UnSubs
So...
I'm in this challenge community about Criminal Minds, crimeland , and it's kind of awesome and you should all join it and say you were recruited by me, but I'm now on really unknown territory, as I am trying to write something about the UnSubs. It's not so much the UnSubs, as the whole writing something part of it. But here it goes:
The Unknown Subjects are the bad guys (and occasional girls) that we meet in the show, Criminal Minds. They are the UnSubs. (Which we, the viewers, has to be reminded of every 5 episodes or so in case of new viewers.) While they for the most part are serial killers, we also meet among others kidnappers, terrorists and child molesters.
It's a rather wide collection of disturbed minds that make out the group called UnSubs, with your always so happy gang of sociopaths and psychopaths, schizophrenics, revenge seekers, fame seekers, religious fanatics, killing pairs and terrorists, nicely spiced with deranged personalities, pack mentality, angels of mercy, obsessive compulsive disorders, angst, rage, breaks from reality, sexual assaults, fires and bombs. (Which are always so fun. I like it when things (empty things) go BOOOM!)
The problem with the unsubs are that they seldom fascinate me as much as the team does. That is most likely because you usually only have one episode to mess up this person, while you can use whole seasons on fucking up the team. I seldom wonder where they come from, how their childhood was and such. I see them how they are now, and I'm glad when they are caught. Morally I think it's nice that I don't remember them, as they don't actually deserve to be remembered.
Although I don't tend to bond with the unsubs, I usually find them more interesting when we meet them at the beginning of the episode and can follow them till the end (whatever end that might be). The ones that are just caught after a small chase are not that interesting. I don't usually even remember the names on the ones we get to know, much less the ones that we only meet at the end. It's "the guy with an almost aspberger-like behaviour in the episode with the blind boy" or "he from LDSK" or "the guy who shot Garcia".
I find that I just as often remember them by looks as by actions and personality. Take the Fisher King. I really like the episodes and the whole riddle thing, but I remember him mostly because of the way he reminds me of this burn damaged Swedish firefighter, who was all around the news here some years ago because of his book and courses and stuff.
Same thing is to say about Frank. I never liked Frank. He was creepy and all that, but I didn't enjoy the episode as much as I've done with other episodes. A wacko with a whistle is always fun, but what I sit thinking during that episode, is how much Frank looks like the father in 7th Heaven.
There are those that touch you. Tobias Hankel, Adam, "the guy with an almost aspberger-like behaviour in the episode with the blind boy" to mention some. You get to know them and their personalities (which in case of Tobias and Adam are more than one). I don't exactly bond with them, as they are serial killers, but they fascinate me. They are tragic destinies in a tragic world, and should have been given a lot more help than they were. And multiple personalities are always interesting.
Tobias give me kind of a Gollum/Smeagol feeling. When Reid is lying there dead and needs help Tobias has a fight with one of his other personalites, his father. Tobias is Smeagol and his father is Gollum. And for the only time in that episode Smeagol wins the discussion. Much the same way he wins in Lord of the Rings.And the same way as with Smeagol/Gollum, the other personality emerges again after a while and makes trouble.
But to conclude this text I have to say, that even though I would really like to know more about Reid (pretty please?), Hotch, Garcia, Morgan, JJ, Prentiss and Rossi, there wouldn't be much of a show without the UnSubs. And for that they have my eternal gratitude.
Akakaki, Team Reid
I'm in this challenge community about Criminal Minds, crimeland , and it's kind of awesome and you should all join it and say you were recruited by me, but I'm now on really unknown territory, as I am trying to write something about the UnSubs. It's not so much the UnSubs, as the whole writing something part of it. But here it goes:
The Unknown Subjects are the bad guys (and occasional girls) that we meet in the show, Criminal Minds. They are the UnSubs. (Which we, the viewers, has to be reminded of every 5 episodes or so in case of new viewers.) While they for the most part are serial killers, we also meet among others kidnappers, terrorists and child molesters.
It's a rather wide collection of disturbed minds that make out the group called UnSubs, with your always so happy gang of sociopaths and psychopaths, schizophrenics, revenge seekers, fame seekers, religious fanatics, killing pairs and terrorists, nicely spiced with deranged personalities, pack mentality, angels of mercy, obsessive compulsive disorders, angst, rage, breaks from reality, sexual assaults, fires and bombs. (Which are always so fun. I like it when things (empty things) go BOOOM!)
The problem with the unsubs are that they seldom fascinate me as much as the team does. That is most likely because you usually only have one episode to mess up this person, while you can use whole seasons on fucking up the team. I seldom wonder where they come from, how their childhood was and such. I see them how they are now, and I'm glad when they are caught. Morally I think it's nice that I don't remember them, as they don't actually deserve to be remembered.
Although I don't tend to bond with the unsubs, I usually find them more interesting when we meet them at the beginning of the episode and can follow them till the end (whatever end that might be). The ones that are just caught after a small chase are not that interesting. I don't usually even remember the names on the ones we get to know, much less the ones that we only meet at the end. It's "the guy with an almost aspberger-like behaviour in the episode with the blind boy" or "he from LDSK" or "the guy who shot Garcia".
I find that I just as often remember them by looks as by actions and personality. Take the Fisher King. I really like the episodes and the whole riddle thing, but I remember him mostly because of the way he reminds me of this burn damaged Swedish firefighter, who was all around the news here some years ago because of his book and courses and stuff.
Same thing is to say about Frank. I never liked Frank. He was creepy and all that, but I didn't enjoy the episode as much as I've done with other episodes. A wacko with a whistle is always fun, but what I sit thinking during that episode, is how much Frank looks like the father in 7th Heaven.
There are those that touch you. Tobias Hankel, Adam, "the guy with an almost aspberger-like behaviour in the episode with the blind boy" to mention some. You get to know them and their personalities (which in case of Tobias and Adam are more than one). I don't exactly bond with them, as they are serial killers, but they fascinate me. They are tragic destinies in a tragic world, and should have been given a lot more help than they were. And multiple personalities are always interesting.
Tobias give me kind of a Gollum/Smeagol feeling. When Reid is lying there dead and needs help Tobias has a fight with one of his other personalites, his father. Tobias is Smeagol and his father is Gollum. And for the only time in that episode Smeagol wins the discussion. Much the same way he wins in Lord of the Rings.And the same way as with Smeagol/Gollum, the other personality emerges again after a while and makes trouble.
But to conclude this text I have to say, that even though I would really like to know more about Reid (pretty please?), Hotch, Garcia, Morgan, JJ, Prentiss and Rossi, there wouldn't be much of a show without the UnSubs. And for that they have my eternal gratitude.
Akakaki, Team Reid