Blindspot: What The Hell Were They Thinking?
BLINDSPOT -- "Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In't" Episode 413 -- Pictured: (l-r) Jaimie Alexander as Jane Doe, Sullivan Stapleton as Kurt Weller -- (Photo by: Barbara Nitke/NBC/Warner Brothers)
After 5 seasons, Blindspot has officially ended. The story of a woman left in a duffel bag in Times Square comes to a close and the last episode was nothing like the first. The premiere was filled with questions that you looked forward to getting the answers to. As for the series finale, Blindspot tried to be something they’ve tried to avoid for five years.
To make a long story short, the writers felt the need had to give Blindspot a farewell similar to LOST. But why? This was never a show on the same level as LOST. When Jane was traped in the room with Zip, the viewers just assumed she lost her memory again. However, Patterson devised an antidote just in case this ever happened again. Needless to say, Jane’s memory was intact but she started hallucinating, yet again.
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This part I get. But what threw me for a loop and almost made me want to turn the station was the slight error the writers made.
When Jane was talking to Borden, the Zip was covering them. Jane asked what that meant and he said Patterson’s antidote was winning and that she had little time to make a play or forget her memories of how to stop Ivy. But this is where it got confusing. According to what Borden said, Jane did NOT remove the tube in time which means she should have lost all memory of what happened prior to waking up in the FBI’s Office.
But this is TV so, the ball was dropped there. But what has fans talking the most is the ending.
Jane wanted a happy ending and she got one. Well, sort of. She and Weller caught the Zip Bomb in time and stopped a major explosion. But did they? I ask that because I live in NYC and when they got there, they had nine minutes or so to defuse the bomb. But that wasn’t the only issue. Times Square was super crowded and by the time the camera came to them again, Times Square was empty. Where did everyone go in six minutes.? How does Times Square become deserted in such a short amount of time?
Once again, it’s TV so it’s possible, I guess.
After the bomb was defused, the team was sent off to live there lives. Tasha became a mom and Private Investigator. Patterson and Rich teamed up to search for lost treasure and Jane and Kurt adopted kids. But then Jane had a flashback to what seemed to really happen. They defused the bomb but Jane collapsed and died right after. Now, which version do you believe? Did she survive or did she die?
There was no need to give two versions. The team had been through enough already with the loss of Reade and Weitz, so why try to pull a fast one on the viewers? We’ve already sat through a mind game episode with Jane talking to the dead and now this? For 5 seasons, Blindspot has given us action with a hint of the past but the finale was just too much smoke and mirrors.
Throughout their run, Blindspot stayed true to themselves but in the end, they tried to be something they were not.
Mark has been covering Sports and Entertainment for the past six years. His work has been featured on Bleacher Report, ESPN, Fox Sports, Teen Vogue, and many other websites.
