I enjoyed watching the show quite a lot, even though it did frustrate me a LOT as well… from the “mask” perspective.
These scenes already hint at certain problems of the show.
She appears in her mask, runs away from cops… great suspense, great setting… and she looks hot in her catsuit and mask.
Ok, I get that she unmasks while she is climbing, her face is hidden, more or less.
But then she escapes from the tower and runs around in the city, she NEVER puts on her mask back on again!?!! WHY?!?!?!
That makes no sense at all! But I guess it was the old “we can’t hide the face of our beautiful actress behind a mask for too long” trope. Damn producers!
So, she may go around without her mask, even though the danger of anyone seeing her (or her getting caught by a camera) is insanely high!
The villainess sees her face, and some civilians may have gotten a pretty good look at her as well.
But let’s ignore logic and rather present her pretty face without a mask 🙁
Damn, I cursed at my TV when I saw it 😆
Still, it is a great chase on the tower, I love the suspension of a masked woman like her being chased. A great thrill!
And that detective is actually in love with the woman behind the mask… which makes it even better 🙂
The audio is Dutch, and most of you won’t understand that… but I decided against the subtitles this time, as they were even more out of synch than before.
Hopefully, you can use the automatically generated subtitles on YouTube.
Preview:
The final heist!
And they get…
…. competition!
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Well, an interesting aspect is that two groups of burglars appear at the same time 😆
I like this competition, especially as the one guy pulled one of the masked women to him and threatened her.
I hoped he might go for the mask… but no luck. Still, I love that tension in a scene like that 🙂
In my version the 5 would have a struggle and would try to unmask each other… or the police would corner the masked women, trying to unmask them.
But if I understood it right the 3 women and the 2 men already knew each other, and that’s why the men pulled down their masks in that scene already.
Ok, I don’t like how careless the women then get with their masks as they present their unmasked faces for so long…. really uncool.
Don’t know why they targeted that grocery store… maybe it seemed like an easy target… or that had a lot of cash on that particular day for some reason.
But all in all, it’s a good scene for sure! I mean three women in full face masks + some action…. good stuff!
(wasn’t welcome on YouTube at all, even an extra short version with under 2 minutes)
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Let’s start with the bad aspects:
There is no unmasking action or any secret identity issues in this scene and the entire show. 🙁
But… on the good side:
You have three hot women in masks… and that in a quite lengthy heist! Some day I have to re-edit the whole heist scene from all the episodes into one video.
Which will be quite difficult with all the time jumps…
Plus the masks are very interesting with that unusual look! They offer quite a good disguise.
It’s a shame that there were so many guards in that heist… but it’s just a massive shootout. Pretty cool, but only in regard to stylish action scenes.
In my version, I would have included some hand-to-hand combat scenes with guards who are curious to see who is under these masks 😉
All in all, I like the whole season, as is a good thriller show with interesting characters.
I will re-watch this one in some years.
I don’t think there will be a second season, as the storyline is “finished”, but I wouldn’t mind a second season… with some more masked women of course 😉
This one was recommended to me a while ago, but I shamefully forgot about checking out the movie.
Now I finally did, and damn…. it was worth it!
I watched the whole thing to get the full context.
Preview:
They get ready….
…to find out…
…where they are…
…hiding the necklace!
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I edited the whole sequence into two parts so it had a better chance of getting onto YouTube.
It was still restricted… but only in one country, and only about 1% of the watchers of the YouTube videos (on my channel) are from this country so I think it’s ok.
I saw Tania Raymonde as she was still a girl on “Malcolm in the Middle” for the first time and then later I started to get a little crush on her.
And now she has a post on both of my blogs… but more on that later on.
The masks are really nice, hiding their identities perfectly.
It’s a shame that she didn’t get unmasked by someone else… but we have 2 self-unmaskings and quite a lot of screentime of her in that mask. 🙂
And to know that Tania Raymonde is under that mask… oh boy!
