*sigh*

[innerslytherin]

I am breaking up with Criminal Minds. The emotional blackmail of this last episode, combined with the sloppy storylines and decrease in actual profiling, has combined to end my love.

Also, I avoided this for as long as possible, but it's clear I need a Loki icon or six. Because Loki. Probably at least one Cap/Coulson icon, too. Or Stark/Coulson. Because yum.

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[valis2.livejournal.com]

I got pretty ticked off a couple of seasons ago when they ditched their two strongest female leads, then brought in a good actress but in a poorly written role to replace the two women they cut. Fans campaigned to get the actresses brought back, and we were successful.

Oh wow! That's pretty amazing that the fans got her back.

But this season... Well, the writing has been going downhill, in my opinion, over the past season. The cases are more out there, and the focus isn't nearly as zoomed in on the profiling aspect. In addition there have been a lot of "Oh, come on!" moments for me, just little things that I could overlook in the beginning, but they began to pile up.

*nodnod* I get it. My own experience with watching TV shows has been similar; at some point the quality starts to really diminish for many shows. I'm watching Hawaii 5-0 and it's had a couple eps this season where I absolutely rolled my eyes--they keep doing "stunts" for rating like involving Victoria's Secret models in a really skimpy plotline. lol.

His heart stopped, the good personality of the multiple personality kidnapper did CPR, he came back from the dead.

Right there I'm already thinking, um, what? *blinks*

I think it's shoddy writing with cheap emotional manipulation to do it the way they did. I also found it incredibly predictable, since so far on the show, the team leader's wife divorced him and then was brutally murdered by a serial killer fixated on the leader; another profiler's wife asked him to help her kill herself because she had a terminal illness; another profiler's woman friend was brutally murdered by a serial killer fixated on that profiler...

That's why I finally stopped watching CSI. Over and over again we would see similar plotlines until I finally couldn't take it.

I used to watch it nearly religiously, and then there was one episode with Katie Segal that was my camel-back-breaking-straw. It was so badly done, the show was trying to have a "funny" episode, to the point of having one of the characters walking around with a handcuffed clown in the beginning scenes. And it just got worse and worse, and I was cringing, and when the ep ended, I turned to G and said, "Okay, that's it, I'm done. No more." And i haven't watched since.

*hugs* Thanks so much for the explanation--I found it fascinating!!