Comments | bibliothekara: CM 6.01, "The Longest Night": "It's not choosing who dies; it's choosing who doesn't."

bibliothekara

CM 6.01, "The Longest Night": "It's not choosing who dies; it's choosing who doesn't."

Sep 22, 2010 22:05

I was so pissed in July when the news came. So pissed. But there's still so much I love about the show, and they've sucked me in for the time being.

Oh, Ellie Spicer. Ellie, you are my girl, forever. "We're not a team." Saving the little boy. Snarking off to Billy Flynn. Remaining essentially Ellie throughout. Who knows how the rest of your life ( Read more... )

"the longest night", jj, criminal minds, ep!review, morgan, hotch

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bluerosefairy September 23 2010, 02:46:13 UTC

WORD to what you said, but I was also having thinky-thoughts about another interesting little bit:

Billy's "it's not choosing who lives, it's choosing who dies" and childish devolution reminded me of Kyle from The Pretender, another psychopath who was fucked up as a child. His Madness Mantra was "I decide who lives and dies" (though his storyline is, of course, much more complicated). Playing God. And I think it's very apropos that in both shows, the one of our heroes who has the most tenuous connection to faith and organized religion (Miss Parker in Pretender; Morgan in CM) is the one to take them down. Because even though they're not religious, they know that it's NOT okay to play God.

bibliothekara September 23 2010, 02:59:33 UTC

I never saw any more than a few minutes of The Pretender, but it sounded interesting. But:

I think it may be another facet of the discussion about whether, to believe in the Devil, you have to believe in God as well. Whether to believe in a malign unconscious inherent in all conscious human beings, you must also admit to some conscious force of good in all of those human beings as well. Morgan was raised in an environment of both of them. He's struggling to reconcile two sets of data, and it fucks him up.

You've got Reid, who knows "both answers" in an intellectual sense, but is thinking through it for his own damn self. You've got Rossi and Emily, our lapsed Catholics, who have that whole 2 millenia of history. And then there's JJ and Hotch, who have no specific history, but seem to be (right now) our control cases.

/has maybe overthought this

zeborahnz September 23 2010, 07:55:12 UTC

I get the feeling Hotch's mother would have made sure he attended Sunday School at whatever church was most socially acceptable in her circles when he was growing up.

I also think he studied theology at some point (at least as a minor), though I base this almost entirely on him quietly crossing his arms when someone postulated that the unsub of "Compulsion" was a theology major.

/may also have overthought this

fabrisse September 23 2010, 04:02:59 UTC

I agree that Curry did a fabulous job tonight -- Especially his surprise that Morgan thought he cared whether or not people showed fear.

Morgan pissed me off though, and I wish JJ had filibustered beautifully without making it be about Mommy...

Still, there's a smile on my face because Garcia knew how to forgive Morgan, and Reid knew how many cops there are in LA (county and city), and Hotch gave the tough orders, and Prentiss was sympathetic to a hurting woman and...

zeborahnz September 23 2010, 07:52:21 UTC

I started adoring Ellie as soon as she worked out that he'd let her go on purpose, and I adored her all the more with each moment up to and including when she hears the news from Morgan and goes to hug him.

(Also couldn't JJ have said "Hi, I'm JJ, I'm here to empathise with you but that'd be a whole lot easier if you'd pick up a phone and call me so we can have a real conversation"?)