‘Thor’ Lady Sif Jaimie Alexander New Show ‘Blindspot’ from ‘Arrow/Flash/LoT

When examining photos of her tattoos, she sees one written in Chinese and translates it instantly. By the end of this first episode we do get a small glimpse into Jane’s recent past.

“I prayed that this was the right choice for me in my career to move onto next”.

Will you be tuning in for episode two? “Because that’s what we do on the job every day”. She has no idea who she is or how she ended up naked inside of a piece of luggage.

As with “The Blacklist’s” weekly series of bad guys who collectively promise to be the key to unlock some greater mystery, Jane’s tattoos promise to divulge if she is the product of a government program or an inked menace planted to unravel Weller’s world from within. According to a New York Times Q&A with Alexander, she trained with a Navy Seal for the role.

So week-to-week, there’s going to be an investigation, a case that emanates from the tattoos, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. Is that something you can repeat in every episode?

Are there any specific shows that guided you when you were working that out?

Blindspot was probably the single most promoted TV show this summer – it popped up everywhere from buses to Broadway, and I’ve still got a “temporary” tattoo on my arm that won’t leave – but the saturation is retroactively justified by the fact that the show lives up to the attention. So we’re being very selective about that. To take her mind off the process, “we blast The Beatles and watch Daniel Boone reruns because that’s the only thing on at 3.30 in the morning”, she said. They sometimes work with what she’s learning about herself, and they sometimes work at odds with what she’s learned.

As Dr. Bordon (Ukweil Roach) explains, there’s a drug in Jane Doe’s system that has induced a permanent state of amnesia.

Gero: Yes. First of all, in today’s environment when you’re pitching TV shows, it’s impossible to just walk in with a great pilot idea…. But the show innovates in its structure – each half-hour is split into four “stories”, each focusing on a different combination of relatives. And I’m blessed with very fast memorization skills, so I don’t have to read it too far in advance. “Let’s do a case about that”. The sentence has barely left his lips when they prop Jane Doe up, spin her around and expose a ginormous “KURT WELLER FBI” tattoo on her back. So we’re rock-solid on that. There’s humor, a lot of character development, although it’s procedural.

She’s covered from head to toe in tattoos. It’s in all caps, so you know the tag means business. The bag unzips, and out climbs a naked woman with no memory of her past. And they were like, “Absolutely”. (The new series was created by Martin Gero). It’s a premise that is ridiculous on paper but could be awesome in execution. The Blindspot writers should be credited for only offering hints and not answers as this results in a show that you want to see more of.

Berlanti: With any new show, I’m there as much as I’m anywhere else. “Some people get claustrophobic in them, but I like them”.

As you can imagine, with Weller being Blindspot’s leading man, he does have his redeeming qualities. “Everything you have been will cease to exist”.

Not surprisingly, “Minority Report” looks fabulous, with an endless display of futuristic gadgetry to distract the viewer from the rather humdrum nature of the story: Beat cop meets detective with something extra, and together they attempt to save the world. That breeds an intimacy that can’t help but make the feelings confusing.

JEAN-BAPTISTE: I think it’s fairly easy. So it’s not a straight line of will they/won’t they. Well, not really. We do get some flashbacks from her memory and there is a shadowy figure following her around, but I’ve seen enough of these shows to predict a bit of the future.

It turns out that the woman has zero memory of who she is or where she came from. It’s tied very emotionally to [Kurt’s] past. He rushes downstairs and pulls Jane off a man, stopping her from beating the piss out of him.

What did you think of the Blindspot premiere? It warrants a little suspension of disbelief, but Blindspot is a fun, entertaining, action-packed thriller ideal for a Monday night lineup.