Criminal Minds 05x09, "100" - reaction post
Liveblogging, again. That happens when I'm not totally riveted.
My reactions on the whole were just… less than other people's. We all knew where it was going, basically; sometimes the audience knowing that can result in an incredibly potent helplessness, where the foreknowledge just makes everything worse. This time, I'm afraid I just switched off.
Warning: reaction post contains flippancy. I'm sorry, I just don't know how to turn it off.
• This episode will be Tragic. I know it will, because there is no sound and everything is in slow motion.
• This is the first time it's occurred to them that someone with a large, complex, highly traceable drug regimen might try to find ways around it? Lolwhut? (For the most part, this show is pretty good about its clue-strewing, but sometimes, the entire team does seem to he holding the idiot ball.)
• Return of Anderson! Anderson being snarky! D'aww, Anderson. <3
• Okay, Kevin, you're making me throw up a bit in my mouth. Talk "man to man" with Rossi all you want, but leave off with the bacon doughnuts.
• GARCIA FTW.
• REID HATH A PIMP CANE.
• P.S., Reid, please get a fucking haircut. You are sort of an FBI agent. I hope Strauss tells him to get a haircut.
• Oh, Prentiss, you and your lack of filter between brain and mouth. I love you for it.
• "It's part of the reason I stepped down: so he'd think I was falling apart." Hotch, you are a smart bastard sometimes.
• Kevin, Naproxen IS Aleve, genius. And there may be no exact substitute for Percocet, but similar opiates are frequently used in lieu. Ah, y'all finally mentioned the street availability issue, thx.
• D'aww, Garcia and Kevin work well. It's nice that they've done something with their relationship.
• I know these low-saturation flashbacks to the Reaper are meant to be scary, but I'm afraid they're just kinda lulzy. Tone it down, peeps; if I thought the Joker was terrifying I'd watch Batman.
• "So how much longer do we wait?" "We need to leave that call to someone else." Shit, poor Morgan.
• D'aww, Rossi just called Morgan "kid." And it didn't make me want to smack him upside the head. You've come a long way, Agent Rossi.
• Annnnd Reid lays the smackdown on Strauss.
• Strauss has not advised him to get a haircut. This strikes me as rank hypocrisy.
• AUUGHHHHH! Did they have to show us the guy's mutilated hands?! Eyes I can deal with. Hands, no thank you.
• OH, PRENTISS. I love you and your bitchy foot-tapping. And your bitchy, surly, borderline insubordinate "Ma'am?".
• "Is there a question in there somewhere?" ILU PRENTISS
• "You decided that all women are weak." "Those are your words, not mine." Oh-ho. This could be a Hannibal Lecture that actually has some teeth.
• You are the best one, Morgan.
By which I mean, "You are the best one, Shemar Moore." His guilt and devastation as his interview with Strauss begins are pretty much perfect. Sorry, Thomas Gibson. I know this is your big moment and all, but this is the guy who just made me believe in this whole episode.
• "Did you even tell her what this is about?" 'Tis the episode of effective Hannibal Lectures, natch!
• …I LOLed when Foyet covered Jack's ears and spelled out "die." There is something wrong with me. O_O Seriously, though. I wasn't that impressed with the guy playing Foyet back in S4, but he's bringing a wicked awesome, dark-comedic sociopathy to it this time.
• Haley? Yeah, I still like her. Quite a lot. And she's gotten frankly epic now. Quiet dignity, you are doing it right.
• "I know you didn't sign on for this." "Neither did you." HOLY SHIT, HALEY HOTCHNER. YOU >>>> HOTCH. You >>>>>>>> everybody, really.
• They show everyone's reaction's except for Reid's. Huh.
• Oh, right, NOW we get a look at their kitchen. Could've used that a week ago.
• Long stretch sans soundtrack? Excellent decision. And I wished they'd do it more often; their soundtracks generally range from mediocre to really annoying.
• I'll give Foyet this: He's a very thorough sadist. Pity he couldn't have been anywhere near this good last time; then maybe I'd care about what's happening now.
• Good boy, Hotch. Good boy. Now I want you to do something for me: I want you to ring up Elle. And I want you to tell her that she had a point. Because you know what? She fucking did.
• And the writers did right by Strauss. She did her job, with all the sliminess and unpleasantness expected of her, with each member of the team; and then she treated Hotch like a human being and continued to do her job by doing the right thing. They didn't go the easy route of making her a complete monster.
• Some people really do just need killing.
• Well, that was messy.
Just realized how callous my entire post seems. Partly that's just how I react to horrible things, and partly the episode didn't move me as much as it probably should have.
It must sound like I hate Hotch. I don't, but I never really got invested in him, either, over the entire span of the show. Hotch's emo is perhaps the most justified of them all, yet I can't care about it that much, because I never did latch onto him that much. I know, I know-I'm horrible. I don't know why, either, because the Stoic is usually the first character I'm drawn to in any ensemble cast. But Hotch's stoicism never did that much for me, so watching it break down didn't do much, either.
Haley, now. Haley is another matter. If you went back and rewrote the show with SSA Haley Hotchner, I would watch the shit out of that.
So I suppose I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with everybody while Hotch is on leave, especially Morgan.
