26th hype and edit after watching 8x01 The Silencer (spoilers)
26th!!
(was day before yesterday but my internet connection is a bitch).
edit after watching the ep: I seriously really don't know what to think. Everytime I got my hopes up that it might get better it took a dive... I might be a bit disappointed? Ok, season starter & new character etc so why be too rough? Well...
But I liked Blake, and the scene at the end with Garcia. As for the end scene... I got a feeling "haven't we seen this before" (The King Fisher, obviously) which kind of casts doubts for what's to come. Feels a bit cheap and like a trick to keep the masses interested/nothing really clever or well plotted. But we'll see.
The unsub of the ep was interesting enough, but was left shallow. I felt empathy for him but his victims were almost annoying. I can't keep from thinking how the eps used to feel longer, and I think it was because everything that happened and was said held a meaning to the whole and even the dialogue the characters had when working on cases often let to deeper knowledge about them, not just the cases or unsubs (Damaged had two unsubs handled and still it was meaningful ep even, and especially, for the main characters). Now most of the dialogue felt forced or made me think "that's a filler", something said just because it might be what they thought viewers might think them to say. Thus it's boring, under-estimating the audience. And the way they handled Emily leaving... I don't know how long ago it supposedly was, if it was mentioned I didn't catch it, but it felt like something they had to get out of the way like "yes, it obviously happened but why make a fuss" but it could have been a delicious opportunity for a bit of drama, perhaps something to be hinted at and handled later. A little grudge, a little longing, meaningful little scenes and lines... Now it was just Garcia. Ok we get it was all about Blake. Except that it even wasn't. They tried to squeeze everything in 45min. Prentiss out, Blake in, an unsub, look yet another unsub we can keep referring to everytime you think you're getting bored with our writing, look yet another who doesn't like Strauss (wonder they didn't add some Beth scenes and the Reids supposed girlfriend in the mix but there must have been some productional difficulties)... yet it all felt a bit worn, like saying everything's changed and yet nothing has.
And maybe I'm just a bit bitter how they keep either almost ignoring Reid or then writing him as one-dimensional. Not necessarily this ep but s7 in general. I really liked the idea of the more gutsy Reid (True Genius) and the idea of troubled Reid (Corazon) was also good and in character. But then... there are these almost "Reid-filler" eps where he acts more ooc than the others, where he's almost childish in a way he wasn't childish even in s1. I mean he's an adult now, but still they sometimes write these scenes as to keep up the illusion that he still is as he was back then, a socially inept weakling. There's a contradiction. I KNOW it's what some viewers are used to and expect but come on, stuck with your decisions (except Beth and Reids supposed new love interest [might or might not be a shipper speaking]). Even Hotch seemed like being on automation. Well, everyone actually.
All in all I guess it was a decent ep but THAT'S the part that troubles me. Being "meh" everytime an ep ends. I wasn't expecting anything to make me jump of joy, I was more like expecting something to piss me off. But it was just "meh".
But I guess they'll get to that "pissing me off" part later.
(was day before yesterday but my internet connection is a bitch).
edit after watching the ep: I seriously really don't know what to think. Everytime I got my hopes up that it might get better it took a dive... I might be a bit disappointed? Ok, season starter & new character etc so why be too rough? Well...
But I liked Blake, and the scene at the end with Garcia. As for the end scene... I got a feeling "haven't we seen this before" (The King Fisher, obviously) which kind of casts doubts for what's to come. Feels a bit cheap and like a trick to keep the masses interested/nothing really clever or well plotted. But we'll see.
The unsub of the ep was interesting enough, but was left shallow. I felt empathy for him but his victims were almost annoying. I can't keep from thinking how the eps used to feel longer, and I think it was because everything that happened and was said held a meaning to the whole and even the dialogue the characters had when working on cases often let to deeper knowledge about them, not just the cases or unsubs (Damaged had two unsubs handled and still it was meaningful ep even, and especially, for the main characters). Now most of the dialogue felt forced or made me think "that's a filler", something said just because it might be what they thought viewers might think them to say. Thus it's boring, under-estimating the audience. And the way they handled Emily leaving... I don't know how long ago it supposedly was, if it was mentioned I didn't catch it, but it felt like something they had to get out of the way like "yes, it obviously happened but why make a fuss" but it could have been a delicious opportunity for a bit of drama, perhaps something to be hinted at and handled later. A little grudge, a little longing, meaningful little scenes and lines... Now it was just Garcia. Ok we get it was all about Blake. Except that it even wasn't. They tried to squeeze everything in 45min. Prentiss out, Blake in, an unsub, look yet another unsub we can keep referring to everytime you think you're getting bored with our writing, look yet another who doesn't like Strauss (wonder they didn't add some Beth scenes and the Reids supposed girlfriend in the mix but there must have been some productional difficulties)... yet it all felt a bit worn, like saying everything's changed and yet nothing has.
And maybe I'm just a bit bitter how they keep either almost ignoring Reid or then writing him as one-dimensional. Not necessarily this ep but s7 in general. I really liked the idea of the more gutsy Reid (True Genius) and the idea of troubled Reid (Corazon) was also good and in character. But then... there are these almost "Reid-filler" eps where he acts more ooc than the others, where he's almost childish in a way he wasn't childish even in s1. I mean he's an adult now, but still they sometimes write these scenes as to keep up the illusion that he still is as he was back then, a socially inept weakling. There's a contradiction. I KNOW it's what some viewers are used to and expect but come on, stuck with your decisions (except Beth and Reids supposed new love interest [might or might not be a shipper speaking]). Even Hotch seemed like being on automation. Well, everyone actually.
All in all I guess it was a decent ep but THAT'S the part that troubles me. Being "meh" everytime an ep ends. I wasn't expecting anything to make me jump of joy, I was more like expecting something to piss me off. But it was just "meh".
But I guess they'll get to that "pissing me off" part later.