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Wow. Not in a good way. The Rossi flashbacks were terrible, even for this show, and while JM tried to sell it, the writing for the end scenes was not salvageable. Then there was the offhand comment that since the unsub specialized in windows and doors, that's how she was able to get in to the crime scenes without it looking like a break-in. What? Specializing in doors and windows in construction does not make you some kind of door and window break-in specialist.

I love and loathe Monsters Inside Me. Why I watch it before bed, I don't know, because then of course I dream about lung flukes, botflies and brain-eating amoebas. Shudder. I didn't really get the lady with the mold sensitivity due to the aspergillus in her breast implants. She can't live or work indoors? Generally, there are more mold spores outside than inside, depending on species. And since aspergillus grows on things like plants and trees, unless there's something wrong in a house/building, there would be tons more spores outside. The whole situation was pretty awful, but it was weird to me that the show seemed to be saying you could avoid aspergillus/mold if you are outside, which is far from the truth. I just can't do Sex Sent Me to the ER. I get so much secondhand embarrassment-- like all the embarrassment these people don't seem to have, plus my own! You could not pay me enough to relate my story on television of any of that had happened to me.

She won't be. I have given up on experiencing even mild hope that she might expire in one of the many "Finn in danger" escapades. I was kind of annoyed by the whole, "Oh no! Evidence does lie! Now what?!" thing. The evidence isn't lying -- some of the evidence was planted. I'm sure it's just an excuse for D.B. to go off the rails when his daughter is threatened. Again.

I assume that's because he was going to kill him in the manner of some punishment based on The Inferno (level 8, ring for the flatterers, buried in excrement?), since they said he'd skipped the 7th, which I think they stated was suicide (which didn't make any sense to me-- each level has several rings, so it's not like "suicide" was the only option, besides the fact that in that ring of the 7th level, it's suicides who are being punished for their violence against themselves, not suicide as a punishment). I might be trying too hard to understand something that's just garbled beyond understanding, since all of this seemed very confused to me, and not just because I have no idea why this English teacher would decide to kill random mean dad figures in some simplified version of The Inferno, complete with totally unexplored student with bomb equipment. I probably would have liked it a lot better if we hadn't seen the unsub so early and so much, and if it was either just killing mean dads, or just killing people based on The Inferno for some other reason. The less said about Penelope dramatically swanning around Texas, the better.

Of all the people in the world to stalk, McDermott's character is going for the Rohm-bot? Yikes. This hit too many of the weird notes that Criminal Minds has in the last few seasons. I hope it can correct and not turn into more torture-porn and one-upmanship with creepy stalkers. Although as noted, McDermott might be the creepiest stalker to ever stalk.

I've decided that Glenn is dressing just to amuse me now. He's graduated from English schoolboy to English country gentleman, I guess. I really don't like creepy clowns, but other than Cig's, none of them were really that creepy to me. Of course, the childhood fear elemnt was disconcerting. It's fortunate no one had a really out there childhood fear, I guess. It always surprises me that they don't look at the makeup up close prior to the performance and then after, just in case something dramatic occurs.

The plastic eyes on Cig's were not looking so hot, even if he had the most "action figure" look. Those plasticy eyes never seem to come out right, no matter what trickery people use. I wonder how much prompting was required to get the "proper" level of excitement about the GI Joe prize package? Glen's "buttoned down" look was super hilarious to me for some reason.

Did Aaron say that in Mexico, they eat insects, like something, something, and worms? I was totally not invested in this round of champions, but I'm so glad we won't be subjected to more of Carnie Wilson, so there is that. I wasn't really that interested in what Laila would do if she won, but one has to wonder how she plans to screen for the family she's going to lavish with her theoretical winnings. Is she just going to cruise around, looking for someone who appears poor? Sometimes the dramatic background music sounded like the Six Feet Under theme. Bizarre.

Are people really complaining about there being less horror-based episodes? I really didn't understand the judges praising the shape of the "killer hillbilly's" head. It didn't read to me as inbred, just downright strange.

I can't really tell if I like this show or not, but I like Sean Bean enough to keep watching it. I don't really get some of the "legends," though. Assuming my multi-tasking while watching this show didn't lead me astray, "Dante" had clearly been around a long time and developed actual contacts who believe he is who he says he is (as in, the arms dealer guy who got Dante in touch with the VX people), so is Martin having to pop in here and there over years to establish each of these personas? Because it seems like the FBI is coming up with them on the fly, and I'm guessing you can't really suddenly be accepted as an international dealer if Dante is supposed to have been doing this stuff for years, but no one has ever seen him or done a deal with him.

Keith Morrison is called "Skeletor" in my household. He's like the creepy Dr. Seuss of real crime, as someone once said on TWOP. I always end up laughing at least once at some inappropriate moment during the shows he narrates due to the ridiculous way he states something.

I started watching this show randomly (I think it was on after Without a Trace or something else I watched), and I stopped watching when it got really heavy into the "Scotty sleeps with Lilly's sister" and "Scotty essentially takes a hit out on his mom's rapist" stuff got way overboard for me. It's been interesting to hop back in on ION and see episodes that are entirely new to me, like the crackastic Rocky Horror one, but also the inevitable ones that make me cry (something about the way this show used music just gets the tears going, dammit).

If it had been anyone else besides Mr. Jean-Georges and the need to maintain suspense in the final round, would the judges really have been so kind about half a "smoked apple" on top of several kinds of gross-looking slop?