Ok, CME 17x04, here we go.
Spoilers and rambles below the cut.
Ready to feel Emotions!
- Lmao "JACKPOT, NV" okeydoke!!
- oh it’s that one young lady horror actor whom I don’t know but saw in the promos
- is she gonna kidnap him….oh, yes
- so not kidnap so much as beat him to death
- Erasmus! ok
- PRENTISS MUGSHOTS. Barbie memes here we go!!!!
- ok so who did she call. Tara. Or Dave.
- Penelope standing firm on her boundaries, good for her
- she called Dave. :):):)
- I remain, as ever, a Prentiss lover. She is so great when she’s pissed
- oh no JJ, bb
- god Tara is beautiful
- is it weird that they’re talking about a conspiracy theory manipulating people as though “it” has such power? rather than someone using a conspiracy theory to manipulate others? is this how people talk about conspiracy theories?
- Emily big mad. and that look from JJ…
- AAAAAH they need to talk!
- Tyler you little interrupting bitch!! Lol
- still, this is like already more than they got last season, in terms of looking directly at one another and speaking, in the same frame no less. I love this stupid show
- but yeah. JJ. the traumatized body language, the long sleeves pulled all the way to her hands, the fidgeting. girl you didn’t deserve this
- “and does it involve you pretending to go to the bathroom” 🤣
- Emily is ON A TEAR. I love it. I also love when she turns and we see her little smirk. like that scene when she profiles Bailey last season
- this is crazy. hold them? 😬 I mean yeah I guess I don’t think he would actually physically harm his daughters.
- and now Emily’s more cautious about the gold star connection
- “you are a worthy nemesis, tiny machine, but I will best you” 😂
- this scene with Penelope was cute. She seems more settled this season, a little more level-headed about her place with the BAU and whatever's going on (or not) with Tyler
- wait, what did they hand to Holly? A note and…lip gloss? Bubbles? WTF was that
- this reminds me of Seaver's background. These sisters are going to process this situation differently. Actually it would be kind of cool if Seaver made a cameo for these girls
- wow, really? more women than men have tattoos? huh.
- I’m so happy that fuckin’ Brian has such a big part this season
- OH SHIT. She brought her own shiv!!!! Holly!!!!
- this season is better than last. A lot more going on, overall better pacing. They've pulled back from showing the personal lives of the agents in favor of working character stuff into the case/more professional contexts and I think it works better. They’re setting up a lot of secrets/mysteries and I’m not sure if they will be able to pay everything off in a satisfying way, but the build up is so far more exciting than all the Voit show & tell in s16. And even though Rossi is hallucinating, the volume is dialed down on him and dialed up on Emily, JJ, even Luke (a bit) and I couldn't be more glad for that.
- did they let this happen? Did they have some idea that Holly was going to try to kill him? Nah. nah? But Luke jumps right on the opportunity to skewer Voit with it
- the angelic face of Jennifer Jareau 😇
- god this scene with JJ and Holly. AJ Cook really bringing her A game. You can see it all - her compassion, her empathy, her fear. Her fear. For Holly, for her sons, for herself?
- lol at Tyler roasting in the server room
- so yeah, I’m thinking of Seaver. And the Anton Yelchin kid from season 2... all the times the show has brought up the question of how murderers - serial murderers - are made, of how that kind of violence may be passed on (as a contagion, as a genetic predisposition), of how we may fail to control or subdue it.
- JJ AND EMILY HAVING A FULL CONVERSATION. Wow. It feels pretty natural to me, which is funny in retrospect bc we came up so empty on this vector in s16
- NO. JJ!! “it’s not important”. NO IT’S VERY FUCKING IMPORTANT. you’re very fucking important!! gut reaction she feels useful in this situation w/ voit’s family so is more able or willing to tuck her pain away at the moment. this is something she can do.
- k I rewatched that bit a few times. The way JJ brings up her shields, makes nice/light, but then does land, at the end, on a semblance of a real smile. She's no fool. She sees Emily losing her shit. She sees that if someone is going to truly prioritize the well being of Voit's kids, it can & must be her. She accepts that this is the way the world is - for her. This is one of the ways she expresses what motherhood means/is to her. There is always someone to protect, and she will find a way to set aside her own pain to do that. That's where she gets her strength, in the face of all the awfulness she has seen and experienced.