sometimes i wonder if you're made from bones and skin or are you something for me to begin, again...
*sighs* I wanted to be in Slytherin! Or Ravenclaw! But it looks like I’m going to be sorted into Hufflepuff. >_< I’m sure they’re lovely people, but I’ve been such a huge Slytherin fan that it’s kinda disappointing. Knew I should’ve tailored my application, damn it.
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Hee, my parents are so funny! I totally forgot it was Halloween until the doorbell rang and I heard cries of ‘trick-or-treat’. To which my father barks, ‘What?!’
Mother realizes what’s going on and approaches him, motioning him to, ‘Close to the door’- and he slams it shut in their faces! *g* I don’t know what her intention was, I think she just wanted to pull him aside to let him know what it was about, but he literally shut them out and locked the door, bwahaha!
To be fair, Australia doesn’t do Halloween. There might be themed parties to celebrate it, but it’s not a tradition of ours, so I thought it was idiotic of these kids to roam around expecting people to give them free candy- ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WEREN’T EVEN DRESSED UP. I mean, wtf? It’s one thing if they want to spend time on costumes and looking cool and trailing around the neighborhood, but to demand candy and not even have the courtesy to put on some sort of costume? GTFO.
I’ve only ever dressed up for an event once in my life, and that was on the spur-of-the-moment and quite a crappy outfit, too, but I decided to attend Muck-Up Day in my final year of high school and put on this tacky not!kimono kind of thing and called myself Mulan. IDEK!
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(second from the right)
I found a couple other random pics while I went through the photo album- one is really blurry, that's my teacher's fault, it was from a class trip to Sovereign Hill, where people went digging for gold, and us putting on historical outfits was educational or something (goddamn, those corset things were murder on the ribs!).
The other, well, I look like a cream puff, I know it, but my friend Katherine made me try it on (for Muck-Up Day, yeah, right, like I was ever going out in public like that!)- it was her flower girl outfit from when she was like, nine or ten. And it almost fit me. O.O
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Criminal Minds: season 6, ep 4.
In which I fangirl extensively. ^_^
You know what I love about the new opening credits?
The way they pair a casual shot with an action shot for Emily, Hotch and Morgan, where they’re all cool-looking in one and then action hero the next. Rossi for some reason just gets two introspective looking shots, and Reid, well, *snorts*
Reid gets the introspective shot plus one of him manically waving his finger around, so yeah.
But you know what I don’t like? (aside from the new spin on the theme song, wtf) The last shot, okay. See, in previous seasons, we didn’t have a complete group scene where everyone’s present, so what they did was have a split-screen with Rossi on the left and then the rest of the group in a different scene on the right, and that was okay (although they flipped it, I really don’t like when things are flipped the opposite way).
Except now? We have Garcia on the left approaching the group on the right- AND THEN THIS BUILDING BLOWS UP.
While she continues towards what was formerly the rest of the BAU! I just twitch every time! It’s really unfortunate! I know they were trying to make it dynamic and exciting but seriously, that explosion, it’s just inappropriately placed.
ETA. OMG, I ONLY JUST NOTICED. I didn’t really pay attention before ‘coz I assumed it was a team shot as always, but- Hotch isn’t there. In the final team sequence, he’s not in the group shot! WTF?!
One last thing that bugs me about the opening credits. The way Emily’s right there on the far left- just conveniently placed so she can be chopped out when the time comes for Paget to leave. >_<
Hotch: (interrogatively) What’s that?
Garcia: My go-bags.
Hotch: (blankly) Where are you going?
AHAHA. I love the way he’s so unintentionally funny! *squishes Hotch* Garcia wants another ride on the BAU jet- we’ve heard her express jealousy at their jet-setting lifestyle before and now she’s making a play for it- but Hotch is like, ‘and the go-bags are in aid of what, exactly?’
Shades of Emily’s introduction to the show. Both ladies show up with go-bags, determined to prove themselves to the team, just wanting this one chance to join in and show what they can do. (Except in Emily’s case, she was qualified but they didn’t know if they could trust her, while everyone trusts Garcia but she’s not qualified)
I love Garcia and I love the injection of humor into the show, which has been missing for too long (‘Sir, I’m willing to tone down my wardrobe choices, I’m ready to make that sacrifice!’), but seriously? She thinks glasses are an inappropriate wardrobe choice?! That contacts make her look more serious? Um…tell that to my nine-year old self who desperately wished for glasses so she could look cool and smart. (yeah, be careful what you wish for, I regret it now)
Also. This is my issue with the show. We hardly ever see JJ do her job as a media liaison, and she may as well have been the seventh profiler on the show, given that her job didn’t wildly vary from the rest of the team’s. but whenever someone takes over her job- Jordan, Garcia- all of a sudden, there’s all this promotion and celebration of their mad skillz, we see them co-coordinating tons of things, multi-tasking several different jobs at once, tackling a heavy workload, just struggling to deal with the immense burden of that job. And then there’s the obligatory ‘team appreciates their hard work and sacrifice’ moment.
