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My Newsies (UKsies) ramblings of small details that I have noticed from various performances.
I've seen the show 4 times.
Reblog with adds.
Unless otherwise stated these observations are relating to the principal cast.
I don't know if these are in every show, or are just things I've seen.
Davey starts the show with his waistcoat done up, as he becomes part of the Newsies it becomes undone. He only does it up when he is around Katherine and when he goes to Pulitizer.
Davey is the eye roll king. He rolls his eyes when Jack persists about them being partners, he rolls his eyes at Medda when she tells him to let Les keep on looking at the girls, he rolls his eyes at Katherine when she first starts talking to the boys at the diner.
Jack hits Les (Nadim) and sends him flying, and Davey is restrained by another Newsie.
When Jack and Davey confront the scabs Crutchie stands facing Woodside holding his rosary and recites the Lords prayer. He looks up to the cieling as he prays.
When the Newsies are 'sleeping' during TBL they aren't just catching their breath from the insane dancing, they lay their twitching like they are dreaming.
At Madda's a Newsie pickpockets one of the patron's (Bronx side), but all he gets is a hankie and looks really sad.
Alex James-Hatton plays a patron at Maddas, he leers at one of the girls and reaches out to touch her, and Madda swats his hand away
In CTB two Newsies almost get into a fight and have to be seperated, as they walk away one pulls a kissy face at the other.
Crutchie and Specs have rosaries on
The first time they go through the circulation gate Race looks up at the races results on the board above Flushing
In CTB the nun who gives Elmer a coin and asks when he is going to church keeps eye contact with him for her entire solo. It was kinda flirtatious
Morris Delancy living his best life kicking balled up papes at the Newsies in the fight scene
When the Brooklyn Newsies come to the rally Spot goes up to Davey, gets into his personal space and winks at him. He pushes Les behind him and steps back, almost falling into Les.
On the wall by the Headline board there are the race times and results
Next to that there is an advert for barbers (link to KofNY)
A Newsie pick pockets Darcy at the start
When Jack asks for volunteers to go to Brooklyn two of the Newsies put their bags over their heads
When the Newsie who order seltza takes the water instead, Race grabs the cup of seltza, but it is snatched back quickly and Jacobi slaps him round the back of this head
Albert checks out Davey in the circulation queue when he first arrives. Albert looks him up and down when his back is turned. He then gestures up and down with his hands (up and down in the direction of Davey's back) to the Newsie behind him. He then points at Davey's backside and grins at the other newsies lecherously and waggles his eyebrows.
There's something about Christ on the wall above the Bronx (I didn't get a picture)
Race walks upto Wiesel and closes the tin and just says "no"
When everyone leaves Jack and Pulitzer to negotiate, Hannah turns to Madda and says "I love your show by the way. It's wonderful"
When Madda says to FDR "the back seat I've heard so much about" he waggles his eyebrows and goes "ey ey"
Specs points up to Jack's penthouse to tell Katherine where to go.
The stage has newspaper names projected onto it
#west end#newsies#uksies#westendies#west endies#newsies uk#newsies westend#jack kelly#katherine plumber#davey jacobs#crutchie#britsies
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I love how in this ep Liz repeatedly says how much she works but we see precisely 0 second of her doing any actual work (or basic reasoning bc what’s the point of making a show of thoroughly vetting nanny candidates when you leave your kid alone w/ a stranger who just appeared next door?) It is so... typical of how she is generally written, all talk no walk (and no sense). she is ~special~ but how exactly? Red can’t even be bothered to protect her anymore. she is said to be a great profiler, too. well, I sure would love to see it one day. and now she is this overworked single mother whom we can’t even see working, and these all come together to form my main issue:
her connection to Red has been diminished to the point of irrelevance. All those things that were meant to grant her ~special~ status in Red’s orbit are just not there: Red now talks to and confides in anyone but her. Her profiling skills that could give her unique insight into his real identity are def not there and she has to trick or force info out of him like any other character who wants info from Red. And the emotional bond that once made her his kryptonite is broken now, as well, thanks to all that crude backstabbing she resorted to.
She is supposed to be the protagonist in this “chosen one story” but as things stand right now, you can switch her w/ almost any character (and they have, in fact, switched her) and you would watch the same show, a show that’s composed of loosely connected situations (crossing people off a list within a teflon-y mystery box format where nothing ever sticks) and not an actual story where the protag is the linchpin struggling towards a meaningful goal while undergoing a necessary transformation.
