Old Dog

Way back in Season 2 Garcia told JJ she had 4 brothers. It was in P911 where she identified the shirt the kid was wearing as a Tadpole shirt.

Just watched this episode. MGG looked spectacular. That's about it. Not much else made sense and the comedy assignments for the team seemed just like cheap parodies played solely for laughs - which I guess was what they aimed for but seemed horribly out of place in what could have been a really tense arc. It was all wrapped up far too quickly - they could have built much more around the BAU juggling their new assignments and working the case. A great shame. But at least MGG was drop dead gorgeous.

Whoops! I haven't seen it yet as we are about 4 weeks behind over here.

Wick is not that uncommon a name. I thought it might be just over here in the UK but reading this there have been prominent Americans also. Edit: Ignore this - I didn't realise they used it as a first name. This episode hasn't aired yet in the UK.

Thanks Senin - I'll see if I can get that on Catch Up TV. It'll take a bit for me to recover from the pirates though!

Note to self: Listen to Riff!!

This just aired in the UK this week and I broke my rule of No Reid, No Watch. I won't be breaking that rule again. What a rubbish episode!

Not much chance of that with time running out - isn't he down to miss a few more episodes?

I'll watch most of the episodes in the first five seasons over and over. After that it gets really patchy and over the last five seasons there are only a couple of memorable episodes in each season for me. I find it hard to even remember most of the other episodes although there are some absolute shockers that are memorable for the wrong reasons like 200, The Black Queen, Brothers Hotchner, Route 66, Awake etc!

I've watched almost all the episodes in the first five seasons more times than that! There are a few I pass on that I don't like - such as "Riding the Lightning" but most of them I've seen often enough to know a lot of the dialogue. So you are not alone! Later seasons, not so much - just the outstanding episodes there.

A much better episode - I didn't check the clock once to see how long there was to go! Decent amount of grown up. professional Reid which I always appreciate. I'm not and never will be an Alvez fan but I can see why people like the character and for once the cheese level of the bookends was acceptable. Someone give me a nudge when Reid returns - isn't MGG away for at least 3 episodes? I guess that means we won't see him until the New Year so A Merry Christmas or Seasonal Winter Solstice Greetings to all!

I amused myself more imagining them all crammed in should the elevator break down than when actually watching a very subpar episode. I know they insist on giving most of the story away in the promos but they do seem to have totally lost the art of creating a sense of suspense and jeopardy.

They need a bigger elevator.

Yikes! I fell asleep in the middle! I guess the magic is really gone.

It was OK. I guess it underlined just how important the characters are to the show now. If, like me, you are only interested in Reid and the occasional times they let snarky Rossi out and you either don't like or don't particularly care about the other characters then the story has to be really banging to make up for that. And it wasn't. And there are too many characters for sure. Thinking back on it I had to wonder if Tara was in it at all but she did have about one line then seemed to "pull a Reid" and disappear. And for years I've been one of those complaining bitterly about the lack of profiling in recent times. Well lookee here, there was actually quite a lot of profiling in this episode - and yet somehow they made it not very interesting. And the denoument itself just seemed to happen without any real sense of jeopardy or anticipation. Also why was Simmons out in the alley after the unsub on his own - he should have had back up. It was probably solely to put the focus on him by giving him a "dramatic" solo takedown but honestly it would have made more sense to me if when the unsub had him on the floor with a knife to his throat, Prentiss appeared and bopped the unsub on the head. The knife in the unsub's back didn't seem to slow him down at all and he ended up sitting demurely in the back of a police car! I'd swear there was at least 5 inches of blood on that knife when he pulled it out. I liked that there was profiling but wish it was more engaging. I liked that Reid is slowly returning to himself and is back in tie and the soft maroon cardigan and I like especially that they finally seem to know how to light night scenes so you can tell what's happening. But overall it wasn't terribly interesting and not a keeper.