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#126: Nov 2nd 2014 at 5:17:30 PM

Does anyone here want to discuss Season 10?

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#127: Nov 2nd 2014 at 6:09:46 PM

  • raises hand* I actually like JLH. Episodes have been good so far, though I think they need to get on with building the season arc. I like that this season has one. Last season kinda meandered IMO. Hopefully this season will will up to Evil!Skywalker from season 8 XD.

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#128: Nov 3rd 2014 at 12:55:49 AM

I feel like they haven't given her much to do. I don't dislike her, but she's got so little screentime so far I can't heap praise on her character either. Is it bad I've not watched anything she's been in so long I wouldn't have recognized her had the credits not told me who she is?

Liked the episodes so far, decent enough fair for the show, nothing exceptional, nothing bad either.

I liked them having Garcia deal with that guy she shot last season. That was nice of them to not just forget about it.

I also got a chuckle out of Morgan listing the ludicrous number of injuries he's suffered in universe. Seriously, dude must have healing factor that puts Wolverine's to shame.

I still however stand by my opinion that the show's been running for so long, they are short / out of ideas what to do. Like last episode. Hotch bemoaning how he missed Halloween with Jack. Yes. Here's a horse of a plot that hasn't been beaten to death yet, the "Hotch is sad he doesn't have more time with his kid" plot. I believe that one's been going since season 1.

[up] I found last season's lack of a metaplot kinda refreshing. For one, it sort of get tiresome when every new season there's a criminal mastermind who wants to play mind game with the team. Seriously, you'd wonder if these dudes have their own union or something to decide who gets dibs on a given year. So in that aspect, a breather seasons without a big metaplot was nice. I do agree we're due one now.

edited 3rd Nov '14 1:21:58 AM by Ghilz

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#129: Nov 3rd 2014 at 5:54:58 AM

Well this plot is less, evil criminal mastermind, more giant group of very creepy people running a kidnap/sell ring. It is different from their usual fair where it's either one or a small group of creeps concentrated in area. This seems more like a rather vast network, like the gypsy families from way back, except they don't seem to work in family units either.

I like the arcs because it keeps my attention for the season, it works up to something (but maybe I've been watching Doctor Who for too long ^^)and it usually guarantees a decent finale, unlike say, season 6 where they ran out of plot before the finale and just through in that girl running a slave ring thing which could have been done at ANY other time in the season. It just didn't feel like a finale, even if they did rush JJ back into the cast.

edited 7th Nov '14 2:09:29 PM by Sisi

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#130: Nov 7th 2014 at 9:39:52 AM

Is it just me or does JJ's kid look older than Hotch's kid, despite being, what, 4, while Jack is 10?

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#131: Nov 7th 2014 at 2:08:48 PM

I think Jack's only about 8 or so. J.J's kid is...dunno...I got distracted by the new emo/hipster fringe he's sporting XD. He;s also A.J Cook's actual son so...

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#132: Nov 7th 2014 at 7:23:09 PM

Jack was born in season 1. He's 9.

Henry was born in season 4, he's 5.

edited 7th Nov '14 7:24:39 PM by CobraPrime

ZheToralf Floating Advice Reminder from somewhere in Germany Since: Dec, 2009
#133: Nov 7th 2014 at 11:53:21 PM

And played by A.J. 's actual son, as Sisi pointed out. And since JJ's pregnancy was a Written-In Infirmity, Henry can never look to old/young.

edited 7th Nov '14 11:53:50 PM by ZheToralf

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Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#134: Nov 9th 2014 at 3:58:47 PM

I have watched the first three eps so far, and I loved the "Garcia & Death Penalty" subplot from ep 2 - and it was an overall nice investigation with Masuka as the Unsub, to make it even better.

To me it really was one of the all-time highs on the show. I always enjoyed how morality was treated in CM (I remember an episode with a gay killer, for example, that was extremely perceptive), and this time the writers overdid themselves, while Kristen Vangsness was absolutely perfect. I found the final scenes to be extremely powerful. Even the guy playing the scum from last season's finale was great. And the music fitted perfectly (what was it, by the way ?). Kudos to them.

On the other hand, episode 3 was plain ridiculous and may contribute to a rise in phobia of airplanes. They should have debunked the possibility of it happening IRL in a message after the episode.

edited 9th Nov '14 3:59:27 PM by Julep

Peridonyx Since: Jun, 2012
#135: Dec 4th 2014 at 11:20:22 AM

Frank from Season 2 remains the most Nightmare Fuel-y Big Bad.

