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enemyofperfectOne of them good, and one bad.
(CM 8x01 spoilers, mention of suicide, and possible ableism)
The good: Blake! Oh my gosh, I love Blake! I love that she treats Hotch like a peer -- and is his peer, in age and in attainment, if not in field experience. I love that there's a reason she hasn't been working at the BAU, and I love that that reason involves nasty politics and tense interactions with Strauss. (Whom, incidentally -- making amends, is she?) I love that Blake has worked with Reid before, that everyone in the team except for Morgan and Garcia have gotten a chance to get to know her at least a little -- and that it's still going to take her a while to fully integrate, even so. I love that she doesn't feel that she owes it to anyone to tell her life story, smooth over awkward pauses, or make nice. I very much look forward to getting to know her.
The bad, or at minimum baffling: What on earth was up with the whole "so sad, but really, there's nothing that anyone could have done" take on the guy shooting himself? Am I missing something? Wasn't a major component of his distress the fact that the cochlear implant was causing him significant amounts of pain? Doesn't it seem like removing it might have been a good idea? Seriously, if I'm missing something, I'd like to know it, but... what the hell? Wouldn't that have been a completely obvious thing to at least suggest?
Obviously there were a ton of other things going on in this episode -- Morgan! Garcia! the unsub tenderly feeding a baby just to get it to shut the fuck up! JJ having Strong Opinions about abusive mothers! the fact that there was no fiendish escape plan, just an unhappy, messed-up dude taking advantage of an unfortunate sequence of events! -- but this is what I seem to have come away with, mostly: Blake is seven different kinds of awesome, but seriously, what was up with that ending to the case?
(CM 8x01 spoilers, mention of suicide, and possible ableism)
The good: Blake! Oh my gosh, I love Blake! I love that she treats Hotch like a peer -- and is his peer, in age and in attainment, if not in field experience. I love that there's a reason she hasn't been working at the BAU, and I love that that reason involves nasty politics and tense interactions with Strauss. (Whom, incidentally -- making amends, is she?) I love that Blake has worked with Reid before, that everyone in the team except for Morgan and Garcia have gotten a chance to get to know her at least a little -- and that it's still going to take her a while to fully integrate, even so. I love that she doesn't feel that she owes it to anyone to tell her life story, smooth over awkward pauses, or make nice. I very much look forward to getting to know her.
The bad, or at minimum baffling: What on earth was up with the whole "so sad, but really, there's nothing that anyone could have done" take on the guy shooting himself? Am I missing something? Wasn't a major component of his distress the fact that the cochlear implant was causing him significant amounts of pain? Doesn't it seem like removing it might have been a good idea? Seriously, if I'm missing something, I'd like to know it, but... what the hell? Wouldn't that have been a completely obvious thing to at least suggest?
Obviously there were a ton of other things going on in this episode -- Morgan! Garcia! the unsub tenderly feeding a baby just to get it to shut the fuck up! JJ having Strong Opinions about abusive mothers! the fact that there was no fiendish escape plan, just an unhappy, messed-up dude taking advantage of an unfortunate sequence of events! -- but this is what I seem to have come away with, mostly: Blake is seven different kinds of awesome, but seriously, what was up with that ending to the case?
