#CSI S14

[julie-finlay]

Finlay Friday

13x18: “Sheltered, script extracts pt. 2/2

[arsonistman]

I love how twin peaks esque this episode is. It especially makes sense considering Audrey’s actress is in it

[moonliched]

Q&A Time!

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~Likes~

video games

favs: Fallout, Baldur’s Gate 3, The Outer Worlds, Rule of Rose, Clocktower, ReMothered, Visage, The Evil Within, Resident Evil, the Dark Pictures series - most survival horror/horror in general.

I’ll admit that I often don’t have the patience for the horror games where you have to be all sneaky and try to find things & escape while constantly being chased, but I still really love those kinds of games and wish I had the patience to play them, so I’ll usually just watch a let’s play

I’m also a slut for some Mario Party, and my adhd ass can sit and play shit like Powerwash Simulator or House Flipper for hours

books/comics

horror/thriller/mystery mostly, but if it sounds interesting I’ll read whatever. we have several shelves of Stephen King books

favs: The Walking Dead, Venom, GoT, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, The Hunger Games

I still read manga occasionally (FMA will always be my #1 favorite)

movies

horror (any kind), foreign films, indie, comedy - again, if it sounds interesting and I’m in the mood then anything is cool. if you like horror and haven’t watched any Asian horror films, you definitely should do that

series/franchises that could be releasing their 20-quillionth remake/sequel and I would still be going to see it: saw, the purge, friday the 13th, scream, nightmare on elm st, VHS, Killjoy, Terrifier

ok I’d probably watch any Hunger Games movie too tbh

and literally anything ari aster does, I know that man’s some kinda fucked up but damn does he make some Movies

also Tubi has some really awesome shit on there, definitely worth checking out

I found Liza a rókatündér (Liza the Fox Fairy) on there and it’s now one of my all-time favorite movies

tv shows

favs: Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss, Fallout, The Walking Dead, The Boys/Gen V, IWTV, Resident Alien, Hannibal, Ted Lasso, Disenchantment, Paradise PD/Farzar, WWDITS, GoT (minus s8), Supernatural (stopped around s14 and then they did That Thing at the end so it’s more of an old fav now)

I love Scandinavian crime thrillers/dramas 🤣

when starting a series it’s honestly whatever my spouse and I decide we feel like watching at the time. I usually prefer comedy or horror, but we’ve been known to watch other things

I’ll admit I’m also a sucker for crime shows like CSI, I had season 3 on dvd as a kid and rewatched it all the time. I used to watch it and Criminal Minds with my parents so it’s kind of nostalgic cause it’s like one of the few things we all did together

(I used to be into anime but I haven’t really been feeling it for a while. My first anime was InuYasha (still holds a special place in my heart). My all-time favorite is Fullmetal Alchemist, and I enjoyed Death Note and JJBA a feral normal amount. Black Butler was also 👌🏻 and I still need to finish the manga)

music

90% of the music I listen to isn’t in English. I don’t really need to understand the lyrics, I just like how it sounds. It does end up being funny sometimes though when you find out you’ve been bopping it to a song that’s repeatedly calling someone’s mom a whore

Most Listened: Antti Tuisku, Apulanta, Evelina, Szakács Gergő, ByeAlex, Intim Torna Illegál, Leander Kills, Dubioza, KYO, Stromae, Siri Nilsen - etc (Linkin Park is still an all-time favorite as far as American music goes)

I admit I’ve been obsessed with the hazbin hotel soundtrack lately

ok I won’t say no to the occasional k-pop or j-rock song (I used to be Obsessed lol)

that said I’ll listen to literally anything if it sounds good (nice beats make brain go brrr). only genre I actively dislike is post-9/11 country music

~Dislikes~

spiders (i’m sorry lil dudes ur rly cool y’all just irrationally scare me), making phone calls, unwarranted rudeness

[damnhotmsimmons]

So I watched the first two episodes of Criminal Minds Evolution, here are my thoughts:

Since this will be very long, I made a separate post with this one centering on the first episode. Will share my thoughts on the second episode in another post

*spoilers below* do not click if you haven’t seen the episodes

Update: I meant to work on this when I first watched the two episodes but didn’t get a chance to finish it. So the thoughts I had then are different from my thoughts on the episodes now after completing the season

cm 16x01/cme 1x01 Just Getting Started

  You can already tell what a difference it makes to have a show being developed on a streaming platform. The cinematography looks impressive, betting lighting and no more of that disgusting yellow filter in the later seasons

 The show feels more similar to Mindhunter than other CBS procedurals like NCIS, CSI and their spinoffs.

