CM, 5.10, "The Slave of Duty": You have carried firm conviction /To My Hesitating Heart...
Okay, so while Hotch is coming back from the depths of hell, we have Emily descending, yes?
Seriously, I was worried about her this week. She was so damn awesome, analyzing the crime scenes with Rossi. Oh Emily. She was so totally the victim type, that it was sadly inevitable that it would end like that. And yet she was awesome all the way through, I was scared out of my wits by the ending, but it was entirely approriate, wasn't it?
She even seemed like she was taking over Morgan's"I am the unsub" thing....except it's now "I Am The Victim" mindset. She seemed really...not compartmentalized, right there at the end.
(Which was so cool with Rena Sofer being Victim of the Week. She was my idol when I was watching soaps with my mom at age 8. Because Lois on General Hospital was the shiznit.)
But I guess that was kind of the point. An attack on Hotch was an attack on all of them, and they had to deal with that. We were attacked, we move on, we do our jobs. JJ was being Bitch-Goddess Almighty with poor Local LEO. Garcia was regaining her techy-goddess status. Reid was rocking the geographic profile.
And Morgan. Oh Morgan. He who tells people to go home and sleep, when it's obvious he won't. He's more definitively in charge then he's been for the last four episodes. I think, while he still has the authority/abandonment issues, he is cowboying-up, because that's what everybody needs him to do.
Finally: HOTCH. Oh Hotch. The complete Gilbert and Sullivan Quote (from "Pirates of Penzance", which provides "worst fourth pirate ever", and the episode title:)
Oh, dry the glistening tear
That dews that martial cheek;
Thy loving children hear,
In them thy comfort seek.
With sympathetic care
Their arms around thee creep,
For oh, they cannot bear
To see their father weep!
We have Jack, on whom all hopes depend. And Cade Owens made me so very very sad; I think even heard me ma tear up during the early scenes.
And then we have the BAU children, who expect whatever affection can be bestowed. Rossi is functioning as completely overdramatic stepdad, but I loved how Joe played it this week. Dave is Dave, but he's there for whatever Aaron needs.
And then Jessica Brooks, who is an unexpected Deus Ex Machina/Guardian Angel. Not doing this for Hotch, but for Jack, Haley, and herself. I think my favorite line was "We know you didn't leave because you stopped loving her, but because of the job, and it's not like that's going to stop"... She need to do this for Haley, too."
And oh, Continuity Fairy. You remember, "Haley, this is what I am." "No, Aaron, this is what you do." And we'll have to see which side Jack Hotchner comes out on. Because that's his own decision.
Finally: VALET PARKING GOES ON MY LIST.
Seriously, I was worried about her this week. She was so damn awesome, analyzing the crime scenes with Rossi. Oh Emily. She was so totally the victim type, that it was sadly inevitable that it would end like that. And yet she was awesome all the way through, I was scared out of my wits by the ending, but it was entirely approriate, wasn't it?
She even seemed like she was taking over Morgan's"I am the unsub" thing....except it's now "I Am The Victim" mindset. She seemed really...not compartmentalized, right there at the end.
(Which was so cool with Rena Sofer being Victim of the Week. She was my idol when I was watching soaps with my mom at age 8. Because Lois on General Hospital was the shiznit.)
But I guess that was kind of the point. An attack on Hotch was an attack on all of them, and they had to deal with that. We were attacked, we move on, we do our jobs. JJ was being Bitch-Goddess Almighty with poor Local LEO. Garcia was regaining her techy-goddess status. Reid was rocking the geographic profile.
And Morgan. Oh Morgan. He who tells people to go home and sleep, when it's obvious he won't. He's more definitively in charge then he's been for the last four episodes. I think, while he still has the authority/abandonment issues, he is cowboying-up, because that's what everybody needs him to do.
Finally: HOTCH. Oh Hotch. The complete Gilbert and Sullivan Quote (from "Pirates of Penzance", which provides "worst fourth pirate ever", and the episode title:)
Oh, dry the glistening tear
That dews that martial cheek;
Thy loving children hear,
In them thy comfort seek.
With sympathetic care
Their arms around thee creep,
For oh, they cannot bear
To see their father weep!
We have Jack, on whom all hopes depend. And Cade Owens made me so very very sad; I think even heard me ma tear up during the early scenes.
And then we have the BAU children, who expect whatever affection can be bestowed. Rossi is functioning as completely overdramatic stepdad, but I loved how Joe played it this week. Dave is Dave, but he's there for whatever Aaron needs.
And then Jessica Brooks, who is an unexpected Deus Ex Machina/Guardian Angel. Not doing this for Hotch, but for Jack, Haley, and herself. I think my favorite line was "We know you didn't leave because you stopped loving her, but because of the job, and it's not like that's going to stop"... She need to do this for Haley, too."
And oh, Continuity Fairy. You remember, "Haley, this is what I am." "No, Aaron, this is what you do." And we'll have to see which side Jack Hotchner comes out on. Because that's his own decision.
Finally: VALET PARKING GOES ON MY LIST.