I'm cynical and feeling pretty unforgiving right now.

So am I, ehab, but I want to direct my righteous anger to the people who deserve it. Financial reasons, my ass.

Honestly, I don't think Morgan is capable of killing someone in cold blood. If he didn't kill Carl Buford when he had the chance, then I cannot see him killing anyone without proper, legally justifiable provocation. Morgan has a temper, and may occasionally go off half-cocked, but he's been able to tamp that down a bit in later seasons. Unless, of course, this is the year for Morgan to go off the rails.

I see parallels to the ending of "A Real Rain," but Hotch's kill was a lot less ambiguous than this one. I'm having a hard time reconciling Flynn's subtle movement of the gun with the need for Morgan to fire 5(?) shots to take him down.

The apology was sweet and I do think there was intent to have the Garcia bitching somehow illustrate Morgan's state of mind. I just don't think it worked very well. I didn't think "Wow he must be really messed up in the head to take it out on and about Garica". I just thought, asshole (and I like Morgan).

If I can't be non-rage-y about the show I will walk away but I think there were legitimate problems with the writing in last night's episode.

Oh dear. Joe Mantegna just tweeted, asking if everyone was happy with the show.

And I'm with Maria—I'm all for directing the righteous anger at the shitheels who deserve it.

Flynn did start to raise his gun before Morgan took his first shot, so he could claim that he was either going to shoot Morgan or maybe the woman on his right.

Yeah, it was a definite suicide-by-cop.

This was how I saw it as well.

I do think there was intent to have the Garcia bitching somehow illustrate Morgan's state of mind. I just don't think it worked very well.

Yeah, it just felt out of character. Actually even more than the snapping at Garcia, when he said to Hotch, "She really needs to be more professional," or something like that - I could see him being short with someone way easier than him being backbitey and talking behind their back that way.

Actually even more than the snapping at Garcia, when he said to Hotch, "She really needs to be more professional," or something like that - I could see him being short with someone way easier than him being backbitey and talking behind their back that way.

Exactly. In fact, if they'd left it at the sniping at Garcia directly and then the apology I probably wouldn't have felt a need to comment about it.

The writing was incredibly uneven. It was superficial; I understand the focus can't been on every character every show, but they usually do a much better job of integrating the team members into the story. If Joe Mantegna didn't already have his SAG card, he sure as hell wouldn't have earned it last night.

Hell, they used Gubler more when he was trapped on crutches than they did last night.

And Hotch didn't do much more than look Hotchly. It was the JJ/Morgan show, and it felt rushed, like we had to get as much of JJ in before she disappears.

I read some of the twitter responses to Joe and they're all positive with lot's of similar "JJ/Morgan show" and "I'm going to miss JJ" embedded in them. I suddenly remembered AJ has twitter so I let her know how marvelous I thought she was last night because she did give a wonderful performance.