With the show on a streaming platform, they could have easily tried to amp up any violence and nudity but they didn’t. There’s little exploitation

For some reason JJ looked much better here than in the last three seasons. 

Ditto for Emily looking stunning with the silver hair, way better than the wigs she wore in s14-15

I also love Tara’s natural hair look. Hell, the ladies all look great in season 16

You know that the show has gone for so long that Henry is now a teenager. 

Deputy Director Bailey is getting on my nerves. Another obstructive bureaucrat trying to undermine the team. Barnes 2.0 but worse. It wouldn’t surprise me if he has an ulterior motive behind it

So Emily is now Section Chief, which means Cruz is gone (not helped that he basically vanished after 10x19) 

Elias Volt (The guy at the beginning and end of the episode) seems more interesting as an unsub than Lynch

While it isn’t the first time we’ve seen a pissed off Garcia, it’s interesting to see her go off on Rossi, and it’s nice to see her stand up for herself

I was kinda bummed that after one date, Garcia and Luke didn’t attempt to pursue the relationship further. Either that or covid or something else. Still, their interactions were everything and I love the kiss on the cheek he gave her

You know that Rossi is at a low point when he eats microwave mac & cheese

Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of them fridging Krystal. The man has already been through enough, he’s lost like two wives, Strauss and a few of his friends like damn. Even if the actress is unavailable, was her death really necessary? Along with a rehash of Carolyn’s death

Tara got a girlfriend, I’m so happy, she and Rebecca deserve all the love and appreciation

JJ looks so good in 16x02, and I love the intimate scene she has with Will near the end

Or course Emily would tease Tara about her relationship with Rebecca as well as JJ getting it on with Will in the morning. She is a mood though

I love Garcia and her coming back is bittersweet as I love seeing her work with the rest of the gang but at the cost of her new happy life

I miss Matt Simmons so much and wished he was acknowledged as much as Reid. At least Daniel is doing better in The Wheel of Time and CA2

Elias has a wife and two daughters, quite a dark parallel to JJ with her two sons or even Matt

Only two episodes in and Elias is a more interesting unsub than Lynch, it helps that Zach has a good performance. They better not mess that up

The network of serial killers is an interesting storyline and considering how underwhelming past storylines can be in cm, I fear the storyline will have an underwhelming ending

The end scene with the roundtable is so sweet, the gang is back together

[ilkkawhat]

SCREAMING AT YOUR DREAM yesssssss give me all the nick/Greg content

But honestly, do you think George would ever go back?

I’m not gonna a pretend that I know George’s thoughts/feelings or even know what happened on a personal level for him, but I feel like since he seemed to leave on good terms and got a good send off and hell, they even had a feature the about him on the season 15 dvd, maybe it’s possible? And I guess it also depends on like. who were the crew members he got upset with, are they still there? And I feel like George always wants to make sure his character is done right (which i know maybe caused a lot of the tension and his brief absence in s14) so I guess it depends on that too?

and also granted he hasn’t done much after leaving macgyver (which i mean hey, that was another CBS show he did so he at least came back to the same network at one point in time) other than the random this is us cameo and maybe he just wants to focus more on being with his daughter? again, not gonna just assume to really know what happened, and while i’m super selfish and want him back not just in CSI but in anything really, i just hope he’s happy and healthy

[eyes-above--the-waves]

On Tonight's Episode of, "Jessica Watches the CSI Franchise 20 Years Too Late":

This guy they've brought in to be a "Nick replacement" during the s14 stretch that he's not there is just...you're not fooling anyone, sir. You're like the Wish version of Nick Stokes and I'm not falling for it.

I don't even know his name.

[lilcathsmith]

Forever mad that Terri was only in one episode 💔

[lifelong-latent-logic]

Scratched Up Sara Sidle

03x22 | 07x18 | 08x02 | 14x10

[capsceneinvestigation]

[julie-finlay]

Finlay Friday

13x01: "Karma to Burn", script extracts. Pt. 2/3.

