I found my post at 101 episodes: ita "Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You." Dec 15, 2009 7:30:22 pm PST

So, yeah, Reid was at 2 then, and Hotch and Morgan tied at 4.25. I can't click on Elizabeth Bear's link from work, so I don't know if she's updated it through the end of the season.

ita, there's an update about a month later: [link]

Thanks for that link to Elizabeth Bear. I had actually read her fanfic last week, but I didn't see any of her episode reviews, which I'm now going through. Good stuff right from the very beginning!

ETA: I'm now reading her take on "The Big Game/Revelation," and I love what she says about Reid:

Looking at it from a character perspective, this is a young man whose major established heroic character trait is an egoless willingness to risk himself, for his team-mates and even for mentally ill criminals. He's so courageous he's stupid with it. And this is something we see again and again and again: Derailed; Somebody's Watching; Fisher King Part II; Sex Birth Death. Reid may not look like much, but he's a fearless little bastard, and absolutely vicious in a fight. (In fact, it's how he got himself into this situation in the first place.)

It is a mistake to assume that Reid is in any way, shape, or form an innocent. He may be inexperienced, even naive in certain limited ways... and generally gentle, soft-spoken, and insecure... but there are no accidents of characterization in this show. And the man's a card sharp. Who cheats. And a fair amount of the time, that flinchy stammering is a put-on designed to lower someone's defenses.

I'm up to reading her review of "Penelope" now.

"Make sure no one forgets to log out of the system. Garcia should not have access." Hee. Oh, Hotch. Yeah, we saw this side of him in Profiler, Profiled, too. He has a theory now, and his theory clears his accused team member, and the rules no longer apply.

The Law Of Hotch: Rules are for people who break them.

Pen, you are such a hacker. And it was totally a system failure that held up Prentiss' resignation, too.

"And yet--" "You wanna play?" "You are not seriously trying to backhack me." Oh, BEST TV SEDUCTION EVAR! Even better than Reid explaining transference to the girl with her tongue down his throat.

"What is she doing in there?"

"You really wanna know?"

...this may be my favorite scene in the history of CM.

and

Hi. We at Criminal Minds would like to remind you that women are tough, that geeky boys are tough, that damsels in distress (male or female) can kick your fucking ass, and that smart chubby girls find love too. And that geeky boys make the best boyfriends.

Love, the management.

Can someone please tell me not to buy the five-season set of Criminal Minds, even though I found it at Deep Discount for only $149?

don't buy it!

I sensed a certain Willie Wonka tone to le nub's exclamation.

Oh how I wish CM was available on Netflix livestreaming.

Me, too, Rayne! It would be so much simpler than the way we're watching now!

As far as S5 eps, there's a very good *ahem* on YouTube. If you search CM 5.1 (or whatever the episode number you want) you'll find them. They're usually in four or five parts but the quality is really good.