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Until I see solid evidence to the contrary, I think Reid's prison stint is real and he is sent to prison at the end of episode 14 and we see how it goes down in this episode.
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It seems like the deleted scenes I have seen so far have added more to the story than the Olivia centric scenes they chose to include. Big surprise there.
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No specifics, but it is interesting to speculate what could be coming down the road for Barba.
Question: Any scoop on the upcoming Law & Order: SVU episode where the D.A.’s office is hacked? Any hint on what sort of secrets about Barba will be revealed? —LaShawna
Ausiello: Without spilling exactly what it is, I can say that a secret so big and career-threatening is in play that Barba can’t even turn to Benson for support. Instead, he’ll choose a course of action that, is, arguably quite ill-advised.http://tvline.com/2017/02/09/jane-the-virgin-season-3-jane-rafael-romance-spoilers/
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Law and Order SVU marathon for me. ???
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Considering that many of us think that this shady drug (whatever it is and wherever he got it) is the cause of his upcoming misadventure in Mexico and likely imprisonment, I think it is safe to say that whatever Reid is doing, is likely illegal and he is doing some sort of offbook treatment, possibly without his mother's knowledge or consent. I do think this whole story is only going to get worse
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Yeah, I too am one of those persons who actually enjoys Luke Alvez as a character. But Stephen Walker can just go away now, because I don't feel he brings anything to the team. He is just a completely uninteresting character to me, and Damon Gupton's performance doesn't excite me in any way.
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I tend to like the way Bruce writes the main characters, especially Reid. But he really is hit or miss on the case aspects. I don't mind weird cases, but they really need to be grounded in some sort of logic, and this one simply wasn't. Plus it was a blatant disregard for LEOs to conduct any sort of investigation before calling in the Feds. Just everything about the way the case was written just felt so off to me.
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Press release for episode 14, "Collision Course" is published.
http://www.spoilertv.com/2017/02/criminal-minds-episode-1214-collision.html
So it does look like Penelope will be in the field. And note the god awful crap on her head in a freaking professional work environment. *sighs*
And this "bad news" comes after whatever crap goes down in Mexico. Maybe it's he will have to serve jail time or something. Or it's something with his mother. Those are the only two real possibilities in my opinion. But with the guest stars from a courthouse, I bet it is the former.-
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The scenes between Reid and his mother were nice, though we know this story is probably not going to end well. Reid is in completely over his head, and JJ is right to have a bad feeling with this, since it is only going to get worse. Both from the hints we have received from spoilers and interviews, plus the fact that Reid is probably doing some shady, illegal stuff to treat his mother.
As for the case, I rolled my eyes so many times during it. Why did they even bother with such a stupid, pointless case that really made no sense and apparently there was ZERO attempt by the local police to, you know, actually do their job, and investigate the case
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Sneak peek of Reid and his mother.
http://tvline.com/2017/02/01/criminal-minds-season-12-episode-11-video-reid-mother/
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Serious eye rolls if they don't wrap up the Mr. Scratch storyline this season (regardless of the future of the show). This has dragged on long enough and is now tedious and even more ridiculous. I can deal with ridiculous for one episode, but a series of them? Nope.
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Matthew's bad eyesight is genetic, but the reason he stated he had to wear contacts in season two, is because his eyes were having a bad reaction to the contact lens solution.
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I think this explosive arc is set to start next episode.
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It's coming. Sure, Erica won't say WHO, but we hardcore fans know this is about Reid. Gear up.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/27/criminal-minds-character-revelation/
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For me, I had to laugh, because in Scandal-verse, California is a state that a Republican is expected to win. Whereas in the real world, it has been reliably blue in presidential elections for numerous election cycles.
I tend to think that Cyrus didn't do this. Like others have said, it would be too risky to do it before the electors had declared Vargas the winner. Plus I think it just a bit TOO convenient that the woman happened to so easily name him as the suspect. She was likely in on it all and the real killer (s) bumped her off to prevent her from talking. Though if Papa Pope or Jake are involved, I have to wonder why they didn't just rig an election. Because killing Vargas to get Jake anywhere near the White House seems super convoluted. But that is what this show has become.
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You can say "dream sequence" all day, but that does not mean I will listen, as I have explained my opinion about that potential storyline.
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Yeah, last year's return episode was Meredith's massive beatdown episode that put her in the hospital for six weeks.
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We know just from the title that good things aren't coming Reid's way. But he won't end up dead, and may end up imprisoned. Whatever comes, Reid will likely never be the same again.
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Season 3 episode, "Ridicule" and season 16 episode, "Parole Violations". Both dealt with men being raped by women. Sure, you can easily have more than one case about such an occurrence, but both episodes spent way too much time explaining that YES, men CAN be raped by women and the ADAs lamenting that no one in their office has ever tried a case like this before (which felt really unbelievable in season 16). At least Carisi was more supportive of the male victim than Elliott was of his (sure, family relations and all, but Carisi also doesn't seem to have the same masculinity issues that Elliott had at times).
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Yes, I believe Diana Reid was a professor of medieval literature, which is a different field of study than hieroglyphics.
