A plane crash? Seriously?!

[a_blackpanther]

This is the discussion post for Episode 10x03 - "A Thousand Suns". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

[meepalicious.livejournal.com]

The UnSub was motivated by a bad date and a massive misinterpretation of Robert Oppenheimer's entire career?

This wasn't just stupid, it was tired. I mean, come on. I'm getting real tired of these unsubs motivated by hatred of women - their mother was a prostitute or abandoned them, they couldn't get a date, a girl made fun of them… There have been real life examples of this, like what happened at École Polytechnique, but I'd like to see a little creativity from the writing team, here.

I think I'm extra grumpy because this week's Special Victims Unit unsub had basically the same motivation. It's getting old. I don't expect much better from Special Victims Unit any more, but I'd like to see Criminal Minds step up their game.

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

I feel ya. The FBI actually just released a 5 year study this week that looked into the demographics and motivations of killers, and it's depressing that it confirms that victims of murder are overwhelmingly female (70+%) and that the motivation for most murders is sexual in nature (a whopping 80% of cases in the study). So, there's a statistical basis for what the writers are producing on this show, but it's creatively predictable and an argument can be made that reflecting reality can also influence these trends by making them seem 'expected'.

I guess that I'm just hoping for more unexpected stories considering that this is a TV show.