Fail better, show.
#tbl spec#tblcatchup#and let's not even get into the whole 'i thought you were dead' plot twist that's so overused it is giving me a nosebleed#red is still delicious tho and that's pretty much the only upside#that and the soundtrack#so on to 705
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Hi there, so I just finished the (depressing) mid season finale and I’m more confused than anything about the mythology. It seems there is no continuity so I was hoping you could help shed some light on the mess that is Katarina/ Ilya/ Red/ Dom storyline
I empathize with your confusion - so much so, in fact, that I will happily redirect you to a recent post made by @alyblacklist that I believe might help clear things up a bit. It would be a disservice to you if I were to try and explain for myself because, trust me when I say, I’m no better off than you here.
https://alyblacklist.tumblr.com/post/189751207846/i-have-always-felt-from-episode-1-this-season-that
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This post originally appeared on tBL member Lynn Drake's blog Compass-Commercial Blog | Expert Commercial Leasing Advice and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList.
The Challenge:
The State of Michigan needed a new location for their Secretary of State office in St. Clair Shores, because the location under lease did not have enough parking for their vistors The State had outsourced their real estate acquisitions to 5 commercial real estate companies operating in Oakland County, including Compass Commercial. Originally, assigned this project, one of my competitors was not able to find an acceptable location. Compass Commercial was then asked to find a location within the same search area.
What We Did:
We used three methods to identify potential buildings. First, we completed a search on the commercial multiple listing service called Costar and Cpix; sent an email to all agents plus a list of developers across the metro area; then the search ring was driven. Calls were made to all potential prospects. Zoning was researched to make sure all submitted sites met the city’s zoning criteria.
The Results:
We found 5 buildings that had not been submitted initially when the request for proposal was sent out.
We set up a tour for the State’s team. Two of the 5 submitted sites were visited, and a build-to-suit at 18801 E. 9 Mile, Roseville, Michigan was chosen.
The new location had twice as much parking as the prior location.
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The rental rate was less expensive than the other submitted sites.
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I’m not usually inclined to defend the Jo(h)ns, - and I’m really not; I get the feeling they’re a couple cocky, f*ckboys tbh - but sometimes I do wonder if they’re not *quite* as idiotic as they seem. Like maybe this whole mess is, in part, because NBC is overly involved? You know, too many chefs in the kitchen and all that...? It’s just so hard to believe the same people who created s1-3A could give us THIS level of bs.
I have no idea of the exact distribution of creative control behind the scenes, anon, but the interviews these showrunners have been giving from the get go perfectly reflect the same kind of thoughtlessness and negligent attitude that regularly tank the writing itself. Also, the fact that James is so involved that he can give notes & write his own lines (still unusual for an actor to do so) and keep the showrunners (not the network executives) on the phone for hours do not scream tight network reins, either, but the opposite. So it doesn’t seem to me that the showrunners are at the mercy of dumb ideas raining down on them from above, but more like that they just wing shit all the time and the consequences accumulated over years are really wreaking havoc now bc they have no coherent narrative left.
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Spoilers The Blacklist season 6. It doesn't make sense. First Elizabeth's sisters persuades her to betray Reddington and some episodes later she says she doesn't want to become a bad person and leaves. As for Elizabeth she suddenly realizes that she doesn't care about Reddington's identity because she loves him? Wtf
if you ask me, “It doesn’t make sense” should be this show’s official tagline, anon. And this won’t get better in S7, I’m afraid. her sister had no idea what she was getting into, and after suffering through some near-death situations, she called it quits and haven’t been back since. That much I can understand. Liz, however, has been yoyo-ing through the episodes, randomly alternating btw wanting ~~Answers~~ at all costs & burying her head in the sand. and this truly peaks in S7. She no longer has any integrity as a character, no values or goals of her own – she’s just a malleable plot device the writers shape into whatever they need in any given episode, which just ruins the viewing experience.
it’s not you, anon. it’s the writing.
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Hey, miss-musings here. (Sorry, I’m on anon, don’t want to ask under my primary blog name.) I think I’m done with TBL. I skipped one episode in S7a and then watched the next two and then skipped the finale after I saw the clip they posted on YouTube of the ~big reveal~, which I won’t say in case you haven’t caught up to it yet. Liz continues to be beyond stupid. Like high schoolers are smarter than her at this point and I have no hope for Lizzington. So you think I should even bother with S7b?