[addictedtostorytelling]

Hi! Thank you for answering my questions. I hope this "ask" finds you well. I just finished CSI S15 and I would like to know your opinion on these issues:

Why is Sara Sidle so angry? I have seen her spiraling with alcohol, depressed on her love for Boss G and anger about everything in general on S4 & S8 but the angry Sara on S15 is vicious and violent. Assaulting suspects on PD hallways, shouting during interrogation, slamming her hand on the interrogation table... Seriously, Sara Sidle is scary, way out of line and borderline unprofessional. The Angry Sara on the earlier CSI seasons are usually cause by Domestic Violence but the Angry Sara on S15, I can't explain the motivation. It's confusing.

And Greg Sanders is so dull. What happened to the rock and roll head banging, Las Vegas History lovin' Lab Tech turned CSI? His hair used to be so distinct and lively but on S15, his hair is dull and parted sideways. He looks so sad. Like life as CSI has sucked all the fun out of him.

(no complains about Pancho Nicky though 😁)

And every CSI is moonlighting as Lab Techs. No more Gun-expert Bobby, Tech Savvy Archie and Finger Print Reader Mandy/Jackie...now all lab tech duties are divided to Hodges, Henry and the CSI.

Also, I would like to comment on the writers of CSI S15. They are lazy. One case in an episode then a serial killer arc for the entire season. The tangents and possible explanation why a person is a viable suspect is confusing. Whatever happened to the 2 cases per episode concept? That concept worked with high ratings for so many years/seasons so why change it? Now, all CSI worked in 1 case per episode, it seems they are passing tasks with each other that they can do themselves. No wonder it ended on a low rating. I cannot see/feel the magic of CSI anymore. The episodes looks tired and dragging.

I am very sorry for the rant but I stopped watching when Gil Grissom left in S9E10. After multiple watching of CSI Vegas, CSI S01 to S9E10 and CSI Immortality, I finally got the courage to watch all episodes after GG left starting S15. Gosh, my disappointment and frustration were so high that I had to go back and rewatch all GSR scenes on CSI Vegas so I can remind myself that Sara Sidle is not angry and so beautifully in love with her hubby Gil Grissom.

I finished S15 but I am afraid of all the disappointment and frustration I will feel on S14. Still, I will push through so I can say I have watched all CSI Episodes from S01 to S15.

Again, apologies for the rant.

hi, @hiei29!

i’m gonna put my answers under the “keep reading” so as not to poison anyone’s dash, okay?

warning: this post is extremely critical of the writing in the later seasons of the show and especially of the characterization in those seasons. if you are a fan of those seasons, you probably shouldn’t read this post, as it contains a literal salt mine of negativity regarding them.

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so, uh, i make no secret of the fact that i hate the later seasons of csi with all the salt that is in me, finding them to be some of the worst-written and most disappointing television i have ever watched, a downgrade in every possible way from the early seasons of the show.

there is literally nothing about them i find enjoyable, and i refuse to rewatch them because to me they are so contemptible.

i am afraid to say, but i think you'll discover (since you're watching in reverse chronological order) that things are only going to get worse for you as you delve now into s14 and then s13, which is the absolute nadir of the series and by far the hardest season to watch as a gsr/sara sidle fan.

anyway.

to answer some of your questions, i will first direct you to several posts that cover a lot of the same topics:

this one talks about the poor writing and multiplicity of storytelling problems in the later seasons of the show, explaining why they came about from an outside-of-the-story world perspective. though a lot of the post relates specifically to s10 (and the clumsy way the writers wield ray langston as a character), the same concepts also apply throughout s11-s15, as well.

this one was written after the end of s15 but before news of the show's cancellation had come out and so is in some ways out of date, but it does outline many of the general problems with csi's writing during that late-game era, including its eschewing of character development, how only working on a single case per episode reduced many of the characters to "glorified lab tech" and/or "courier" status (as you describe above), its over-reliance on spectacle, its lack of serialization/continuity, etc.

this one explains in more detail the shift from the traditional a plot/b plot narrative format into the "one case per episode" one and what this move's effects on the show were overall.

this one talks about how greg's characterization and development were first flattened and then dropped in the later seasons of the show, while this one explains how he got stuck in an interminable holding pattern as part of a never-fully-resolved love triangle with him, morgan, and hodges, which ultimately contributed to his "unfinished" feeling as a character at the end of the series.

