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Aug. 3rd, 2008 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loveflyfreeI have done absolutely nothing all weekend. Well, okay I cleaned my room a little and watched a lot of tv, but that doesn't really seem like it should count.
Although the tv I did watch was catching up on s2 of Criminal Minds. Just finished up through ep 2.12 "Profiler, Profiled"
GUH. THIS SHOW. Pretty much every episode makes me cry at some point. And not always the big emotional rescue or hero moment or whatever. Sometimes it's just a small quiet moment between team members and something will be said or a look will be shared and suddenly my eyes are brimming with tears. These characters are so amazing. Every last one of them. ♥
Even the episodes that are not as well written (The Fisher King pt 2) still are so much better than a lot of shows out there, and even so still have their moments when it just shines. While I was not crazy about Reid being the key to everything in this ep (and his mother being the answer to everything really had my eyes rolling) the scene where he puts down his gun and tries to reason with the unsub was fantastic. You have Morgan and Hotch right there hissing at Reid not to do it and Reid thinks nothing of putting himself in danger in hopes that he can get this to end peacefully. Which you know, it doesn't, but this is not the first time we've seen Reid do this, try to disarm someone with just his words. (Somebody's Watching is a good example of where it worked.) ♥ (more on Reid later)
I really don't know how I feel about Elle. I mean the character arc was pretty amazing and most of the things were hinted at back in season 1, but I'm still not sure if I feel satisfied with how it played out. Her freaking out on the job? Oh yes, that part I completely buy into. Maybe what I really don't buy is that it was clear to all of them that she was flipping out and none of them tried to take her off the job. Both Hotch and Gideon had to have seen what was coming and they did nothing. Especially after she made that comment to Hotch about how he was responsible for her getting shot. Come on.
Morgan. I can't even think about him right now since I just watched Profiler, Profiled. God he just wanted to keep that one piece hidden. That one piece of himself hidden. But in the end, when he's faced with the knowledge that that one piece is going to save another kid from going through the same thing? I firmly believe he would have shouted it from the damn rooftops. And oh. Garcia having to go through his records. She so didn't want to and I don't blame her.
Gideon. You know. I know when the show first started Mandy was the big draw and he's probably the character I feel the least connection with. I'm not sure why that is. Part of it could be that I really started watching during s3 after he had already left and am now playing catch up on the older eps and am willfully not getting involved because I know he's leaving. Still there are times when he just. in Fisher King when he wouldn't leave the hospital. Or The Perfect Storm when the pieces start to fall together and the look on his face when he realizes who the other unsub is.
JJ. She's just starting to be a real character and not token pretty blonde girl and I appreciate that we're getting her backstory. North Mammon was a fantastic episode and the bit where she's telling the team that "she was these girls" and that they should look into it? love. I hope we get more on her next season. Assuming they didn't blow her up. >.<
Prentiss. I already liked her from the s3 eps I had seen but eeeeeeee. I loved her from the moment she appeared on screen. and her response to Hotch re: politics in Sex, Birth, Death? AWESOME. <3
Garcia. OMG I HAVE NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR GARCIA. Seriously. She's so flippin' fantastic. Whether she's flirting outrageously with Morgan, or cultivating her friendship with JJ or physically threatening Reid to go out and have fun with her there is nothing that I don't love about her. NOTHING.
Reid. again. Yeah so Sex, Birth, Death made me cry like nobody's business. Between his utter helplessness at the end and his comment earlier about knowing "what it's like to be afraid of your own mind" I just wanted to cuddle him so hard. When he's spouting off stats or solving riddles or putting that brain of his to work it's easy to forget that he's got quite a bit of damage going on already. And we haven't even gotten to the real damage yet (of which I've only seen bits of those eps and maybe one or two from after in s2.) So yeah. Reid is a big woobie but my god he's so much more than that.
Hotch. Yeah it's become pretty apparent to me that Hotch is my favorite. He tries so hard to do the right thing and so often that means choosing the case over his family and it's tearing him apart inside. He's an angst!bomb just waiting to go off. But he has this humor and lightness in him that so desperately wants to come out, but he only allows it out a little bit at a time. Like he's afraid to let go. Even more than Reid I feel like Hotch needs someone to cuddle him in a blanket or something. Because it's almost expected that Reid would need that so I think that it's more likely that someone would reach out to him. I'm not sure that people would think to reach out to Hotch. Again because I started with s3 eps, I know what happens with Hotch and his family so. :(
SHOW. ♥
Miley Cyrus apparently tried to kiss David Archuleta backstage at the Teen Choice Awards. AHAHAHAHAH. He apparently leaned away and then politely walked away as fast as he could. Oh. Oh bless.