It just annoys me, because when JJ was at work, it was effortless and she got barely any screen-time devoted to her struggles or triumphs with media liaising and the rest of her job, but when someone else is doing the same thing, the whole ep’s about them! Look how amazing they are! Look at all the challenges they’re facing and how they’re overcoming it! Aren’t you impressed?!
Sure. If it didn’t seem so tacked on as a contrived plot point. JJ did all the things that Garcia does and for years with hardly any recognition and without falling apart on the job. But now let’s have a ‘Garcia wins at life’ ep while she valiantly attempts and fails to fill JJ’s shoes and coo at how wonderful she is.
I would’ve appreciated a bit more celebration of JJ while she was on the show, instead of this belated ‘wow, JJ’s job is tough, isn’t it?’ when she’s not there anymore to praise for how well she’s been doing what is apparently the toughest job at the BAU.
And you know the stupid thing? The case is eventually solved by Garcia doing her computer tech thing anyway. So if she’d stayed at Quantico and played to her strengths from the start, this thing would probably have been solved much earlier! They don’t need Garcia out in the field, being played by the media- Hotch is excellent with his aura of intimidation and firm ‘no comment’. Hell, if their damn ‘briefings’ (which never convey any relevant or practical information) didn’t require like five people to deliver a line each, Garcia wouldn’t have even been put in the spot of dealing with the media in the first place. *eyeroll* (and she was falling apart 'coz she didn't have enough manpower to look up stuff, gee, if the team brief people in shifts instead of all together, maybe the job would go faster)
Although come on. ‘He lied! He lied to me!’ If she’s going to get that outraged at a journalist trying to manipulate her, then obviously she’s way too innocent to be let out of her office. COME ON. I’m not an FBI analyst and I know you gotta be careful with the media because they’ll always want to release sensational new information.
Oh, show. Why do you never throw us Em/Hotch shippers a bone? Come on, every ep, it’s the same, ‘Morgan and Prentiss, go there, do that together’ and now shippers get Emily grabbing his hand and placing it right under her boobs? *pouts* I AM JEALOUS. We never get the slightest physical contact with Emily and Hotch. Even when they’re sitting on the plane, his upper body’s pulling away from her. >_<
I’m going to go with the Twilight excuse. (shut up, I KNOW, just go with it) Her scent is too alluring for him so he’s backing out of her range so he won’t be overwhelmed with lust and lose sight of ‘propriety’ and ‘no fraternizing within the BAU’ regs. *nodnod*
Garcia’s transformation from serious!media-liaison to kooky!Garcia. Come on. I get the visual metaphor (and I laughed at the cop’s double-take), but the clock is ticking, time is running out and she changes her outfit? Not to mention, WHY DOES SHE EVEN HAVE HER OLD CLOTHES WITH HER? There’s Garcia trying to prove she can fit in and look the part, why would she take the wacky clothes and accessories with her?
Gosh, was anyone else a little taken-aback at how aggressive the BAU were with Maryann Thomas? They barge into the house and when they find a frightened woman cowering in the corner, a woman they have little reason to suspect is guilty of murder, they loom over her with guns aimed at her and terrify her some more. ‘Get up. You’re going to help us find him.’ What. Catch more flies with honey than vinegar, just saying. Awfully rude, dude.
Oh, but then when she gets up and reveals she’s pregnant, all of a sudden, everyone’s remorseful and lowering their weapons respectfully and she’s suddenly cleared of suspicion? NO. Either they thought she was an accomplice and should continue to be wary and trying to break her, or they had no reason to believe she was guilty and shouldn’t have been freaking the hell out of her at all. But to just stand down ‘coz the woman’s pregnant…DO THEY NOT REMEMBER THEY DEALT WITH A PREGNANT UNSUB?! God.
To get over my irritation, I shall focus on how my pretty OTP get to actually stand next to each other and be in the frame together for a change!
In multiple scenes!