In my version she would have tussled with a guy on that bed… and he would claw into her mask, she would fight back and then he would finally manage to tear her mask wide open… unmasking her. 😉
Also, a nice bonus that Lili Simmons is in this one! Banshee is one of my favorite TV shows and she is in it.
Sadly this movie isn’t available at all on Blu-ray (or DVD) in Germany (so far). I only found a British DVD version of it.
Hopefully, that will change, but as the movie is already 6 years old… I somehow doubt it.
Wanna see more of Tania Raymonde? Check out this post on my other blog:
Thanks a lot to the nice guy for the recommendation on this scene!
In this one, we have a masked female jewel thief on a cruise ship!
Preview:
Someone…
…is sneaking around to a safe!
And she likes….
….shiny necklaces!
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Well, that’s a really nice setting for sure! You don’t see many scenes with masked women on ships 😉
The setting is quite dangerous for a burglar as she (normally) can’t escape the ship soon afterward, so she must be sure not to be seen or followed.
The lighting in the cabin is very dark and it’s hard to get a good look at her until the final reveal, but well… that makes a lot of sense.
Damn, I would have loved a chase with some passengers or crew members trying to catch her, trying to unmask her. But no luck…
But the scene here is very nice. It’s right at the beginning of the episode and no one in the audience can possibly know who is hiding under that mask.
The reveal is done nicely, I like how she unmasks herself and is watching her new necklace in the mirror.
Sadly, she doesn’t appear again in her mask again in the episode 🙁
My free time is very limited right now as I am in World Cup fever and preparing for the Video shot (next week) for my other blog Frogwoman Org.
But at least I wanna recommended a movie to you today that you can find on Youtube.
The picture quality isn’t good, but it’s a TV movie that never got released on DVD/Bluray.
I hope it gets aired in HD on TV someday.
Preview:
There she is…
Caught!
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She looks really great in her full-face mask. And the opening is really strong as she gets caught but can escape the trap.
I also really like the relationship between the hero and her. Of course, I would have LOVED it when he finds out who the masked thief is by unmasking her in a fight.
The scene where she seemingly escapes him as she leaves the trunk starts nice… but I hate that she immediately unmasks herself and not pulls it back on as she hears his voice.
Quite erotic that they then have sex as he finally caught the thief.
All in all some really nice scenes that I will present one by one… IF… there will be a better picture quality available.
We have a bunch of security guards who actually confront and battle the art thief! 🙂
And we have some heroes incl. 2 women (one masks herself) who also fight against the art thief! 🙂
…..but…..
See for yourself:
Fully masked art thief…
…vs this team!
And she is now masked as well 🙂
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ARRGGGGGHHHHH!
They start the episode with that fully masked art thief and of course, I think about the possibilities of a great unmasking or an attempt to unmask her.
I was 100% sure that the thief was a woman from the first seconds of the scene, even her baggy clothes and 3-part mask are disguising her perfectly.
But her eyes gave it away instantly.
The fight with the guards was nice but also weird.
Why is the guard shooting at an unarmed thief (Is Gotham in Texas? :lol:)
Why is the thief risking damaging the picture as she throws it around in the fight?
Her strategy wo wait for the guards is weird at first but gets explained later on.
She wants to know them all out to be able to escape without being pursued (if I understood that right).
A shame none of the guards manage to get into close combat with her. One reach for her mask would have already been awesome!
The confrontation with the Gotham Knights is a total disaster in terms of having an interesting unmasking.
It’s nice to see Harper masking herself! Why doesn’t Stephanie has some sort of mask? Damn.
I highly doubt the bullet would get deflected like that as it hits the car. I mean the car isn’t armored, the bullet would just blast through the outer frame and would get stuck there… in my opinion.
Now the art thief is wounded… the heroes arrive and she immediately gives up and unmasks herself.
DAMN!
And the reveal isn’t good as well as the masked super thief isn’t the stunner as I hoped.
