So now in addition to the human trafficking and the niece's dumb use of internet, we've got Totally Not Dr. Destiny running around turning already unstable people into psychos.
...Wow.
I'm not angry or anything, I'm just slightly amazed I missed this.
Accursed AT&T inadequate On Demand.
I think she may. It could be a mat leave deal like what they had with JJ/AJ Cooke, which BTW, looks like it's going to happen again.
But yes, it looks like we're going to need a new token brunette again. And maybe a new Token Blonde, or that woman we had last time JJ went on mat leave.
Anywho that finale was...eh. They did a really shitty job of setting it up. No talk of Kate looking into the case and no showing of the Un Sub even knowing who Kate was, let alone hatching a dastardly plot to kidnap her niece and her niece's friend. It came out of nowhere.
They actually put in effort for the Replicator arc. Multiple episodes spread throughout the season, ACKNOWLEDGED connections to multiple team members...
Seriously guys, what happened?
Man, I want Foyet back...
This whole "Season's Brunette" thing is just getting ridiculous.
I'm kinda hoping the new spinoff turns out good and the original Criminal Minds series can retire with some dignity left. They are so running out of ideas.
Also, is it just me or the season finale made no sense?
Why did the traffickers kidnap Meg? Coz Kate was getting close? How did they know that? And how was kidnapping Meg accomplishing anything other than guaranteeing the FBI goes after them - the show raises this question itself and never answers it. How did they find their clients? You're telling me a bunch of rapists and serial killer stumbled upon the auction site but the FBI or any police organization never did? Why keep pictures of past auctions, other than leaving a nice proof and tally of all the crimes you committed for the cops to find? How does someone get involved into an accident that causes a fatality with fake I Ds so bad Garcia immediately find they are fake by looking the guy up, BUT NOT the people who would've investigated the crash? Like, even beyond the lack of foreplanning for this act
mentioned, the plot is full of holes you could drive a semi through.
Who was the blonde agent with the BAU through the episode? Did she have a name? Would've been nice.
edited 8th May '15 12:52:18 AM by Ghilz
At least Jennifer Love Hewitt is leaving the show for a good reason, to be a mother, and not because of some backstage problems like what's happened to most other actresses on the show.
I'm not holding my breath, but I'd really like Paget Brewster to come back.
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!But instead we could have...wait for it...a redhead! Or a black woman! Or Asian! Indian maybe?
This show is both extremely interesting in its premise, and SO F-ING FORMULAIC that it is almost a joke. I wonder if the writers are strangled by the multiple orders they get from the channel execs, or if they have been replaced by a team of robots ready to give us 30 more seasons if necessary.
I don't see any other "episodic cop show" that can give great moments such as Garcia & the death penalty. But I can't see either any other "episodic cop show" in which you can predict 95% of the scenes of the episode before it even begins, because it is always the same damn thing.
So, this is going to sound really twisted but is it strange I can actually see the appeal of the deal Foyet was trying to make with Hotch? Hotch stops chasing him, Foyet stops killing. When he made the deal with the original detective, he actually honored it until the guy died, and Foyet was older than Hotch; if Hotch had made the deal, Foyet would probably have died first.
edited 11th May '15 5:42:15 PM by HamburgerTime
The only backstage antics I heard about was the Jeanne Tripplehorn was let go because she said some...mildly insulting things about Mandy Patinkin in an interview. I don't know why Lola Glaudini left, but Paget Brewster left because she wanted to go back to comedy, supposedly.
It seems a little silly to me, to fire a current cast member over a former cast member who hasn't been on the show in 6 or 7 years...
edited 12th May '15 7:15:32 AM by Sisi
Lola Glaudini left because she missed her family, who were living on the other side of the U.S.
It's nice she left because of family, but..... she's still done some projects in LA, which has always lead me to wonder why she hasn't made at least one "bus came back" episode.
