#katarina rostova gifs

[theinterestsofinsects]

[katarinas-redemption]

Katarina's memory (black and white) from 8.21.

Red's memory (color) from 8.20

[isagrimorie]

"I presumed that there was an order to things."

Katarina Rostova | Reddington | Years Apart

The Blacklist 1x01 - Pilot / 3x19 - Cape May

[raymond-reddington-ruminations]

I'm going to do a massive post of my wish list / don't want for each character at the end of the series. Lol, I have 19 characters listed so far. So I'm going to break it up into two or three in each post. This could take all week.

Ressler - I'm starting with Ressler because he's kind of the toughest one. I'm a happy endings kind of gal, and his happy ending died at the end of season 8. I always thought it was inevitable that he and Liz would get together, and I kind of thought that he was the right guy for her. He had the skill set, and the gray areas that would make him able to stay within her circle. So where does he go from here?

I've decided that I'd rather see him keep going in the FBI rather than leave. Him leaving would feel like defeat. Like losing Liz ultimately means that he lost everything of himself. Which is fine, if it's in a temporary sense.

I think I'd like to see him continue on in his career with the FBI, with Red occasionally sending anonymous tips and such, so that a sort of form of The Blacklist continues. Let him be Liz's legacy of doing good in the world.

I don't want him killed off. The idea that they would seems kind of ridiculous, but then I remember that I genuinely feared they would when we learned that Megan Boone was leaving. If you've got that kind of writer in the room, the kind that says we have to have a shocking sudden death just because, he could easily be the one to go, because Liz is gone.

Tadashi-I see that he's scheduled to be in the very first episode, along with his mother. I'm imagining him graduating from college with his mom and Reddington there, as a kind of surrogate father. I think it would be right for Red to dismiss him from his service, encourage him to seek out a life that doesn't risk him ending up in jail.

If the writer's knew from the very beginning that this would be the last season, I can see them doing an ending scene between him and many of his associates. And that's kind of what I'm expecting to see this season with the appearance of each of those associates. I hope that that does not speak darkly to Red's ultimate fate, but more on that when it's time to discuss Red himself.

Brimley- he is also scheduled to appear early on. If there's going to be an ending scene between Brimley and Red, I'd like there to be a fatherly overtone from Brimley. I have a whole head cannon where Brimley and Red met when Brinley was working for other people, and Brimley's job was to torture Katarina Rostovas' whereabouts out of Red. Brimley himself figured out the truth, and has always accepted Red as he is. This could be something that is newly revealed to Red in their last conversation. Given Brimley's health situation, it's easy to see him just bowing out of the business altogether.

More tomorrow!!

[iseethedead-blog1]

redarina

ilya looks at Raymond as he spoke himself "I thought that's why you loved me." Red is looking off into the distance as he spoke back to his childhood friend "I love you because i can trust you." as Red spoke as Ilya Koslov looks at his oldest friend and looks down and away from Red

Raymond smiles as he looks at ilya "I still care for you even if I've changed from the person you once knew, but i'm still me Ilya, I hope you know that." ilya looks at Raymond Reddington in the eyes seeing Katarina Rostova but he doesn't say those words as he licks his own lips "you know other's may see you as a monster especially you're own daughter, but I never saw the monster, Red, I've always seen you an old friend."

Raymond smiles at ilya "which I'm thankful for, ilya, but I'm a different person I changed my gender, you changed in a different way, but in the end you're way smarter then I could ever be, Ilya, I don't know if I should tell mas-Lizzie, the truth I feel like she'd hate me, if she learned of the truth from me."

ilya hears the slip up "Does you're daughter want the truth, has she asked for it, or are you very allergic to the truth now, Red?" Raymond chuckles at that "With how I've been avoiding telling Lizzie, certainly feels that way, ilya, have you told her about Dom?"

Red shake's his head "It always feels like stepping on shards of glass, whenever I talk about him or talk to him, he blames me for his daughter's death, and his granddaughter for going missing." Ilya puts a comforting hand on red's shoulder "no need to cry, I know, but we couldn't have told him the truth too much danger with who and what he was."

Raymond nodded "But it feels like Dom is just a punishment for my own sins, for the sins of the. . . .mother and the father, When Katarina's enemies are dead I'll tell him." Ilya shakes his head "You're never going to tell him are you?"

Red smile's "you know me to well, Ilya, I'll probably never tell him who i'am, maybe when he's dead and in the ground or ashes I'll put his ashes in the bathroom and talk to him that way, prove to him I'm his son now not daughter anymore."

