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    1/18/2018 12:56 pm  #1

    Tuxie400
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    Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    Someone started this on Blacklist Exposed Facebook site. I thought it might be fun to do here too. You can copy and paste and fill in your favorites.

    List seasons in order of favorite to least favorite:
    1. 1
    2. 5
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 4

    Top 5 favorite episodes:
    1. Anslo Garrick 
    2. The Stewmaker 
    3. Luther Braxton
    4. The Artax Network
    5. Ian Garvey

    Top 5favorite songs:
    1. Just Breathe
    2. You Were Born
    3. Here With Me 
    4. Suitcase Full of Sparks
    5. Sound of Silence

    Favorite task force character (excludes Red & Liz):
    Aram

    Favorite season finale:
    Tom Connolly

    Favorite Red quote:
    "I believe I will always do whatever I feel I have to do to keep you alive."

    Favorite quote by a different character:
    Tom: "Whatever secret you're hiding from Liz, they will come out. Family secrets always do."

    Favorite fan theory: I can appreciate them all

    Favorite relationship: Red and Dembe

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    1/18/2018 10:16 pm  #2

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    Thanks Tuxie400!  Will have to think hard to come up with Top 5, love so many!  

     

    1/19/2018 2:41 am  #3

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    Tuxie, this will take some thought, there are so many! 

    It's a shame you have no crackers  
     

    1/19/2018 10:14 am  #4

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    I did it in about 5 minutes. Don't think too hard about it - just go with your first thoughts. I was surprised at how many people on Blacklist Exposed put Season 5 as the first or second favorite - especially since there was so much complaining about it on there before the holiday break.

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    1/19/2018 11:58 am  #5

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    Seasons favorite to least favorite:
    1
    5
    4
    3
    2

    Top 5 favorite episodes
    1. Cape May
    2. Requiem
    3. Stewmaker
    4. Ruin
    5. Luther Braxton

    Top 5 favorite songs
    1. Sound of Silence
    2. Blood on my Name
    3. You Were Born
    4. No Sugar in my Coffee
    5. God's gonna Cut You Down

    Favorite Task Force Members (besides Red and Liz)
    Samar

    Favorite season finale:
    Season 1:  Berlin Conclusion

    Favorite Red quote: (in my case, monologue)"Dembe didn't stay with me because he saw me as his savior. He stayed with me because he saw me for the man I really was. A man surrounded by darkness. No friends who could be trusted. No faith that loyalty or love could truly exist. I was younger then. Angrier. Dembe connected his life with mine to show me that day and every day that the world is not what I fear it to be. He is the light in the darkness. Living proof that there is another way. That life can be good. That people can be kind. That a man like me may one day dream of becoming a man like him. He pledged his life and offered it up as evidence that I was wrong about this world. Dembe guards my life because he's determined to save my soul."
    Favorite Quote from a different character:
    Cooper:  The man knows people. Criminals. He’s plugged in to an entire ecosystem of deviants. I have a hard time believing he’s suddenly so compromised he can’t be of help to us. No, he’s playing grab-ass by the pool between naps and happy hour.

    Favorite relationship: Red and Liz, tied with Red and Katarina. 

    That was fun. 

     

     

    1/19/2018 12:21 pm  #6

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    Brittany - It was so much fun to read your list. I especially loved the quotes you picked. 

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    1/19/2018 12:35 pm  #7

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    List seasons in order of favorite to least favorite:
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3a
    4. 4b
    5. 5

    If we are doing full seasons, even though 5 is not complete yet, I'd swap the order of 5 for 4.  I absolutely hated the 4A storyline, with only a few exceptions in terms of scenes, I found it boring and disjointed.  Didn't really keep my interest.....except I'm a huge fan and went with the storytellers.

    Top 5 favorite episodes:
    1. Anslo Garrick 
    2. Luther Braxton
    3. The Decembrist
    4. Marvin Gerard/Gregory Derry
    5. The Apothecary.Requiem

    I find it very hard to do favorites lists.  So I have some ties

    Top 5favorite songs:
    I don't really keep track of the songs, I just enjoy them as they go, linked to what is happening.  Though I did really like how they used Sounds of Silence.  

    Favorite task force character (excludes Red & Liz):
    Aram

    Favorite season finale:
    Tom Connolly

    Favorite Red quote:
    For me, its the "one more time" speech.  

    Favorite quote by a different character:
    Sorry - I don't really have any; I don't focus on non-Red quotes.  LOL

    Favorite fan theory: Imposter of course!  LOL.  But love them all.

    Favorite relationship: Red and Liz 

     

    1/19/2018 10:10 pm  #8

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    lara1 - Ties are fine. The "one more time" speech was fabulous and probably the best Spader monologue. It's one of the reasons I love the Anslo Garrick episode so much.

    lara1 and Brittany - While the Red and Liz relationship anchors the show, all of their ups and downs have bothered me. I picked Red and Dembe because they can always count on each other.

