1. Did someone say "Rivals to Lovers"? (2x02)

2. This little smile the first time they do a teamwork (2x02)

3. Patterson blowing off a date with Borden to immediately end up in Nas' space (2x03)

The fact that these gifs all come from a 58 second recording? Mwah, chef's kiss, v delicious.

4. Nas and Patterson getting paired up in the museum, contrasting Weller & Jane and Tasha & Reade (2x04)

Is it pair the spares or is it romance?

5. Their teamwork in cornering Rich & Boston (2x07)

First of all, look how in sync they are. Aw. And then the power this would hold if it was the gfs outsmarting the bfs — literally the gay drama of my dreams.

6. Nas acknowledging Patterson and showing kinship (2x08)

The trust with her life's work for 6 whole years? The compliments?

7. Nas understanding Patterson on a level she doesn't expect by having also been betrayed by a terrorist (2x12)

The similar histories different moral centres thing? Ugh, it's so juicy. I would cut off a limb to see it explored in fic.

8. Nas wanting better for Patterson than she had herself (2x14)

9. Patterson's concern for Nas' wellbeing and Nas' immediate comfort to her (2x16)

10. Their goodbyes (2x18)

The camera panning directly to Patterson as Nas' "team," ugh the gay is gaying.

I don't know how there's more, but there's more under this cut on an already long post

Bonus

Finishing each other's sentences...

Safe person to blow up at/project self-blame onto...

Look where she's looking...

Everything about this interrogation scene...

And aw look, Patterson defending Nas for literally stealing from the US government. Gay culture is radically supporting your gf, isn't it? 😂

When I say I love crime wives, I literally don't care if they're doing the crime or solving it. I love them, your honour.

#blindspot #patterson #william patterson #nas kamal #learning how to gif is one of the worst things I've ever done #forcing everybody to entertain my rare pairs #literally my notes from my first rewatch says aw I ship it from 2x02 #blindspot season 2 #blindspot season 3

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narvaldetierra · 3 years

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BLINDSPOT REWATCH ~ S02E02 ~ Patterson giving technical support to the team

#blindspot #blindspot rewatch 2021 #blindspot 2x02 #ashley johnson #patterson #william patterson #I love her hair in this season #my gifs

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indelibleevidence · 3 years

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As much as I really wish they hadn't made Allie pregnant with Kurt's kid, it did give the writers the opportunity to schedule in a couple of Allie appearances every season, and I love that.

I do wish we'd gotten to see Allie interact with Rich again after season one, though. I always got the feeling she'd end up punching him right in the solar plexus. If not his balls. 😁

This is a tangent, and not related to 2x02, but can you imagine how Kurt's 'Rich Dotcom is on my team now' conversation with Allie would have gone? Not to mention the 'Rich is kind of a part of our family now, and he's going to be there when you bring our daughter over for X holiday' conversation.

I'm now imagining Rich gifting toddler Bethany a teeny tuxedo with a parachute built into it, just to troll her mother. 🤣

#blindspot #blindspot rewatch 2021 #blindspot 2x02 #allie knight #rich dotcom

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tarysande · 5 years

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I can't remember if it was you or another Meta-Writer who touched (ha) on the subject of Lucifer and Physical Touch. I've been re-watching S2 and the stark difference between how he reacts to Mum's touches vs Chloe's vs his romantic partners is evident.

I know I’ve mentioned the subject, though I can’t remember off-hand if I dedicated a post to it (or just said I wanted to!).

I’ve been rewatching S2, too!

The touch thing with Mum is … such a thing, and it’s established right from the moment he sees her again. She falls; he catches her (and they form a kind of reverse pieta, which is a neat image), but he still looks terrified because he doesn’t know why she’s there (and he’s scared of her, as he’s told Linda). It says something about Lucifer that he can’t just let her fall, though—no matter what’s between them, some part of him can’t reject her outright.

This is a theme we come back to again and again throughout the season. He doesn’t want to take her back to Hell—so he figures out a loophole. He won’t let her get too close, though; some part of him doesn’t trust her and he doesn’t reach out to her. This is a huge defense mechanism–quite literally not letting her get close enough to hurt him physically, while letting down his guard enough emotionally and mentally—because that small rejected child inside him yearns for parental love and acceptance—that she can manipulate him using his huge emotional blindspot: Chloe.

Mum’s manipulation—through the emotion and touch that Lucifer is lacking—starts right away, though. At the end of 2x02, she touches his hand; he removes her hand. But when she reveals the “truth” about why he was in Hell (and not killed by God—something we only ever have her word for, by the by, and which I don’t actually believe because of how obviously she’s pleased by her manipulation after Lucifer agrees not to send her back to Hell right away), she touches his arms and appeals to him with her tears and he, who is almost always shown having a soft spot for helping people (especially women) in trouble (Delilah, Chloe, etc.), lets her.