I think I can’t decide that for anyone and I don’t want to, either, but I do share your bitter disappointment in this show.
The writing is simply atrocious at this point. Liz is a plot device, plain and simple, and the plot is rapidly becoming pointless amidst all the obnoxious mysteries that make the characters and the story itself v hard to connect with. This is my #1 complaint after having tried to get through 7a. For example, Red had a promising mystery cure for his mystery illness, which mysteriously failed yet the reveal that he is still mysteriously dying (mysteriously w/o exhibiting any symptoms) has no real weight bc Liz is naturally not allowed to know bc ~~Compulsory Mystery~~ and hence she cannot react and make this development more tangible/accessible, and those who are allowed to know basically shrugged it off like… what is the point of revealing such a huge turning point and, at the same time, let it fall so flat? and since it’s also the show where everybody fake-dies at least once per season, even if we get to see Red “die”, it won’t hit that hard emotionally bc of the engendered expectation of it being, well, fake and 100% reversible like literally everything else that happens on this show these days. Red dying should be a true high-stakes situation filled w/ rich emotion and pathos but this cowardly, lazy, non-committal writing reduces everything to a fleeting non-event.
I, for one, am no longer truly invested in any character or relationship or storyline but I still watch it (more sporadically but still). it’s like a bad habit at this point. you wanna quit, you know you should but you find yourself reaching for it anyway.
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I know there are a ton of people getting pissed at Liz for not being suspicious of her new neighbor, but isn’t Red at fault too? He (once again) left her completely in the dark and on top of that not even *he* believes Kat would go after Liz. Yet she’s the “dumb” one?
Liz is firmly clutching the idiot ball, anon, so I can understand those who are getting pissed off. My frustration is not really w/ the character here, tho, but w/ the writingbc it’s oh so clear they are once again switching off her brain to make way for “Random Fun Idea” that otherwise wouldn’t fly. Sadly, this isn’t new. She’s often forced to serve ~cool plot points~ and ~surprise twists~ and always at the expense of her own development. But I find it equally ridiculous that Red doesn’t already know K has infiltrated Liz’s life. Mr. Paranoid Control Freak has eyes and ears everywhere except for Liz’s home? esp after what happened to Dom? please. And I am not even gonna get into that Aram Bond nonsense but it’s yet another good example of this show clumsily forcing sth ““cool”” at the detriment of characterization. Unfortunately, 703 seems to have an excess of this.
Generally speaking, I agree that Red leaving Liz in the dark is not a feasible way to go if they are to reach any meaningful destination in their relationship. It’s getting rather stale and frustrating as a tactic and it’s backfired one too many times before, too, but as long as Liz continues to demonstrate that she cannot be trusted w/ sensitive information, I cannot quite fault Red for playing it close to the vest. It’s maddening and shitty behavior but his character can get away w/ it bc her characterization practically invites it.
bottom line: Liz is not dumb but she is often dumbly written and for a frustrated audience it’s the same difference, imo. but maybe there’s a surprise twist down the line that will put a more positive spin on this once it’s revealed: e.g. Liz suspects and she is luring K in? she did it w/ Tim once and then Kirk, so who knows?
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A lot of people say that a lot of what Liz is today is because of Red. Because he's not honest with her. What do you think?
I think who we become is a result of many things, one of which is the impact others have on our lives. Red’s had a significant impact on Liz’s, no question, but she is also an adult w/ choices, and several of her choices were based on willful ignorance (w/ Red, w/ Tim, and now w/ Katarina too – it’s a pattern w/ her). So claiming that “it’s Red’s fault bc he’s not honest” rings rather hollow to me.
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Hi, I don’t know if you’ve been watching the blacklist recently, I was just wondering what your insights were are the fall finale and the implications for lizzington? Thanks room!
Hi, anon. No, I haven’t watched this show since the 2nd (? I think) ep of this season, so I can’t really assess it in detail. From what I’ve heard, the Idiot Plot to End All Idiot Plots persists, so I’m not in a hurry to catch up, either. TBL somehow manages to be the show where nothing is allowed to be certain yet you can still predict everything bc they always go the dumbest, most boring route 3 seconds after (accidentally?) reaching an intriguing crossroads. The only shocking thing that remains is the amount of creative potential wasted here. But what else can we expect from a show run by men who descirbe a 35-year old woman as an “adult child”? … yeah
#anonymous#tbl spec#sorry i cant be more informative but i know exactly what would happen if i started watching again - a flood of ranting posts#and i dont wanna go down that road again it's not worth it
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It's been a while since the fall finale of The Blacklist and I know you'd hate it. I hate it, I'm suffering, it's painful, but I can't help but miss your thoughtful analysis. 😂 Anyway, this is pointless. Just wanted to wish you a lovely day and let you know I appreciate you. :P
Thank you, anon, and right back at you.