as for the topic of sara and her anger in the late series:

that issue is one that has its roots in many of the other issues discussed above.

as new writers came onto the show and, steered by their generally poor writing instincts, made the mistake of focusing their attentions on introducing and highlighting the newer characters (first langston, then russell, finn, and morgan) rather than dividing their attentions equally among the whole cast, they neglected the old characters, essentially relegating them to minor character status. though by all rights, once grissom and catherine had left the show, nick, sara, and greg should have moved to center stage just by virtue of their seniority and how invested the audience was in them, they were largely ignored.

nick got the most development out of the trio post-s12 (when catherine left the show and russell, finn, and morgan replaced her), which is perhaps why you find yourself the least disappointed with his characterization out of anyone's, though even he featured far less prominently and received less development than he should have.

in the meanwhile, sara and greg's development completely fell by the wayside.

while greg's "benching" happened in the wake of the failed love triangle storyline of s12 (as described in the post above), sara's came about following her s13 divorce, after which she never really was given another personal storyline again.

though they would both occasionally be the subject of individual "focus episodes" (e.g., see episode 14x16 "killer moves" for greg or episode 15x12 "dead woods" for sara), any and all development they underwent was consigned to those episodes only; all emotional changes, lessons learned or unlearned, progress/regression, etc. they experienced lasted just until the end credits rolled and then was summarily forgotten about going forward, as if it had never happened to begin with. neither one of them had any kinds of serialized arcs to speak of for the last several seasons of the show.

but here's the thing: not only did they not get any character development in the last several seasons of the show, but their characters themselves were also flattened, reduced down to be caricatures of their former selves.

the new writers who came onto the show following the 2008 writers' strike and later (see the first post linked above) hadn't done their homework. none of them read the show bible or really got a feel for the old characters; they knew them only in a very superficial way.

frankly, all of the characters of the later seasons, both old and new, have the same standard base personality: a very one-note, sitcom-esque “quirky smartness” with a uniform sense of humor, uniform approach to problem solving, uniform professional skillset, and uniform “good guy-ness,” which results in them all tending to speak and act mostly the same across scenes, to the point of interchangeability.

seriously: in 80% of the scenes in the later seasons, you could swap out any one character for any other and the tone, timbre, and outcome of the scene would not be altered at all. there’s no perceptible difference between how sara talks and how finn does, how greg would approach an issue versus how nick would, etc.; they’d all make the same quips and take the same actions across the majority of all scenes. 

the writers then tacked on maybe one or two “extra” character traits to each character* in order to “distinguish” them from one another (so that russell becomes base personality + hippie dad, finn becomes base personality + maneater, hodges becomes base personality + self-important weirdo, etc.) and considered their characterization work done, making no further efforts to develop or change anyone over time.

* except for morgan, who is literally just the base personality and nothing else. i mean, seriously, aside from being “nice,” what even is she? how would one describe her? she has no distinguishing characteristics.

compare this very stock characterization in the later seasons to the rich characterization of the early ones: in s1-s8 of the original series, each main character has a very distinctive personality, worldview, and even diction. greg never would or even could have approached solving a problem in the same way that grissom would/could, nick’s dialogue didn’t sound the same across the board as warrick’s, etc. even grissom and sara, who were the two most similar characters, in terms of the basic temperaments, intelligence levels, ways of speaking and comporting themselves, etc., weren’t 1:1 the same as each other; they had enough that varied between them so as not to be mistakable for each other. the main cast felt like six different people, not six versions of the same person. and the storytelling was so much better and more compelling for it! even just on an emotional level, there was so much more dynamism and room for multiple reactions. not everyone was going to bust out the exact same quip at the exact same time, you know?

but whereas the new characters were never anything but this base personality + [insert the one individual characteristic they may or may not possess here], meaning that for as boring as they may be, there’s nothing really to mourn with them in terms of “lost potential,” with the old characters, this adherence to the stock formula is something far more devastating, as in order to make them fit the mold, the writers had to strip them of so much of their former characterizations, divesting them of all of the intricacies that had been part of them throughout the early seasons of the show, leaving them shadows of their former selves.

nick became “standard later seasons personality” plus

nice 

texan

traumatized but we’re not quite sure how/in what ways/to what degree and aren’t consistent about depicting him as such

sara became “standard later seasons personality” plus

uncool/nerdy

sarcastic

angry

greg became “standard later seasons personality” plus

has a crush on morgan??????

