I watched both shows of Criminal Minds where my favorite character was kidnapped by some killer living three different lives. At first I watched the show to see if they were going to say the killer had DID but they never said it. They hinted at it but they never said it. I figured that the show wasn’t trying to teach anything, just gross us out with how bloody they could get while killing off innocent people. The whole Jezebel thing was totally wrong. In the Bible Jezebel was dead BEFORE the dogs ate her. She wasn’t killed by the dogs but I suppose for the show and shock they had to gross us all out and have three hounds take her apart.
I was unaffected by the hint that the man had DID. It was nearly laughable at times when he’d go from speaking like Tobias to speaking like Raphael and then his father Charles. What was laughable was what they had him saying. Switching occurs, without a doubt it occurs so that wasn’t the funny part. It was how they did it and what they had him say. He said stuff like “My work is done.” Okay, whatever. I will give them this, I think they did right in depicting Tobias the way they did. He was very submissive, fearful, head low but quick with an answer. When Reid told him to disobey his father and let him in the house Tobias said, “At what age should you begin to disrespect the wishes of your parents?” At that moment that was me standing at the door. I was given answers like that to pull from some seeming pool of wisdom to throw off the most prepared social worker who’d come to make sure Mother Charles wasn’t hurting me. They did the submissive Tobias right. As for the DID thing, yeah they hinted at it but they never really said it. Even if they had I couldn’t dispute it. They showed details of how he grew up and how young he was when all that happened. Hang on, I believe they even mentioned how old he was when things at home took a horrible turn. That was more than a hint. If a person knows what has to take place for DID to develop and at what age it no longer develops then putting two and two together you get a multiple.
I like Spencer Reid. He’s my favorite character on the show even before the lovely chocolate fellow Shemar Moore and the overly intense, waiting to have a heart attack Jason Gideon. I still like Mandy Patinkin (Gideon) but its hard to watch him and not hear him sing. I can just about see him dancing fairy like, singing in that high voice. But that sound and vision isn’t enough to make me stop watching the show. I wish he’d stop singing but hey, we all have to have something we really suck at. Listen to Mandy P sing Minute Waltz and try to keep a straight face. I appreciate his acting but not his singing. He has a very nice voice, why oh why would he choose such a genre? Not the Minute Waltz Mandy, why the Waltz? Anything but the Minute Waltz.
Anyway, I hope they don’t go and give Reid a drug problem so we can all watch his character suffer and watch his friends stand by helplessly. I hated when they did that to a character on Without A Trace. Anyway, I sympathize with Reid’s character. He seems so troubled.
With last nights show what I took away was the killer was a true whack job, DID or no he was a whack job…sicking dogs on people like that, it was just sick.
Austin
Criminal Minds- Murder and Multiple Personality Disorder-Thursday, February 08, 2007-4:30PM EST
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