Criminal Minds episode
This last new episode, "Birthright", had some logic holes, not unheard of for CM, but the one that seemed clunky enough to derail the whole premise was the woman who was abducted and survived not *telling* anyone who it was who did it to her. There seemed to be a lot of obfuscation about why that was -- she supposedly didn't know where she'd been held or where she'd been tortured -- but she knew the guy's NAME, obviously, since she came back to the area when she heard he was dead. If she knew who he was, how could she not know where he lived? And why did she never tell anyone his name? They try to blur this issue with the "He got me high" and "The cops didn't believe me" and "I didn't want my son to know", but it was clear she never named him to those cops at the time. If she had, they could then have easily found evidence (as they did 27 years later).
Supposing she didn't know who he was at the time, but only found out through (say) a newspaper photo when he died, still... she KNEW about the murders, kept a newspaper clipping about them, had realized it was him, but felt no obligation or desire to tell anyone, even anonymously? It doesn't make much sense. I think they were just so enthusiastic about writing "Serial Killer: The Next Generation" that they weren't going to let logic stand in their way.
And: she supposedly didn't know where all this happened, but... she escaped from the barn on foot. Obviously she did know more or less where it was, after finding her way back from it to her own home! So even if she didn't know his name at first, she did know where he lived. Gah.
This reminds me of the one puzzling absurdity in the otherwise lovely "Revelations", namely, at no time in that episode is Reid ever *tied up*, not even to the flimsy and quite portable little kitchen chair he's sitting in while captive. This is especially apparent in the scene where "Charles" Hankel hauls him up onto his feet to threaten him. So Reid could have walked out of there any time Tobias left, which he did at least twice. Very curious. The fact that this would have been so easy to remedy has made me wonder if Matthew Gray Gubler just can't deal with being tied up/shackled, or if it was too inconvenient to have to keep untying him between shots, or too hard to figure out a form of bondage that would work for all the different things they wanted to do to him. I've been willing to suspend my disbelief, but I do wonder why they made it necessary to do so. MGG did a beautiful job throughout, including misdirection magical enough that at first we really don't even notice Reid's footloose status; but when you've watched it for the nth time gleaning fic data, little can be concealed.
I almost admire them for that decision, it was kind of artistic. The "Birthright" point though, especially on top of the very flimsy following-in-his-father's-footsteps concept, just seemed sloppy. Maybe the script hadn't quite gotten its final buff and polish when the strike hit.
ETA spoiler cut, sorry if anyone got it before I caught that.
Supposing she didn't know who he was at the time, but only found out through (say) a newspaper photo when he died, still... she KNEW about the murders, kept a newspaper clipping about them, had realized it was him, but felt no obligation or desire to tell anyone, even anonymously? It doesn't make much sense. I think they were just so enthusiastic about writing "Serial Killer: The Next Generation" that they weren't going to let logic stand in their way.
And: she supposedly didn't know where all this happened, but... she escaped from the barn on foot. Obviously she did know more or less where it was, after finding her way back from it to her own home! So even if she didn't know his name at first, she did know where he lived. Gah.
This reminds me of the one puzzling absurdity in the otherwise lovely "Revelations", namely, at no time in that episode is Reid ever *tied up*, not even to the flimsy and quite portable little kitchen chair he's sitting in while captive. This is especially apparent in the scene where "Charles" Hankel hauls him up onto his feet to threaten him. So Reid could have walked out of there any time Tobias left, which he did at least twice. Very curious. The fact that this would have been so easy to remedy has made me wonder if Matthew Gray Gubler just can't deal with being tied up/shackled, or if it was too inconvenient to have to keep untying him between shots, or too hard to figure out a form of bondage that would work for all the different things they wanted to do to him. I've been willing to suspend my disbelief, but I do wonder why they made it necessary to do so. MGG did a beautiful job throughout, including misdirection magical enough that at first we really don't even notice Reid's footloose status; but when you've watched it for the nth time gleaning fic data, little can be concealed.
I almost admire them for that decision, it was kind of artistic. The "Birthright" point though, especially on top of the very flimsy following-in-his-father's-footsteps concept, just seemed sloppy. Maybe the script hadn't quite gotten its final buff and polish when the strike hit.
ETA spoiler cut, sorry if anyone got it before I caught that.