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    1/20/2018 5:49 am  #9

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    List seasons in order of favorite to least favorite:
    1. 1
    2. 5
    3. 2
    4. 3
    5. 4

    Top 5 favorite episodes:
    1. Tom Conolly
    2. Mato
    3. Anslo Garrick
    4. The Director (Conclusion)
    5. Alexander Kirk (Conclusion)

    Top 5 favorite songs:
    1. Radar Love
    2. Rocket Man
    3. Dodged a Bullet 
    4. The Man Comes Around
    5. Sundown

    Favorite task force character (excludes Red & Liz):
    Aram

    Favorite season finale:
    Tom Connolly

    Favorite Red quote:
    "In Mexico, there are these fish that have colonized the freshwater caves along Sierra del Abra. They were lost. They found themselves living in complete darkness. But they didn't die. Instead, they thrived. They adapted. They lost their pigmentation, their sight, eventually even their eyes. With survival, they became hideous. I've rarely thought about what I once was. But I wonder if a ray of light were to make it into the cave, would I be able to see it? Or feel it? Would I gravitate to its warmth? And if I did, would I become less hideous?."

    Favorite quote by a different character:
    Tom Connolly: "I never had any principles. That's why I'm on a rocket to the top."

    Favorite fan theory: Red is Seaduke 

    Favorite relationship: Red and Dembe

    I think a list of favourite blacklisters would also be interesting. In my case, that would be:
    1. Anslo Garrick
    2. The Stewmaker
    3. The Cyprus Agency
    4. The Apothecary
    5. Karakurt

     

    1/20/2018 7:49 am  #10

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    Tuxie400 wrote:

    lara1 and Brittany - While the Red and Liz relationship anchors the show, all of their ups and downs have bothered me. I picked Red and Dembe because they can always count on each other.

    I love Red's relationship with pretty much everyone. I'm obsessed with his relationship with KR.  I had a hard time narrowing down my list, but ultimately the relationship between Liz and Red is why I watch.  But I agree the ups and downs have been hard in the past, especially season 3b through 4b.  And I'm dreading the fallout from the reveal of Red's suitcase and the role it played in Tom's death (btw, I've finally figured out that is the reason why this suitcase mystery is driving me crazy.  It's the anticipation of the conflict between Red and Liz and how hurt they will both be, not so much whose bones they are). 

     

    1/20/2018 9:35 am  #11

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    Yeti - The hideous fish monologue ranks right up there. It was very memorable!

    That's a great idea to list favorite Blacklisters too. Here are mine:

    1. Anslo Garrick
    2. Stewmaker
    3. Solomon
    4. Berlin
    5. Travel Agency - This has been my favorite Blacklister in awhile. I thought the amnesia story and the wife's revenge was outstanding!

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    1/20/2018 9:38 am  #12

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    Brittany - Yes, all the anitipation over the Red/Liz suitcase fallout does fuel our fixation with it. Unlike you, I'm dreading it so much, I'm happy to see it delayed as long as possible.

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    1/21/2018 11:43 am  #13

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    Favorite Blacklisters, again so much to choose from!  LOL

    1. Stewmaker
    2. Anslo Garrick
    3. Berlin
    4. The Alchemist
    5.  Ian Garvey (so far, LOL)

     

    1/22/2018 11:38 am  #14

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    lara1 - The Alchemist is a great choice. He offered such a valuable service. As for Ian Garvey, I need to know more about him before he goes on my favorites list. The woodchipper and shooting Lena in the back certainly make him a candidate for most ruthless.

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    1/22/2018 11:57 am  #15

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    Tuxie400 - agree about Ian.  He's on the list because for me, so far, he's a larger than life baddie, and I'm most intrigued by his potential connection (if any) to Reddington.  Glasses! check.  Metal watch.  check.  Red shirt.  check.  apple baskets in a barn.  check.  LOL    

     

    2/04/2018 5:43 pm  #16

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    Re: Favorites from the first 100 episodes

    List seasons in order of favorite to least favorite:
    1.  1
    2.  2
    3.  5
    4.  3
    5.  4 

    Top 5 favorite episodes:
    1.  Anslo Garrick/Conclusion 
    2.  Leonard Caul
    3.  Cape May
    4.  The Artax Network
    5.  The Director/Conclusion

    Top 5 favorite songs:
    1.  Rocket Man by Elton John
    2.  (Divisionary) Do the Right Thing by Ages and Ages
    3.  Up Past the Nursery by Suuns
    4.  You Were Born by Cloud Cult
    5.  Our House by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

    (I enjoy music a LOT, in a ::stands on tippy-toes and waves hands all about:: kind of way, so I tried to go with the songs that were favorites, in regards to how they matched the scenes.  P.S. The White Stripes would make an amazing addition to some kind of episode.  ::shrugs and winks--and then coughs, and really coughs:: )

    Favorite task force character (excludes Red & Liz):
    Aram!  ^-^

    Favorite season finale:
    Tom Connolly--I loved The Blacklist before, but the last five minutes of this episode caused me to fall in love with it. 

    Favorite Red quote:
    "We become who we are.  We can't judge a book by its cover.  But you can by its first few chapters, and certainly by its last."

    Favorite quote by a different character:
    "Everyone wants me to make things easier for them.  Cleaner, that's what I am, after all:  The Cleaner." 
    --Mr. Kaplan

    Favorite fan theory: 
    Probably doppelganger/imposter Red--but I keep going back and forth.  

    Favorite relationship: 
    Red and Dembe--their friendship is perfecto!  ^-^
     

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    2/04/2018 6:09 pm  #17

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    deadskie 13 - Thanks for sharing your favorites. I see we have quite a few in common. I love your favorite Red quote!

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