(that’s really his only “distinguishing” character trait in the last several seasons.)

and all of them shifted from being dramatic characters who had occasional comedic beats to being comedic characters who had occasional dramatic ones. it was like they had been transposed into a sitcom world, despite the very macabre nature of what their procedural was all about; i call it the “ncis-ification of csi.”

it was as if never having watched the early seasons of the show themselves (or only having watched a few episodes here and there), the later seasons writers turned to the wikipedia character summaries for nick, sara, and greg and then based their entire depictions of the characters going forward on what they found in those few paragraphs of description.

there was no nuance or multivalence to how they handled the characters at all, no sense of recourse to their past developments, no sense of history with them, certainly no development going forward, etc.

so.

for as much as i hate the later seasons for what they did to gsr, i hate them even more for what they did to sara sidle, taking the most wonderfully complex, interesting, realistic, subtle, dynamic, well-wrought character i’d ever had the pleasure of watching on tv and turning her into what was essentially just “angry girl, version 1.0,” totally generic in every way.

i still remember my first time watching the scene in episode 15x12 “dead woods” in which sara stalks abby’s boyfriend slade down the hall at pd, runs him up against the wall, and threatens him. while my first reaction was to full-body cringe because, holy god, that was embarrassingly badly written!, my second reaction was to feel heartbreak, because what i was seeing was such a bastardization of my favorite character that she was almost unrecognizable to me, and it was such a shame.

it was like the writers were vaguely aware of older scenes like the one in episode 01x10 “sex, lies, & larvae,” where sara gets in scott shelton’s face, and wanted to replicate them, but they had no idea what would actually make sara tick or what her mechanics were. 

theirs was just a bad impression of “sara being triggered,” lacking all understanding of her inner emotional world.

and that’s how sara is throughout the later seasons: most often, just the standard base personality, but with occasional flashes of intense and largely unexplained anger thrown in.

and, i mean—

had they wanted to, they maybe could’ve been more deliberate about depicting sara’s anger, making it an actual plot point that after the divorce, she started to be much more hair-trigger and prone to outbursts, constantly simmering with a low current of frustration that sometimes ignited into full-on flares of fiery temper in cases where she was provoked.

they could’ve shown nick and greg worrying about how on-edge she seemed and maybe even herself fretting over her inability to control herself.

they eventually could’ve written something about how the truth was, she found it easier to be angry at the world than to feel her actual, underlying emotion, i.e., heartbreak over losing the love of her life—because at least the anger was somewhat “empowering,” whereas the heartbreak just made her feel small, helpless, hopeless, and vulnerable, and particularly since she feared it might be unending.

because how could she ever be happy again without grissom?   

at some point, they could’ve had the storyline come to a head, maybe with sara crossing a line with a suspect or even one of her team members, being confronted about it (or even faced with suspension) and then breaking down, finally admitting just how hurt she was, maybe going into anger management or therapy or at least just giving voice to her feelings for once.

like.

it wouldn’t have been a storyline i would have favored for her, but it could have been a thing if the writers had wanted to make it one.

it could have been some actual storywork.

but of course it wasn’t.

they never made anything of it.

there was never any sense that the writing of sara as angry was at all purposeful or that it had anything to do with events from her past, either from her childhood or more recently with the divorce.

in the later seasons writers’ incompetent hands, “angry sara” was always just a haphazard thing, something they did with her when the case-of-the-week called for it or when they didn’t know what to do with her otherwise.

never was it delved into.

never was it treated as the problem it was.

since in their minds, sara was just an angry person—ignoring all of her post-episode 05x13 “nesting dolls” development in the earlier seasons of the show—there was no reason to question or probe or explore her anger; it was just a given, something they could fall back on whenever they needed a quick and easy way to ratchet up the emotional tension in a particular episode.

the reason you find yourself unable to explain the motivations behind sara’s anger in s15 is because there aren’t any.

unlike gil grissom, the writers of that season are unwilling to ask what’s made sara so angry. they don’t ever go there, and neither do they want to.

they have no intention to ever look beneath the surface with her.

so they just don’t.

i wish i could tell you that there’s something to look forward to with s14, but there really isn’t. the writing is just as bad and the characterization is just as nonexistent as is the case with s15. sara is certainly just as wasted.

anyway.

thanks for the questions! please feel welcome to send more any time.