Although the tv I did watch was catching up on s2 of Criminal Minds. Just finished up through ep 2.12 "Profiler, Profiled"
GUH. THIS SHOW. Pretty much every episode makes me cry at some point. And not always the big emotional rescue or hero moment or whatever. Sometimes it's just a small quiet moment between team members and something will be said or a look will be shared and suddenly my eyes are brimming with tears. These characters are so amazing. Every last one of them. ♥
Even the episodes that are not as well written (The Fisher King pt 2) still are so much better than a lot of shows out there, and even so still have their moments when it just shines. While I was not crazy about Reid being the key to everything in this ep (and his mother being the answer to everything really had my eyes rolling) the scene where he puts down his gun and tries to reason with the unsub was fantastic. You have Morgan and Hotch right there hissing at Reid not to do it and Reid thinks nothing of putting himself in danger in hopes that he can get this to end peacefully. Which you know, it doesn't, but this is not the first time we've seen Reid do this, try to disarm someone with just his words. (Somebody's Watching is a good example of where it worked.) ♥ (more on Reid later)
I really don't know how I feel about Elle. I mean the character arc was pretty amazing and most of the things were hinted at back in season 1, but I'm still not sure if I feel satisfied with how it played out. Her freaking out on the job? Oh yes, that part I completely buy into. Maybe what I really don't buy is that it was clear to all of them that she was flipping out and none of them tried to take her off the job. Both Hotch and Gideon had to have seen what was coming and they did nothing. Especially after she made that comment to Hotch about how he was responsible for her getting shot. Come on.
Morgan. I can't even think about him right now since I just watched Profiler, Profiled. God he just wanted to keep that one piece hidden. That one piece of himself hidden. But in the end, when he's faced with the knowledge that that one piece is going to save another kid from going through the same thing? I firmly believe he would have shouted it from the damn rooftops. And oh. Garcia having to go through his records. She so didn't want to and I don't blame her.
Gideon. You know. I know when the show first started Mandy was the big draw and he's probably the character I feel the least connection with. I'm not sure why that is. Part of it could be that I really started watching during s3 after he had already left and am now playing catch up on the older eps and am willfully not getting involved because I know he's leaving. Still there are times when he just. in Fisher King when he wouldn't leave the hospital. Or The Perfect Storm when the pieces start to fall together and the look on his face when he realizes who the other unsub is.
JJ. She's just starting to be a real character and not token pretty blonde girl and I appreciate that we're getting her backstory. North Mammon was a fantastic episode and the bit where she's telling the team that "she was these girls" and that they should look into it? love. I hope we get more on her next season. Assuming they didn't blow her up. >.<
Prentiss. I already liked her from the s3 eps I had seen but eeeeeeee. I loved her from the moment she appeared on screen. and her response to Hotch re: politics in Sex, Birth, Death? AWESOME. <3
Garcia. OMG I HAVE NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR GARCIA. Seriously. She's so flippin' fantastic. Whether she's flirting outrageously with Morgan, or cultivating her friendship with JJ or physically threatening Reid to go out and have fun with her there is nothing that I don't love about her. NOTHING.
Reid. again. Yeah so Sex, Birth, Death made me cry like nobody's business. Between his utter helplessness at the end and his comment earlier about knowing "what it's like to be afraid of your own mind" I just wanted to cuddle him so hard. When he's spouting off stats or solving riddles or putting that brain of his to work it's easy to forget that he's got quite a bit of damage going on already. And we haven't even gotten to the real damage yet (of which I've only seen bits of those eps and maybe one or two from after in s2.) So yeah. Reid is a big woobie but my god he's so much more than that.
Hotch. Yeah it's become pretty apparent to me that Hotch is my favorite. He tries so hard to do the right thing and so often that means choosing the case over his family and it's tearing him apart inside. He's an angst!bomb just waiting to go off. But he has this humor and lightness in him that so desperately wants to come out, but he only allows it out a little bit at a time. Like he's afraid to let go. Even more than Reid I feel like Hotch needs someone to cuddle him in a blanket or something. Because it's almost expected that Reid would need that so I think that it's more likely that someone would reach out to him. I'm not sure that people would think to reach out to Hotch. Again because I started with s3 eps, I know what happens with Hotch and his family so. :(
SHOW. ♥
Miley Cyrus apparently tried to kiss David Archuleta backstage at the Teen Choice Awards. AHAHAHAHAH. He apparently leaned away and then politely walked away as fast as he could. Oh. Oh bless.
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Part I
on 2008-08-04 09:26 pm (UTC)Gideon. You know. I know when the show first started Mandy was the big draw and he's probably the character I feel the least connection with.
There's a very...there's a very Dumbledore vibe that I get about him now, having entered the fandom with S3 in mind. Kind of callous and indifferent in his manipulations rather than malicious, but it's still there. And I know that it's not fair, and I know that he only yanked the paternal support out from under Reid because he had reached the point where he himself literally could not go on in that job any longer, but...you hurt my guy, you are dead to me, the end.
But in the end, when he's faced with the knowledge that that one piece is going to save another kid from going through the same thing? I firmly believe he would have shouted it from the damn rooftops. And oh. Garcia having to go through his records. She so didn't want to and I don't blame her.
