I can haz blankie?

[jadesfire]

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I think I'm starting to understand why there isn't more Criminal Minds case-fic out there. It's not really a case of being intimidated by the show's quality, although I think that's a factor. It's because you have to wade through pages of depressing statistics to give Reid one line of dialogue.

Actually, scratch out depressing. Replace it with disturbing. At the moment, I'm researching an episode tag to 3x05 "Seven Seconds" and the child abduction statistics are scary enough. You know what's worse? The acronym for one study is NISMART. National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway children.

Thrownaway. There's even a definition of it on the webpage. One thing I like about Criminal Minds is that it never plays down the horror of this, that we need a definition for it.

*shivers* Still, I'm writing the story anyway. Because there's one hell of a loose end there, and I really, really want to tie it up. Or at least draw attention to it, because I can't have been the only one to spot it.

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I think I like that everyone in the show is allowed to be human - the team, the criminals, the victims, everyone is human which means they don't always cope, they don't always get it right and sometimes things just go wrong. There's usually a note of hope, or at least something to make you think "huh" in there somewhere.

*g* It's fighting back right now, but I'm getting there!

[patch-tank.livejournal.com]

It's fighting you??? The bastard. Give it your best Hotch-like death stare, that'll put it in it's place *nods*