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I also thought the leg comment was a joke, feeding off his earlier trouble qualifying with firearms. Also, he may have had a huge number of feelings regarding shooting someone in the head without it being PTSD. PTSD a is a serious and specific mental illness.

I want to be able to say the former but... the latter.

No worries SweetTooth -- sometimes I try to set myself on the high road and remember that I don't actually know these people* and it's not fair for me to make value judgments on them. And then I read some random tweet and spiral into years-long grudges (coughlenadunhamcoughcough) so... you do you. *by which I mean, celebrities generally

Dare I ask? I've generally avoided real stories about the cast; although I did hear about his catfishing embarrassment.

Just to combine UOs -- I love the scene where Rossi vows to get Hotch home in time for his (first?) date with Beth.

I guess it could be said that a thoughtful, reasoned approach to television is itself the Unpopular Opinion -- the masses enjoy the shite that we are kvetching about here and lazy showrunners and writers are willing to provide that.

I watched it last night, having already read all of your comments so I knew the Holt reveal, and I loved it. But this show just makes me happy. I liked that Gina referenced her college classes as "off-brand" and I nearly died at her dance routine with Terry. And day-um Terry Crews! DAYUM!! Why does he even wear shirts?

It wasn't really until Bridget Jones's Diary in 2001 that he moved to the "bad boy" roles -- six years after the arrest. Although I do find him strangely delightful, I can't help but recall that Jon Stewart has named Hugh the absolutely worst guest ever on The Daily Show -- Jon noted, "we've had dictators on the show" and Hugh was still more of an asshole.

So late to the party -- just got to watch this now (damn you, CityTV and Rogers generally, damn you all to hell!) but I have to agree with all the love. I was surprised by the "door open" elevator reveal as, no matter how he felt about Amy, I would have expected Jake to be a slightly pettier competitor, as it were... or maybe I'm just projecting my own vicious competitive streak on him. Oh snap!! I can't remember who had the camera -- Scully or HItchcock!! Oops! Although I did love that little storyline of Sculcock trying to get Boyle to make him appear cool -- the quick cut from him flipping over the stair railing to Gina crossing out his picture was one of my favourite moments. Also love Rosa immediately blowing her cover at the desk sergeant calling her "sweetheart". And I'm rewatching the Closer and I have to say, hearing Kyra Sedgwick without the Atlanta drawl is both weird and awesome.

Hey! What have you got against pigs?!

Honestly, I doubt the glass would have much effect. Bullets are shockingly powerful -- usually I'm more annoyed by people taking cover behind an upholstered couch or something as though that would deflect a bullet. Honestly, I don't remember the angles of the shot overall but I know that police are trained to aim centre mass -- kill shots to the heart -- not the head, so that's a bit of bullshittery but I take no issue with the glass door. I prefer Elle's fight to JJ's -- a friend of mine is taking Krav Maga and it's pretty redonk intense, she's regularly got crazy ass bruises all over. She was saying that the general principle is usually "choke til you see foam," like do not leave your assailant conscious, but her instructor told her that no matter how well trained you are it's very difficult for a woman to beat up a man just on basic weight / height issues. The instructor's advice was, "do three defensives and run." So Elle fighting dirty and pulling her weapon seems more reasonable than JJ knocking a guy out with an effing spin kick.

I know it isn't a new concept -- I watched Buffy religiously -- but those examples are all science fiction / fantasy. Although several viewers have accepted CM exists in an Alternate Universe, we all know the key to a successful AU is consistent internal logic. JJ not taking the clean shot she had and instead engaging in a physical altercation with the unsub is not consistent with the logic of this show or reality.

Well the clip I saw was about her "Secret Listening Parties" where she said she basically cyber-stalked her own fans to identify the really devoted fans she hadn't previously met and the guys edged away from her. Except they started so far away from her to begin it just added to the weirdness. I don't know about TSwift -- her songs are fun and catchy but she can't take a joke (see her response to Tina Fey's Golden Globes joke about her) and she generally strikes me as kind of robotic. I sort of feel bad for her -- she has that Dakota Fanning quality of having been famous so young she's somehow stopped actually being human on some level. Like she doesn't know how to have a normal, human interaction, just a camera-ready, photo op interaction. You know what I mean?

Garcia's computer is SO RIDICULOUS!! I think I have only once, in hundreds of hours of watching, heard her refer to something as not being digitized and therefore inaccessible. Now, anyone who has ever used a database knows that even digitized data is not necessarily accessible. Nevertheless -- computers = magic. I actually liked JJ shooting the dude through the glass door. I read it as she didn't blink when it came to take the shot (the guy was, I think, visibly holding hostages at that point) but was rattled in the aftermath and others offered her support. At that point, to my mind, she was stepping up as part of the team and possibly redeeming herself after the Reid/hostage/dog debacle. I haven't seen the episodes where she returned after the AJ firing debacle or any of her bin Laden assassination thing (seriously?) but there was an ep somewhere where she confronts an armed unsub with a hostage by herself, puts down her weapon, and then engages in hand-to-hand with a guy at least 100-pounds heavier and 6 inches taller than she and I thought, "WTF?!?!" I'll take her shooting a dude from 20 feet over that shit any day.

I've only seen a brief clip of the show but were the two men sitting awkwardly far from Taylor? In the clip I saw it looked like John Cleese was going to fall off the end of the couch!!

I want to be Emma Thompson when I grow up.

Personally, I really don't think the overall tone could be replicated in the States. To my mind, the format works partly because Graham is awesome and partly because British humour is so open. Although some Americans will get in on the fun, generally they are media trained to total blandness and cannot get off their talking points. (Not to mention, may not be able to formulate an unscripted sentence.) Couches with only Americans are generally the dullest, IMO. (There are many examples of Americans expressing surprise at the whole thing but I keep thinking about Benedict Cumberbatch talking about onstage nudity and referencing "teabagging" his girlfriend's mother and you can hear Chris Pine say "I can't believe you just said that." which kind of encapsulates the American/British divide for me.)

It seems like your crushes may be a function of the actor rather than the writers.

Knittzu, great post!! I totally agree with you. And Cobalt Stargazer I have to agree with you on BTVS -- I couldn't stop watching but to this day I choose to believe that the last two seasons just didn't happen. [/off topic]

Thanks!! I didn't realize that Nov 9 was the last date in 2014 -- that sucks on many levels. Alas!! Thanks for the info and I will look into the non-LWT dates. ETA: Sonofabitch! The weekend I'm in NYC he's in frakking North Carolina!!

I totally read that as "Bilbo" and wondered how Martin Freeman upset you so.

Alarmingly, show writers report that on researching Elliot Rodger they found seven or eight similar but less publicized incidents in the last year.

Apologies for being possibly slightly off thread topic here but can I ask about getting tickets for the show? Someone reported attending a taping a couple of months ago, how did you get tickets? Looking on the site it looks like they are released about four weeks in advance.

Work is sending me to NYC in a couple of months (yay!) but there are no tickets available for TDS or TCR (boo!).

No pop-ups for me SSAH.