I feel the governing theme for this season is “the less you think, the more you will enjoy”, so it doesn’t really invite any thoughtful approach. I don’t even know what the point of this story is anymore, tbh.
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I don’t know if you’ve watched Spader’s latest interview, but the last part just refuses to leave my mind: “I think he feels that spectre in a way that is different than how he has felt it before. And maybe because of the fact that he’s responsible to others now and he feels beholden(?) to others that maybe he feels it more acutely—or it’s more difficult to deny, really.” Talking about Liz and Agnes maybe?
I’ve seen it multiple times ;) and yes, I love that part, too, anon. It ties back to canon where Red has directly talked about it at least twice now:
in 412: “For the longest time I’ve been perfectly comfortable knowing I could die at any moment. I could walk out of this room, be shot in the street. I’ve always been fine with that. But lately I can smell it in the air around me… like death is slouching towards me from the corners of the room.”
in 415: “I’ve lived my entire adult life surrounded by a corona of death. Some days I’ve even longed for it. But lately I find I’m unwilling to go gentle into that good night.”
(and 319, if you subscribe to that interpretation, is the episode where, in the aftermath of Liz’s death, Red is talking himself out of committing suicide bc Agnes needs him, the threat is still out there, and revenge still needs to be carried out.)
Red notes both times that this feeling is a more recent development (”but lately…”) + in 415 we also have a blacklister who voices the same idea and his newfound reason to cling to life is that he becomes a father. In 319 we can also hear Red confess his deepest wish to be part of Agnes’ life and that can never become a reality if he dies.
If I put all these together, yes, I believe one solid conclusion to draw here is that the birth of Agnes is a major factor that has altered his outlook on his own life and the consequences of how he lives it.On top of that, he’s also developed ties w/ others. Liz, of course, is the most important. Then there is Cooper who went above and beyond his job description to stop Red’s execution. And Aram who, despite harboring a healthy fear of Red, is never afraid to back him up or punch him in the face either figuratively or literally. He even has a soft spot for Ressler. All these ppl have demonstrated loyalty towards him. There’s nothing Red considers more valuable than that and indifference about his own fate when it’s now intertwined w/ theirs would be a poor way to repay their investment.
Liz both needs and wants him in her life, and the task force can’t go on w/o him. Despite his best efforts, he is no longer as isolated as he used to be. It’s no longer just Dembe who cares about him. There are other genuine relationships that have been developing around him in the past six years. I think he is mindful of these ties and of the fact that he can’t just discard these bc those ppl deserve better – at least an effort on his part to be more careful.
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I’m not the original anon but what do you mean by twisted interpretation? 👀 (Genuinely curious as to anything you have to say—esp if its about lizzington😍)
Thank you, anon. any q asked in good faith is welcome in my inbox. The twistiness (for me, I don’t wish to speak on anybody else’s behalf here) predominantly flows from the facts that
Red stole her father’s identity and pretends to be him to this day
it’s still unclear what kind of intimate relationship he had with her mother
he feels a lot of guilt over events in the past that led to Liz losing both her parents, and, on top of that guilt, there’s also a steely sense of duty driving him to try and compensate for this loss (compensation that he often equates w/ money)
All of these (understandably) feed readings on the character that label him more of a parental presence in Liz’s life, and in a desperate attempt to keep him around, Liz also tried to designate him as such at the end of S6 to invoke a sense of obligation.
But this is only one side of the coin, a side that puts emphasis on the past and how that past should determine what role Red is allowed to play in her life in the present and the future. This parental reading, while not without merit, is not particularly complicated or gripping (this is probably why you see so little fanwork generated about it compared to stuff accumulated by the Lizzington side). It’s just.. is. It’s also incomplete but it gets much more interesting and way more complicated once we mix in the flipside of those three points above, which are also present in canon:
Red stole her father’s identity but not because he wanted to step into the father’s role in her life (that role was Sam’s). They never even met face to face until she was already an adult, so it’s more than reasonable to assume that the feelings Red’s developed for the adult woman he’s had meaningful, close interactions with are different from those he felt when she was an abstract idea of “that child I saved 30 years ago”. Feelings be like that naturally – they don’t care about obstacles or inconveniences. They develop anyway, which makes for a great story.
