CM 5x10 - The Slave of Duty
Dec. 10th, 2009 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emothyI had convinced myself I didn' have to post about this week's ep. And then this huge ramble happened!
- The title kind of told us Hotch was going to come back.
- I'm glad they let his sis-in-law point out that the split between Hotch and Haley was never for lack of love between them. Because if he had chosen this point to walk away it would have really trodden all over Hotch having to let Haley go for the sake of catching bad guys and attempting to make the world a better place. To suddenly go, "oh well I can give all that up now!" Of COURSE Jack is important, but Hotch knows Jessica - and others - can also be there for him and love him and care for him when Hotch can't be there. (Also he is at an age to be at school all day anyway, and what would Hotch be doing all day long exactly?) Not everyone can do Hotch's job. And who could just sit back, knowing they had the skills and wasn't using them actively? He will now definitely have a more active part in Jack's life than before, even continuing as an agent. So win-win in a way. Minus the whole Haley being dead part.
- Shipper in me thinks Prentiss wasn't necessarily asking "what can we do for him?" as a team, but vocalising that she was lost as to what to do for Hotch herself.
- They did well with what they'd created leading up to this episode. I didn't like that they killed Haley off at all - it felt too cliche for my awesome show. The easy way out - "oh well now that Haley's dead I guess Hotch get his little boy and since we could have never reconciled Hotch and Haley this was the only way to give him that!" They should've never written her the way they did. Originally, I completely understood her. I didn't dislike her at all. She was trying to make her husband see that their family was more important than his job. But Hotch wanted to have both. And in the end, he couldn't, so Haley had to walk away - in the hope, probably, that the shock of them leaving woul force Hotch to reconsider his choice. Manipulative, yes, but god couldn't you understand that last desperate attempt to have your husband walk away from 24/7 danger and let your child grow up seeing his daddy everyday? Yes, I can understand. I might not do it myself, but I can understand. One thing that will always piss me off about what they did to Haley's character is right after Hotch is stabbed by Foyet, laying in a hospital bed, and Haley comes in and bitches off at him mercilessly. HE WAS JUST STABBED. A LOT. LAY OFF FOR A MINUTE! Why did they do that to her? I can understand her being scared for Jack, but she still loved Hotch, why couldn't they let her take a second to show some concern at least?
- They did the Emily badass awesomeness just right this episode, and for me it didn't come out of nowhere and it wasn't over the top. It was subtle, but of course she would identify with the victims - brunette, high-power jobs, successful, choosing to either fight back or playing along smartly in order to survive. She has all of that in her. But that didn't make her freak out, or wibble like an imbecile. But once they caught the guy she just HAD to have her say and let him know he would get to be someone's bitch in prison XD I love Emily, and I love that everyone else is seeing more and more each episode how awesome she truly is. Perhaps she is what Elle could have been if she hadn't gone completely off the rails and SHOT SOMEONE. But I look back and suspect they never intended to keep Elle's character on - there's a total lack of development for her compared to everyone else.
And I read the description for next week's ep before I saw the preview - NOBODY MENTIONED EMILY WAS GOING TO BE INVOLVED! Although I find it highly amazing that all of us following the show respond with "OOOH AN EMILY EP!" and not "HOLY CRAP THEY'VE GONE OFF A CLIFF ARE THEY GOING TO KILL OFF EMILY?!" We all have faith in Emily being badass enough to survive a car-crash clearly XD
- The title kind of told us Hotch was going to come back.
- I'm glad they let his sis-in-law point out that the split between Hotch and Haley was never for lack of love between them. Because if he had chosen this point to walk away it would have really trodden all over Hotch having to let Haley go for the sake of catching bad guys and attempting to make the world a better place. To suddenly go, "oh well I can give all that up now!" Of COURSE Jack is important, but Hotch knows Jessica - and others - can also be there for him and love him and care for him when Hotch can't be there. (Also he is at an age to be at school all day anyway, and what would Hotch be doing all day long exactly?) Not everyone can do Hotch's job. And who could just sit back, knowing they had the skills and wasn't using them actively? He will now definitely have a more active part in Jack's life than before, even continuing as an agent. So win-win in a way. Minus the whole Haley being dead part.
- Shipper in me thinks Prentiss wasn't necessarily asking "what can we do for him?" as a team, but vocalising that she was lost as to what to do for Hotch herself.
- They did well with what they'd created leading up to this episode. I didn't like that they killed Haley off at all - it felt too cliche for my awesome show. The easy way out - "oh well now that Haley's dead I guess Hotch get his little boy and since we could have never reconciled Hotch and Haley this was the only way to give him that!" They should've never written her the way they did. Originally, I completely understood her. I didn't dislike her at all. She was trying to make her husband see that their family was more important than his job. But Hotch wanted to have both. And in the end, he couldn't, so Haley had to walk away - in the hope, probably, that the shock of them leaving woul force Hotch to reconsider his choice. Manipulative, yes, but god couldn't you understand that last desperate attempt to have your husband walk away from 24/7 danger and let your child grow up seeing his daddy everyday? Yes, I can understand. I might not do it myself, but I can understand. One thing that will always piss me off about what they did to Haley's character is right after Hotch is stabbed by Foyet, laying in a hospital bed, and Haley comes in and bitches off at him mercilessly. HE WAS JUST STABBED. A LOT. LAY OFF FOR A MINUTE! Why did they do that to her? I can understand her being scared for Jack, but she still loved Hotch, why couldn't they let her take a second to show some concern at least?
- They did the Emily badass awesomeness just right this episode, and for me it didn't come out of nowhere and it wasn't over the top. It was subtle, but of course she would identify with the victims - brunette, high-power jobs, successful, choosing to either fight back or playing along smartly in order to survive. She has all of that in her. But that didn't make her freak out, or wibble like an imbecile. But once they caught the guy she just HAD to have her say and let him know he would get to be someone's bitch in prison XD I love Emily, and I love that everyone else is seeing more and more each episode how awesome she truly is. Perhaps she is what Elle could have been if she hadn't gone completely off the rails and SHOT SOMEONE. But I look back and suspect they never intended to keep Elle's character on - there's a total lack of development for her compared to everyone else.
And I read the description for next week's ep before I saw the preview - NOBODY MENTIONED EMILY WAS GOING TO BE INVOLVED! Although I find it highly amazing that all of us following the show respond with "OOOH AN EMILY EP!" and not "HOLY CRAP THEY'VE GONE OFF A CLIFF ARE THEY GOING TO KILL OFF EMILY?!" We all have faith in Emily being badass enough to survive a car-crash clearly XD