MCatry

Assuming a sample is too small is not the way to go when assessing a population that exhibits a high degree of variation, but also a cluster behaviour. Ratings, for instance, are evaluated by taking into account different segments of the audience, not only determined by age, but also by gender, geographical location, economical status, social status, and several other factors. In the same way, forums, regular social media and similar participatory devices are meant to be evaluated separately since a stratified sampling must be performed. It doesn't matter how, though, but there are some media analysts evaluating trends here and there, and not just in Facebook. We may feel inclined to believe our opinions are heard, or maybe the opposite. It's just a matter of perception. How many times I read posts here and there saying something along these lines "finally they heard us!" When clearly the last week complains cannot be resolved in a week for the next episode? Or we may think the writers are getting back in track, and then an awful episode pops up? I personally don't care if I am in a group of ten, instead of having 80,000 likes on a silly FB post. As long as I can actually discuss different aspects of the show with people willing to write thoughtful posts in more that a bunch of characters, and without using emoticons as a replacement for words, I am ok. By the way, I Just checked the CM FB page, and no. I am not interested in participating on it. Things like "who would you invite to your bachelor party?" Followed by pictures of Morgan, Garcia and Reid does not fit my definition of fun. Chances are, it will never be.

I am 'one of those'!!! I never liked playing, not even in kindergarten (and I still don't like it), and I found my classmates a bunch of annoying kids. Only in my second year at the University I got to meet people like me, and I was finally able to joke, chat and have fun at the same level. I think that's the trick: to find people that actually gets you, that are at your same level of maturity, despite what your ID may say. Nevertheless, there is a thing called the PeterPan syndrome which is entirely different. It becomes an issue when you refuse to grow up and advance in your life, weather people may want to acknowledge it or not. And old Peter Pans are, indeed, kinda creepy.

This thing about 'lies' is starting to get thick. According to the dictionary, a lie is "a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood." I will only bring two little examples regarding Messer: Season seven - finale spoilers- "one member of the team will be in peril!!! Oh my gosh!!!" Season eight - finale spoilers- "one member of the team will die!!! Oh my gosh!!!" Now, what happened? Season seven: the one in great peril was... Will. Season eight: the one who died was... Strauss. Not Will nor Strauss are part of the BAU team. She either intentionally said something it was not true in order to attract viewers, or she didin't know Will and Strauss were not part of the team. I just don't think the second option is possible. About what happened with the Lynch case: Messer stated that they tried to get Lynch, but she was too busy with Glee, and when interviewed, Lynch said they never even asked her. Well, I guess here is just a matter of opinion, but one of those two is not being honest, and I have the right to feel inclined to believe Lynch was saying the true. And for the record, I don't mind her lying. Everybody lies and in her line of work, that was the right thing to do. If she would have been honest and said something like "oh, well, you know, nothing happens to the team, but hey! We have an awesome story, and lots of action and guest cast!" I doubt all of us would have been sitting in front of the tv those nights. The same happened with 200. She obviously had to said stuff like 'Prentiss will be a driven force in this episode", because quite a few fans wanted to see her. She had to said "The team will work hard to get their JJ back" In the end, we had lots of JJ, the new guy, the deceased Strauss, and a bunch of terrorists we never heard before, with bits of the team. She knew what she helped to create/produce/edit. And of course, she couldn't give away what they did before the official broadcasting. I am seriously ok with that. Showrunners have to do what they have to do in order to keep their shows on the run. What puzzles me the most is that she is aware of the audience desires. She has demonstrated that when she shot both Morgan and Reid to add some drama to the end of season nine; she has demonstrated that when she allowed Hotch centric episodes to happen. She demonstrated that when she started pairing JJ with Reid again to restore their 'friendship' in order to make JJ liked again. And yet, even though she knows what to do, she doesn't want to walk that path. And I am still wondering why,

Giving both Jane and Messer records, I would be inclined to believe Jane. Not only because Messer just has been caught lying more often than not, but also because Lynch does indeed keep rather active, and doesn't turn jobs lightly. Also, if you don't want to be on a show you could also say that right now you are very busy, so that's why you won't do that episode, but she didn't say that. She actually said no one had asked her to replay Reid's mom.

Tons of luck!

Which is exactly what she did in the infamous '200'...

I love this. I will always call that show like that!

This. Those two on the jet is a powerful image. Everyone else was kicked out of the plane, and the episode. And the 200 landmark. And yet, I think if Prentiss instead of JJ would have come to save the world I probably would have been annoyed as well, but at least she would have been gone by the next episode. Exactly. Pointless. But for these producers and Messer, I bet they are planning to milk the situation by designing cheesy scenes already, and I have no desire to see them at all.