Now I can read my f-list again, though!
My reactions on the whole were just… less than other people's. We all knew where it was going, basically; sometimes the audience knowing that can result in an incredibly potent helplessness, where the foreknowledge just makes everything worse. This time, I'm afraid I just switched off.
Warning: reaction post contains flippancy. I'm sorry, I just don't know how to turn it off.
• This episode will be Tragic. I know it will, because there is no sound and everything is in slow motion.
• This is the first time it's occurred to them that someone with a large, complex, highly traceable drug regimen might try to find ways around it? Lolwhut? (For the most part, this show is pretty good about its clue-strewing, but sometimes, the entire team does seem to he holding the idiot ball.)
• Return of Anderson! Anderson being snarky! D'aww, Anderson. <3
• Okay, Kevin, you're making me throw up a bit in my mouth. Talk "man to man" with Rossi all you want, but leave off with the bacon doughnuts.
• GARCIA FTW.
• REID HATH A PIMP CANE.
• P.S., Reid, please get a fucking haircut. You are sort of an FBI agent. I hope Strauss tells him to get a haircut.
• Oh, Prentiss, you and your lack of filter between brain and mouth. I love you for it.
• "It's part of the reason I stepped down: so he'd think I was falling apart." Hotch, you are a smart bastard sometimes.
• Kevin, Naproxen IS Aleve, genius. And there may be no exact substitute for Percocet, but similar opiates are frequently used in lieu. Ah, y'all finally mentioned the street availability issue, thx.
• D'aww, Garcia and Kevin work well. It's nice that they've done something with their relationship.
• I know these low-saturation flashbacks to the Reaper are meant to be scary, but I'm afraid they're just kinda lulzy. Tone it down, peeps; if I thought the Joker was terrifying I'd watch Batman.
• "So how much longer do we wait?" "We need to leave that call to someone else." Shit, poor Morgan.
• D'aww, Rossi just called Morgan "kid." And it didn't make me want to smack him upside the head. You've come a long way, Agent Rossi.
• Annnnd Reid lays the smackdown on Strauss.
• Strauss has not advised him to get a haircut. This strikes me as rank hypocrisy.
• AUUGHHHHH! Did they have to show us the guy's mutilated hands?! Eyes I can deal with. Hands, no thank you.
• OH, PRENTISS. I love you and your bitchy foot-tapping. And your bitchy, surly, borderline insubordinate "Ma'am?".
• "Is there a question in there somewhere?" ILU PRENTISS
• "You decided that all women are weak." "Those are your words, not mine." Oh-ho. This could be a Hannibal Lecture that actually has some teeth.
• You are the best one, Morgan.
By which I mean, "You are the best one, Shemar Moore." His guilt and devastation as his interview with Strauss begins are pretty much perfect. Sorry, Thomas Gibson. I know this is your big moment and all, but this is the guy who just made me believe in this whole episode.
• "Did you even tell her what this is about?" 'Tis the episode of effective Hannibal Lectures, natch!
• …I LOLed when Foyet covered Jack's ears and spelled out "die." There is something wrong with me. O_O Seriously, though. I wasn't that impressed with the guy playing Foyet back in S4, but he's bringing a wicked awesome, dark-comedic sociopathy to it this time.
• Haley? Yeah, I still like her. Quite a lot. And she's gotten frankly epic now. Quiet dignity, you are doing it right.
• "I know you didn't sign on for this." "Neither did you." HOLY SHIT, HALEY HOTCHNER. YOU >>>> HOTCH. You >>>>>>>> everybody, really.
• They show everyone's reaction's except for Reid's. Huh.
• Oh, right, NOW we get a look at their kitchen. Could've used that a week ago.
• Long stretch sans soundtrack? Excellent decision. And I wished they'd do it more often; their soundtracks generally range from mediocre to really annoying.
• I'll give Foyet this: He's a very thorough sadist. Pity he couldn't have been anywhere near this good last time; then maybe I'd care about what's happening now.
• Good boy, Hotch. Good boy. Now I want you to do something for me: I want you to ring up Elle. And I want you to tell her that she had a point. Because you know what? She fucking did.
• And the writers did right by Strauss. She did her job, with all the sliminess and unpleasantness expected of her, with each member of the team; and then she treated Hotch like a human being and continued to do her job by doing the right thing. They didn't go the easy route of making her a complete monster.
• Some people really do just need killing.
• Well, that was messy.
Just realized how callous my entire post seems. Partly that's just how I react to horrible things, and partly the episode didn't move me as much as it probably should have.
It must sound like I hate Hotch. I don't, but I never really got invested in him, either, over the entire span of the show. Hotch's emo is perhaps the most justified of them all, yet I can't care about it that much, because I never did latch onto him that much. I know, I know-I'm horrible. I don't know why, either, because the Stoic is usually the first character I'm drawn to in any ensemble cast. But Hotch's stoicism never did that much for me, so watching it break down didn't do much, either.
Haley, now. Haley is another matter. If you went back and rewrote the show with SSA Haley Hotchner, I would watch the shit out of that.
So I suppose I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with everybody while Hotch is on leave, especially Morgan.
Now I can read my f-list again, though!