just didn't like seeing it.

I'm still holding my breath about how his tenure as Unit Chief is going to turn out. They've been fairly careful to show him kept in his place by his own constraints and I worry they're going to take him down a peg or two to get him back into the body of the team.

Or maybe Hotch will never go back to Chief and Haley will reunite with him, or Haley will die and Hotch and Prentiss will consummate their love.

Which is just me trying to distract from being nervous about what I see as an inevitable fall for Derek.

I went slowly through the trailer for this week's Mentalist--it makes big noise about three agents dying, and they don't show Rigsby or Van Pelt, but they can't kill either of them, right? They must be killing Bosco and two of his men, maybe the one that was calling our guys Ernie and Bert last week.

Because Morgan's points were good, but Hotch didn't stand up for them at all, which is why I think Morgan went OTT.

This was my take - I think Hotch realized he screwed up about ten seconds after he kicked Morgan's butt out the door (figuratively). Morgan was out of line to address it the way he did, but he was still right. And because I am the queen of reading too much into actors' body language, I noticed that when Morgan came back and apologized, it was Not!Haley who replied; Hotch kept his eyes on his paperwork and didn't answer.

Lo Fi and Mayhem were good episodes. I felt for Hotch with his ear pain; I've been there. And I always like the episodes where the bad guy is the girl.

I never liked Cameron and I hope she's gone for good. Her little speech to House as she was leaving about how he was all corrupted and now he'd gone and tainted her husband's poor weak innocent soul, and bestowing him a little cheek kiss - barf. Oh, Sainte Cameron, taking in the poor wounded men and cuddling them to your healing bosom, when you tell him you'll stand by him no matter what, you're supposed to actually do that, not yank the rug from under him when you find he really did do something bad.

I was under the impression that House was taking Vicodin for his pain, yes, but also whenever he was bored and generally way more often than he actually needed it for pain management. Once he got over withdrawal, Advil was for the actual pain and diagnostic puzzles were for the psychological dependence. But I am reading between the lines an awful lot for that interpretation.

Oh, and the gall of Cameron, telling House he's an unredeemable sinner who has corrupted her husband past the point of any hope of forgiveness and then holding out her hand for a goodbye handshake. Being all sanctimonious is who she is, but holding out her hand like that really pissed me off.

Yeah, that makes, like, narrative-type sense. but it seemed like it makes the kind of medical sense that's not, even outside the realm of "Polite Dissent" But maybe not.

I'm using "ketamine rewired his neurons" to la-la-la my way past "Advil works even better than Vicodin OMG!"

Though I have to admit, Vicodin does nothing but give me a headache. Advil actually DOES work better for me than narcotics. I, however, have not had a large chunk of my thigh muscle DIE and be removed, so - yeah. I dunno. Basically just don't want HL giving himself an real limp from faking it too well.

It works in my head, but I am way more familiar with the addiction side of House's drug use than the pain management side - that there was a mix is what made it interesting, though, and that it's ambiguous exactly how much of either makes up the total package.

Re: Criminal Minds. CBS is supposed to be thinking about a CM spinoff. I just figured they were setting Morgan up to lead the new crew.

I'm with Hil on the 'WTF? Advil?' thing. Although I know it works for some people with chronic pain, House was having to use apparently massive doses of Vicodin, and there were other signs that he was in very significant levels of pain. I can't see Advil doing very much at that level. The pandering to the anti-painkiller-addition lobby makes me angry. It's not good disability rights and its not respectful to people in pain. As much as that doesn't have to be the show's priority, medical fiction should surely not be totally irresponsible about this.

(I'm probably very biased and expecting too much from a work of popular fiction here. But it's irritating. Some of us have quite enough increased pain to deal with, what with all the idiot doctors who swallow propaganda and panic unnecessarily about painkiller addiction. Which is actually very rare among people with chronic pain.)

Thirteen makes Cameron look like Sarah Bernhardt.

I disagree. She's the anti-Cameron. Plus, hot. She can stay.

Well, having said that, everything I can find indicates they'd use a whole new team for the spinoff, so I may be entirely off base.