Frankly, I don't really like it. This will only add more fuel to a fire that was finally almost extinguished. I get that a number of viewers miss her. I used to miss her also, but after years and so many episodes, (and that stupid arc that turned into an 'international super spy saving half of the world from one of the most dangerous criminals that ever walked on planet earth'...) I don't want her to come back. The one time she did that she was portrayed as having a huge, elegant, posh office, implying that she was truly super successful, and she basically was back to be the JJ's BFF and play a minor Mary Sue character. Is that something I want to see again? not really. I have no confidence in what the producers would do this time, but I guess it will involve her and JJ bonding again, plus some Morgan-Prentiss bonding as well, plus more girl power, everyone smiling as if everything is not only normal, but great, and a weird case chopped and scattered around the remaining 20 minutes of the episode. After the Doyle storyline, I just cannot welcome the character: her Marysueisation made a lot more sense, but still after so many years of JJ 2.0 I don't think I would be able to stand the return of the super spy. There are several million of people that kept watching despite Brewster departure, because they wanted to see the other characters, and good stories. And the producers keep hiring guest stars and giving them a lot of time in a vain intent to increase ratings. Right now I am annoyed that they would care to pay attention to those fans to were deeply aggressive towards Tripplehorn and Hewitt just because they weren't PB, and kept asking for Prentiss return even though we all knew she was not interested. Prentiss coming back for an episode is just not worthy for me. Still, if she would come back for good it would make even less sense than JJ returning from her flashy work at the Pentagon (in which she was key to fight terrorism) to then becoming a star profiler. Prentiss quitting a flashy Interpol position in which she can use her international spy skills, just for a desk job at a BAU? Maybe one episode is the least of all evils. I'm sorry about being negative about this, but I cannot get over what happened the one time she returned.

I didn't realise he did that!

Yes, on board of the Endeavour, two seasons before the storm that crashed her. But I think South Georgia is even more awesome than Antarctica. Any time you had to go to the toilet in the middle of the night you had to grab a stick to make the sea lions move out of your way. And for the record, Magellanic Penguins really sound like donkeys. Imagine a whole colony of donkeys voicing their thoughts night after night, day after day. You learn to sleep anyway, but it is so funny and annoying at the same time! And Macaroni penguins are the meanest of all. They start arguments and fights all the time, without any reason. And the rock hoppers are thieves! Once I was weighing chicks and they were running away with my measuring tape and one of my markers. Sorry for the rant, but I could talk about penguins, and nature, for ages. Actually I have a lot of friends that had similar life experiences. TCKs are being more and more common nowadays, thanks to globalization but I've met people like me along the years. I don't know if this saying is used here, but I heard it once and it remained with me: 'God rise them, the wind gets them together', meaning that you are born somewhere, but somehow you will always find people like you to share your life. Right now in my current university there are quite a few: Daria, from Russia but also based on The Uk, Fabrizio from Italy, but raised also in Spain and Venezuela, Catalina, from Poland, then Holland, then Belgium, and Geraldo, from France, but born and raised partially in Ghana. I own everything I learnt to my parents, a couple of radical people that never worked a day under a boss rules, who never had a fixed time to do anything (including having dinner or going to bed), who never rised us on any religion but respected all of them, and that made their goal to show us how awesome is the planet where we live. I admire them deeply because of their courage to break the mold. My dad liked a song of Pearl Jam (and he was on his sixties back in those days) that said something he agreed with passion: ' I know I was born, and I know I will die. The in-between Is Mine.' I never regretted leaving classmates and friends behind. I kept in touch with some of them by regular mail (the ones that need a real envelope) and I remember writing, gluing pictures and pieces of magazines and newspapers to share fragments of my life with them. And for the most important people such as those uncles/aunts that are not your real uncles/aunts but they were real brothers and sisters for my parents, I would write, draw, paint and glue stuff on small notebooks, to give them away when we would meet again. I would glue feathers of 'new' birds, grains of sand and stuff like that. I still like sending real mail from time to time. Receiving a real letter is one of the most beautiful, powerful feeling one can experience. Well, I will stop now. Again, sorry for the rant.

Chocolate. With pineapples and cream in the middle. Covered with a stuff that is basically jam, but made out of milk (boiled with sugar for a while) and crowned with chocolate chips. All home made by me. Unfortunately, there are no left overs, since my family resemble the Tasmanian Devil. And I would reject salad too, unless I prepared it myself. I don't trust raw vegetables coming from who knows where...

