Thing one: Reid was out of line. Thing Two: anyone, profiler or not, could see it coming a mile away. The team knows that Reid always over-identifies with picked on loner kids.
The most annoying thing about this episode for me was the disruption of time. It's 10 months later already? What did I miss?! Oh, nothing. They just couldn't be bothered to actually show us any true addict behaviour, if there was any. If the addiction was that bad, then he'd have had to hit bottom, which usualy entails losing either your job, your friends or your family. Reid lost nothing. It was a cop-out from start to finish. It's the only time CM wasn't brave enough to go where the map lead. Sure, it would have been angsty and hard to watch, and a lot of Reid fans would have stopped squeeing. Big deal- it would have been a lot more believable than what they did.
All that bitching, and this is still my favourite episode- i pretty much cheer every time i see Reid tell them it's their fault. "You could've helped him. But you didn't." Damn skippy it's your fault, Owen deserved better.
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Date: Jan. 16th, 2010 05:42 am (UTC)Thing Two: anyone, profiler or not, could see it coming a mile away. The team knows that Reid always over-identifies with picked on loner kids.
The most annoying thing about this episode for me was the disruption of time. It's 10 months later already? What did I miss?! Oh, nothing. They just couldn't be bothered to actually show us any true addict behaviour, if there was any. If the addiction was that bad, then he'd have had to hit bottom, which usualy entails losing either your job, your friends or your family. Reid lost nothing. It was a cop-out from start to finish. It's the only time CM wasn't brave enough to go where the map lead. Sure, it would have been angsty and hard to watch, and a lot of Reid fans would have stopped squeeing. Big deal- it would have been a lot more believable than what they did.
All that bitching, and this is still my favourite episode- i pretty much cheer every time i see Reid tell them it's their fault. "You could've helped him. But you didn't." Damn skippy it's your fault, Owen deserved better.