The Blacklist Declassified

🔴 Poll: “Megan is pregnant. ‘Liz’ should – ?”

♤(Open)🗳

 
Started: December 2, 2015
 
The options below all assume that if the show includes a pregnant Liz, Tom is the father. A couple weeks ago, Megan was reported to be 3 months pregnant. This would mean she is due in May or June. It is unclear whether Megan wants to return or how long she wants to work. Also, see what Jon Bokenkamp said about this to Entertainment Weekly below.
 

 
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● “’We are still trying to figure it out,’ executive producer Jon Bokenkamp says. ‘It plays in a number of different ways, both story wise and physically, for Megan in trying to figure out what that would mean to the show.’

● “‘It’s really hard in a show that has — whether he’s her father or not — a parental core to it,’ Bokenkamp continues, referencing the dynamic between Liz and Red (James Spader). ‘In a show that has a father-daughter type relationship, it’s incredibly difficult to ignore the fact that our lead actress is pregnant. It’s still being figured out exactly what that means.’”

 
⋙ Source: PeopleMag (11/16/2015): Megan Boone Expecting First Child http://bit.ly/1SC16eE

 
⋙ Source: TVGuide (11/17/2015): The Blacklist’s Megan Boone Expecting Her First Child http://bit.ly/1SC16eE

 
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🔴 Poll: “Red should hook up with – ?”

♤(Open)🗳

 
Started: November 3, 2015
 

 
 
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🔴 Poll: “Liz should hook up with – ?”

♤(Closed)

 
Started: September15, 2015: Part 1 [Polldaddy Poll 9077831]
Restarted: September 27, 2015: Part 2 [Polldaddy Poll 9097877] (See Note♦️ )

 
Parts 1 and 2 and Totals

 
United States only

 

⭕ Analysis:

Over the time the poll was open, there was a gradual increase in the percentage of votes going to Ressler and Tom. This is perhaps because of what pollsters call the “enthusiasm factor.” The Lizzington folks tended to vote early. Later votes were mostly cast by those who visited the blog for other reasons, but then voted as well. That isn’t to say that there aren’t enthusiastic Ressler and Tom fans, just that they were overwhelmed early on by the Red fans. After a couple of months, it might be fun to run this poll again.
 
I did some advertising of the poll: on Twitter, IMDb and the main Blacklist blog on Facebook, but I tried to keep this to a minimum. Still, more than 90% of the traffic to my blog comes from people using search engines like Google. So who is voting? I wish I knew the ages and gender of those who voted. Most of the people who follow the Twitter account associated with my blog lately appear to be women under 40. I have not attempted to tally this however. The bios are of course public on Twitter.
 
About 40-45% of the traffic is international, and people from about 50 countries voted, most from Europe and especially the British Isles, Canada (and Australia). The US voters on the previous (“Who’s your Daddy?“) poll were more likely to believe Red is Lizzie’s father (50.2%) compared to the international group (47.4%). Note: the international group includes the US).
 
For the “Hook-up” poll, those in the US were more likely to want Red and Liz together than the international group (52.6% vs 48.8%). Ressler was much more popular in the international group than in the US alone (19.8% vs 8.9%). In the US alone, Tom had a 26% fan base, half of Red’s.
 
The main reason this poll is unscientific (and there are several others) is that most viewers of The Blacklist do not look the show up online. Anyone who does this is already an “engaged” Blacklist fan. They also have access to a computer and know how to do it. Still, it is what it is – and to me the findings were surprising and interesting.

♦️Special Note on “Poll: Liz should hook up with – ”
This poll was started on PollDaddy on 9/15. On Sunday 9/27, at around 8am, the poll was hacked. That poll was reconstructed from archived data and is described here. These are the results as of Saturday night when the poll had a total of 180 votes:

99 55% Red [ recalled – two sources ]
38 21% Res [ derived ]
29 16% Tom ➔ from the detailed data
15 8% Misc ➔ from the detailed data
180 100%

The two sets of results need to be added and averaged.
 
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🔴 Poll: “Is Red Liz’s father?”

♤(Closed)

 
July 18, 2015 – Oct 1, 2015

Tally at 409 votes

48.4% (198 votes) NO
46.2% (189 votes) YES
5.4% (22 votes) Unsure

Tally at 200 votes

48.5% (97 votes) NO
45.0% (90 votes) YES
6.5% (13 votes) Unsure

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