I agree with you. Only a quick note: Elle actually was starting at the BAU when the show started, so she was not in the team Hotch had for the last three years back in those days. Then there's this other canon info about Garcia not being part of the team when Morgan called Gomez. When did JJ started is unclear. The canon info on the early days of both Morgan and Reid seem to point out that Morgan came first, then Reid, and no JJ on the radar. Do you remember anything about that?

Thank you so much for the story! I kept checking for your response, and I was afraid you went off line and into bed... Birds are beautiful, but they can also be truly annoying...

I am a TCK, third (and last child) of a couple of rolling stones. My dad was the son of a Spanish woman and a French guy living in Feuerland, while my mom was the daughter of a Galician woman and a Welsh shepherd living in the Falkland Islands. Unfortunately, I never met any of my grandparents, since they were long dead when I wasn't even in my parents plans. Born in Patagonia Argentina because that was the most near place with a hospital, I spent my early childhood between Chile and the Falklands. Then moved out to Australia, then Germany, then Portugal, and finally Scotland. Once I finished the A levels I got my Univesity degree in Argentina, then the master in Spain and the PhD from an interamerican U based in Panama. I've had the opportunity to visit awesome places while doing research in coastal environments, but now I am currently on my last couple of months in the USA. I am on my way to move to Buenos Aires. The plan is to then try to move to Southern Patagonia, and then live happily ever after, but only after doing some more voluntary work whenever I win a position chasing penguins, black rats, marine snails or albatrosses, or running vegetation biodiversity studies. I'll be gone by the end of August.

Well, I get that, but then I can tell you I've heard and read many of those 'feminists' whose arguments are rather twisted. Take, for instance, the case of AJ Cook and KV. Many of those feminists were stating that they deserved to be paid as much as the men. In what universe? I wonder... And then, which men? The ones that are at the top, or the second group? Should everyone be paid the same, just so everyone would be treated equally? That's what bothers me: when the 'so-called feminists' use the argument that women should be equals to men in situations in which there is a hierarchy, and hence you cannot be valued all the same, just because in that way no one gets mad. For instance, cast members do not have the same curriculum, and hence they cannot be paid as if everyone would be bringing the exact stuff to the job. In the same way, you cannot expect to be paid at your University the same amount of money than someone that does the same job than you, but have more qualifications and experience. I am not American, so sometimes I wonder if its just a matter of background, but there's this other thing that bothers me too: from time to time Criminal minds 'has to try to replace Prentiss', and in different news comments, blogs and similar sites there are always those posters asking things like 'bring an afroamerican woman', or 'bring an Asian agent', or 'Indian', or whatever. I think it is even worst to be picked to do a job just because they have to fill a position for a minority. If you are the best qualified for a job, then that job should be yours, no matter if you are male, female, mom, single, old or a baby genius. But I am aware that the world doesn't work like that. It's just that I think extreme feminism is just as bad as the worst chauvinism, Why that has to be such a big issue?

Now would be a great time. I am curious...

Brewster, Tripplehorn and Hewitt were paid more than Moore and Gubler. I am a woman, but I am not a feminist, nor I ever will be. I don't think a woman should have the same salary than a man just based on the fact that she is a woman. If they do the same job, ok. If they have the same responsibilities, also ok. But filling in the women quote just because doesnt suit right to me. For instance, when a specific percentage of findings for research are assigned to female researchers, no matter how useless they are, discarding good projects proposed by male researchers just in order to be politically correct. I've seen that. It is also unfair. A person should be paid for its value as a worker, independent of their gender. Oh, absolutely! And that's what puzzles me the most. If the CBS think most of the audience is there just for Gibson and Mantegna, why don't they have more screen time? If they think AJ Cook is the most valuable cast member, so they dedicate a lot of screen time, scenes and the 200 milestone, why were they so cheap when they refused to pay her what she wanted, and they were actually on the verge of not renewing her contract? Why do they promote Moore to no end in their official facebook page using him as an object on display saying 'look! Abs!', and then they pay him an intermediate salary compared with the rest of the cast? It just doesn't make sense, at all. And I wouldn't mind kicking some doors for a whole year if someone is willing to pay me $175,000 at least once.

He seems to get along with all people (even with some infamous bad tempered guys), and even though he normally plays dumb, he is indeed very smart. I like his attitude towards work: grabbing any/most job opportunities will at least leave you some connections, if not entirely successful, and working in stuff you want to do only makes it more fun. Just for the record, it's just screen time. I am in no way attempting to evaluate quality time, ever. Too subjective. If there is a scene, and the character is on it, it is counted, no matter how silent that character is.

