Here is a contradiction in terms for you: I liked Dick Wolf's Law & Order formulas, not to deny flawed stories and weaknesses, but dislike the procedurals that followed as the result of his influence, and have increasingly soured on Criminal Minds. Their most recent episode "A Family Affair" illustrates the reason. Not that paraplegics cannot be dangerous. Barbara upstairs has cp much worse than I do, even more helpless, and her aggression is much much worse than the irritability you read from me here, and that Steve Tara chastised me over. I do not dislike loki, I merely wanted him to stop advising me about writing. I failed my own expectations, but that doesn't mean I need to be told what I already know, and loki does not know that I opened a Good Reads account years ago.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/criminal_minds/e
My problem with the episode is not the expectations reversal, or Kathy Baker, a fine and seasoned actress given the right material; the construct, whoever in the SWG churned it out, has no real diegesis, which isn't always the case with this series, to be fair, but I increasingly dislike behavioral science as a secular religion. Maybe we are simply biological machines, and that's it, but I am a little defiant here, metaphysically. I eschew divinity, but cannot bring myself to forsake purpose, meaning, and the transcendent, not entirely, even if that is incongruent
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