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 Criminal Minds 4 x 04

Paradise Part 2

The second installment, since my first post was too large...that's never happened before! O.o

I probably had too many pics squeeing over how pretty Emily is... :P


 

Back in honeymoon hell, the lady tries to open a window to freedom. Will she succeed? Can she find a way out?The suspense...


AARRGHH! *dies of fright* I knew this was coming, I knew it and yet it scared the hell out of me anyway. I am such a wuss. *shivers*




Ok, now, don’t let me stop you guys being the epitome of reason and good sense, but carefully delicately pressing your palms against the window? Is probably not the best way to break out of your prison. How about kicking it? That would allow you to use extra force without risking injury to yourself. Sheesh.

And then, knowing this guy’s been spying on you, close enough to eavesdrop and provide the perfect breakfast the wife requested while throatily murmuring in her husband’s ear in bed…they proceed to argue with each other at the top of their lungs. *facepalm* BRILLIANT, YOU GUYS. This is what he wants, just play right into his hands. Ugh. I would never want to be a victim but if I were? I would totally be smarter about it than they are.

 
Scene of random door-knocking.
Whoa, Wil Wheaton’s changed. This IS the TNG dude, right? Because…time has altered him a lot. Wow.

This is kind of sad. Hotch had the guy, the unsub was right there for the taking but his psycho!radar failed on him. >_< This plan was always a reach at best- canvass all the rural motels and count on being able to ‘sense’ that there was something off with the person you interview there? Pffft. They said earlier that the dude wasn’t some rabidly insane frothing-at-the-mouth type who would give himself up easily, so if trained profilers can be fooled, what chance do the ordinary garden-variety local cops have?



Look at this guy, he's so normal, cracking jokes about his mom, not letting his misogynistic attitude color his conversation. Isn't he a good little serial killer? Charming, funny, the kind of guy you wouldn't be afraid to stop and chat with in a store. *shudders*

 Back at the office.
Reid: Maybe he’s not in the remote areas.

Hotch: You think he’s hiding in the middle of everything?

Me: *headdesks* WAY TO LOSE CREDIBILITY WITH THE LOCALS.

How many times are they going to show they just don’t have a clue?! Suggest it could be one thing or perhaps its exact opposite? Aiyiyi. *cringes*

 So Hotch leaps at the suggestion to broaden the search parameters, but then Emily bounds in to shed some genius on their case. Yay Emily!

 

She comes up with some extra psychological insight into their unsub, but apart from beaming with pride that my girl gets to be the smart one and inject some renewed vigor into their flagging investigation, I’m too fixated on her hands to really register the details. Weird, I know, but her fingers are so long and elegant and she keeps waving them around and fiddling with her hair and pen.



Emily is all aquiver in her excitement. It’s so adorable. *pets*

 Emily: None of them were wearing underwear.

Reid: How do you know it was taken?

Emily: Because they all packed it in their bags but none were wearing it during the collision.

May I interject to SCREECH WITH LAUGHTER that Reid, their naïve little resident genius, who is clueless about girls and their habits, is the one to ask how she knew the women were in the habit of wearing underwear? *sporfles* If Morgan or someone else had asked, I’d never have blinked, but REID? :D

 

Emily: A violent collision of metal against flesh, it’s like the accident is the final rape.

*shudders* On a tangent here, I hate ‘raped-Emily’ fics. I mean, I’m not discounting the possibility that there are good- *shudders* what a description- fics out there using her rape as a plot device to explore her character and relationships with others in a sensitive and mature way but…I don’t see how I could ever enjoy that. Whumpage is one of my kinks, but not rape.




There is intense eye contact [although to be fair, Hotch's gazes are never anything BUT intense].



 Emily's giving off super-strong 'be impressed by meeee' vibes, hee.

 

Garcia: For the last two days, I’ve been searching through VICAP for similar rapes and murders in cases that are still open. That has yielded me diddlysquat. So I regrouped, looked at some pictures of baby pandas and went back in.

Firstly, has she always had that blue streak? I don’t remember seeing it all that often. O.o

Secondly, this is what I love about Garcia. She brings a softer, more human element to the show. JJ isn’t a profiler either, but she’s always trying to be tough and strong and prove that she’s as qualified and professional as everyone else. Plus, she can look through files of horrifically tortured and dismembered human beings without flinching.

Garcia, otoh, has no such immunity to the horror and disgust and fear that such images produce BUT she does her job and works the cases and she’s not afraid to mention how grossed out and squeamish she is. Garcia doesn’t see it as a sign of weakness to admit that she’s having a tough time dealing with their cases; she gets the job done anyway and nobody could do it better than her and so she’s perfectly entitled to have feelings about what she’s looking at and to express those feelings. Everyone else on the team is inured to the tragedy and horror of it all- or repress their gut reactions to what they deal with- but she brings it out in the open and deals with it in the cutest, funniest and most healthy way. It’s interesting because she’s not even the profiler and yet she has the healthiest coping mechanism of them all. She exorcizes her demons by not allowing them to linger unspoken in the depths of her mind, to multiply and haunt her in silence.

 

Heh, I love that they don’t show psycho!Wesley actually bashing up on that chick. It’s like they figured they used up their entire quota of violence against females last week with Emily, so this week they’re going for safe little cuts and transitions.

 

The team pours through ancient case files. The old school method of investigation! What next, magnifying glass and smoking pipe?

Aww, I just had the cutest mental image of Reid dressed up as Sherlock Holmes in deerstalker cap and everything. :D And JJ as Nancy Drew! Which leaves Rossi to be Hercule Poirot and…hmm, striking a blank on the other three. *ponders* What other famous detectives are there…?

 

Another week, another battered female tied up in a bed. This one is distinctly whinier and less heroic than Emily, however.