For the first few episodes of the season, Lucifer doesn’t pull away from Mum’s touch, but he doesn’t initiate it, either. He’s also visibly irritated every time she talks about humanity (she’s always dismissive) or Chloe or his job. Mum is really good at manipulating him except she doesn’t realize (or refuses to accept) how important the place and people are to him. If she’d flattered humanity instead of sneering at them, I think she might’ve won Lucifer over.

In 2x05, there’s an absolutely HUGE, significant touch-moment after Lucifer’s killed Uriel. Mum gathers him in; he lets himself be gathered. More than that, he actually wraps both arms around her and clings (which we’ve basically never seen him do before). It’s a horrifying and gorgeous moment that shows so much without telling.

But here’s something interesting: though the last image of 2x05 is Lucifer clinging to Mum, we see no interaction between Mum and Lucifer in 2x06. Worse, Lucifer is left to absolutely frigging tailspin into despair and a sniper-induced death wish while Mum turns her efforts to manipulating Amenadiel. All the Mum scenes in Monster focus on this. Her words are carefully chosen to point blame at God while making herself sympathetic. See how Amenadiel falls to her flattery; she tells him what he wants to hear. Essentially, she feels Lucifer is now on her side (with a huge side of guilt) so it’s time to move on to the next step of her plan. The use of juxtaposition in this part of the episode is brilliant. On the one hand, we have Amenadiel and Mum in the sunlit woods, Mum wrapping her two hands around Amenadiel’s one to symbolize their new alliance; on the other, Lucifer, visibly coming apart at the scenes playing sad music, hitting a sour note, and banishing everyone from his club, leaving him fully and entirely alone (as he’s already been banished from the case).

Mum doesn’t appear in 2x07—but we see a lot of Lucifer interacting with Chloe and Trixie, the found family that doesn’t want anything from him but his presence. There’s a really good contrast here, where the episode ends on a hug that is totally different from the one in 2x05. The light is shining bright; it’s daytime and there are no shadows. Chloe is the one who’s crying, but they are tears of gratitude because Lucifer has just said exactly what she needed to hear. Chloe is the one who clings to Lucifer; he hugs her back and there is tenderness and yes, the hint of love and the promise of a future—contrasted with Mum living in an unattainable past, and grief, and guilt. Even Lucifer’s “My apologies, Detective, I didn’t mean to hurt you,” is a direct contrast of how he felt he had no choice but to hurt Uriel (to keep Uriel from hurting her).

2x08 is where Mum starts to misstep. First, she releases Azrael’s blade into the world, and Lucifer is angry. Then, she reveals her plans to “go home” and disparages Lucifer’s feelings about Earth being his home. In 2x09, though Lucifer doesn’t know it yet, she doubles down on what she wants instead of trying to understand what Lucifer wants: she tries to blow up Lux, she decides to blow up Chloe instead, she tries to get Linda to talk about Lucifer’s secrets. These are all unforgivable from Lucifer’s perspective, and she has no idea. Because she’s ultimately selfish—she wants her home, her sons, her power. She doesn’t actually care about what makes her son happy; she wants to use him as a weapon. (I’ve watched S2 about a dozen times by now; Mum distresses me more each time I watch it.)

At the sit-in, Mum manipulates him again by feeding him a little truth and then saying exactly what he wants to hear: “I disagree with you whole-heartedly about wanting to stay here (true), but a mother doesn’t have to agree with her son in order to support him. So, what is it exactly I’m supposed to ‘sit-in’ (what he wants to hear).” Lucifer’s whole face changes and he replies, “Mum, you’re actually being a good Mum,” and he offers her his arm. Meanwhile, he has no idea she’s actively trying to destroy everything he loves to get what she wants.

Her actions in 2x10 do a lot of damage to Lucifer’s already reluctant trust. She admits she was going to kill Chloe; she disparages Chloe in the courtroom; she uses his honor about not lying against him. It’s like a How To Turn Lucifer Against You Forever playbook. And this episode gives us another absolutely gorgeous juxtaposition, this time in contrast to the juxtaposition in 2x06. This time, instead of alone and self-loathing in his club, Lucifer is with Chloe—the beginning of something, banter, warm firelight, wine, burgers and fries, truth, a hand-clasp, and near-kissing—contrasted with Mum and Amenadiel in her dark office, full-on scheming, having learned nothing, and again, doubling-down on using Lucifer’s weaknesses to turn him into the weapon she wants (the flaming sword; the rage against God; the rebellious boy).

By 2x11, Lucifer “just wants [Mum] gone.” but, once again, she employs the tactic of telling him what he wants to hear (that Chloe impressed her; that she’s beginning to see what Lucifer sees in her; that he just has to prove his worth to her) and using touch (grabbing his hand in both of hers) to manipulate him. Then, knowing that Lucifer will be listening through the one-way glass, she lays it on even thicker. (How heartbreaking is his smile when he thinks she’s being genuine?)

