Cake or Death?
Is this the death of another fan obsession for me?
Yesterday was a hard day. By the time I made it home through the wind and the snow feeling soul-weary and professionally abused, I decided that I needed something comforting. You know, it's the little things that make life better along the way, right? WHY I thought that viewing missed episodes of Criminal Minds would provide me with this relief is beyond me.
Even though I was warned about plot fucktwittery (I should have listened to you, draycevixen), I boldly decided to brave bad ideas and questionable character motives... and got all caught up. All I can say now is - oh. my. gawd. why?
I think that this show has hit a wall. Hard. The cases are pedantic, the violence is disturbing, unnecessary, and rapidly becoming the focus of each episode, and the character arcs - what are they doing to the characters that I love? I'll admit that I wasn't a big fan of Maeve, but - wow - what a stupid way to eliminate a secondary character solely to manufacture main character angst.
Dear Mark Gordon & CBS Studios - Please stop abusing Reid. Stop making it impossible for any of these characters to have a positive life. How many more times are you going to try and kill them off, kidnap them, torture them, or kill off their significant others? Just... STOP. And please stop doing it in a transparent effort to goose ratings at key points throughout the year. We've all seen it before and, guess what? It's not entertaining watching people suffering needlessly. I actually find myself cringing when I watch this show now. If after 7.5 years on air, y'all have run out of compelling story arcs - that's okay. You can stop now... do something else instead...
Let CM go off into that quiet night of cancellation. It's had a pretty good run - seriously. I will miss the characters that have come to mean so much to me, but I'd rather that than seeing them slowly whittled down to a series of tropes and cliches as they become exposition delivery devices instead of people.
Jesus, think of it this way: when fangirls find the angst unbelievable/unacceptable, it's probably time to call it a day.
*wanders off to mope about the death of a fandom crush*
Yesterday was a hard day. By the time I made it home through the wind and the snow feeling soul-weary and professionally abused, I decided that I needed something comforting. You know, it's the little things that make life better along the way, right? WHY I thought that viewing missed episodes of Criminal Minds would provide me with this relief is beyond me.
Even though I was warned about plot fucktwittery (I should have listened to you, draycevixen), I boldly decided to brave bad ideas and questionable character motives... and got all caught up. All I can say now is - oh. my. gawd. why?
I think that this show has hit a wall. Hard. The cases are pedantic, the violence is disturbing, unnecessary, and rapidly becoming the focus of each episode, and the character arcs - what are they doing to the characters that I love? I'll admit that I wasn't a big fan of Maeve, but - wow - what a stupid way to eliminate a secondary character solely to manufacture main character angst.
Dear Mark Gordon & CBS Studios - Please stop abusing Reid. Stop making it impossible for any of these characters to have a positive life. How many more times are you going to try and kill them off, kidnap them, torture them, or kill off their significant others? Just... STOP. And please stop doing it in a transparent effort to goose ratings at key points throughout the year. We've all seen it before and, guess what? It's not entertaining watching people suffering needlessly. I actually find myself cringing when I watch this show now. If after 7.5 years on air, y'all have run out of compelling story arcs - that's okay. You can stop now... do something else instead...
Let CM go off into that quiet night of cancellation. It's had a pretty good run - seriously. I will miss the characters that have come to mean so much to me, but I'd rather that than seeing them slowly whittled down to a series of tropes and cliches as they become exposition delivery devices instead of people.
Jesus, think of it this way: when fangirls find the angst unbelievable/unacceptable, it's probably time to call it a day.
*wanders off to mope about the death of a fandom crush*