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First of all, 'CrispyA' is a pretty cool screenname. 

I've said many times that I just can't see any of these people jumping into bed together and that hasn't changed.  They're too much like a family to me and spend far too much in a pressure cooker together to entangle this important job that way.  That said, however, JJ and Reid were pretty cute together.  We do plan on adding a little sex though if we can, just not within the team.

Yeah -- I'm glad we got to show some of Goob's skills off.  LOVE Jane Lynch.  We could not have chosen a better mother for Reid.  If schedules and all work out, definitely count on seeing her again.

And finally, I'll point the lack of pub there out to Simon and see if he can't make some calls.  He must know someone there.   

Hey Fin --

Thanks for the congrats.  I actually have the same role, though, just extended some and adding more duties.  CM's where my heart is and the rest of the writers are still there so nothing's really going to change.

I wouldn't say this season saw a lot of changes dynamics-wise.  We lost Elle and gained Emily.  And we weren't at all surprised by some fans initial negative reaction.  Lola Glaudini deservedly had a lot fans, and people generally don't like change in any form.  What Prentiss allowed us to do though, was explore the other characters in a bit of a different light.  We were able (subtly) to use this new character's lack of familiarity with the team members to highlight things about them we wanted the audience to know, without having to manufacture exposition from a character who should already know them.  Does that make any sense?  For example, if we wanted to talk about Morgan, we could have Prentiss genuinely not know that much about him and have it explained to her, thereby explaining to the audience.  This is the same reason why Prentiss is the perfect character to have in the middle of the maelstrom for next season. 

That's Prentiss, Paget is a great actor and seems excited about anything we throw her way. 

Good post.  We did do some of it this year (as well as with Hotch/Reid and Morgan/Reid).  It's kind of a razor's edge though.  The more that Reid experiences, the harder it is to expect him to need mentoring.  As far as gideon caring about him, we definitely keep that in the front of their relationship and will continue to.

Hmmm... I've been pondering this for a while and it suddenly occured to me:  How do we know this is really DianeGrl asking if it's really Ed???

Truly, I guess there's no way for me to prove it in a post but your moderator/editor has been in touch with my assistant all week setting this up (Phyllis is pretty great, by the way) and I'm not sure what benefit I would get from pretending to be me and answering the questions so, I guess we'll have to trust each other for now.  Fair enough?

Will do. 

And you can't be saying 'jumping the shark' already.  It's only the third season!!!! 

Oops -- almost missed this one.  To be in the BAU, you have to be an SSA (Supervisory Special Agent).  They are all SSA's with the exception of JJ, who is an Agent, Garcia, who is Technician, and Hotch, who is an SAIC (Special Agent in Charge).

A psycho in a wheelchair. That's not too werid... 

*Hands Ed a little flower*  

  Hi! 

I noticed that, towards the end of this season you changed somewhat the "structure" of the episodes, so to say (bear with me, I'm not a native English speaker), giving more screen time to the victim of the week. Is that a deliberate change? I find it interesting, but I also miss a bit more of actual profiling and green screen scenes (they've been almost nonexistent of late).

 And, lastly, this is more a petition than an actual question... Next season, could you please (I'm begging you here) avoid that henious hairchopping from the beginning of season 2? No wonder Elle went postal after that haircut... 

This is very interesting. Will Prentiss be receiving a promotion in third season? I only ask because her ID badge (clearly visible in several episodes) for second season reads "SA" (Special Agent) not "SSA"--and all the other agents' badges have SSA, with the exception of JJ's and I can't see the props department making that kind of mistake over multiple eps. As well, isn't Hotch a Unit Chief, not an SAC? I'd assume if he were an SAC, then his badge would say that instead of SSA; I'm not sure on this as I have limited familiarity with the FBI command structure. 

Prentiss badge in some of the episodes does say SA, I think that was what caused a lot of the discussion.  Also I think someone said that JJs badge in at least one episode said SSA but i can't say I've ever noticed that.

About the publicity in the UK, I'd say livingtv are doing a really good job with CM. They have a brilliant website with interviews they went over and did themselves and the show airs 4 times a week with quite a lot of advertising.  Channel 5 as our second air channel are not so good, well rubbish would be a more accurate word!

Livingtv have got F&L scheduled to air before the big Game, IF this is correct it presumably means we get the original version, do you think this can work?  I'm trying to imagine the Reid storyline without the scene in the bathroom and without the conversation with Morgan on the plane and I can't see it working as-well because that's the only time you actually see Reid with the drugs. 

And your right we are very lucky with our editor, she's a keeper!