They built up the Fulcrum as this big thing that would change the world and reveal the crimes of those in power. But not only have we not seen a single person actually taken down by its release, but it's so un-momentous that the Director of the CIA is allowed to keep his job after being implicated in it. I know this isn't the real world, but Presidents do not risk their necks for bureaucrats in the intelligence agencies, they are fungible assets there to do their jobs and not cause headaches. He's not even suspended with pay!
It kind of makes the whole thing seem pointless. Why was anybody worried about the Fulcrum, Reddington, or Lizzie if it all amounts to a nothing burger, non-scandal that harms no one? A gigantic swing and a miss. They should have made its release be momentous. Instead, who cares? The only way I've ever seen anyone take anyone else down in this world is barge in the door with guns out and then murder them. Raymond could have just shot the Director when he was in his house last season. What difference would it have made? He wouldn't be in any more or less danger as a result of it.
It's a problem with this show, you can see the rails. It's an exciting spy adventure every week, but every twist and turn leads to a very obvious, foregone conclusion. Raymond releases the Fulcrum and the world yawns. Reddington gets captured but Dembe shows up (apparently still nursing a gunshot wound he received I don't even know how long ago) and guns down a dozen guys instantly. New bad guy Solomon is there but he doesn't get gunned down because he runs for the door 20 yards away while everybody else just has to stand there getting shot (which made me laugh). Also did Paul Reubens pretend to be tortured with Dembe, only to murder the guards and escape with Dembe, all so Dembe could tell him the secret way to contact Reddington, and then shoot him? A rogue assassin working freelance for Bitcoins found Lizzie no problem, why did the Cabal have to go to so much effort to find Reddington (in exactly the same spot)?
Tom befriending a billionaire's son so he could murder a mobster to then apparently become a mobster was fun. However it works, they didn't explain it yet.
It kind of makes the whole thing seem pointless. Why was anybody worried about the Fulcrum, Reddington, or Lizzie if it all amounts to a nothing burger, non-scandal that harms no one? A gigantic swing and a miss. They should have made its release be momentous. Instead, who cares? The only way I've ever seen anyone take anyone else down in this world is barge in the door with guns out and then murder them. Raymond could have just shot the Director when he was in his house last season. What difference would it have made? He wouldn't be in any more or less danger as a result of it.
It's a problem with this show, you can see the rails. It's an exciting spy adventure every week, but every twist and turn leads to a very obvious, foregone conclusion. Raymond releases the Fulcrum and the world yawns. Reddington gets captured but Dembe shows up (apparently still nursing a gunshot wound he received I don't even know how long ago) and guns down a dozen guys instantly. New bad guy Solomon is there but he doesn't get gunned down because he runs for the door 20 yards away while everybody else just has to stand there getting shot (which made me laugh). Also did Paul Reubens pretend to be tortured with Dembe, only to murder the guards and escape with Dembe, all so Dembe could tell him the secret way to contact Reddington, and then shoot him? A rogue assassin working freelance for Bitcoins found Lizzie no problem, why did the Cabal have to go to so much effort to find Reddington (in exactly the same spot)?
Tom befriending a billionaire's son so he could murder a mobster to then apparently become a mobster was fun. However it works, they didn't explain it yet.