| ( Spoilers wear dresses )
I embarrassed tonight myself by being able to name Jackson Rathbone (although I hadn't realised he was the funny looking one on Twilight till Mum looked him up on IMDB), and being able to name Matthew Gray Gubler and knowing he used to be a model. After already having said that he looked extra-pretty in this episode.
Then we went and looked at his website and it has got even more awesome since I last visited. Man, I just want him to be my best friend. You should all visit and then go onto 'web page' and scroll down and listen to him read 'Annabel Lee'. Or maybe it is only me who could listen to him forever. I'll be off swooning. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| You know what's annoying? Trying to pay your bloody uni fees and, for no reason at all, the credit card transaction won't go through. Grr.
Criminal Minds tonight. Oh no, I just looked up the episode guide and only two left this season! However am I to fill my Thursday nights now?
( Open Season! )
My computer is kicking me off now, night night. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Blasted double episodes! They get you all scared-up and then they're like, ha ha, not till next week! Torment! Our timeshare had better be getting channel 1, or I swear, I will just like, explode.
Although I did miss the first scene. People don't realise that just because you're sitting there, doesn't mean you realise the shows started! I was reading about vampires! So Mum had to briefly sum up the murder, and in doing so also gave the whole thing that made this unsub so weird. Because she's onto it. (The problem too, when they're hiding key things about someone by not showing them, is that it's obvious. But what do you do, if you don't want the audience to be in on it from the start?)
I think it started actually being scary when Garcia finds out the murder videos are being posted on the net. Not that I need be concerned about people spying on me from my computer - I don't have a webcam, and I certainly never call any kind of tech support. I like how Garcia calls non-techy people 'mortals', and so casually! Actually, Hex in the Chris Ryan books does the same thing... I'm clearly not cool enough.
But! Women being eaten by dogs is scary. Cornfields are scary (even if they're actually fields of sunflowers?). People splitting up when they're alone and out of cellphone range - scary. Perhaps just rural areas in general are scary? This is probably the spookiest episode in a while. Yes, even before Reid is in imminent danger. Although that probably helps.
I fear I'm just going to go off into fangirlish squee now. I'm sure seeing the promos all week will put me in a suitable state of fear for watching the show in. And, you know, I'll be on holiday again, so if I post it will be after a period in which I can reflect, ensuring that I will actually be coherent. Because I'm all over the place here.
Show, I love you! I think I am going to have to go make an icon just to express that love. Now. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I had my third Criminal Minds dream last night. Go me! Apparently, my brain is concerned about characterisation even when it's asleep, because I kept redoing Reid's dialogue. Oh, brain. I was a bit confused now, because the contents of the dream didn't match the trailer of this week's episode. (Except that they were both Reid-centric. You know.)
I'm almost sorry. I would've liked to have known who Hotch meant when he said he'd slept with a team member! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This is my belated thoughts on a couple of season 2's earlier episodes (2.13 plays tonight). I wrote these notes at work, on a scrap of paper it took me a while to find again. That's what happens when you leave your notebook by the computer...
( Episode 2.05 - Aftermath )
( Episode 2.06 - The Boogeyman )
We've had new brunette girl for three episodes now; I'm not sure what to make of her. (I also can't remember her name yet.) She's not as badass as Elle, though I don't think I should hold that against her. We just don't know her well enough yet, but I don't doubt there's something there. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I know, even the New Zealand season 1 is old news. But, to celebrate season 2 starting this week, and on account of not wanting to suffer 'Are You Smarter Than a 10-Year Old', my family decided to watch some Criminal Minds. Because we hadn't been watching it from the beginning, after all.
And omigosh, I love this show so bad. My favourite characters are Reid and Garcia (because like attracts like, and I am a geek.) I love Garcia's little flirty thing with Morgan. I love that Reid can profile you from your go game (even if he can't beat Gideon at chess).
I also like how Gideon has all the ownage. And how in a secret previous life, he was Inigo Montoya. You would never know, only ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) devilcactus told me. (It was funny, we were watching the first episode, and devilcactus texted me in excitement about the second season.)
Episode one, we get the introductions. Hotch with his pregnant wife, picking baby names; Morgan flirting with cute girls. The only other episode I recall having seen their 'other lives' in was the final of season one, the cliffhanger, when they were supposed to be getting a holiday. Gideon is lecturing but chose to called him back for a case and oo, is he ready to go back on the job? Trauma back story, to be revealed in episode three (which is where he most owns). And he is totally staunch and awesome. I think he is good at teaching people though - although probably he's just doing that in the episodes to explain stuff to us audience. There's a bit of that, but mostly you don't mind because it's presented reasonably.
We have a strangler in episode one. They find the guy halfway through - and they're right, but you know it can't be over yet. I could not escape thinking my friend Hayden could have played the 'unsub' really well. It's the being small and scrawny and also totally disturbed thing.
Episode two: University arson! Also: "OCD? More like OMG." My sister and I both burst out laughing at the unsub's message on the FBI hotline. Because it sounded very like, "I do this for Kira." (Actually it was 'Charon', but our interpretation was more entertaining.)
Episode three is a bomber who isn't, in the end, a bomber profile. Gideon has to deal with the killer who left six of his agents dead, in order to save the day. I love Gideon in this episode. There was also lots of Garcia/Morgan flirting, but not much Reid. I was happy.
The guy who plays Reid has a totally awesome website, which totally delighted me. A friend of mine had actually mentioned it ages ago (we've been watching Dead Like Me, also featuring Mandy Patinkin, and I'd gone off on a Criminal Minds love-spiel). Clearly, I was only just inspired to actually look it up.
I doubt we'll be watching all of season one again in preparation for the second (pity), but I am thinking I must object my friends to a marathon some time. Maybe for the summer. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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