Well, this one was refreshing in that there weren't any gruesome torture sequences or screaming-victims-moments-before-they-die kinda interludes.
Yeah. But POTUS, the Joint Chiefs, the Attorney General, the NSA, Homeland Security, and some other official types made a conference call to laugh about this one. I'm sorry - I hate being negative about something I love - but the story was ridiculous. The UnSub was motivated by a bad date and a massive misinterpretation of Robert Oppenheimer's entire career? I suppose that there doesn't have to be a good reason for an act of terrorism, but it makes for slightly perplexing tv. Also, any sitting president who ordered a commercial airliner shot down (and the call would come from him in the Situation Room, not some security agency worker bee on the ground) would find his personal belongings in trash bags on the White House lawn by morning.
Okay, so what was good about the episode? Kate continues to be a good fit, and I'm happy to see that her backstory was filled in sooner rather than later (I wondered who that kid was in the first episode). The Reid-plane walk through was nice to see - those scenes are always fan pleasers even though I'm sure that they are expensive to create. And seeing Kate and Reid bond a little was pleasant and in character (at least on Reid's part). Other than that, I think that this episode falls squarely in the 'meh' column: loved the character development and a case based on something OTHER than a serial killer, but hated the flimsy motivation and the obvious implausibility of what happened.
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Date: Oct. 16th, 2014 02:52 pm (UTC)Yeah. But POTUS, the Joint Chiefs, the Attorney General, the NSA, Homeland Security, and some other official types made a conference call to laugh about this one. I'm sorry - I hate being negative about something I love - but the story was ridiculous. The UnSub was motivated by a bad date and a massive misinterpretation of Robert Oppenheimer's entire career? I suppose that there doesn't have to be a good reason for an act of terrorism, but it makes for slightly perplexing tv. Also, any sitting president who ordered a commercial airliner shot down (and the call would come from him in the Situation Room, not some security agency worker bee on the ground) would find his personal belongings in trash bags on the White House lawn by morning.
Okay, so what was good about the episode? Kate continues to be a good fit, and I'm happy to see that her backstory was filled in sooner rather than later (I wondered who that kid was in the first episode). The Reid-plane walk through was nice to see - those scenes are always fan pleasers even though I'm sure that they are expensive to create. And seeing Kate and Reid bond a little was pleasant and in character (at least on Reid's part). Other than that, I think that this episode falls squarely in the 'meh' column: loved the character development and a case based on something OTHER than a serial killer, but hated the flimsy motivation and the obvious implausibility of what happened.