Such promise… and then that! All that left me rather frustrated…
Ok, I do like the first scene, so it was nice… but another missed chance.
It’s good that the heroes here in the show use masks for the first time! I hope that they will do that regularly from now on, especially the women 😉
And hopefully, they will have real costumes and masks before the show is over.
That is the main reason I watch the show after all.
I really like this video, and I also hate it! Why? More on that later on…
I stumbled upon this scene as I watch this show for a while and finally started watching it again.
We have two masked women in a heist 🙂
Preview:
Masked woman number 1…
….and number 2
Time for some action!
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Ok, where to start?
I watched the episode and the blonde master thief was introduced. The police were never able to prove any of her thefts and she was planning something.
Of course, my fantasy imagined a great heist scene where she would battle some cops who tried to stop and unmask her.
I was really thrilled by the possibilities 🙂
Then she goes on a heist, and puts up a great mask …. and you might imagine how I reacted to the scene that followed 😉
I cursed at my TV as she was running away and unmasked herself for NO reason! DAMN IT! WHY????????
I mean the police already predicted she would show up there and that’s why all the cops were on the scene undercover.
But she is still masked and could escape. WHY does she unmask herself as she is running away?
That makes no sense at all. I mean as long she is masked she is still “safe” as the cops have no proof that she did it.
It would have been so great if Nolan (the guy in the security dude uniform) would wrestle her down and unmask after a fight… but NO, of course not!
It’s a real trope by now that masked women always unmask themselves for no reason.
That drives me crazy! Another wasted opportunity 🙁
I mean she is already wearing a nice catsuit (sort of) and the mask in combination with the cap is a great disguise… but they screw it up.
Also, it is quite odd that she is on a heist and is wearing these ankle boots with heels but… ok, not as crazy/unrealistic as a Catwoman with stiletto heels (TDKR)….even she was insanely sexy.
The second masked woman is just a little bonus as she is just a nameless henchwoman.
In my imagination, she would have also prevented the unmasking at a nightly heist (without a crew) and would then re-appear in later episodes 😉
Well, I don’t write these scripts…. hopefully, there will be more masked women in the show.
In the last weeks, I posted about the new Irma Vep TV show and the movie from 1996.
But Irma Vep actually first appeared in a movie serial in ….1915! Yes……1915!
Yes, that means black and white + no sound…just some added music.
I’m certainly a total beginner when it comes to movies THAT old but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this movie serial may include the first unmasking of a woman in a movie!
After all, this was just about 20 years after the first movie was made and they didn’t make that many movies back then in the early days of cinema.
I didn’t upload this on Youtube as the Youtube police might have some issues with it. After all her costume is very stretchy and you can see through it sometimes.
It’s not hard to see that she isn’t wearing a bra underneath it so her nipples show in some shots. That’s why I slightly censored the pictures of her as well. I don’t know exactly how far I can go on this blog.
But don’t worry, the video isn’t censored 😉
Back then there was a big discussion about her costume as the movie serial was released, remember it was 1915 and that costume did move a lot of eyebrows (and other parts) back then.
Even today this costume would be troublesome (for some), especially in color and HD 😉
I think the mask combo is interesting with a cowl that is attached to the suit and an additional fabric that covers the face.
The mask of the new TV show is similar but there only the lower part of her face is covered by an additional piece of fabric.
With this mask, Irma is rather easy to unmask, as one quick pull is enough to expose her face (except the cowl part).
I like how he is immediately going for her mask to see the face of the masked thief he just caught. I don’t get why she didn’t resist him as he reaches for her mask, that’s a little minus point for me.
However, it is such a great fantasy to catch such a masked thief…. I wouldn’t mind being in his skin 😉
I guess I need a mansion and some valuables to attract thieves like her 😆
I added the scene with her replacement to the video as it is never wrong to have another masked woman in it, especially as the “masking” is in the video. (is that even a word?)
All in all a very interesting scene, even though it is in black and white and there is no sound (except music).
