SSAHotchner

I'm shocked and devastated. While the show has largely been a piece of crap for the past 5 seasons, my love for Hotch and the friends I've made discussing the show online have kept me tuned in. I will not watch without him. I doubt that I will miss the show, but I will miss communicating here and on other forums and the friends I have made online. I do think that Thomas reacted inappropriately, but like some others here, I highly doubt it was unprovoked. Virgil is among the worst of the CM writers and the way he conducts himself on social media sites shows that he is also a hothead and immature. Of the two, Thomas is clearly the better asset for the show. Well, Folks, it's been fun.

This is not good news.

I love her personality, too, and I think that makes her more attractive.

Hill Street Blues, if you're old enough to remember it.

Yeah, but unfortunately (for me) it contains Beth, or as we call her on one of my other CM forums "Blech."

Fisher King would be my favorite of the finales, too. I thought Lo-Fi was also good. I wasn't watching when it originally aired so I had the luxury of being able to pop in the next DVD to watch Mayhem and not have to wait all summer to see who got blown up. Hated the pig farm episodes because of the creep factor to the subject matter, and also just didn't care for the scenes with the girl (nepotism) and the retarded character. But it did have an outstanding ending with Hotch and the Reaper. I hated all the season finales since season 3, especially since Erica took over, except for Angels and Demons. Police corruption is more believable than Hit and Run and the stupid Replicator story.

Just couldn't get into the Librarians and, for me, the team lacked the chemistry that the Leverage team had.

I can't find a single episode I like in season 8, but 9 had Gabby and The Edge of Winter, both of which I thought were decent episodes and I also like the finale episodes Angels and Demons.

1 & 4 are tied for first. As time goes by, I love season 1 more and more. 2, 3, 5, 7(even though I hate Beth), 6, 9, 10, 11, 8. I put 11 before 8 because I liked Entropy. There's not a single episode in 8 that I really liked.

Pleasure is My Business - Love, love LOVE Hotch in this one, and I actually do feel sorry for Meghan, the unsub. The Angel Maker - again because of Hotch. Zoe's Reprise - Zoe is my favorite victim. Masterpiece - smart Reid and while I can't stand Jason Alexander in this I love it when Rossi gets him at the end and says when they pull the switch on him, he's going to lean in and tell him to say hello to his scumbag brother. Also like The Instincts, Memoriam, Amplification, 52 Pickup and Conflicted. All are good Reid eps and Prentiss is fun in 52 Pickup.

I figured it was a race issue, maybe to make up for all the flack over the Paula Deen thing or maybe just to have more black hosts on Food Network. It would have been better for Damiano to have been eliminated before the pilots and have 3 black contestants competing against each other. Damiano could have been the best cook in the world, but no way was he winning this season. Not saying he was the best cook in the world, just that it wouldn't have mattered. The outcome had been predetermined. I don't know what the network's statistics are on audience demographics. I actually enjoy the baking competitions more than just watching someone cook something. What is it that posters here have against Melissa d'Arabian? I remember wanting her to win her season. She seems like a normal person (not a restaurant chef) with some skills. As with many cooking shows, my taste preferences would keep me from making or eating a lot of what they cook, but I still enjoy seeing some new ideas and any hints about how to do things more easily, inexpensively, etc. Anyway, I prefer her calm, no nonsense style, to some of the more over the top contestants from this season like Tregaye or Erin. Sheesh that giggle was quite annoying.

It was so obvious who they were going to choose. Anyone who has watched this program has already tired of her schtick. I couldn't sit through any more of it. Also, any time they asked her a direct question, she hemmed and hawed around and couldn't give a clear, cohesive response. But then, there wasn't much of a choice this season. Damiano is difficult to understand and Jernard was often over the top with his act as well. I will say that the restaurants they featured looked great and definitely worth a try. But I really don't see Tregaye's show becoming a success and I can't say the others would have been all that great either. I don't think I'll watch any future seasons, if there are any, of Food Network Star.

Hahaha. You almost made me spit on my computer screen.

I kind of wish folks would stop bringing up that Snoop Dog event as a reason for cutting Amy. I didn't care for it either, but I think that if that was going to keep Amy from making the squad they never would have brought her to training camp in the first place. I think she's cute as a button and I'm waiting to watch the show to see what really happened with her. Although you have to admit that there have been plenty of times throughout the seasons where Kelli or Judy says "she makes so many mistakes!" about someone and then when the camera is on the girl she's not visibly making a mistake. Sometimes they do, but not always. It makes me suspicious of the editing. It feels more like they want the viewers to think someone is bad to justify getting rid of them even if we haven't seen it . And then, of course, there are all the times when they call someone out over and over again but put them on the team anyway. But we're not there so we don't really know.

I'd like to think they finally learned their lesson about taking girls who just couldn't get it, but we'll have to wait and see what happened. We're only speculating at this point based on some audition videos. We have no idea how many, if any, of them had trouble learning or retaining the routines.

I remember the Honey Bears. I worked with a girl who made it. I think it was 83 or 84. Also remember the Bears in the Super Bowl, but my husband and I are not football fans. We went to Disney World that week. But it was so darned cold (that was the year the Challenger blew up) we went back to our hotel room to get warm and watch the end of the game.

I love that episode. There was just one potato, can't remember why. Just love the way Nate and Hardison interact with the smart alec kid and then the end when he tries to tell all his friends on the bus what happened and the teacher thinks he's making it all up.

I'm not a bit sorry for Kelli and Judy. They shouldn't have taken either one of those girls. Especially in Morgan's season. They took 39 that year. They should have cut both Morgan and Kaitlyn that year. And Breelan was completely ditzy. I watched the season 8 episode that was on CMT today and Kelli was really mean to Ashley Paige. Now, I don't for a minute think that they should have taken her, but the way Kelli spoke to her compared to how she speaks to some of the others that continuously make mistakes is like night and day.

I think this is partly due to the writing, though, Old Dog. I think they knew Paget was coming back under duress and they wrote for Prentiss with an eye to her leaving at the end of the season. She was trying to get personal with everyone on the team and fix all their problems. I think they wanted to make her the caring, sympathetic one to make her leaving more poignant. I just really like Paget and I have a hard time finding fault with her.

Maybe Rossi's ex #2 goes off her rocker and kills him. :) As for Emily, I did like her in season 7. Hated the spy arc in season 6.

You can say that again. Joe is miserable as a director. Some folks are just better in front of the camera than behind it.

I think that Thomas does a much better job with the actors than Gubler does. But Gubler's episodes are always visually really imaginative and interesting.

She wants to be perky and bubbly but she really has a short fuse and can't handle any criticism. That's the kiss of death for a reality show on cooking. Frankly, I couldn't watch her even if she didn't lose her cool because her persona came across as phony and the giggle makes me cringe. And the fact that she equated a chocolate chip cookie with decadence, NO. Chocolate chip cookies are probably the most common dessert item in the US. She did not elevate it to a fine dining experience. I don't care if she sells a billion of them. McDonalds sells billions of burgers but nobody's going to consider them fine dining and guilty pleasure. I'm glad she bombed. I would watch a show about baking, but not if the host had her personality.

I agree with everything here except for worshipping at the altar of Messer. I still hold her responsible for the way the show, especially the writing has tanked.

Ooh, "den of suck." I like that. Going to have to use it in my conversations.