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Okay, so AJ Cook really does an outstanding job on this one, as do the writers. PTSD is hard to portray in a TV show, without falling into the cliché trap, i.e. having some specific noise/sight as a trigger for memories. Like a fan trigger the memory of a chopper. However, they did it! JJ had no obvious cliché triggers, which makes her PTSD that much more realistic. The part when Reid confronts her, and she nearly falls apart, is touching and re watchable on it's own. But the last scene is amazing: there are number of ways to show how PTSD can destroy a person, but having it put in the mouth of Tivon Askari, with his sadistic tone, like a torture on it's own, was brilliant. My only complaint that they didn't follow through on her process of coping. Kudos writers and actress!
Okay, so AJ Cook really does an outstanding job on this one, as do the writers. PTSD is hard to portray in a TV show, without falling into the cliché trap, i.e. having some specific noise/sight as a trigger for memories. Like a fan trigger the memory of a chopper. However, they did it! JJ had no obvious cliché triggers, which makes her PTSD that much more realistic. The part when Reid confronts her, and she nearly falls apart, is touching and re watchable on it's own. But the last scene is amazing: there are number of ways to show how PTSD can destroy a person, but having it put in the mouth of Tivon Askari, with his sadistic tone, like a torture on it's own, was brilliant. My only complaint that they didn't follow through on her process of coping. Kudos writers and actress!