SMOKING HOT. JS. <3
Hotch: It’s risky. If we show her the files and he’s not in there, we could lose her for good.*
Emily: Yeah, but if the father is in there, it could shake her loose.
UNF UNF, HOW IS PAGET SO SEXY, MY GOD. I wanna do dirty things to that mouth
Not a huge moment or anything, I just like that she’s convincing him to go against his instinct and take the risk. (reminds me of ages ago, when she convinced Hotch to trust Jordan and give her a chance) ^_^
It’s funny how Hotch is uncertain about letting Reid take the lead in an interrogation, but he’s totally cool with letting Emily later on tackle the UNSUB on her own. Kinda shows the different level of confidence he has in their abilities, eh?
Though I do love Reid basically going, ‘Hey, I’m a beta male, woohoo! No authority or dominance issues here!’ Heh. Although come on, if the problem was alpha males challenging her marriage, why didn’t Emily take over the interrogation? She comes on in later on anyway, so I don’t get why it had to be a guy when they basically admitted that was the problem.
*(how, exactly? To the delusion? It’s already been ruling her life for months now. Or does he mean she’ll be resentful and uncooperative? Yeah, who’da thought pregnant ladies might taken offense at seeing photos of bloody, mutilated corpses?
Btw, I was so not convinced by Reid’s ‘interrogation’. ‘k, so the woman’s not just willfully covering up for her husband out of loyalty, she’s lost track of reality, she’s convinced herself that he’s the father, she has major psychological issues, right? But then Reid shows her a photo of the man she had an affair with and all of a sudden, the fantasy collapses in an instant and she’s ready to give up her husband? If she really was delusional, wouldn’t she suspect it was photoshopped? Or that somebody else killed him? I mean, to jump from ‘I love my husband, he’s the father, he’d never hurt anyone’ to ‘he killed my lover, the father of my baby, I’ll help you catch him’…wow. O.o
I don’t see how prioritizing the baby over the husband led to that. He’s not threatening the baby, he killed the lover. So…again. Not convinced.
But then, who watches this show for the psychology? Let’s get to my fave scene ever!
(bit of editing fail? They cut from one image to the next, and people's heads are in totally different directions in a millisecond. Wow, Em and Hotch are trying to keep their gazing on the down-low, lol)
Emily: If we go in there, he’ll start shooting up the place.
Morgan: He’ll do that anyway, this guy’s looking for a spark.
Emily: Then we need a distraction.
Hotch: What are you doing?*
Me: Omg, is she doing the Beckett thing, stripping to draw attention from the bad guy?!
* (lol, Hotch and his avoidance issues. I think when he asks obvious questions, it’s him trying to hint to these strong-willed, independent women that he really does not want to deal with this right now, please reconsider)
(DID YOU SEE THAT? HE MAKES AN ABORTED ARM MOVEMENT TOWARDS HER. I know, I know, it’s probably nothing, maybe his arm got pins-and-needles right at this very inconvenient moment, but I’m gonna think that he was rattled by her determination to fling herself into harm’s way and he was subconsciously reaching out to stop her taking off that bullet-proof vest. EITHER THAT, OR HE WANTED TO HELP HER UNFASTEN IT. :P I’m good either way!)
Emily: He’s gone back to his old patterns. He wants to play the game he played with his wife.
Morgan: Debra Wilson played that game and it got her killed.
Hotch: All right, keep his focus off the crowd long enough for us to take him down.
Emily: You guys better have my back.
Hotch: We will.
*DIES* We hardly ever see them working as partners in the field, so I love this trust-affirming moment here!
Also. While I do headdesk a little at Emily falling for that guy’s ‘boyfriend’ test- come on, all his victims were married couples, Em!- I am so in love with her for taking him down herself!
SHOT HIM THROUGH HER BAG, HOW AWESOME IS THAT? She don’t need no SWAT team to rescue her like some damsel in distress! Emily’s a total BAMF, she can save herself, thank you very much!
I laughed so hard at Hotch. ‘FBI, nobody move! The situation’s under control, you’re not in danger!’ LMAO. There was a gunshot, there are people with guns running around, and you think people aren’t gonna panic? *g*
And omg, MORGAN. He throws his gun to one of the SWAT members. *headdesk* I hate the way people are so casual about weapons! What if that guy fumbled the catch? And it fell and went off and hit someone?!
