Criminal Minds 3x09

[ratcreature]

This week's resolution mitigated my serious WTF?!? reaction to last week's Garcia plot. I'm still a bit disgruntled that "of course" they couldn't have just let her have a fun date, and I dislike the tendency of crime shows in general to whump their law enforcement characters in a round robin fashion as crime victims, rather than to weave in characterization and personal life bits in another way, that may take a bit more effort. But at least there was a job-related reason that the killer targeted her, and the plot wasn't bad, and I liked finding out a bit more about Garcia and her non-conformist past.

Also while it is a bit cliche to have her set up with another fellow geek for romance in the end, Xander (sorry I'm bad with names, I have no idea what his character was called here) is cute, and they'd make a nice couple.

Comments

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

It's not so much that I mind she's set up with a fellow geek as that they set her up so that the geek thought her mind was hot first and only then met her, which reinforces the idea that of course a guy wouldn't see her and talk to her and think, "Cute chick" and be interested.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, that's true too. But I also think it would be nice if geeks could occasionally end up with non-geeks in these romance matches.

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

It would've been awesome if he'd seen her and said, "You didn't say she was hot."

Just something to indicate that it wasn't the stereotypical, "I love her for her brain."

[girlwithoutfear.livejournal.com]

It would've been awesome if he'd seen her and said, "You didn't say she was hot."

That would have made a huge difference in the perception to me. Could have been a classy moment.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. Though even with its faults I still thought this ep salvaged a lot from last week's .