Ilya chuckles softly "that gives a whole new meaning to bathroom experience." Red laugh's softly almost forgetting about all the people he has burned in the end that died for his cause and not knowing it themselves, only he knows the end game, his own little end game

Raymond shows his perfectly white teeth, Ilya seeing the smile knowing what it means "Oh not another one, Red, you're too old for pranks." Red chuckles "Never too old for telling the truth, Ilya, about myself."

Koslov looks at Red "you're going to tell the truth to who? Elizabeth keen? Dom?" Ilya shakes his head "I know you wouldn't tell Dom you're not that crazy, have you got her to trust you?"

Raymond chuckles "even though she stabbed me in the neck right where the carotid artery is, yes." Red showed the pen scar on his right side of his own neck "how weird, she almost killed both of her own parents."

Raymond looks annoyed at ilya "don't say that, Ilya, how rude of you." Ilya laughs "It's not a lie, if it's the truth, Red." Raymond shakes his own head as he took his own fedroa off his own head and sat it down on the bench and falls asleep with his own head on Ilya's lap as Red slumbered on his lap he thinks of his friend who is sleeping on his own lap "Red, I hope you know I will always be loyal to you, no matter what, even if I have to kill for you." Ilya shakes his own head as he let him sleep in his lap

[kiss-my-freckle]

"This whole father-in-law hates his son-in-law thing, it’s a cliché."

I think the show is gonna end with a mother (Katarina Rostova) dying to save a father (Donald Ressler) for the sake of her granddaughter, Agnes.

[moazhao]

Take masha for instance: we have a pact, she and I. Every time she takes a bottle from me or falls asleep in my arms, she is telling me that she trusts me completely. That is a profound gift. I would do anything to protect your baby.

[alyblacklist]

In the finale montage. Where was Mr. Kaplan? She named her dog that she had in Alaska after her and she hallucinated her in that episode 8.15?

Good question. In hiding with JB and JE? But to show her, they might have actually had to address huge plot holes like this one:

"I'm sorry, Katarina," before she digs up the bones of the real RR from Tansi Farms in S4 to give the "truth" to Liz back then.

Or this one:

"What if I was one of Raymond’s enemies that would do anything to get at him? Please, do what your mother never had the courage to do until it was too late. Walk away from Raymond."

Much easier not to show her, right? Because if you show Kate in an ep where you are selling Redarina you might have to actually address why Kate desperately wanted nothing more than to get Liz away from her own mother who hired her in the first place.

[cowboybuckleys]

[speedygal]

After eight years, the truth was revealed with a montage for the iconic spy.

[world-of-ryan]

Day 2: “Damn Your Eyes”

Ilya: Katarina! Stop! Katarina, stop! Katarina: You said we’d figure a way out of this, and I have. You tracked me down here. We fought. I went over the edge. You’ll be a hero. You’ll get your life back. Ilya: Katarina, please, I have a way to get your life back, a way for me to get my life back, a way to escape the Cabal, the KGB, the Americans, and no one has to die. The world doesn’t know what happened to Raymond Reddington, Katarina. It is a mystery, right? So, we give them the answer. Katarina: What does that mean? [ Ilya comes up behind her and grabs her around the waist ] Ilya: Will you let me explain? Let me explain. Katarina: No. Ilya: Please, let me explain.

[katarinas-redemption]

The Blacklist - Episode "Requiem". Season 4, episode 17.

A trusted voice

A cool head

Undaunted initiative

In a messy situation

[isagrimorie]

The Blacklist 1x07 / 8x21 - Playing House

"By then, I had lost any sense of myself. I was living a lie. Everything about me was pretend."

"I even helped watch Jennifer one weekend while she was away. It was extremely uncomfortable, playing house. It was becoming unbearable."

#the house#while i don't think the original reddington#hurt katarina he did exert a lot of pressure on katarina#on top of the pressure katarina was already under serving#two masters#but also i think this was the point where katarina felt the most#disconnected from herself and the most powerless#living a lie on top of another lie on top of many other lies#'i was a difficult child; people saw me one way I saw my self another'

[forevermytom]

Day 2: “Damn Your Eyes”

[fancycaroline]

Back Then collides with Now:

6.09 Minister D

8.04 Elizabeth Keen

8.08 Ogden Greeley

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Red: “You’re a good Agent. But I wonder if you’re an even better friend”

8.04 Elizabeth Keen

NB: I can only guess what all this means. I just find it all very curious and I love that Ressler did the interrogation on his own. I guess the suggestion might be that Ressler is, loosely, to Liz what Reddington was to Katarina, and Red thinks that Ressler has been and may, in the future, be used by Liz. Personally, I think Red underestimates both Ressler and Liz, and their relationship. But, who knows? 🤷‍♀️

[misterlords]

You know who’s single, Liz?