The only reasons i can think of, is either she just doesn't want to, doesn't like the show (understandable), or they don't know how to bring back Elle without addressing the fact she killed someone.
I thought Paget Brewster left because she was tired of the treatment her and A.J. Cook had been getting from CBS executives? Although, wanting to go back to comedy is also a pretty legitimate reason for leaving Criminal Minds. Regardless of your opinions of Mandy Patinkin, he did have a point. You can only take so much of this series, before it wares on you.
edited 12th May '15 10:00:00 AM by Brandon
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!Not directly related to the show, but I'd like to see the show adopt that bit of reality subtext
.
Maybe that's why Garcia is the only computer person in both Criminal Minds and Suspect behavior.
Been procrastinating over this fanfic idea.
Basically, a dirty prosecutor and several dirty cops are abducted and buried alive by an irony-loving UnSub who turns out to be a wrongly imprisoned man whose trigger was losing his post-exoneration lawsuit that would've given him compensation for time served (and the victims were all part of his case).
So, another CSI:NY alumni popped in, this time as the perp of the week, Morgan's girlfriend is in all likelihood pregnant, and it looks like it's Morgan's turn to be temporarily fridged for drama. Granted he hasn't been in any serious danger since Tim Curry beat the snot out of him in, what, season 6?
Oh god oh god oh god.
Nononononono. Please don't, Haley Morgan. Please don't Haley him....
DAMN Morgan went Rambo on that guy's ass
And another character leaves because parenthood. At least he got a happy ending. Better than just killing characters off. But we're going to need a new token black dude on the team come next season.
edited 23rd Mar '16 6:49:21 PM by Sisi
He's been around too long and is too well-liked for that to happen, I think.
And I'm pretty sure they only did that because they couldn't get Patinkin back for the episode. If they ever decide to bump off Morgan for whatever reason, I'm sure Shemar Moore would more than willing to come back.
So is Prentiss popping in once a season going to be a thing? 'Cause it would be cool see her again on a regular basis. Also adds to the feel of everyone being a family on the show. And off too I guess.
On another note, I rather enjoyed last night's Beyond Borders episode better than the premiere. Still shades of Scary Foreign Places, but they seem to be slowly improving their characterization. That Mafia Boss Lady for one was AWESOME. I want to see a show about her XD
edited 24th Mar '16 7:05:20 AM by Sisi
Am I the only one who doesn't get Beyond Border's concept and basic premise...
Like, the FBI has a team, of profilers no less, ready to go when people abroad get murdered or vanish? Really?
Coz both Criminal Minds and Suspect Behavior had made a point of how many crimes to barely investigated on US Soil if the victims aren't rich enough or white enough or well behaved enough? But hey, now it happened across the globe! Action Profiler Team is go! Backpacking students in Thailand go AWOL, lets dispatch the FBI on a super plane? Who approved that budget... o_O
Like, why make them FBI, and not, say, Interpol? You've already set up Interpol's love of profilers with Prentiss, even if she doesn't guests star, it makes sense to imagine Interpol having a team of profilers to "loan" to various country who need them (Sort of like that one time the Criminal Minds team went to help Mexican police).
Each episode I watch this and I go "Remember how JJ once talked about all the case she has to reject coz the BAU is so small. Man, imagine how many more cases THIS team could power through if they weren't constantly stuck on 6 to 14 hours plane rides and having to no doubt constantly recover from jet lag."
And that's without getting into the stupid stuff like "Well follow footprints from where the victim was last seen. Oh look a dead body". Because apparently the Thai Royal Police is too dumb to know how to follow footprint without Americans teaching them this cutting edge art. Add the twice mention about how the Thai Royal Police apparantly aren't big on equal opportunity and the show gets this weird borderline Mighty Whitey vibe. "Lets go around the world show the primitives how things are done".
edited 2nd Apr '16 7:35:57 PM by Ghilz

And the spin-off had that episode with the hangman and his hallucinatory sister.