[okimargarvez]

Pic posts

GARVEZ

Why Penelope and Luke should be a couple ;  If your dog doesn’t like someone… ; Drowing ; The mother of his children ; The things you really need ; Someone should go to Penelope office ; She still doesn’t like him ; Lisa is not here ; Bro ; Luke faces during Penelope speech in the Finale ; You understand you are done ; Yeah (Cool) ; Let me die here ; Complaints ; Looking back ;  Wasted chance ; Paget approval ; Couple / group ; Supposed girlfriend ; Puppy eyes ; Connection ;  Why Luke is fucked ; Why Penelope is fucked ; Luke Alvez in almost each episode of CM ; The Great Communicator ; Calleigh/Eric - Garvez ; Let’s be in the moment  ;  What Luke wanted to say during the ask date scene ; What Penelope wanted to answer to Luke during the ask date scene ; Housewarming party ; Aesthetic ; Basorexia ; Stalkers ; Another way ; alternative 13x15 ; Wedding card ; No coincidence ; Solar System ; Young garvez ; Garvez recap ; Dear Penelope ; Fuck ; Why they are perfect for each other ; Recurrent phrases ; Fortuity ; Once upon a time ; The right one ;  How to court a woman ;  You can’t understand ; Shadow kisses ; Normal people vs Luke ; You have just met Emily Prentiss ; Garcia & her men ; Easier ; 

- Comparison: Dancing time ; Angry Luke ; Same mood look ; I’m here

- All moments: S12 ; S13 ; S14 ; S15 ; S16

- Creative:  How to combine business with pleasure (love expression) ;  Thank God for photoshop ; How the analysis came out ;  Shades of crazyness ;

- Finding garvez everywhere : one ; two ; three

- Fake garvez chats : one ; two ; three ; four ; five ; six ; seven ; eight ;

- Storm thoughts : Happiness ; Sexual tension ; Embarrassment ; Miss you ; Miss you 2 ; Regret ; Family ; Absence ; Connection

- Times :  All Luke bullshits to hold Penelope attention on him ;  Drinks ; All the times they touched ; Each time Luke stared at the direction where Penelope disappeared / before leaving ;  Sweetest moments ;  Times they flirt on work ;  Elevator

- Garvez + quotes :  Parallel lines ; The bringing together ; Erica Mou ; Ennio Flaiano ; Stars & darkness ; Emily Dickinson ;  Absence ; I miss you ;

- Luke who does things - Penelope reaction : S12 ; S13 ; S14 ; S15 ; S16

- Garvez incorrect scenes : one (blind date) ; two (first date)

- Parallel:  [14x8 vs 16x1] ; [13x20 vs 16x1] ; [13x16 vs 16x1 vs 16x2] ; [14x15 vs 15x10] ;  [14x15 vs 15x10] ; [12x17 vs 16x9] ; [12x17 vs 16x1] ; [8x17 vs 13x12] ; [13x5 vs 15x4] ; [13x16 vs 16x2] ; [3x8 vs 16x8] ; [14x6 vs 16x9] ; [13x16 vs 16x2] ; [12x17 vs 13x3] ; [3x8 vs 16x8] ; [13x1 vs 16x9] ; [12x17 vs 16x1] ; [2x5 vs 15x7] ; [4x1 vs 15x3] ; [7x3 vs 13x3] ; [12x1/12x4 vs 13x12] ;

- Zepeto : first date ; Valentine’s day ; second date ; Yeah ; Fairy tale ; School ; Subway ; Halloween 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 ; Take a photo ; Cupido ; Musical ; Little things ; Sunday ; Picche

- Series: Inside the (crazy) mind of a garvez shipper ; When ;  What means “context”? ; Find someone ; Staring ;

PENELOPE

The dress ; Rainbow dream -Outfit : S1 ; S2 ; S3 ; S4 ; S5 ; S6 ; S7 ; S8 ; S9 ; S10 ; S11 ; S12 ; S13 ; S14 ; S15 ; S16

