Half-way through, my dad commented that there wasn't enough Reid in this episode. I pointed out the lack of Garcia and Morgan, and he agreed he also missed Garcia. (He likes Morgan, but he on the surface he's a more typical law enforcement character.) I also missed Prentiss, even if she was kinda badass in it. I watch this show to see MY team be awesome, not some other team. And their interactions... Bah.
Forrest Whitaker is an excellent actor, and I'd love to see him on a good show. I'm not sure how I feel about this show yet. I'm hoping there's more than four members of the team - our team has has seven. According to this article the other team will focus on "things like" human trafficking and assassination plots, rather than serial killers. I guess they may not need a media liason then, but four is still too few. (Granted, they couldn't introduce them in this ep
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You're right that pilots are usually mediocre and the show has potential, especially with the actors they've cast. I'm glad they will be focusing on different law enforcement issues like human trafficking. Some of the season 4 and 5 plots of Criminal Minds have been very weak and I think they're running out of new material. I just wish the pilot hadn't been a cross-over episode that basically amounted to a wasted episode for the show I do like. It was a little like watching CSI in the middle of my Criminal Minds: jarring and bizarre.
Poor Reid. I especially missed J.J. She had some face time but I don't know if she even got a full line. There were a lot of characters to juggle in 45 min. The two-parter though: DO NOT WANT. I didn't like the weirdly paternalistic story-of-the-week on my feminist show, and the DRAMA of it all made it hard for me to watch even just the one episode.
Yes, to the Morgan/Garcia flirting being a mutual choice. Emily was not impressed and neither was I.
This team doesn't present itself as rebellious, but
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I'm not sure I would want this story to be a two-parter either, but the plot was way too complex for a single episode. It actually bothered me a little how the homeless people plot got pushed aside for the weird fight-club, father-daughter thing. Homeless people are dead! Let's focus all our victimology on the (middle-class) father and daughter! But only this daughter, not checking for commonalities with the other dead ones. What?
Yeah, you're very right about the way they treated the homeless people-- like props, not people. And the shoddy research methods. The episode must have been written by the writers for the spin-off, because it had almost nothing to do with the things that have been important for 5 seasons of Criminal Minds.
I'm having more thoughts about rebels: the way that American tv and movies seem to think rebel = cool, especially if the character carries a gun or punches people. Yet what I want to see in law enforcement-type characters is what I get in Criminal Minds and Southland: good, dedicated people, trying their hardest to serve and protect. Do you really want the people with authority and ego issues to be the ones running around out there, making the tough calls? I don't. The thing is, their jobs are so stressful that competent people with the best intentions are going to be tested plenty, as they make their way through the imperfections of the justice system and the imperfections of human nature; their
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Forrest Whitaker is an excellent actor, and I'd love to see him on a good show. I'm not sure how I feel about this show yet. I'm hoping there's more than four members of the team - our team has has seven. According to this article the other team will focus on "things like" human trafficking and assassination plots, rather than serial killers. I guess they may not need a media liason then, but four is still too few. (Granted, they couldn't introduce them in this ep ( ... )
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Poor Reid. I especially missed J.J. She had some face time but I don't know if she even got a full line. There were a lot of characters to juggle in 45 min. The two-parter though: DO NOT WANT. I didn't like the weirdly paternalistic story-of-the-week on my feminist show, and the DRAMA of it all made it hard for me to watch even just the one episode.
Yes, to the Morgan/Garcia flirting being a mutual choice. Emily was not impressed and neither was I.
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Yeah, you're very right about the way they treated the homeless people-- like props, not people. And the shoddy research methods. The episode must have been written by the writers for the spin-off, because it had almost nothing to do with the things that have been important for 5 seasons of Criminal Minds.
I'm having more thoughts about rebels: the way that American tv and movies seem to think rebel = cool, especially if the character carries a gun or punches people. Yet what I want to see in law enforcement-type characters is what I get in Criminal Minds and Southland: good, dedicated people, trying their hardest to serve and protect. Do you really want the people with authority and ego issues to be the ones running around out there, making the tough calls? I don't. The thing is, their jobs are so stressful that competent people with the best intentions are going to be tested plenty, as they make their way through the imperfections of the justice system and the imperfections of human nature; their ( ... )
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You didn't like Southland? With the sweet moments between Lydia and Russ, and Chickie getting to save the day?
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