The end of the World
HEAVY spoiler under the cut!
I watched all episodes since Corazon in a row today. I did that so I wouldn’t be angsting for a week or two about what might happen to my beloved Prentiss, but as it turns out it was good for something else as well.
Watching so many episodes I realized that most of the Unsubs were ripped from movies and books and that there was little original material. Bonny and Clyde, The Perfume, Misery… and the whole Ian Doyle thing was so cliched…
Gone are the days of Revelations and Minimal Loss. Gone are also the days when it was “cool” to have watched an episode of the show you’re writing for. There was so much ooc in these episodes and as it turns out in the entire season.
How come no one noticed Reid’s headaches? How come no one pushed the issue with Emily? Am I upset that Emily didn’t get a good bye scene like JJ? You bet I am. Sure, the last episode was dripping of subtext.
The person to shed a light on Emily is JJ. And she’s the one the doctors told that Emily wouldn’t make it. She was the first to put a rose on her coffin and if she was just saying good bye to a friend, where was Will to support the mother of his child? Right.
But that did not make up for everything else. And it certainly wasn’t enough to make me cry. That’s right. I didn’t shed a single tear. I was shocked myself. After all this ooc crap (where’s the Prius? Why did she move? And what was with that awful interior design? It looked like Strauss’ place, not Emily. How convenient that she was on vacation. A vacation that she didn’t even cut short mind you.)
So what do we learn from all of this?
I have a background story for Prentiss, that if I may so myself is way better. (Why did everyone knew she was with Interpol before joining the BAU? Did everyone forget that they thought she came off a desk job and should’ve been shocked by dismembered bodies? Clearly no one saw Revelations.)
In my story there’s a good explanation why Emily didn’t tell anyone what she was doing before and it’s much more in character. For several reasons I held that story back and did not incorporate it in LTW S4.
After seeing this crap I am now convinced that I should be rewriting S5, because I feel I can do better. This might have been cocky before, but now - not so much. I will end my story probably before S6 and find a better way to write out JJ or I might not. The jury is still out on that.
Either way I have let go of canon!Emily which I thought would be a big deal. Once again the deplorable writing has made things easy. What they wrote is pretty much a bad fanfic. Strike that. A bad fic. A fan would never have warped the characters to the point where we don’t even recognize them.
The only regret I have is for Paget Brewster. Her superb acting, her commitment to the show and her loyalty (I mean that in the sense that she didn’t stop doing a hell of job even after the series jumped the shark) - she deserves better. I wonder how the actors feel.
When Hotch looked at that exit sign at the end of Lauren I wondered if Gibson contemplated leaving the show himself. At this point I wouldn’t blame him or any of the others. But then something has to pay the rent.
All in all there is good to be found though not in the way I was hoping.
I watched all episodes since Corazon in a row today. I did that so I wouldn’t be angsting for a week or two about what might happen to my beloved Prentiss, but as it turns out it was good for something else as well.
Watching so many episodes I realized that most of the Unsubs were ripped from movies and books and that there was little original material. Bonny and Clyde, The Perfume, Misery… and the whole Ian Doyle thing was so cliched…
Gone are the days of Revelations and Minimal Loss. Gone are also the days when it was “cool” to have watched an episode of the show you’re writing for. There was so much ooc in these episodes and as it turns out in the entire season.
How come no one noticed Reid’s headaches? How come no one pushed the issue with Emily? Am I upset that Emily didn’t get a good bye scene like JJ? You bet I am. Sure, the last episode was dripping of subtext.
The person to shed a light on Emily is JJ. And she’s the one the doctors told that Emily wouldn’t make it. She was the first to put a rose on her coffin and if she was just saying good bye to a friend, where was Will to support the mother of his child? Right.
But that did not make up for everything else. And it certainly wasn’t enough to make me cry. That’s right. I didn’t shed a single tear. I was shocked myself. After all this ooc crap (where’s the Prius? Why did she move? And what was with that awful interior design? It looked like Strauss’ place, not Emily. How convenient that she was on vacation. A vacation that she didn’t even cut short mind you.)
So what do we learn from all of this?
I have a background story for Prentiss, that if I may so myself is way better. (Why did everyone knew she was with Interpol before joining the BAU? Did everyone forget that they thought she came off a desk job and should’ve been shocked by dismembered bodies? Clearly no one saw Revelations.)
In my story there’s a good explanation why Emily didn’t tell anyone what she was doing before and it’s much more in character. For several reasons I held that story back and did not incorporate it in LTW S4.
After seeing this crap I am now convinced that I should be rewriting S5, because I feel I can do better. This might have been cocky before, but now - not so much. I will end my story probably before S6 and find a better way to write out JJ or I might not. The jury is still out on that.
Either way I have let go of canon!Emily which I thought would be a big deal. Once again the deplorable writing has made things easy. What they wrote is pretty much a bad fanfic. Strike that. A bad fic. A fan would never have warped the characters to the point where we don’t even recognize them.
The only regret I have is for Paget Brewster. Her superb acting, her commitment to the show and her loyalty (I mean that in the sense that she didn’t stop doing a hell of job even after the series jumped the shark) - she deserves better. I wonder how the actors feel.
When Hotch looked at that exit sign at the end of Lauren I wondered if Gibson contemplated leaving the show himself. At this point I wouldn’t blame him or any of the others. But then something has to pay the rent.
All in all there is good to be found though not in the way I was hoping.