LUKE

Luke emoji ; Luke girl ; Linda problem ; On-demand attention is worthless ;  The pathologist ; When he cares ; Best friends ; Sundial ; sinkholes ; Luke likes to be teased ; Desk ; - Outfit : S12 ; S13 ; S14 ; S15 ; S16

CRIMINAL MINDS

- What I adore of 15x5 ; R.I.P. jet ; Chess ; - Face mask : Penelope ; Luke ; Jennifer ; Emily ; Spencer ; Rossi ; Matt ; Tara ; Hotch ; Derek

CSI : MIAMI

- Calleigh relationships ; Horatio & Yelina ; Great minds think alike ; Eric & Calleigh aesthetic ;

- Parallelism CSI : Miami / CM: 1 - Eric&Calleigh/Penelope&Luke. Suspension ; 2 - Eric&Horatio/Penelope&Derek. Don’t be a hero ; 3 - Eric&Ryan/Morgan&Reid. Scared friends ; 4 - Ryan/Spencer and the famous girl ; 5- That time the bad guy hit the ground ; 6- Professionalism (Calleigh vs Penelope)

THE GOOD DOCTOR

- Shea recap

- // Garvez: There are so many ways (/shea) ; Jordan & Danny aesthetic ;

OTHERS

Goodbye, Warrick (CSI : Crime Scene Investigation)

Men & dogs (Sam / Roxy)

Jonathan Safran Foer

Door phone

[gregszandles]

CSI S1, Ep15: Tables Stakes + S14, Ep5: Frame by Frame 

“Folies Bergere, 1959″

[kinard-buckley]

Criminal Minds finale thoughts

It got long and there are spoilers, so they’re under the cut

I think they really needed a full slate of episodes for everything they did this season, especially with Lynch, to work for me. There were also several threads that were left dangling: There was no mention of Max, Spencer’s new girlfriend! They brought up Penelope’s stalker in one episode and then dropped it! Rossi’s daughter didn’t get a mention either? While I’m glad they didn’t drag out the J*reid stuff past the first episode, it left little to no impact on either J.J. or Reid; we were just told things had been awkward between them but didn’t get to see it, and then we didn’t even get any Max in the finale. I think 8-10 more episodes would have helped things seem less overstuffed and hectic. 

That being said, I liked it. It felt like a fairly standard episode of Criminal Minds, which is fine. I wasn’t expecting it to go out with a huge bang (though the plane did, lol). It had the proper amount of nostalgia (not too much, just enough cameos). They didn’t pull a Game of Thrones on the audience, shoving things in for shock factor, which is always a plus. It felt like a goodbye to an old friend who’s moving on to new things. 

I liked that it was Garcia who was moving on, because I couldn’t buy Rossi actually retiring. At least not yet. The team staying together but Garcia moving on was bittersweet, but it felt right. 

Luke asking Penelope out, because they’re no longer coworkers, was cute. But was that the real reason he never asked her out? Didn’t Gideon try to set Spencer and J.J. up? Either way, Garvez is endgame. If Criminal Minds ever gets revived (never say never, I mean they’re bringing CSI back lol) I’d love to see more of them. I think they should have dropped Lisa during S14 to set up Garvez more but I’m happy with what we got. It’s obvious both Luke and Penelope like each other, and I’m perfectly okay with imagining they have a happy life together. 

I was kind of surprised they brought back Foyet for Spencer, rather than a more iconic villain from his past. But I guess they already brought Cat back so they couldn’t use her and while Diane had a huge impact on his life and killed the woman he loved, she wasn’t as iconic as Foyet was. 

I was actually kind of hoping we’d see Hotch, but the flashbacks filled that void. 

I think things would’ve worked better if it’d been one two-hour episode rather than two one-hour episodes, but overall I didn’t have any major issues with how they did it. Wrapping up the Lynch arc that early in the second episode, though, left the rest of it feeling kind of anti-climactic but I didn’t mind it that much. I was much more interested in the team than Lynch tbh. Actually, the whole second episode felt kind of low-stakes, especially with the deus ex airplane, like they were rushing to the finish line, but I didn’t mind. 

It’s hard to wrap up 15 years of television, especially in a condensed season, so I think they did well with what they had. I wish we could’ve seen more development for some of the plot threads, but I didn’t mind what we got. 

I’ll miss the show. I’ve been watching it since the start, for almost half my life. I can hardly believe it’s over!