Well, if Mark Sheppard didn't play 50% of the British guys out there, so many of them might not be evil.

Hee.

Plus, think of all the British actors who play Americans. . .and aren't evil.

Did you see Christina Cole and Christopher Heyerdahl on Human Target last night? She was playing HRH Victoria, Princess of Wales. And he was playing Irish.

Kavan Smith (Lorne from SGA) was on Human Target last night playing an evil Brit. (And Lucifer from SPN as a good - well, kind of good guy. ETA - thanks, Sumi - I never remember his name.)

The woman is an irritating blank of the tough law enforcement chick, and not even engaging.

yes, she's a stereotype, and I'm irritated that she's thin as a rail. You need muscles to kick bad guy ass and she doesn't have any.

I also thought that it was interesting the way that they paired up the teams last night. It was clear that you were supposed to get cues to the new characters by who they were paired with. The fact that the skinny chick was paired with Morgan irritated me.

(And Lucifer from SPN as a good - well, kind of good guy. ETA - thanks, Sumi - I never remember his name.)

THAT's where I'd seen him before!

Not Lucifer - Alastair!

Lucifer from SPN

Lucifer from SPN is Mark Pellegrino and kicking it on Lost. I haven't watched Human Target yet, but that was Alistair.

she's thin as a rail. You need muscles to kick bad guy ass and she doesn't have any.

Paget Brewster's not big by regular standards, but at least she can project a little solidity by Hollywood standards. She looked good slamming that guy into the wall.

Sumi's totally right - Alastair. (and ita!)

I lost the middle twenty minutes of CM because the broadcast went inexplicably wonky. Got enough of it, though, I think. Forrest is incredibly thin and I was shocked to see Hotch's teeth. Whoever said that was the most he'd smiled in ages was right.

I was a little surprised to see how quickly Erin acquiesced-- I mean, it wasn't unrealistic of her to do so and maybe I missed something in those middle twenty minutes, but from the way she spoke to them at the beginning, I thought for sure she was going to skin both Cooper and Hotch and nail their hides to the wall as trophies.

Paget Brewster's not big by regular standards, but at least she can project a little solidity by Hollywood standards. She looked good slamming that guy into the wall.

exactly! You believe that Prentiss can kick someone's ass. That chick looks like she'd get blown over by a strong wind.

I was very disappointed in the "pilot." I think there were just way too many characters in the episode so it felt as if everyone got, like, three lines. It was weird. I didn't get a real handle on anyone.

If I could do it over, I'd just introduce FW's character and have him working with the existing team. Then, at the end, maybe Erin offers him the chance to build his own team that we could meet later, when it's a show.

Or go the CSI method and take one or two characters from the original team and invent some reason they have to work with this other team on a case.