 

Not!Ethan valiantly attempts to raise her spirits, mouthing platitudes along the lines of ‘we’ll make it’ and ‘everything’s going to be okay’.

 

Psycho!Wesley senses his burgeoning hope and materializes in order to crush and stomp and pound it out of existence. Seriously, this guy is creepy, like whoa. Like a snake, coiled and innocuous, just a suggestion of malevolence one moment- then he strikes fast and unexpectedly, lethal and merciless and it freaks me out because he’s not a one-note serial killer, playing on the same level throughout the ep. It’s not just about finding and killing random people, he has to play with them, and he has these mood-swings all brutally manic and GRR in one scene, then contained and menacing the next. Unsubs that are about mind-games freak me out.

 

ROSSI. BLOCK THE DAMN SHOT WHY DON'T YOU?! *seethes*

Btw, I've noticed the BAU is baaad for the environment. Look at those humongous vehicles of theirs, those monsters can fit like, ten people, yet they still need a few different cars. Also? I’m concerned the writers are catering too much for Hotch/Rossi fans. *pouts* It’s always those two sitting next to each other in cars, in briefings, having personal little chats, counseling each other…




...the whole vibe is mom, dad and the little kid on a trip together. *stamps foot* No fair. Damn Rossi, times like this I resent him for existing. :P Even if he looks like a cuddly teddy bear I wanna just squish to itty bitty bits.

 

Hotch has a dimple? :D



Look at the body language! They're so in sync, lol.



Why is Hotch on his own? Morgan and Emily are partnered up, but superman!Hotch can take on the psycho by himself? Not that I don’t think he can, it’s just- surprising, there’s gotta be a regulation against agents going in alone if they can help it. I mean, it's not like they're short on teammates this week.

 


Kill me now. *glees* I love the image of Em and Hotch standing ready to bust into a room and take down an unsub. There’s something so sexy about them in those FBI jackets, wielding guns. I have an authority fetish, I admit it. ;P

 

*smirks* Hotch maybe shoulda called Emily to go after psycho!Wesley with him. The amount of time it took these two broad-shouldered well-muscled men to squeeze through that opening is highly entertaining. But now that I think about it, is Hotch being sexist? Emily is female and therefore not as competent as Morgan in assisting in the capture of a dangerous killer? Or is it more of a ‘let the woman deal with the traumatized victim’ thing? O.o

 

AHAHAHA! EPIC JUSTICE! The guy who leaves his kills in the paths of trucks to get kerblammied into roadkill is himself taken out by a truck. Heh. It’s a little cheesy, I mean, how Mean Girls is it, am I right? Maybe he’ll survive, reform and turn into a nicer, saner, productive member of society and leave his raping, torturing, killing days behind him.

 

Or…he could pick himself up right now, dust off the dirt, with half his face scraped off to reveal robotic underpinnings. Seriously, who’s feeling the Terminator/Sarah Connor Chronicles vibe in this ep? Car crashes happen so often, they’re like scene brackets in that show. Trucks are always used to slow down Terminators while the protagonists make their escape. Also? Note the correlation between young male protagonists getting haircuts as a sign of growing maturity. *nods meaningfully* The chopping of hair signifies the abandonment of weepy!emo!selves. Hopefully. Reid’s certainly a little more awesome in this ep, he’s more confident and less woeful than last week anyway. [As exemplified by his irritating-little-brother way of teasing her in the next scene] Thank god he got over his undeserved pity party already.

I admit, my attention is mainly on the characters and not so much on tedious little details of plot, but- why is it that trucks abound in this area? Do normal cars not traverse these roads? I know it makes for better visuals, but I’m just curious. Killer trucks roaming backwater roads. Cause for concern, no?

 

Emily: Well, roadside motels definitely go on my list.



Emily: *registers puzzled male glances* Of things never to do again.

[I make lists, too, Emily! We have so much in common!]

Reid: You have a list?

Wait- is he making fun of her? Is REID the geeky genius with a dozen neuroses making fun of my beautiful intelligent well-adjusted Emily?

 

I find her removal of the earwig to be icky yet compelling. I seriously thought she was scratching her ear or something the first time, it was like, wtf is she doing? Personal hygiene, omfg. Speaking of law enforcement equipment, hmm, I have a sudden yen to see her getting wired for some undercover assignment. Out of nowhere, just this image of Emily hooking recording devices into her clothing. Inspired by that Life ep with the psychologist stripping to her underwear to have bugs concealed on her. XP And maybe sponsored by FotoBridget2’s fic Interim [from the epic The Lion and the Antelope], which featured a mention of Emily undercover as a hooker, lol. Good times. How I wish I knew how to work photoshop. *sighs*

 

Aaand…the sexiest man on the show is brooding once more.

Hotch: I was here, I talked to him and I didn’t see it.

Omg. He’s is questioning himself. Don’t do a Gideon on me, Hotch. I could survive him leaving the show, but you? *clings*

 

Rossi: He made himself look like a good guy. You bought it. It happens to the best of us. Welcome to the club.

 [I love the facial hair! I don't know WHY, it usually irritates the hell out of me but he looks soooo adorable!]

Goddamn it, the Hotch/Rossi fans must be in perpetual glee. These two get all the mom/dad scenes I’m used to my ships getting. How unfair is life?

…and wait, that makes no sense. I get he’s trying to cheer Hotch up, but in effect, he’s saying that by screwing up, he’s joined the ranks of the best. And that is trite and stupid.

‘Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden…’

Hmm. I might have to refer to Hotch’s grammar lecture in dragonladyk’s fic, Maladroit, to figure out the whole pronoun/antecedent thing. Intelligence= singular pronoun, therefore the antecedent ‘perceives’ is correct, right? It just…it looked wrong, at first. Yes, I’m batty that way. XP

 

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