Btw? I know he's an UNSUB and not very sympathetic as some are, but I do love the way that he's gasping his dying words, presumably to tell his wife he loves her, and Emily tells him she will. It's just- IDK what it is, but that kind of respect for human life? Like, yeah, she killed him- because he was going to kill her and a lot of other people besides- but it's no reason not to show him some basic decency and reassure him in his dying moments. *hugs her*
Final scene. I won’t drag this out too much, but…god, Garcia can be so annoying! It’s one thing for her to wibble and get comfort from Morgan, he’s her BFF, they love each other, you’re allowed to be a mess and have them help you get back on your feet. But for her to whinge to Hotch and go on about how she failed and oh, she’s so useless and he has to keep reassuring her and build up her confidence, ARGH. Stop it already! I’m so tired of your unrelenting and frankly pointless angst!
And Hotch is the awesomest guy in the whole world and I wish I could marry him. He’s so patient with high-maintenance women! He’d be perfect for me! :P
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE SEXY DUO.
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Meme.
borg_princess's Halloween party:
a_kopite_roars dressed as a safety for the Raiders, and it suited them disturbingly well.
agoodinsane dressed as Paris Hilton.
aliasagent dressed as the resurrected dead -- complete with the most convincing coffin.
araine dressed as a walking Guillotine.
buffyaddict13 gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as Helga the wisewoman, although the live snake was a mistake.
cathedralcarver didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
darkbunnyrabbit dressed as Wesley Crusher from "Star Trek".
darkeyedwolf dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Union of Strength..
dianoram dressed as Anna Nicole Smith.
dragonladyk dressed as Pavlova the ballerina -- dancing on point too.
ed_84 dressed as Lady Godiva without the horse and far too little hair!, and it suited them disturbingly well.
firthgal dressed as the love child of Bruce Willis and Anna Nicole Smith.
godneyspearsus dressed as Dr. Crusher from "Star Trek".
halfabubble forgot to put on clothes!
hoshinekoyasha dressed as Jack the Ripper in a time machine, complete with gory knives.
jason_grey1987 didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
kat_rowe dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the King of Power, and it suited them disturbingly well.
katesnomdeplume dressed as your grandmother.
kthx_die_x0 gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as a pixie.
labrt2004 dressed as a mummy.
likeforeverago dressed as a very fake witch-doctor complete with a collection of shrunken skulls.
lipssewnshut122 dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Dynamic Ninja.
londongirl27 dressed as the Governor of Arizona.
lone_pyramid gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as the Governor of Indiana.
luisa_f dressed as William Taft.
luxuria_oceanus dressed as Princess Leia.
mapping_stars dressed as a germ.
mcgarrygirl78 dressed as Halle Berry - tarred and feathered, though it looked more like Yu-Gi-Oh.
miamadwyn dressed as a software engineering section chief.
midnight_coffee dressed as a associate corporate spy department janitor.
morethansirius dressed as Camilla Parker-Bowles when she becomes Queen.
muzzy_olorea dressed as a walking Guillotine.
odakota_rose dressed as Ivan the Terrible of Russia.
paisleysnail dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Pendant of North East Lincolnshire, and it suited them all too well.
quiescent dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Snotty Tofubrain", though it looked more like the Cardinal of North Jamiry.
redtapestry dressed as a neat goblin.
revengent dressed as Marilyn Manson.
saraband_4_two dressed as a character from a Final Fantasy game.
scifi_tv_addict dressed as Halle Berry.
shining_chaos gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as a new superhero: Red Dervish.
sistermagpie dressed as a new superhero: Winged Canary.
sleepysundays dressed as a character from a Final Fantasy game.
spence_reid dressed as something smoked, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
stardreemer dressed as Elizabeth Regina on steroids and roller skates.
stashdrawer dressed as Marie Antoinette going to her death.
sunkrux dressed as Kate Hudson.
sunny_serenity dressed as George Lucas.
sunshinesky dressed as a 1960's hippie child.
taintedangel80 dressed as Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster from Sleepy Hollow.
tophoenix dressed as a rainbow fish.
touchofviolet dressed as a ghost.
weird_fin dressed as Jean Claude Van Damme.
wench_for_hire dressed as a neat witch.
wickedandcruel dressed as Mena Suvari.
wilkams_87 dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
woodchoc_magnum dressed as Optimus Prime.
x_nothing_here dressed as Mary Queen of Scots ... without her head. Most convincing, though it looked more like the Duke of Tricroid.
xfirefly9x dressed as a Care Bear.
xliarsandfakes dressed as Jennifer Lopez.
xxlowanaxx dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Lazy-assed Overlord.
yinyang_twin11 dressed as Madonna - tarred and feathered.
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