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Recap: Criminal Minds, "Somebody's Watching"

Oct 09, 2010 15:25

Done for a caseland episode review challenge

Recap: Criminal Minds, "Somebody's Watching" a.k.a. "Somebody's Watching, All Right... And is Suffering Great Pain"

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Comments 4

liberty_stewart October 10 2010, 06:32:24 UTC

Ha ha, wow. Awesome review Cat. I can not stress enough how much I hate this episode. Pretty much anything related to this episode like reviews, fanfics, Katheryn, Amber, etc are all better than the actual episode. I have to break my hate down into two pieces.

First as a casual viewer, this episode horribly sucks. This review summed up perfectly why this episode is stupid, offensive and Reid is not an interesting character! I cannot believe the creators actually thought it was a good idea to take a socially awkward and wimpy character, portray him as the complete opposite and make that the whole episode. The only one here who has a boner for Reid are the creators. Furthermore if the creators didn't had such a boner for Reid, this is how his encounter with Maggie should've gone like. It's in another language, and just replace any of those 3 guys with Reid, and that would be a more accurate result ( ... )

iamtheliquorr October 11 2010, 08:32:39 UTC

I cannot believe the creators actually thought it was a good idea to take a socially awkward and wimpy character, portray him as the complete opposite and make that the whole episode.

Right, not to mention the overall fanfic-ish feel of the episode. It's like the kind of thing a 13-yr-old Reid fan would write, and I can't imagine why anyone outside of that demographic would find anything at all to enjoy in this train wreck.

Glad you enjoyed the recap. I just posted another one for "The Performer" which actually isn't nearly as horrible an ep as this one--it was just stupid and was easy to make fun of, and Heathus knows I couldn't handle another Reid episode. In fact, I think "The Performer" is the only episode so far on my list of bombs that isn't a Reid episode. I know you've probably got it in for that ep since, while it made everyone look like an idiot, it especially made JJ look like an idiot. Here's the recap in case you're interested.

liberty_stewart October 11 2010, 09:54:14 UTC

It's like the kind of thing a 13-yr-old Reid fan would write, and I can't imagine why anyone outside of that demographic would find anything at all to enjoy in this train wreck.

Well according to that poll on CXM, this episode was actually rated very high. Really gives us an idea how horrible the faildom truly is.

Oh yeah, also got to mention that caption with Reid holdings the guns really is comical. Not only does the text make me laugh, but so does Amber's facial expression. She's so unimpress by Reid, and I don't blame her. I doubt anyone who's not a tunnel vision fan can take this episode or anything with Reid in it seriously.

I know you've probably got it in for that ep since, while it made everyone look like an idiot, it especially made JJ look like an idiot.I actually didn't mind that end part with JJ too much, because it redeemed itself by having JJ get back up and return a favour by KO one of the unsubs. Though it's another completely different thing for the faildom that butchered JJ and pasted her name on a worthless ( ... )

iamtheliquorr October 11 2010, 09:59:47 UTC

Well, seeing as most of the faildom either is a bunch of 13-yr-old girls or acts like them, I exhibit no surprise.

Re: "The Performer," that was a badass moment, but I had a hard time dealing with the idiot plot it took to get there. That episode had so many silly moments, but at least it wasn't outright offensive on the scale of SW--but then, few things are.