Whatever relationship Red had with her mother (and there is some interference here as the two are said to be quite similar to each other), Liz is not a placeholder. This is made esp clear in “Cape May” where Red talks about both Liz & Agnes and Katarina & Liz. The difference in how he talks about them is significant: “There was a woman I loved. She was my life, my heart, and she died. She left behind a little girl, one last precious piece of herself.” vs “There was a woman and her child. Both were doomed, both would die. I chose [to save] the child.” If I put this in front of an average person and asked them to pick which describes the woman the speaker is likely in love with, I bet they would go for the first one. I would, too. And that’s Liz.
Despite the guilt and sense of duty, Red has consistently resisted the father label. He let it fly in S5 bc circumstances forced his hand and it was the only way to buy time to find the missing skeleton - proof that he was not Reddington, proof he desperately wanted to keep hidden. Then, when Liz became desperate to keep him in her life and tried to pin “father” on him (desperation seems to drive both these characters to settle for F/D, it seems), we once again got to see that trademark twitch under Red’s eye, a telltale sign of discomfort and disapproval. One likely reason for him to reject this role now that Liz is the one offering, fully aware that he is an impostor, is that he’s developed feelings which are incompatible with this role, so it would be yet another lie he would be living with her, which is the opposite of what he wants despite being secretive.
And all this is still just scratching the surface. Red/Liz is one of the most psychologically, emotionally complex dynamics you can witness on TV today. It’s fascinating and it grates me beyond belief whenever someone tries to reduce it to anything less than that.
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Do you think it’s possible this Katarina is not the real Katarina Rostova? Something just feels so... odd? Strange? Off? I’m not sure exactly what it is but... ???
I think it’s too early to rule anything out, anon, and her behavior is indeed “off” compared to how she was presented to us before
but 3 things to keep in mind here:
“Dom said he loved his child and just wanted her to be safe. Do I seem safe to you?” Kat clearly equates herself w/ Dom’s child, “her”, and it’s been (imo firmly) established in canon that Dom had only one daughter, KR.
So far we’ve only seen Kat’s past self and only from other characters’ POV (Mr. Kaplan’s - she had brain trauma, Red’s - he was out of his mind w/ grief after an almost-OD, and Dom’s - he had reason to bend the truth); all of them can be categorized as unreliable narrators, so this is actually the first time we get to see Kat as she is, so the fact that she doesn’t quite match how she’s appeared in stories told by others doesn’t necessarily mean that the woman we see now is not the real Katarina.
Something was def done to Kat after she turned on the KGB (something for which she blames Red, which is consistent w/ Dom’s anger towards Red and Dembe’s previous remark about how Liz will never be ready to hear what Red did to K.). We still don’t know what happened but Dom considers his daughter gone (dead, even) and blamed Red, too (“You killed my entire family.”), which suggests that whatever has been done to Kat likely changed her in considerable ways, perhaps even extinguished parts of who she used to be. Now, memory manipulation is a handy tool used by this show & it could account for a change in personality or, to offer a more “down-to-earth” example, traumatic brain injury can also result in memory loss &/or change in behavior, decreased empathy, etc.
bottom line: nothing we’ve been shown so far convinced me that this is not the real KR we are getting (re-)acquainted with.
edited to add:
Red’s assessment of Dom’s condition at the end of 702 (“We don't know if his brain was deprived of oxygen, and if so, for how long. If he ever does wake up, he may not be himself anymore.”) is certainly curious and could hint what’s happened to K as well. also Samar’s fate (brain injury essentially eroding her self) may carry a relevant parallel, too. we’ll see.
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Did you know Amir made comments recently that: 1. Supported keenler (which, ok, he can appease the different fandoms, fair enough) 2. Used the “fingers crossed” emoji when a fan asked if liz and ressler would get together 3. Claimed he always thought red and liz relationship was “familial, not romantic” 4. Said the lizzington ship just “claimed a life of its own” as if tptb didn’t deliberately tease that line, as if the fans just made something out of nothing
1–3: there is no accounting for taste & it’s no reason to bother him
4: he is factually wrong but it’s still no reason to bother him
conclusion: wake me when the Spader speaks
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