These are their stories...
Jul. 26th, 2009 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleI was so prepared to hate this week's Criminal Intent after last week's writer!fail WTF-ery. But it turned out to be much better than I thought it would be. Another one of those episodes where they show us the killer in the opening teaser (still unsure how well that works to build dramatic tension for the viewer, but...). Then when he goes all high tech and is luminol-ing the fuck out of the crime scene, I was all like "been there done that. a couple times." But when Detective Nichols goes in to run the case by his old buddy the world famous forensic guy ... WFFG is none other than the murderer. Nichols then has the next 37 minutes to prove it while his partner goes into labor, his boss thinks he's nuts, and Eames is pinch hitting for Wheeler and cracking wise with the snark.
The script could have used some tightening up. The opener had too many artistic shots of the murderer contemplating the ceiling, and other than giving us a good look at the awesome chandelier... didn't do much to advance the story.
Also, I sort of hate when they pull World Famous fellow staff persons out of thin air ... if this guy is so great, shouldn't his name have come up some time in the past eight years the show has been running. I get that it didn't because we didn't know about him until just now... but it still is the kind of thing that makes me roll my eyes.
And I thought Ross (and Rodgers) bought into Nichol's scheme a bit too quickly after that giant rant about how Nichols was solely responsible for giving all of Major Case a bad name... but limited time is limited I guess.
And the only really important thing, after locking up the bad guy... is that Wheeler had her baby (and still had time to crack on Nichols between contractions). It's a girl. Hello there Margo Jane Wheeler.
So onwards to next week and another Goren and Eames episode (their season finale? I think maybe. Then there should be one more Nichols/Eames eppy if I'm figuring right.)
The script could have used some tightening up. The opener had too many artistic shots of the murderer contemplating the ceiling, and other than giving us a good look at the awesome chandelier... didn't do much to advance the story.
Also, I sort of hate when they pull World Famous fellow staff persons out of thin air ... if this guy is so great, shouldn't his name have come up some time in the past eight years the show has been running. I get that it didn't because we didn't know about him until just now... but it still is the kind of thing that makes me roll my eyes.
And I thought Ross (and Rodgers) bought into Nichol's scheme a bit too quickly after that giant rant about how Nichols was solely responsible for giving all of Major Case a bad name... but limited time is limited I guess.
And the only really important thing, after locking up the bad guy... is that Wheeler had her baby (and still had time to crack on Nichols between contractions). It's a girl. Hello there Margo Jane Wheeler.
So onwards to next week and another Goren and Eames episode (their season finale? I think maybe. Then there should be one more Nichols/Eames eppy if I'm figuring right.)
