Poll Suggestion: Face-Off: Blindspot Big Bads

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The popular NBC crime thriller 'Blindspot' series finale airs on July 23, 2020.

Looking back, which of these 'big bads' do you think was the greatest challenge to the team?

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A mostly unrelated rant (I seem to be in a bad mood today, not sure why), but Joss Whedon should get all the dishonorable mentions for popularizing the term "Big Bad" over sophisticated synonym "Main Antagonist". 

It just illustrates how shallow and paper-thin some approaches to both writing and perceiving movies and TV could get if you let them. Main Antagonist essentially can be "not bad" and yet still fulfill an antagonistic role in the plot, especially if protagonist is an antihero or a villain. Which also happens a lot. 

It also illustrates how having a limited vocabulary is normalized over the years. Among writers, no less.