Wilowy

TONIGHT!! Here's another look at a sneak peek and if you scroll down to previews there's a few more. http://www.cbs.com/shows/criminal_minds/video/vPNS9pUy_1c5_mUP2SwL928vFu0sGBco/criminal-minds-x-sneak-peek-1-/

I love it! My hand actually went to my mouth at mention of Jane!! OH, and the mid-season love letter to us? Could it be Elle?

CoStar, indulge me a sec because I've truly lost track... you seem to despise Captains Peroxide and Forehead in equal measure, so who did you like Buffy with (if anyone)? Personally, I always thought the original Captain Kirk would've been a great match for her, with his bravery and giant, risk-taking leaps.

LOL, I did a fob one too. It's just too close to dirty not to use it. xD

*gets in line to buy my own cardboard cutout*

HAHAHA Look what AJ just tweeted! I LOVE IT!!

It's Kimmel's job to ask leading questions about whatever the guest is there to promote. He's told what to ask before the curtain goes up, and they go over the questions ahead of time with a producer. She was there for no other reason than to promote her job on CM, so somebody dropped the ball, big time.

I'll just leave this here because this amount of pretty improves my day, exponentially. Good god.

Ha, I just got this image of zannej standing up and going "So, Erica, you gonna keep fucking shit up, or finally give us our show back?" :D I'll definitely be there. I've got some things to ask and I want to cover it for my site. I know Joe will probably want to talk about his friend Meshach, but I do wonder what AJ and Erica will have to say.

Harry said he and Erica watched it this morning and both of them just kinda shrugged. He said that it's seldom about their day jobs with these talk show appearances. I beg to differ. Matthew, Thomas, AJ and Shemar have ALL spoken about CM in their appearances. I doubt JLH would've even been scheduled to appear if not for her new role on CM. She should have promoted the show, her character, and maybe given us a small hint of what's to come... not babbled on about child safety gates. Ugh. I'm not hating on the actress, because I do usually find her charming, but CM gets so little publicity as it is, that it was a huge letdown to see it virtually ignored by the newest 'big name' star on the show. Bah.

Ba dum shhh. Seriously, she didn't do her job. That was boring, superficial, and indescribably dull. She did Criminal Minds NO FAVORS with that awkward, NON-PROMOTIVE appearance. They may as well have had... I don't know, Gwyneth Paltrow, or Amanda Bynes on there promoting our show for all the sense it made. That just SUCKED. And I'm SO disappointed. She's a well-known star, she just joined our show, and I thought she was going to bring a little... not a lot, but a little... cachet and attention to it. What a WASTE of ten minutes. UGH.

Really?? REALLY?? Fuck that stupid shit! She didn't promote CM at ALL! All she did was talk about her baby, and dumbass baby gates that you 'can't open with one hand', and Matt Damon and a blow up mattress. She mentioned one, maybe two sentences about Criminal Minds, and called it 'scary'. Oh my god it was so stupid and lame. I'm not promoting her shit any more.

JLH on Kimmel tonight.

Here's the link if you wanna join in: http://www.cbs.com/connect/events/1000329/

Ha, well I don't see it as JJ blocking Reid. I see her as up against him a little possessively, and I like it. :P

Who's to say that wasn't a stasis field of their own design? Or even some other alien design/ And we may have had a lot of underground powerful bullshit science that the hoi polloi knew nothing about. In the MCU or otherwise.

VERY nicely done, CoStar! I left you a msg over there. :)

Oh, you're right about it being 'shopped. Practically zero pics are au naturelle these days. They all were placed in those positions. That's not all, Dylan said he had to repaint all their hair, Matthew's especially, due to flyaways. Other stuff too: look at Shemar's foot.

Also to my eye Morgan is behind Hotch, JLH is behind Rossi, Pen is behind JLH, and Matthew is behind JJ. There are plenty of behinds. :P

I never heard Matthew say "I want Reid to get a girlfriend". Not once. I've heard others suggest and he laugh it off with a "oh that'd be nice, right?" type thing, but I've never heard him express any specific wish for Spencer that I can recall. I think that's why this statement of his resounded with me like it did. In the photo I like where JJ's foot is. Between Reid's. I also like where her arm is. Two people messaged me today specifically to talk about their placement against one another. I liked that too. ;)

I did see someone else comment on it upthread, and yes I saw it too ("That's dangerous") so you are not alone. :)

SSAH, I think we did get to see Hotch deal, for a few episodes, actually. The team was questioning if he was okay to come back so soon after Haley, and remember him snapping at people, remember him crying? He had a semi breakdown with Rossi, his team members discussed his experience, and his physical problems from the attack were referenced, culminating in Route 66. I didn't care for the Beth propping in that one, but I thought Thomas was effective and handled the material with skill and gravitas. Wish I could say the same for Meredith (Haley), she was far too glib in my estimation. Some of you know that I had the good fortune a while ago to speak with both the writer and the director of that ep, and I have to say I do appreciate it more after hearing their feelings about it. Neither of them were defensive about the fan response, all both of them wanted to talk about was the emotion that permeated the set while they were shooting it. To hear them tell it, it was a love fest of the very best kind, with Meredith and C. Thomas Howell being back and there being such a dreamlike quality to it. Everyone cried daily, were hugely invested in the material, and very proud of the result. Another thing: a different director from CM was in town here shooting another show, and we had opportunity to spend some time and of course CM was a topic and she also brought up Route 66. From a director's standpoint, she didn't like it (she said the theater device didn't work for her), but she respected Doug's and Virgil's take on it and could see why they thought it worked well... so there's another country heard from. We did get a moment with Reid and Hotch - two actually - in Magnum Opus, and in The Gathering. In the first, Hotch tells a still-broken Spencer that he doesn't have to return yet, that it will take time to heal. Spencer heartbreakingly asks "How much time?", and Hotch says "It depends. But we're all here for you." In the second, Hotch questions Reid after the UnSub suicides in the pool and point-blank says "I can't help but feel this is about Maeve." Reid doesn't engage, shuts down, and leaves. I do think that was a missed opportunity for another, deeper moment... but at least Hotch said it out loud. Something he never did when Spencer was recovering from Hankel. Matthew did have a lot of input into the Maeve story and he was fully on-board, but it was originally presented to him as a concept. In my above comment I meant that I'd never heard him express his own wish for something for Reid. I liked that he did that, and I do hope they listen to him, and give him that "something lovely" that he wants for Spencer. He recently made a statement (in that same interview, I believe, when he was talking about being in a comedy) that has stuck with me - something to the effect that "all he's been doing for ten years is making people sad", and it made me sad that he believes that. I really hope, if this is Matthew's last year with the show, that he gets his wish for Spencer.

True that the brain doesn't regenerate, but there are compounds and substances in the Marvel 'verse that can make that happen. Also, the brain can re-route. Neural pathways take detours sometimes. I'm also looking forward to seeing how Fitz's recovery manifests. Will the injury give him some type of cognitive superpower? Will he go evil (I hope not)? Whatever's in store for him, it translates into more Fitz screen time and I'm all for that!

Re: Penelope... I'm not thinking that she doesn't feel justified and maybe even proud regarding the part she played in saving Spencer's life. What I think she's having issue with is that she shot to kill, to end a human life, full stop. It doesn't matter in what service, and/or that it achieved a greater good. I think her prob is going to be that she had it in herself to actually pull that trigger. Now I, or you, or JJ, or any number of other humans may be fine with the justification. I know I fucking would. But she's... Garcia. And I think that's where her difficulty lies. Her pacifism. I've no doubt she will resolve it, but I do think it's worth exploring, and I'm glad they are going there.

Politely. ;)