I remember that in earlier seasons Mirren and Bernero stated that according to their research on the real BAU the majority of members were male, everyone but one member were either divorced or never married and they did travel a lot, but not as much as it is portrayed on tv (and certainly not in their own jet). It makes sense that spending so much time together will generate friction, but also love, even if sometimes is the hard type of love. Of course under the new administration of the show that type of strangled relationships were buried under the premise of 'look-how-perfect-our-family-is', and a number of love interests for everyone, as if that would be the only type of meaningful relationship you may develop away from work. And of course most of them work just peachy, except for Hotch who was dumped by Beth, and Maeve who ended up with a bullet in her skull.

Whether you choose to believe me or not, is irrelevant for me. I actually started this counting in order to prove myself if I was being unfair to Garcia and Then JJ, because I started disliking those two characters rather strongly, and it is still the aim. I really though Hotch had very little to do. I really though Morgan was way too much, and I also though Kate had more relevance in terms of screen time. I also though they had reduced the amount of Screentime for JJ. I truly though Reid had episodes with even less Screentime than the amount he actually got. I believed even Garcia had more Screentime. And you know what? I was wrong. My own data proved me wrong, and I don't have a problem with that. I think its just a matter of how our personal desires to see one character over others affect the way we perceive time. I was right about too much Unsub and too little Reid. And even though Garcia got the lowest figures, I still think that she should just have her time reduced at least in one half. Another interesting point is that there are some episodes which are centred in one character, and there are others in which the side B story is dedicated to one character. Those are not designed the same. For instance, a place in the table is a centric episode for Hotch. In Protection, there is a B story for Kate and family, but they are not distributed in the same way. I have a background in natural sciences and exact sciences, and that's probably why I like things I can measure and weight objectively. That is also why I don't trust social studies. More often than not facts are analysed in a subjective way to accommodate the view of the historician, economist, or whatever 'social studies' guy may be. Besides, did I ever give the impression that I am a JLH fan? I truly have no reason to twist those figures. I am sorry, but for me, this is just plain wrong.

Good for you! It only takes a couple of hours for me, when we gather together every Sunday. I love rain, snow, storms and alikes just because in those opportunities we cancel the family meeting since we can't leave all the kids outside to play. Conflicts, and their resolutions, are interesting, Bland, Disneyana family stuff, is just plain boring.

Being part of a regular cast is not the same as being considered (and billed) as the main cast. Higher salaries nowadays go for both Gibson and Mantegna (and I guess Hewitt too, judging by they way she is placed in the titles). Then the second highest salaries were and are the ones of Moore and Gubler. Lower salaries for both Cook and Vangsness was a source of conflict before season nine, with both actresses asking to have salaries closer to their colleagues. They even said they would quit, and the CBS said it was fine for them. In the end, their pretensions were lowered, and the CBS worked out an agreement with both of them.Conclusion: for the CBS, and probably also for the audience too, there are some members of the cast that are more valuable (now, and for future shows): the ones in that pack are the main cast. Everyone else, regular or recurring, is expendable.

To be honest, I was also surprised when I got the figures for Hotch. I think our perception is also influenced on how important a character is for a given case. In that sense, I think the word analysis performed here by another poster is pretty interesting as well, specially in combination wit screen time. While doing this count I became pretty aware that Reid is used more visually than verbally. For instance, in many round tables or plane talks he is just shown as being there, to then drop either an obscure useless fact or a dumb question. I am sure these patterns also influence our perception of a character not really being there. That had happened a lot for a hotch and Morgan two, which is a pity, because these three were the original leads of the show, besides Gideon.

Well, he has two parents that are very well adjusted to the real world, and he seems to have been educated to value all the benefits he has.I myself come from a middle class family which had the opportunity to travel a lot, to get education and basically enjoy life, but at the same time my parents would always made us reflect about how lucky we were. Once I accepted to work briefly in a private posh school to help secondary school students to get ready for some international examinations. Quite a few of my friends told me I was crazy, that they would be nasty students, like the ones you see in high school movies, but nothing was more far away from reality. They were not only nice, but interested into learn and well behaved. We visited a natural reserve as part of our activities, and the manager of the park asked me the address of the school website because she wanted to write a report on how well those students had behaved along the visit. She was surprised to see secondary school students saying 'please' and 'thank you' and being respectful all the time. I did three more trip experiences with different forms and I never had a single trouble. These were wealthy students, but they were great people.