I was so incredibly BORED through most of this arc, and this episode in particular, though I recognized they had to wrap it up. But it was so tediously predictable that there was just no tension and all the dramatic music in the world couldn't create some.
That being said, Garcia's phone call was hands down the best part. I heart her muchly.
So much yes to both of these points. The dramatic music was swelling at the end, and I was like, "Really? Do you really think this will make it significant?"
Yeah, I wish they hadn't decided to go off in such an odd direction to get rid of Prentiss. I mean, I'm so glad she's not dead, that she's out there being a secret agent in kickass boots. And now we'll see if the show can keep my attention without her.
the sad thing is, i don't even care what prentiss is doing or where she's doing it, and i'm not sure i care about the show any more either. altho i too am REALLY GLAD she's not dead.
i don't think tonight's episode was marked by any more stupid than previous episodes - altho that might depend on your definition - but it was marked by a lot of things that didn't feel remotely like criminal minds. you should not feel at all rushed to watch it. and i totally get the feeling like you're breaking up with it. i feel the same way.
i'll probably watch the next new one just to see if they do anything with seaver, because it seems so silly to introduce her and then half ignore her and i want to think she has a point besides just being the pretty blonde girl, but i no longer trust the ptb to do right by the show and the characters either.
and man, i like prentiss, and i'm annoyed they couldn't think of a way to write her out that made sense and fit logically into the rest of the show. she deserves a better sendoff than she got.
when jj comes into the waiting room to tell the team that prentiss is dead, the viewer doesn't necessarily know that she isn't. but then spencer says "but i never got to say goodbye" (which is about as heartbreaking as you can imagine) and jj hugs him to keep him from going to find the body, and at that point wrenlet and i both went hey wait, prentiss is still alive and they just sent her into hiding. and then jj takes hotch outside the room and says something you can't hear, and later they share a look at the funeral, and then you really know
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thank you for finally finishing up that ooc and distracting international spy thriller subplot.
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I'm curious about why you think the spy arc was OOC, if you don't mind sharing? It's not something I had specifically in mind for Prentiss, but I think it really fits with what we know of her personality and her backstory.
i didn't think it fit the tone of the show. i mean, cm is about a branch of the fbi that deals with domestic serial killers. (ok, except for the one time they ended up in canada and the one time they went to mexico....) they don't deal with international ira-associated criminals who get caught in italy and sent to jail in north korea, and then escape and come gunning for one of the fbi agents. they don't deal with the kind of cases that result in people going into hiding overseas with fake passports. they don't tend to come up against international espionage agencies and international government spies. i guess i can see prentiss as a former interpol agent - that part didn't bother me as much because you're right, it does kind of track with her background - altho i can't say i liked it a lot - but the whole international-thriller aspect of the subplot just seemed un-criminal-minds-y to me. i really like prentiss and i was already annoyed she was leaving, but i wish they'd found a way to write her out that wasn't so ridiculous
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That's fair, the Prentiss arc was definitely a departure from the show's usual fare. Even the Foyet arc was firmly grounded in serial killer territory. But perhaps one way to look at all the backstory we get on Prentiss is... this is victimology. The team eventually tracks down Doyle's location and saves Prentiss because they did their jobs and profiled him as a serial killer, a family annihilator. They asked questions like, Why this victim? What was the stressor? What doesn't fit?
But you're right that it feels like the spy stuff takes over the show and that it feels like something a different show would do, not Criminal Minds. For my part, I'm just glad Prentiss got to have a really interesting, dramatic send-off.
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>>The team eventually tracks down Doyle's location and saves Prentiss because they did their jobs and profiled him as a serial killer, a family annihilator<<
in retrospect that makes last night's episode the most cm-like of all, because it went from being a weirdly bisected show (3/4 criminal minds, 1/4 bourne movie) (someone on my flist felt like she'd wandered into an episode of nikita by mistake) to one solid case of "ian's the unsub, prentiss is the victim, now we can get down to business". so at least they managed to tie the two disparate plots together. if there had been more episodes like that i might have liked the subplot more, but because it was such a departure it just made me feel like i was watching two completely different shows awkwardly stitched together. (either that or someone on the writing team realllllly wanted to write a spy thriller, and this is how they scratched that itch.)
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That being said, Garcia's phone call was hands down the best part. I heart her muchly.
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i'll probably watch the next new one just to see if they do anything with seaver, because it seems so silly to introduce her and then half ignore her and i want to think she has a point besides just being the pretty blonde girl, but i no longer trust the ptb to do right by the show and the characters either.
and man, i like prentiss, and i'm annoyed they couldn't think of a way to write her out that made sense and fit logically into the rest of the show. she deserves a better sendoff than she got.
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Here via... not sure. I hopped a few links!
I'm curious about why you think the spy arc was OOC, if you don't mind sharing? It's not something I had specifically in mind for Prentiss, but I think it really fits with what we know of her personality and her backstory.
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That's fair, the Prentiss arc was definitely a departure from the show's usual fare. Even the Foyet arc was firmly grounded in serial killer territory. But perhaps one way to look at all the backstory we get on Prentiss is... this is victimology. The team eventually tracks down Doyle's location and saves Prentiss because they did their jobs and profiled him as a serial killer, a family annihilator. They asked questions like, Why this victim? What was the stressor? What doesn't fit?
But you're right that it feels like the spy stuff takes over the show and that it feels like something a different show would do, not Criminal Minds. For my part, I'm just glad Prentiss got to have a really interesting, dramatic send-off.
(Hi back! I'm primarily in Stargate fandom, so that might be where we've seen each other?)
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in retrospect that makes last night's episode the most cm-like of all, because it went from being a weirdly bisected show (3/4 criminal minds, 1/4 bourne movie) (someone on my flist felt like she'd wandered into an episode of nikita by mistake) to one solid case of "ian's the unsub, prentiss is the victim, now we can get down to business". so at least they managed to tie the two disparate plots together. if there had been more episodes like that i might have liked the subplot more, but because it was such a departure it just made me feel like i was watching two completely different shows awkwardly stitched together. (either that or someone on the writing team realllllly wanted to write a spy thriller, and this is how they scratched that itch.)
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