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Cause And Effect Essay On Blindspot

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What is one of the telling signs that a show is good? When you look at the clock and the show is almost over yet it feels like it just started. A good show goes by fast and leaves you yearning for the next episode. I felt that was 30 minutes into the pilot episode of Blindspot. The set-up is pretty simple: A mysterious dufflebag is found in the middle of Time Square. Attached to the bag is a tag that says to call the FBI. If that doesn’t throw up a red flag, I don’t know what does. Eventually, as you’ve seen the the previews, a gorgeous woman (Jaimie Alexander) covered in tattoos gets up out of the bag with no memory of anything at all. A tattoo on her back has the name of an FBI agent (Sullivan Stapleton), so naturally he is brought in. What happens is what you expect to happen. She is questioned up and down. She is photographed and scanned up and down. There is no evidence of her on any database at all. This type is set up can lead to so many different possibilities. All of her tattoos could lead to multiple storylines and plots along the road which is why it’s simple, yet genius from a storytelling standpoint. …show more content…

In Chuck, an ordinary guy working as a tech geek in a big box store gained amazing abilities after viewing a heavily coded string of clips that was sent to him on his computer. Not only did he have knowledge of every single secret of the government, he also had the ability to speak any language, and naturally could kick ass in every different fashion of martial arts. Jane Doe — which is what Jaimie Alexander is named in the show — slowly shows that she can read and understand Chinese, and when attacked, she kicks the crap out of her attackers without knowing how she did

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