The whole time I watched, I had vicious thoughts towards the producers over AJ and Paget. I'm not sure I can get over it. I adore the others, but I'm not sure I can stay with the show feeling this level of hostility, and I certainly can't if they don't deliver better episodes.

I've already written a polite letter to the producers, explaining why I won't be watching CM anymore. I'd rather leave now and keep the show in my mind as something I enjoyed, not with a sour note of disappointment. In my mind, the show ended with "Slave of Duty".

The whole time I watched, I had vicious thoughts towards the producers over AJ and Paget. I'm not sure I can get over it. I adore the others, but I'm not sure I can stay with the show feeling this level of hostility, and I certainly can't if they don't deliver better episodes.

So very much this. I can't walk away because of my love for Reid, Garcia, and Morgan (not counting last night), but I very much want the producers/network to feel my (and near as I can tell EVERYONE else's) ire.

Just to clarify, the producers didn't have anything to do with cutting AJ and Paget. It was CBS and ABC Studios that made those decisions. From everything I've been able to discern, Ed Bernero, et. al. had no part in it. IIRC, he alluded to his displeasure in an interview, but not in so many words. I'll try and find the article.

I'm cynical and feeling pretty unforgiving right now.

I've been thinking about the final scene, and it's irritating me, not because I don't think that Morgan is capable of killing someone in cold blood, but because I think that he wouldn't be so stupid as to do it in front of witnesses. You'd think that he would wait for Flynn to at least make some sort of move that he can claim made it a righteous shoot. He just killed the guy.

I found that wildly out of character as well, and yet surprisingly it was the Garcia bitching that had my eyebrows raise.

Flynn did start to raise his gun before Morgan took his first shot, so he could claim that he was either going to shoot Morgan or maybe the woman on his right.

Flynn did start to raise his gun before Morgan took his first shot, so he could claim that he was either going to shoot Morgan or maybe the woman on his right.

Yeah, it was a definite suicide-by-cop.

I found that wildly out of character as well, and yet surprisingly it was the Garcia bitching that had my eyebrows raise.

yes, but his apology was very sweet. And he did it in such a way that everyone knew that he was apologizing.

I'm cynical and feeling pretty unforgiving right now.

So am I, ehab, but I want to direct my righteous anger to the people who deserve it. Financial reasons, my ass.

Honestly, I don't think Morgan is capable of killing someone in cold blood. If he didn't kill Carl Buford when he had the chance, then I cannot see him killing anyone without proper, legally justifiable provocation. Morgan has a temper, and may occasionally go off half-cocked, but he's been able to tamp that down a bit in later seasons. Unless, of course, this is the year for Morgan to go off the rails.

I see parallels to the ending of "A Real Rain," but Hotch's kill was a lot less ambiguous than this one. I'm having a hard time reconciling Flynn's subtle movement of the gun with the need for Morgan to fire 5(?) shots to take him down.