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That's all right. It wasn't my intention to start an argument. What I did was to download the subtitles and then hear the episode parts in which I knew Reid was talking (due to the count of the scenes), and then extracting his lines. When I read your post you made me think that just knowing the time someone was in a scene was not really enough to measure his/her relevance in that said scene. For instance, in the round table they are all there, so all of them got the three or so minutes of the scene, but the amount of screen time and lines they say is not the same. Hence, and thanks to you, I started counting lines. Then, sentences. Now, I count words. I'm like the count that counts in Sesame Street, (I guess it's less painful to say 12 sentences than 9 lines, or to say 214 words than 12 sentences, and so on...) Still, I think the main problem is not the amount of lines, sentences or even words, but the relevance of what he has to say lately. His 'contributions' make him sound 'unnecessary', and i have the feeling that little by little the writers are getting rid of him.

Me again, and my new method of 'watch' CM. In order to make it more interesting, just in case that I got bored as it seems to be the rule lately, I watch the episodes two or three days after the premiere, and at the same time took notes on my laptop about the amount of minutes and seconds each scene has, who is in it, and other details. In this episode these are the results: The winner is..... JJ, with 16 minutes and 43 seconds. Second places goes for... unsubs and victims, with 15 minutes and 6 seconds. And the third place goes for Reid, with 12 minutes and 27 seconds. (For the record, Kate was fourth with 11 m and 25 secs, so thanks to the ridiculous Cinderella scene at lest Reid climbed to the third position) Biggest loser this time was Garcia, with 6 minutes and 17 seconds (But if you ask me, she was on 6 minutes too long) That make me wonder about season nine now. I really believed they had a lot less JJ this season, and that they toned her down a little bit.

Timing scenes (not screen time, yet): The winner is... Morgan (obviously, since it was his centric episode) with long... 23' and 16'' Then, JJ, with 13 minutes and 50 seconds. Next is Kate, with 11 minutes and 10 seconds. The last one is not Reid, nor Hotch, not even Rossi (although the three of them were close) The biggest loser here was... the unsub, with just 8 minutes and 2 seconds.

I just noticed I did a mistake. Reid didnt have 241 words. He had 214. Me, and my dislexia... And I noticed the episode lasted 40 minutes and 20 seconds, so the unsubs took more than half of the show this time.

Hi. I've been reading the latests posts here in order to avoid annoying double posts, and now I think I got an idea about where am I. One of the things that caught my attention here was the discussion regarding if the JJ and/or unsub over exposition was in fact real, or it was just a matter of perception. The same happened with the disappearances of other characters, such as Hotch or Reid, or even the too much/too little Kate. I started to think it would be a good idea to really find out if its just me, or it is really happening, so I did some timing while 'watching', since nowadays most episodes are rather boring to look at while doing nothing else at all. According to my findings, during this last episode the unsub time was 20 minutes and 33 seconds. Second place goes to Morgan, with 13'46'' followed closely by JJ with 13'27'' The one with less screen time was Reid, with 5'41'', which includes the round table scene, the airplane scene, the delivery of the profile, the short interview he did with Morgan and again Reid sleeping in the plane. Not only I did the same with episodes 6 and 7, but also I decided to count lines for this episode 8, after reading in some other post that Reid had only nine lines. It wasn't like that. He had 12 lines, and a quote. Those lines included four questions (three standard and one rather dumb), two factual data, four obvious pieces of information, and two pieces of standard profiling. He said things such as the following: Did you just hear that? Garcia, can you enhance the audio at the end? Had he received any threats recently? It says that he and his wife did a lot of moving around in the area. I'm starting to think his abduction had nothing to do with a case. Look for guys with spotty work histories, mostly working odd or solitary jobs. I checked the main office. Brian wasn't there. A total of 241 words. Now I know I am not just over reacting, right?