YES. Unlike Elle, whose meltdown I believe was planned from the pilot, I really don't think that Derek's trauma was planned until the S1 hiatus. That's when the writers really started having him freak out especially hard at the prospect of a child being in danger. (Morgan's tendency to tackle anything, however, including buildings, has been established since the pilot.) Thirteen episodes of foreshadowing, though? Oh, hell, that's a lot more than some shows get.
Even the episodes that are not as well written (The Fisher King pt 2) still are so much better than a lot of shows out there, and even so still have their moments when it just shines.
Yeah. As much as I love Reid, and as much as the writers surely realized that they had fannish catnip in him, it's an ensemble show, not the Spencer Reid show.
Her freaking out on the job? Oh yes, that part I completely buy into. Maybe what I really don't buy is that it was clear to all of them that she was flipping out and none of them tried to take her off the job.
I have spent more time thinking about Elle Greenway than is remotely healthy, so: my unified theory. They all knew that she was in trouble, but none of them knew what to do about it. When you think about it, profiling is about observation far more than it is about intervention. They find out who the bad guys are, they bring them down, the end. When one of their people hasn't actually crossed the line into bad guy yet, they don't really know what to do. I mean, they're not counselors. Plus, and I can speak from personal experience here, it's a lot easier to see someone in trouble than it is to know how to pull them out of it, especially when they're wearing their trauma in such an aggressive and ready to bite way as Elle was.
Which, as all things come back to Spencer Reid for me, makes me go "OH, POOR BABY" that much more: everything that they did wrong with Elle, they did right with Spencer. Not because they cared more about him than they did Elle, but because this time they had prior experience. There was an edge of desperation to a lot of the post-"Revelations" scenes, a "Not again, not again, not again" in the way that they dealt with Spencer. With Elle, I got the sense that everyone on the team alternated between pushing her too hard and not pushing her hard enough because they didn't know what to do, whereas with Reid they knew exactly how much pressure to apply. They couldn't go through it for him, but they could surround him so that he couldn't hurt himself or others while he struggled through it himself. OH, SHOW.
Re: Part I
on 2008-08-04 10:30 pm (UTC)yes. yes that's exactly it. there have been several scenes where Gideon is clearly having problems dealing with everything and while anyone else on the team that moves me to tears or at the very least concern, with Gideon I'm just kind of 'oh get over it.' which may be me responding to the actor as much as the character.
(Morgan's tendency to tackle anything, however, including buildings, has been established since the pilot.)
ahahahahah YES. it's to the point where I hope the unsub will run because I know what's coming. <3
and I like your theory about Elle as it was bothering me that no one especially Gideon or Hotch had stepped in. but you're right. they probably didn't know what to do. (and oh. that scene with Elle and Reid where he's just like 'you lived, you won' or whatever he says. his puzzled little face that she's still dealing with this. oh baby you're gonna find out soon enough.)
Re: Part I
on 2008-08-05 01:21 am (UTC)Gawd. One of the things about starting this show from the beginning when the third season was already well underway, you know what's coming. Like, oh, baby boy, you had better brace yourself for how much this is gonna hurt.
Part II
on 2008-08-04 09:51 pm (UTC)I love how incredibly socially awkward she was with the team at first, and how she admitted in such a shy little way to being a Vonnegut fan. She makes me want to cling to her.
Hotch. Yeah it's become pretty apparent to me that Hotch is my favorite. He tries so hard to do the right thing and so often that means choosing the case over his family and it's tearing him apart inside. He's an angst!bomb just waiting to go off.
I really love this characterization of him that you've painted here. Like, Reid's my guy, and lord knows that there's nothing more I would like to do than give him soup and wrap him in a blanket, but he gets all happy and glowy when people are paying attention to him and being his friend. (Morgan/Reid scenes kill me dead, scrape up the pieces, and kill them again.) I don't think that Hotch would even quite know what to do with someone trying to support him; he's too fixated on this idea of himself as the supporter.
Miley Cyrus apparently tried to kiss David Archuleta backstage at the Teen Choice Awards. AHAHAHAHAH. He apparently leaned away and then politely walked away as fast as he could. Oh. Oh bless.
And he releases his first single, called "Crush", in an article where he keeps talking about how awesome David Cook is. Oh, baby boy. Sometimes you are just more than I can handle.
Re: Part II
on 2008-08-04 10:38 pm (UTC)he's too fixated on this idea of himself as the supporter.
gah. exactly. I feel like Hotch is quickly approaching the point where he NEEDS someone but 1) no one knows how to approach him and 2) he wouldn't know what to do with it anyway. he's either heading towards a really spectacular breakdown or he's going to retreat so far into himself that the others will barely recognize him. *sigh* I wish the writers hadn't dropped the abuse storyline with him. I mean they could still pick it back up, but they've screwed themselves pretty hard with Hotch's back story.
and WORD on Reid/Morgan scenes. Reid is an overgrown puppy. Bless.
And he releases his first single, called "Crush", in an article where he keeps talking about how awesome David Cook is. Oh, baby boy. Sometimes you are just more than I can handle.
agreed. talk about wanting to feed someone soup and wrap them in a blanket. oh Archie. kid you're too much. ♥