Because I'm feeling compelled to update again...
More exciting than last week’s, the case itself was still fairly predictable. Which unfortunately means there wasn’t anything particularly noteworthy to comment on there. The team owner and the best friend were suspicious from the first three minutes in, so it wasn’t much of a twist when it ended up being one (the owner) instead of the other (BF). I think it might’ve been more thrilling if it had been Danica’s character who was the culprit in the end. Especially since she didn’t seem to have much to do. However, I did enjoy it.
I really enjoyed the scenes where Adam, Lindsay, and Danny were working with the car. They were fun and consistent; they made me lol; those parts reminded me of You Only Die Once and Down the Rabbit Hole, and they played off each other really well. Adam into video-games and Lindsay into race-cars - I knew it - all that was made of win, and I loved the one scene where Mac joined them.
Speaking of Mac, that final scene where mini-Mac-in-his-race-car was superimposed over Mac on the track ...should have been corny, but I found it too cute to care. Partly because of the mini-Mac, but the grin on Mac’s face when he got into that car was pretty great, too. (Lol at him in the Soapbox Derby)
Flack’s different; darker and more subdued. Yeah, people’ve been saying it for weeks, but with the way he was all excited over that motorcycle in S1’s finale and his reluctant admiration of the “Batmobile” in 4.03, it was a little depressing to watch him not even get a little excited over the cars. I could’ve sworn those would be exactly the kind of thing he was into.
They did better in this one: especially between Adam, Lindsay and Danny; Stella and Sheldon; Stella and Mac, it felt more like a team that actually talked while they were at the job; instead of simply reciting facts. I would’ve preferred if the interactions weren’t so fragmented (like if they’d had Hawkes drop in on Adam, Lindsay and Danny when they were putting the car together, just to see how things were going, and what they were up to. The way Catherine/Warrick/ Nick used to do with the others on the team that they weren’t working the same case with). But it was better.
I have to say it, though; the pet-names from Danny to Lindsay were just weird. I don’t know, they hardly seemed necessary, she didn’t much seem to enjoy hearing them. It was grating, but I overlooked it :P
All things considered, they haven't been doing too badly since they re-started after the Christmas hiatus. At this rate, I'm honestly looking forward to the season finale.
Tonight's eppie of Criminal Minds, in contrast, was kind of a letdown. It was well-put together and all, solid, and if it was suffering from a lack of Garcia, it made up for it with the scenes of JJ bonding with the vic's wife and daughter. But I was far more interested in their story and their pain (the wife and mother, I mean), than I was in the unsub's behaviour. The killer was just so simplistic in this one. Cold-blooded in a way that's actually pretty chilling -- wasn't even worried about witnesses -- but once I got over that, there wasn't much else to him. Maybe that's the feeling I was supposed to come away from this episode with. But I'm used to being more invested in the way they decipher the unsub, to be honest ;) So, strange.