Mr Roche can tweet all of the pics he wants. Hello there.

I still can't get over the implausibility of her working with the BAU right out of the Academy. It flies in the face of the elite team with years of experience they've been emphasizing for ages.

Maybe, but at this point, I'm finding it more believable than the entire premise behind CM2: Electric Boogalu with their rogue team, so independent they have to set up shop in an abandoned crack house, routine.

(The cracks were so much more evident last night since it followed one of the better CM episodes of the season.)

I'm finding it more believable than the entire premise behind CM2: Electric Boogalu with their rogue team, so independent they have to set up shop in an abandoned crack house, routine.

Bwah! The cast, especially FW and JG, is so much better than the material they've been given to work with. IMO, this just underscores the importance of the writers. Not everyone can (or should) write for shows like CM.

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The cast, especially FW and JG, is so much better than the material they've been given to work with.

Well, and as much as most of us bitched about The Fight and how it sort of sloppily served as the de facto pilot for the new show, it's amazing to me to recall how much more personality & distinction the characters had, even sharing time with the regular cast members. They each had their place on the team and we even had a bit of backstory in there: Prophet was the ex-con/technowizard, the latter of which has been downplayed a great deal by Penelope's addition to the cast which is peripheral at best, which is a crime perpetrated on the character; Rawson was the ex-military sniper; Gina's the young agent, out of the academy, dealing with disappointing her father by not having gone to West Point, and Cooper's the brilliant rebel, an interesting amalgam of Rossi & Gideon.

And we got all that from that one ep. At this point, it's standing as a monument to brilliant storytelling.

Long-winded way of saying I agree with you on the writing.

I finally watched the first two CM:SB eps last night, and they were nothing better than "meh." FW is already starting to grate on my nerves, but it's nice seeing JG on my tv screen.

I missed the previous ep--did y'all comment then on the villain being the "Opulence, I has it" guy? [link] He didn't get to kiss a tiny giraffe here, but I liked his scene with Prentiss, lots of understated menace.

That's where I knew him from! No wonder he's doing an Irish accent by way of Russia.

That scene was quite good. I especially enjoyed Prentiss's comment on where exactly her Glock was aimed.

THAT'S why he looked so familiar! Thank You!

I especially enjoyed Prentiss's comment on where exactly her Glock was aimed.

That was priceless.

I love Paget Brewster and her snarky delivery.