innerslytherin | Dear Criminal Minds,

1. Stop shoving Garcia in my face. I used to like her, but you're pissing me off. Going "LOOK WE KEPT A GIRL! WE KEPT A GIRL!" is not going to cut it. You fired your two kickass real FBI agents who actually, y'know, carry guns and catch people. I used to love Garcia but that love is fading fast.

2. Don't let Simon Mirren write any more episodes. Ever. Making Garcia's hobby acting was as lazy as making Reid's hobby magic tricks. LAZY CHARACTERIZATION. Next are you going to tell me that Paget Brewster had an abortion at 15 and her friend started doing drugs because of it?

3. Did I say enough of the Garcia already? I meant it. But while she's in the background, make her get rid of that orange hair for good. It's NOT flattering. Please God let Prentiss have bleached it instead of giving her a wig.

4. I liked the actual case. Of course, I'm in love with Cary Grant, so anything 50s-esque gets an automatic pass from me, and I thought the guest star was lovely. (Not Sally Kirkland so much, she just sort of stood there being Mommy Dearest. WTF.)

5. As much as I say enough Garcia? New blonde "FBI Cadet" chick in the spoilers? DO. NOT. WANT.

6. Two entire episodes with gigantic leaps in logic and lazy characterization in this episode. Guys, the acting has been superb (well, aside from Kirsten, who was just melodrama central this week), but even the best acting can't save crappy writing. Can y'all get Oanh Ly or PLEASE GOD Andrew Wilder back? PLEASE? Oh MAN do I miss those two.

7. Is this me being bitter? Quite possibly. But seriously. This is like Supernatural. I wish they'd ended SPN last season, and now I'm starting to wish they'd ended CM before they start strangling it.

Love, lots and lots of love, but serious disappointment,

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Would that I disagreed with you.

I said elsewhere that the procedural part came across like a bad CSI. I didn't mind the Hitchcock homages, but still, my overall takeaway was no.

I think they've forgotten what made CM so awesome and so unique. And that makes me sad.

Oh, hi, I think I just replied to another one of your posts in a different comm so apparently I'm stalking you now. My bad. But, yeah, ditto. This ep, I started reading endless squeeing comments from other viewers and then wondered, wow, was I the only one who thought this ep kinda sucked? You nailed it on Garcia. Garcia has always been awesome, but her awesomeness is lessening the more exposed she is. Like, wtf is that?! Hope the blond is back. Hated the red, hated the orange even more.

Bitter? Eh, maybe. But you've got company.

LOL No worries. I really do adore Garcia, but yes - it's like the exposure is diminishing her in some way. I was okay with the darker red, but the orange is just...honey, no. :P

Garcia was always a very limited character. She worked on a computer and made inappropriate comments and stuck her fingers in her ears and insisted she couldn't hear you when you talked about yucky things. And that's it. That's all the writers built into that character in the last five years. And now she's suddenly like Rogue, magically absorbing JJ's superpowers. Just, no.

THIS. SO MUCH THIS.

Yes, this.

Yeah, I'm starting to wonder about the Garcia thing. I love her, but this is getting old fast. She is better as a supporting character and not the main crime solver. And I so agree with your "LOOK WE KEPT A GIRL! WE KEPT A GIRL!" reasoning. It seems like CBS is trying to sweep AJ and Paget to the side and bringing their one remaining chick in the spotlight. Um, yeah, doing that is not going to make us forget you firing two great actresses.

They need to get their shit together.

...at least Dave & Em sat together at the play?

*sigh*

Short version: I AGREE WITH ALL YOUR WORDS.

*sigh* This. So much this.

I love Garcia. At least, I love Garcia of the past six seasons. This Garcia? Super-awesome-media-publicist-JJ replacement Garcia? Not so much.

And the stories have been pretty damn lazy this season. There have been some really good team interaction moments (and any time Hotch gets to act all Hotch-y makes me happy), but the overall story plotlines have seemed forced. And overly contrived. And seriously lacking in logic.

*another sigh*

:(

(Although Hotch sounding a wee ~~jealous~~ annoyed that Reid was checking out the girls at the train station was a little bit awesome.)

My dad says the problem is that they've run out of "original" storylines, because the real serial killers do a lot of the same things, but the CM people are still trying to be "new and unique", which is translating to "unbelievable and illogical". I think he's onto something there. And my mother has quit watching altogether, which is sad, considering she's the one who got me hooked on this show.

And I loved Garcia of the first seasons, but this year she's really trying too hard, and it's showing. :/

But yes, the train station scene rocked. :D

Well, I can´t really say what I think. Just that this ep had its moments. What I don´t get is why they color blond Garcia when they had the perfect actress fitting the UNSUB victimology= JJ! But the fired them. *Oh, F**k* She would have been the perfict fitting petite blond woman...and she would have had the "walk" :-)
Oh, love Garcia but her metamorphose to a blonde colored vamp didn´t work for me in this ep. Only the moment Rossi told her: "You´ll be great, Red." was worth the whole set up.
Luckily we had a hot Rossi in white shirt and jeans (no suit or tie), Emily who definitely has the "walk" :-) and her almost help seeking: "Rossi. Her lips." I definitely see her grasping his hand outside the screen :-)

Hope, there will be some better eps, soon. I liked the last one but I hate that Rossi and Prentiss more than once have those `damn´ one-line scenes.

Oh, this episode definitely had its moments. I mean, the whole Hotch & Reid & Prentiss in the train station was great. Prentiss having the "walk", yes, and Reid's head turning and Hotch's reaction. *G* But yeah. *sigh*

*psst* It's Andrew Wilder....not Andrew Mirren.

I missed the first 15 mins, so really can't comment overly on the ep until I watch it all...but I found some of the acting of the support cast to be a bit ... wooden.

And hey, you got Rossi and Prentiss sitting together--more than I got with the boys. *sigh* ;)

Shh. I knew that. :P

I thought our general crew did a good job, and I thought Knepper (?) did a good job. Well, and the kid was good. But yeah.

I feel like we need to write another petition: "Less Garcia, More Prentiss." I doubt it would help, but at least it will make me feel better. This could have been an awesome episode, and instead it was just meh.

How about Put it Back the Way it Was, I Liked That Better?

DragonLady

If only :( I was looking at youtube videos of seasons 3 & 4 yesterday, thinking "I like that. Whatever happened to that stuff?" Pretty sure they've fucked it up permanently now.

That would work too.

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