Tumblr informs me this episode might be upsetting. But then, it's tumblr.

[a_blackpanther]

This is the discussion post for Episode 8x12 - "Zugzwang". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

[blue-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Well that ending sucked.

[lythinae.livejournal.com]

*shuts the fridge door*

[lady-agrias.livejournal.com]

WHAT JUST HAPPENED.

[meepalicious.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Frances and I'm new and I'm here because my heart just got ripped out of my chest and then stomped on by a TV show.

[liliaeth]

Way too much Reid, but then I've been wanting a Reid light season for years

[jsks.livejournal.com]

WTH?

[knightsblack.livejournal.com]

Goddamn. God. Fucking. Damn.

That is all.

[a_blackpanther]

Oh dear. Welcome to the club. We have cookies, but those aren't nearly enough to help.

[meepalicious.livejournal.com]

I've been following the show for several seasons now, but I've always done okay watching it by myself and then suddenly I was like "but I can't hold all these feels."

Nice to meet you.

[a_blackpanther]

Nice to meet you as well! Actually, I'm rather woefully behind on this season. :/

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

I think upsetting was a bit of an understatement for this episode, especially the end. Heartless, cruel bastards at CBS need to give me back the heart they ripped out of my chest then stomped on.

[eiffelicious.livejournal.com]

Cruel is the perfect word. Unnecessarily cruel.

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

I sat in stunned silence for several seconds after the ending. Then the profanity mumbled under my breath started. All I keep thinking is "Why was that necessary? They didn't have to do that."

[miss-sarac.livejournal.com]

woah these comments are worrisome....PLEASE SPOIL ME.

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

I really don't understand Breen's thought process in this whole Reid mess. He knows the fans love Reid... why give him a girlfriend and then kill her? It makes absolutely no sense and frankly it was dumb... I love this cast but this show has been sliding downhill at an accelerating pace. I know we've had this discussion before but when you show who the unsub is in the first 10 minutes, its not about the criminal mind anymore..

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to feel about this show the way I did about CSI (original). I would rather they end it before it goes completely off track and I end up hating what it's become.

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

Actually CSI has gotten better since they got rid of Langston and brought in Ted Danson (whom I was really worried about). The cases flow and things work.

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

I have watched it since Ted Danson joined the cast, but it's still not the way it was originally. I loved the original premise and how the focus was on the case, on the science of solving the case.

I realize that shows evolve and change over time, but often (far too often) they overstay their welcome and jump whole shark tanks at a time or become rehashes of rehashes of the original episodes. I would rather a show end before that happens.

[junejuuri.livejournal.com]

That ending was so unnecessary. It made me angry. Even though almost every episode they manage to talk down the unsub and save the hostage victim, this one time it doesn't work? I was really happy about Reid finally having a girlfriend but what was the point if they were just going to kill her off after a few episodes?

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

Very true (about both). I think it's better now that Lawrence Fisburne is gone but yah it's not about the science anymore as much.

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

The science is what attracted me to the show in the first place. I was about 5 years out of mortuary school and I understood the terminology they were using. It was incredibly fascinating to me.

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

Yep, this exactly. I liked how they built their relationship. I liked that they were attracted to each other for their brains and the connection they shared that had nothing to do with physical appearance, because that is exactly what you'd expect Reid to need and want. Then to kill her off at the end of the episode where he sees her for the first time? Cruel and heartless. That takes "break the cutie" to a whole new level.

[diemme.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else having visions of Maeve in a coma and Reid visiting and reading and talking to her for a season or so? I'm also wondering if this is setting up Reid to leave after the next season. I'm not sure when MGG's contract runs out.

[diemme.livejournal.com]

CSI is really pushing its sell by date. I loved that the show was centered around science and the lab, even the politics and interpersonal relationships. The show's world is wider now and I'm not sure it's a good development.

[hitz-girl.livejournal.com]

I did not like the ending at all!!!!!!!!!!