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[be_themoon]

Watched Criminal Minds 5x13, "Risky Business." oh, how my show delivers! stereotypes? ha! we don't believe in those. ;) JJ! omggg, JJ. the thing about how amazing this show is is that this case is personal for JJ. the entire team knows it. but because this is Criminal Minds and not other cop shows, the only way this affects the case is that JJ makes one tiny slip-up (one word!) and that's enough to tell viewers who know JJ and that JJ never ever slips up that she really has been pushed off her balance by it. but at the same time it's not affecting her ability to do her job well beyond that one minor slipup. They don't have to have the people shoving things around and doing illegal things to show that it's affecting them personally. and that conversation at the end, with her and Hotch. oh, fabulous. Hotch is slowly healing, and his family is helping, but quietly. it's wonderful.

Also, Garcia love! she was fantastic in this episode, completely fantastic. and of course she knits! and that gratuitous Go reference, all the way back to the freakin' PIlot. (also, Reid cheats at poker. this is canonical.) that whole sequence there, the nice poking fun at Reid because they're a family and they can in fact do that, and Reid grinning because he's comfortable with it - fabulous. also that little Prentiss being like 'AGH STOP BEING SO SMART.' because that is totally a believable reaction. :P

one last note: Reid talking about how Jeremy had died made me wince really, really hard. because that isn't theoretical knowledge, there. Reid knows exactly what it feels like, he choked to death in Revelations. and he was back to using impersonal pronouns and distancing himself from like he did with torture in 100. it's fantastic that he can talk about what, effectively, is the details of his own death, without freaking out, but also makes me go aghhhh REID. he's such a grownup now!

I also watched most of Supernatural 5x11, "Sam, Interrupted." I dunno, it was okay. I wasn't in a very effective SPN-watching mood. I need to be feeling fine and happy, and I'm feeling more reclusive and worried. I think I'm going to have to rewatch it sometime - parts of it were hilarious, and parts of it were really, really interesting, and I want to watch them and be able to be interested and have thinky thoughts. Which I can't do right now.

And lastly! I used the last few remaining days of holiday (no homework until yesterday) to watch all eight episodes of White Collar, which has also been recommended to me. And it is indeed glorious, because Neal Caffrey is a shiney shiney thing of beauty, and the OT3 is quite an OT3 (El, I ADORE you!), and the latest episode was fantastic and the one before that was fabulous too (OUT OF A JUDGE'S WINDOW). so this goes on my list of shows to watch. (White Collar. Criminal Minds. Supernatural. huhhh. this is beginning to seem like A Type. and I don't even like most cop shows! apparently just very specific cop shows. I can't get enough interest in Numb3rs to watch it consistently, or, uh, any other cop show I've been told to watch except for The Unusuals.)

oh yeah! I watched two episodes of Bones at one point over the holiday. I... I don't know, you guys. I want to like it, I really do. And Temperance is really awesome some of the time, and Booth is awesome too (Boreanaz! that man can act), but something is missing, and I had lots and lots of problems with how unprofessional Temperance is, and how flip-floppy Booth's characterization was in the Pilot. I don't know. I have been told it just keeps getting better, but unfortunately we're now at a point where soon I won't have time to keep watching. So! if I'm to keep watching Bones, I'm going to need some really good Season 1 episodes to check out. Bones fans! what are the best/most necessary Season 1 episodes?

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[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

I treat Bones like crackfic. It's not a very "serious" show (despite the nominal subject matter) and everything about it either starts off as crack or descends into crack at some point. I love it, no question, it's just not a rigorous procedural or hard-hitting or anything. I watch it mainly for the character interactions/lulz. :3

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

see, these are my thoughts! but I generally want something a little bit... more - out of my shows, you know? all three of the shows I'm currently watching consistently deliver on fascinating meta or glorious characterization or lots of thinky thoughts. I think perhaps I shall keep watching Bones, but only when I have plenty of time and am not simply procrastinating.