A few days ago I finished the binge from hell (Criminal Minds)
What made it hellish was that I just could not stop. I don’t know if it was also something about the show or just my out-of-control ADHD using this as an excuse to ignore my to-do list. And so this binge took under 2 months, which - FUN FACT! - is shorter than finding a doc these days to get an ADHD diagnosis from (the German healthcare system has such a good reputation, but honestly, shit’s been going down the drain since before Covid - and I say that as a city dweller).
If you’re wondering how my fragile mind managed to handle this non-stop input of murder and various forms of torture:
- Ignore the cases or try to enjoy them as revenge fantasies.
- Focus on the team and all the “Hey, I know you from this/that/everywhere!” guest stars instead
- Crochet while watching. I’ve made such progress, the first of my cherry-pit socks is nearly finished!
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve properly watched TV: The season I’m most familiar with is 2! Since other factors hadn’t come into play yet, I suspect what caused this was a deterioration in adhering to a schedule (hm, parallel with rl, so I guess due to not being bound by a rl schedule, I slowly lost the ability to keep up with the TV schedule) and my growing passionate hatred of annoying commercials which had led me to getting stuck on Nickelodeon (their ads were also annoying, iirc, but … uh, idk, can’t remember), a documentary channel and CNN (International, that is - such bearable commercials, they should be the model for all).
I liked all the women on the team, which must have been a first. I couldn’t tell you a favorite, because every one of them is great in her own way. Let me point out Garcia though, for giving me back the joy of hair decorations. Huh, I thought not having NCIS’s Abby in my life anymore didn’t impact me, but Garcia made me realize that without Abby my encouragement was gone. Man, do I hate that I need continual encouragement to be myself! So there’s another CM binge and the long-time-coming NCIS rewatch with making caps of my girls in my future. Maybe I’ll make myself a motivational collage and hang it on the wall above my monitor.
Anyway, on to the team’s men! *sigh* Those were mixed bag for me. I mean, nobody was really bad, but it did span the whole range of chest-thumping type (which ugh - although Morgan’s relationship with Garcia remains the best thing, they were close and cute but not a thing and that’s the queerplatonic shit I wanna see everywhere, fuck yeah!) to guy who’s just, idk, there and the that’s-my-boy guy. My boy was and still is Reid *pat pat*. And as a bonus during this binge he functioned as my Peter Maximoff substitute. He did that not only by being my fave, but for example also by having messy lightbrown hair. Which, sure, isn’t Peter, but it is Evan Peters (I’d like to take this moment to thank the writers for all the Evans and Peterss they put in and the casting person for that one time we got actual EP), who usually is my PM substitute. Hmph, I didn’t talk about Spence as much as I meant to, but where to even begin?
I wonder what people think about the revival. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t quite feel like previous seasons. I’m not that good at finding out what is bothering me about stuff, so it might have been more things besides it feeling darker visually and too much swearing (I’m generally not against it, but after 15 seasons of it not being there, it just felt so out of place). I wasn’t happy with the lack of my boy, but if there’s one thing this revival did right, it was the absence of change in the meantime (except for what they put Rossi through), Reid as well as everyone else still worked at the BAU, we just didn’t see him and Simmons because they were on assignment.
I kinda want to talk about ALL the things, but I wouldn’t be able to remember all that I want and writing all that I do would take sooo long. So if anyone wants to talk about anything specific, I’m here.
If you’re wondering how my fragile mind managed to handle this non-stop input of murder and various forms of torture:
- Ignore the cases or try to enjoy them as revenge fantasies.
- Focus on the team and all the “Hey, I know you from this/that/everywhere!” guest stars instead
- Crochet while watching. I’ve made such progress, the first of my cherry-pit socks is nearly finished!
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve properly watched TV: The season I’m most familiar with is 2! Since other factors hadn’t come into play yet, I suspect what caused this was a deterioration in adhering to a schedule (hm, parallel with rl, so I guess due to not being bound by a rl schedule, I slowly lost the ability to keep up with the TV schedule) and my growing passionate hatred of annoying commercials which had led me to getting stuck on Nickelodeon (their ads were also annoying, iirc, but … uh, idk, can’t remember), a documentary channel and CNN (International, that is - such bearable commercials, they should be the model for all).
I liked all the women on the team, which must have been a first. I couldn’t tell you a favorite, because every one of them is great in her own way. Let me point out Garcia though, for giving me back the joy of hair decorations. Huh, I thought not having NCIS’s Abby in my life anymore didn’t impact me, but Garcia made me realize that without Abby my encouragement was gone. Man, do I hate that I need continual encouragement to be myself! So there’s another CM binge and the long-time-coming NCIS rewatch with making caps of my girls in my future. Maybe I’ll make myself a motivational collage and hang it on the wall above my monitor.
Anyway, on to the team’s men! *sigh* Those were mixed bag for me. I mean, nobody was really bad, but it did span the whole range of chest-thumping type (which ugh - although Morgan’s relationship with Garcia remains the best thing, they were close and cute but not a thing and that’s the queerplatonic shit I wanna see everywhere, fuck yeah!) to guy who’s just, idk, there and the that’s-my-boy guy. My boy was and still is Reid *pat pat*. And as a bonus during this binge he functioned as my Peter Maximoff substitute. He did that not only by being my fave, but for example also by having messy lightbrown hair. Which, sure, isn’t Peter, but it is Evan Peters (I’d like to take this moment to thank the writers for all the Evans and Peterss they put in and the casting person for that one time we got actual EP), who usually is my PM substitute. Hmph, I didn’t talk about Spence as much as I meant to, but where to even begin?
I wonder what people think about the revival. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t quite feel like previous seasons. I’m not that good at finding out what is bothering me about stuff, so it might have been more things besides it feeling darker visually and too much swearing (I’m generally not against it, but after 15 seasons of it not being there, it just felt so out of place). I wasn’t happy with the lack of my boy, but if there’s one thing this revival did right, it was the absence of change in the meantime (except for what they put Rossi through), Reid as well as everyone else still worked at the BAU, we just didn’t see him and Simmons because they were on assignment.
I kinda want to talk about ALL the things, but I wouldn’t be able to remember all that I want and writing all that I do would take sooo long. So if anyone wants to talk about anything specific, I’m here.