2x12, of course, is heartbreaking because Mum is using Lucifer’s feelings and her knowledge about Chloe as a miracle to … destroy her son. She wants him heartbroken so he’ll leave his “home” and play his part in her plans. (It always strikes me here that, although Lucifer lives his life paranoid of “playing a role” in his Dad’s plans or being a pawn of his Father’s—it’s Mum who unrepentantly uses him as a pawn in her game of chess.) Maze, when she realizes that Lucifer is happy—truly happy—for maybe the first time ever, immediately wants to protect him because she actually cares about him. Mum, however, pushes on. Lucifer’s reaction to her reaching out to touch him this time, though, is to sweep up his own hand and prevent her, with a sharp, “Don’t.” I think it’s telling here that the only time we’ve seen this kind of sharp, precise, knife-like movement from Lucifer is when he’s fighting someone. It’s a combat motion; it’s a defensive act.

2x13 encapsulates all the facets of their relationship, really. She doesn’t want to help him for the sake of “an insignificant human’s life”—proving that she still doesn’t understand the depth and importance of his feelings. She loves him enough to go to Hell to save him; I believe that’s the truest moment of love she ever shows him. It’s also why I believe he lets her have a universe of her own at the end instead of hating her enough to kill her. He grabs Mum and pulls her from her Hell—they’re both sobbing and both fighting and it’s so real and raw. But then, afterward, when Chloe is safe, he again defends himself from her touch using the short, sharp, cutting movements reminiscent of his fighting style.

Her admission that she’s been manipulating and using him since the start is heartbreaking; it’s his worst fears come true. At the heart of Lucifer Morningstar is a terror of being lied to (so he doesn’t lie), manipulated (as his father did and may continue to do), used. And here, his Mum, whom he’s been trying not to trust and failing at time and again as she says the right things over and over (because he wants that love, he wants that reassurance, he wants someone to touch him without wanting anything in return, he wants to be good—seen as good—by those who brought him into existence, he wants to be forgiven) is telling him the unvarnished, knife-in-the-back truth: she is everything he fears most. He was right to be afraid when he sat trembling in a chair opposite Amenadiel; he was right to be afraid when he sat trembling on a couch opposite Linda.

It wasn’t a physical attack, though; it wasn’t like being smited and pushed into a Fall, no. It was so much worse. It was his own mother using his weaknesses against him and watching him bleed out because she needed to use the shell that would be left.

#lucifer morningstar #charlotte richards (mum)#lucifer meta #lucifer on netflix #deckerstar #chloe decker #lucifer thoughts #lucifer analysis #lucifer season 2 #Anonymous

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marv-el-spot · 3 years

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BLINDSPOT REWATCH | Heave Fiery Knot E02S02 GIFTOBER 2021. Day 13 → Sitting.

#blindspot #blindspotedit #blindspot rewatch 2021 #2x02 #giftober2021 #tvedit #tvgifs #filmtvcentral #usertelevision #tvfilmsource #mine|blindspotrw21 #awkward therapy sessions

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marv-el-spot · 3 years

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“So let’s all take a breath…and try and figure out a way that we can work together…”

BLINDSPOT REWATCH | Heave Fiery Knot E02S02

GIFTOBER 2021. Day 17 → Working.

#blindspot #blindspot rewatch 2021 #2x02 #blindspotedit #kurt Weller #sullivan stapleton #tvedit #tvgifs #mine|blindspotrw21 #kurt is pissed and he's right #kurt is a mood #sorry this looks bad. I wish I had a best video but I don't 😕#giftober2021

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indelibleevidence · 3 years

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Amy's 2x02 Fics

Torture Without You, chapters 29-30 (canon divergent with a much softer Kurt)

Remember to Forgive (actually set in season 3, but Kurt's memory is reset to the point in time where the 2x02 case has just been solved, so I thought it was worth a mention here)

I'm thinking about writing that dark argument fic I mentioned last week, and if I do, it'll be a 2x02 tag.

#blindspot #blindspot rewatch 2021 #blindspot fanfic #blindspot 2x02

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indelibleevidence · 3 years

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Patterson's character development in season two is so great (and cute, and heartbreaking, and traumatic). Even at this early stage (2x02) she's so much more assertive than she was. She's lost David and Mayfair (and kind of lost Jane, too), and she's already out of fucks to give, she's got no work/life balance anymore, and Nas has better toys to play with, and she doesn't like that. And then along comes Borden, and that romance kind of halts her downward spiral for a while, but then obviously THAT doesn't go the way it should have, and twelve more agents die, Reade is injured, she's tortured and bugged and horribly traumatised...

Look up 'torture the cinnamon roll' in the dictionary, and it's just a picture of Patterson's face. :(

#blindspot #blindspot rewatch 2021 #blindspot spoilers #blindspot 2x02 #william patterson

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indelibleevidence · 3 years

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The fact that Kurt Weller goes from 'I can't stand to be in the same room as her' to 'I do' within the space of a year... That's character growth!

#blindspot #blindspot rewatch 2021 #blindspot 2x02 #jeller

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narvaldetierra · 3 years

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