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potted_music at 03:15pm on 02/05/2009 under tv series: criminal minds
potted_music at 03:15pm on 02/05/2009 under tv series: criminal mindsThis is a placeholder for actual thoughts - I've only watched ~10 episodes thus far; just jotting stuff down so I won't forget it by the time I see more of the series.
Most victims (though not, as I've been told, all of them) are middle- to upper-class icons of sorts: blond cheerleaders, sweet families from suburbs going out for their morning jog, successful businessmen in impeccable suits, etc. A threat to them becomes a metonymical threat to the social order as we know it. => BAU is presented as the power stopping the world from tumbling down. BAU performs miracles, much in the way Sherlock Holmes performed miracles; but whereas SH embodied the positivist idea that reason was magical=all-powerful=sacred, BAU embodies the idea that state is magical=all-powerful=sacred. (Not the concept I'm comfortable with ideologically, but I love the whole cast regardless).
(my immense thanks go totaelle for weeding out episodes that would be too gory for my liking)
Most victims (though not, as I've been told, all of them) are middle- to upper-class icons of sorts: blond cheerleaders, sweet families from suburbs going out for their morning jog, successful businessmen in impeccable suits, etc. A threat to them becomes a metonymical threat to the social order as we know it. => BAU is presented as the power stopping the world from tumbling down. BAU performs miracles, much in the way Sherlock Holmes performed miracles; but whereas SH embodied the positivist idea that reason was magical=all-powerful=sacred, BAU embodies the idea that state is magical=all-powerful=sacred. (Not the concept I'm comfortable with ideologically, but I love the whole cast regardless).
(my immense thanks go to
taelle for weeding out episodes that would be too gory for my liking)
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