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AIBU?

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To think that Criminal Minds is no longer the show it once was?

23 replies

LokiBear · 05/11/2018 22:08

I came to Criminal Minds fairly late. Binge watched 10 seasons on mat leave a couple of years ago and Ive been an avid fan ever since. But, it is not the same since Hotch and Morgan left. So far, the new season has been repetative and lacking in energy. AIBU?

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Giggorata · 05/11/2018 22:25

I was of the “No Hotch, No Watch” school of thought, so I wouldn't know... but it must be on it's eleventy umpteenth series, so even a show as good as CM must run out of ideas eventually.

cheesydoesit · 05/11/2018 22:42

YANBU, it's embarrassing shite, I didn't even realise it was still on. I stopped watching not long after Gideon left. CSI went the same way.

LokiBear · 06/11/2018 09:05

Im just gutted. I loved the show and the characters. Now it is just blah. Definitely a poorer show without Hotch.

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 06/11/2018 09:08

YANBU.
I LOVED it, rewatch old episodes, was the first to watch the second it came back on tv, watched clips on YouTube.

Last series was shit. I’ve not started watching this series. As sad as I am to say it, I think it’s had it’s day.

The marionette doll episode is still one of the most hideous tv episodes of anything I’ve ever seen mind you

lola006 · 06/11/2018 09:10

DH and I are only watching at this point becayse we like the personal lives of the agents. It needs to be wrapped up and ended this series.

EnglishRose13 · 06/11/2018 09:20

I started losing interest when JL-H came into it!

PurpleDaisies · 06/11/2018 09:24

They ran out of fresh ideas years ago. It’s a shame, I really enjoyed the first few series.

Exhaustedmummy1811 · 06/11/2018 09:45

I am still binge watching and currently on season 10. I do agree things are going down hill but I just can't imagine not having my Spencer Reid fix lol

exWifebeginsat40 · 06/11/2018 10:06

the season where Hotch left halfway through wasn’t very good. or the one after that. i don’t even know where we’re up to, at this point.

it’s Criminal Minds Bingo at this point.

Rossi and his ex-wives and genial mobster connections. Prentice speaks very fast and isn’t anyone’s friend any more. JJ has a face like a slapped ‘arris. the one who looks like he has the mumps (Alves?) and the Korean guy with literally no character just stand around declaiming things to each other about serial killers: ‘Charles Manson killed ladies because he was mad’ ‘the Green River Killer murdered loads of people’ then go off and stake out someone’s garage with no backup, or torches. Reid says unpleasant things about the traits of mental illnesses but it’s ok because he’s like, this, autistic genius...

and so to Garcia. Garcia and her amazing front-end from the future, which holds information on everyone who has ever lived, and can be interrogated to find people in Wisconsin with an extra toe on their left foot, who only read early Hemingway and never go to Burger King. and then tell you their address.

last night, Penelope’s Magic Info Box cross-referenced two completely unrelated middle-aged women, and at one point a flyer for a local Bake Sale appeared. it makes me very, very cross as i used to be a business analyst and would have very much liked some next-level database interrogation shit. as it was, i had wonky reports and Excel.

oh. i ranted. ha!

as an aside, Morgan’s new show is bollocks and i predict that he will be back on the old BAU horse by the middle of next season, making sexist remarks to Garcia and having his brows done on the regular.

i really, really wish Hotch hadn’t kicked a producer up the arse.

chillpizza · 06/11/2018 10:11

I stopped watching. Same with csi and ncis. They get rid of the good characters and then it’s rubbish.

Bugsymalonemumof2 · 06/11/2018 10:12

I gradually stopped watching after hotch left. Up until that it was utterly brilliant

HandbagCrazy · 06/11/2018 10:28

I'm still watching but more out of habit than anything (I do the same with Greys Anatomy).

I really liked Spencer but they don't let him do that much anymore. It's all murder-by-numbers now, the formula is so concrete.

I hate to say it but I think they need to get rid of the new people and have an un-sub who is completely random, that they can't catch but who kills one of them. That might make it dramatic and interesting again.

At a guess I would say thing has got to be the last season though.

Wazznme · 06/11/2018 10:32

When and on what channel is the latest season on?

GrouchyKiwi · 06/11/2018 10:41

I'm in season 12 right now (the one where Hotch leaves) and have just watched a very clever episode (the one with Tara's brother). But I do agree that it doesn't feel the same without him.

Somewhereovertherainbow13 · 06/11/2018 10:43

I know I used to love this, still watch it now hoping it will get back to how it used to be. I do love Reid though so as soon as he leaves I think I’ll give up

Flashingbeacon · 06/11/2018 10:47

Some of the episodes are scarred into my brain. Terrifying. And I used to love when they bothered with some back story to the unsubs. Now they were humiliated by their mother and lost their job - boom rape and murder all round.
It’s become so formulaeic too, 2 murders, BAU called. 3ed person missing, find them at the last gasp.

ineedtostopbeingsolazy · 06/11/2018 11:10

I lived it but stopped watching after Hotch and Derek left it just wasn't the same

PattiStanger · 06/11/2018 11:19

Does anyone know exactly what Thomas Gibson did, I've only been able to find the barest details.

I agree that the marionette episode is a horrific classic

Ohheyyy · 06/11/2018 11:21

YANBU.

I used to watch it religiously but can't be bothered with any of the more recent tripe episodes.

Beaverhausen · 06/11/2018 11:28

@PattiStanger apparently he attacked one of the camera men and was quite a bully. He got Morgan fired from the show as they did not get on unfortunately.

It was the same with CSI after Grissom left. :(

SelinaMyers · 06/11/2018 11:32

Used to love it. Like previous PP’s I binged it. This was back in the day and we had to order the DVDs off Amazon!! I lost interest when JJ became an agent. It was interesting to see someone do a different job.

bigKiteFlying · 06/11/2018 11:41

YANBU

Though it happens to many shows they go on so long they lose the spark that made them worth watching.

PattiStanger · 06/11/2018 19:38

Thanks @beaverhausen that explains why Morgan left in a rushed storyline too

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