Is it sad I just pulled up an episode list to see which ones it meant you've seen now? I hope not. The first season ranges from 'pretty good' to 'completely awesome', and there are very few bobbles in the later ones.
I'm not the biggest Gideon fan (he's too self-absorbed and manipulative for me) but "Riding The Lightning" is freakin' amazing. I love that it's a cop show with moral complexity and psychological depth.
And you should totally write a story about Henriksen hanging out with the BAU team, once you're more caught up on canon.
Gideon is self-absorbed and manipulative but so far he seems to be on the softer side of the MB scale.
That ep was an interesting moral question, the idea that there are different ways to save people, and Gideon is so focused and his driving need to SAVE SAVE SAVE and in this case the saving would've destroyed. (I'd say the line by line writing on the show, the dialogue, isn't brilliant, but the stories and characterization are).
Gideon does use his Magnificent Bastard powers for good, it's true. He just has the self-justification and internal focus problems that are a great characterization for somebody coming back from a "major depressive episode" but can be hard to like.
Like I said when I was trying to talk you into watching, it's not ZOMGbrilliant, but it's interesting. And I'd rather watch that than something perfectly written with plot/internal canon flaws. (Well, that and my ill-concealed crush on Spencer Reid.)
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I'm not the biggest Gideon fan (he's too self-absorbed and manipulative for me) but "Riding The Lightning" is freakin' amazing. I love that it's a cop show with moral complexity and psychological depth.
And you should totally write a story about Henriksen hanging out with the BAU team, once you're more caught up on canon.
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That ep was an interesting moral question, the idea that there are different ways to save people, and Gideon is so focused and his driving need to SAVE SAVE SAVE and in this case the saving would've destroyed. (I'd say the line by line writing on the show, the dialogue, isn't brilliant, but the stories and characterization are).
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Like I said when I was trying to talk you into watching, it's not ZOMGbrilliant, but it's interesting. And I'd rather watch that than something perfectly written with plot/internal canon flaws. (Well, that and my ill-concealed crush on Spencer Reid.)
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