Most unsubs simply shoot/stab/etc., but him? He actually made people witness their own autopsies (The only mercy was that ketamine numbs you up physically... but even that just kept them conscious longer.). And even though he died, it was still on his own terms, and he even got the last laugh (Bye, Gideon.). Even Foyet was unable to do that.

edited 4th Dec '14 6:11:41 PM by Peridonyx

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#136: Dec 4th 2014 at 12:00:15 PM

But Foyet was continuously taunting Hotch (not to mention the stabbing *shudder*). Frank just kinda came, disappeared and popped up out of nowhere again. Foyet was the bogeyman.

Also, it's creepy watching Ponyboy stab people to death.

edited 4th Dec '14 12:00:36 PM by Sisi

Peridonyx Since: Jun, 2012
#137: Dec 4th 2014 at 12:06:40 PM

[up] That, and Nothing Is Scarier comes into play when you remember they never fully revealed just what he did to Hotch (Foyet's pre-torture comments implied he was going to do some Prison Rape to disprove his impotence or something.).

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#138: Dec 4th 2014 at 12:36:25 PM

Yeah, that came to my mind too. Foyet for me is still the scariest Unsub. Frank comes a very close second though.

The squickiest Unsub though, is the Human Marionette guy for sure.

Peridonyx Since: Jun, 2012
#139: Dec 4th 2014 at 2:05:22 PM

He was a lot like Samantha Malcolm ("Uncanny Valley"): 50% Woobie, 50% And I Must Scream.

And the worst children-based ones were the Roycewoods ("Mosley Lane") and J.B. Allen ("Foundation"), especially since you never learned their motives; anything could've triggered them.

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#140: Dec 12th 2014 at 7:52:11 PM

Okay...... about Rossi and Hotchner picking up chicks in a bar at the end of the latest episode..... isn't Hotchner already dating someone?

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CL Since: Apr, 2014
#141: Dec 13th 2014 at 3:45:05 AM

They're attempting another spin-off, this one about a globetrotting team.

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#142: Dec 13th 2014 at 6:08:09 AM

[up][up] The mentioned he broke up with Beth in that conversation.

[up] Im fine with that spinoff (at least it'll stand out from the original, unlike SB)as long as 1. They actually take advantage of the globe-trotting and shoot some exotic locals, at least for background shots, and 2. The execs don't try cutting costs by firing off members of the original team again.

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#143: Dec 13th 2014 at 11:25:50 PM

Oh, I didn't catch that about Beth. Kind of abrupt. Did the actress want to leave, or did they just decide Hotchner was better single?

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#144: Jan 8th 2015 at 9:46:58 PM

Pure Criminal Minds right there. Introduce/remove a love interest offscreen. Wasn't Morgan's current Significant Other met offscreen too?

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#145: Jan 20th 2015 at 10:04:30 PM

Since it's season 10 now, I figured, what the heck, let's re watch the first seasons. It's been a decade. Up to season 2 now.

It's an odd experience, seeing how little the show has changed in some what, and how much in other ways. And how much more... artsy the scenes of the team delivering the profile used to be, with them walking amongst or interacting with Imagine Spot of what the unsub could be like. I'm sort of sad the show no longer does that.

Also I miss Gideon, and I realized season 1 has a running plot: Reporters are scum.

CL Since: Apr, 2014
#146: Jan 21st 2015 at 5:11:50 AM

See if you can pinpoint exactly when they kind of gave up on having the killer's identity and/or appearance be unknown.

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#147: Jan 21st 2015 at 11:19:01 PM

There's no firm cuttoff (As they occasionally skipped the artsy presentation for episode where the Unsub is known from the start) but there will certainly be an "Last old-style expodump"

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#148: Jan 26th 2015 at 1:17:06 AM

All the way to the 4th season... the Romani kidnapping family episode... Am I the only one squicked by this episode? Especially the stinger that's essentially going "Beware them Gypsies planning to steal your kids!"

It's like... wow. Unfortunate Implications ahoy.

edited 26th Jan '15 1:19:00 AM by Ghilz

Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#149: Jan 26th 2015 at 1:38:08 AM

[up][up] A shame they did not keep it (cost I guess), because the current version of "everyone saying one sentence" is rather stupid. If you want to explain something to a large bunch of policemen, as it is usually the case, it would be much more natural to have one character doing the entire explanation (they can change from one episode to another). This sequence always look very artificial to me.

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#150: Jan 26th 2015 at 1:41:24 AM

Oh wow, we actually have Rossi saying "Alot of Romani make their living as petty thieves"... That episode is racist....

[up] I agree. So far I'd say they changed to the "Each person says one sentence - no artsy integration of the person speaking in a montage with a typical unsub" in season 2. We get a few more (including some in season 3 and a BAU-less montage of a typical unsub who fits the profile but isn't ours in season 4) but Season 2 is where the "current" profile scene became the dominant type.

edited 26th Jan '15 1:41:53 AM by Ghilz


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