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Yeah, the fact that the kid's father just let his son believe his mother was a crazy party girl, because he was too cowardly to tell his son his grandfather is a rapist, made me give some side eye to the writing. Maybe the writers just wanted to show how weak of a man the father was, but it seemed like the writers wanted the audience to side with him in his contempt for the grandfather. Sure okay, but there should have been more judgment lobbed at the father for allowing the grandfather's rapey ways to continue. Again, unless we were supposed to condemn the father's silence and weakness, and I don't think the writing reflected that attitude.
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On 1/17/2017 at 10:56 AM, Unapologetic said:
Nope, that's not how it works, sorry. They may send the first check or two paper but then they stop. Knowing how payments for disabled veterans are issued is my job, plus I'm a disabled vet myself. 2013 is the year the VA put a stop to issuing paper checks beyond the first one (sometimes very rarely the second one, but then they WILL stop sending until dd is set up).
I can tell you, that in my case, that is not true. I received six paper checks from the VA last year when I first started receiving the checks, and the paper checks only stopped, because I set up direct deposit for all subsequent payments.
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The alternate title for this episode, "If Donald and Bill Mated." I guess since the allusions were so heavy on Uncle Bill and not as many on Donald, NBC actually chose to air this one. And Bill Cosby has provided fodder for two different SVU episodes, and we know there is at least one more Donald Trump episode waiting to see the time of day
If this was an old school SVU episode under Neal Baer, the final twist would have been the reveal that the grandfather was really the grandson's father and he was conceived after grandpa drugged and raped his son's wife. Honestly I thought this episode was heading there for a bit, but the writers pulled their punches at the last minute on THAT particular story point.
But this is later era SVU, so it flowed a bit differently. I'll be honest and say that I think the writing was a bit clunky at times, particularly the whole fight to have billionaire rapist declared incompetent and the pitiful acting performance on the stand and Barba's cross examination over his testimony. It just felt like Barba would have had a stronger cross about the rape and the drugging and not as focused on the defendant claiming to think the time is 1975. Plus some of the characterization was a bit off through parts of it, at least for me it was. Barba is often written a bit weirdly at times. I mean, don't get me wrong. I LOVE Barba sass, and I can never have too much of it. He was particularly enjoyable this episode when he was visiting civil court. But it really is unlike Barba to go strutting around saying a case against a billionaire is a slam dunk when it hasn't even gone to trial yet. Sure, Barba deploys his trademark smirk and confidence when he is about to annihilate a witness (one of my favorite takedowns is "Legitimate Rape"), but Barba is also too smart to underestimate any billionaire when it comes to trials and he understands NYC politics. Which, by the way, brings up another point. Wouldn't the actual DA be all over this case and monitoring it closely, even if from a distance? You KNOW that if an actual billionaire was being prosecuted for rape in NYC, the press and city hall would have been ALL over this. It doesn't have to be a major plot point, but it would have been better to actually address the political and media implications of this case. That is one of my quibbles about how Barba (and the "law" portion of this show in general) is written at times. Sometimes it feels like the writers are writing Barba to serve the story and not serve the character (of course you could say that about any of the SVU characters, but Barba is my favorite character so I am more attuned to his characterization), so it sometimes results in Barba acting inconsistently. The case was a bit weak initially, and it likely would not have resulted in a conviction if they hadn't been able to turn the grandson at the last minute, so Barba should have been more concerned about shoring up his case than bragging that it was going to be an easy conviction. I mean, the dad certainly didn't provide much in the way of solid testimony to convict his father, and you would think Barba wouldn't have put him on the stand unless he had something stronger.
On a purely shallow level, Raul was looking especially delectable this episode, so it really enhanced my viewing pleasure. It was nice to see him again after a two episode disappearance.
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Sherlock's problem is that when people do sit down, pay attention and do some thinking, they most likely notice that the plots often collapse in on themselves under the staggering weight of implausibility (at least some of the recent episodes). When the writers want the audience to hand wave any of those plot holes and implausibilities under the guise of "Sherlock is just super smart so he can do anything", you know that is because they don't have a plausible idea of how to tell their stories. There are ways to get to the point of some of the stories they want to tell, but they need to ground those story ideas in logic and at least semi-believable plausibility about human behavior and the laws of physics. I forgive Sherlock these transgressions less than some Marvel comic show, because this show is ostensibly set in the "real world" and the characters are not imbued with any sort of supernatural powers. Sure, some of the characters are high level geniuses, but their actions should still make a modicum of sense and be able to reasonably occur in the real world, in my opinion.
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S12.E13: Spencer
in Criminal Minds
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Hmmm...even though the show said words to excuse why Rosa didn't give Reid the medication in Houston, it didn't really hold water for me. I think they just pulled the easy cheat of having Rosa be a dual citizen to justify the extradition back to the US. But I don't think the explanation was adequate why Rosa could not have simply given the drugs to Reid in Houston.
And we know that Reid ends up in jail at the end of next episode. Considering Matthew SEEMINGLY has not been on set for a while, it seems like this prison arc will be long term. I honestly don't see how this trial could be conducted in the US, since the crime took place in Mexico, but whatever. I know they are likely going to tie this back to Mr. Scratch in some way, but that just seems like lazy storytelling to me.