Problems with Criminal Minds

I have been watching a lot of criminal minds as of late, for a variety of reasons, the first being that there are 150 episdoes, all on youtube, meaning I can watch it lying in bed, and not have to worry about repeating an episode or whatnot, on my iphone without having to drag my laptop over to my bed (yes I know, major first world problem, but I like physically lying on my side watching stuff, espeically when I'm watching stuff right before I'm going to go to sleep, because I always sit up with my laptop, and then i'll have to get up to take it back to my desk and eurgh, iphone is easier) and secondly because it's good.

But Emily, the title of this blog post is problem with criminal minds, and you just said its good, I'm confused, you might say. Well if you know anything about the show, or me, you will know that it is a cop show, which for me is practically good enough, not to mention the fact that one of its leads is called Emily, dresses primarily in black, and is unfortunatly way more bad-ass than me,

I love this photo, its like black, black, black, COLOR EXPLOSION, its foreshadowing the evil that is about to come- who said TV wasn't educational- english lesson right there

 although said bad-assery did eventuate in her getting a stake shoved through her stomach (wow accidental alliteration!) and it would be a lot cooler if I had a more random name like arshul ( I don't even know if thats a name) or I don't know justine, but seriously, how many shows outside of buffy have people getting stabbed by huge stakes, take my word for it, its good I just have a few pet peaves about it;

(I'm not going to include the usual complaint people have about cop shows, aka its so unrealistic, because as I have mentioned eariler, I like it being unrealisic, and the whole JJ, Prentiss, Seaver thing, because if you know the show that goes without saying that it annoys me, and if you don't know the show you wouldn't get it anyway, actually who am I kidding, your not going to get anything about this post)

1.     The magically appearing SVU's  -  ahh the SVU's I think a large part of america's budget deficet could be resolved if they just stopped supplying the BAU with a near endless supply of black SVU's. Seriously these guys travel around the country (another good budget cutting measure, stop giving 6 people there own private jet), and where-ever they are they always find at least 3 black SVU's outfitted with lights and sirens, I mean I get it when they go to New York or somewhere where there is a FBI field office, who will lend them the cars, but serously like montanta? alaska? I'm sure there were a few episodes where there was a police force smaller than the BAU team, and still they managed to procure at leat 3 very large black SVU's which they later shot the window out of, and then just left the field office with a wrecked up SVU, not cool guys

2.   Speaking of cars, how does the team seem to magically know there way around every single city, like they travel all over the country (or sometime it seems all over new england, and yet they still takee the jet) but they can drive around and find there way to places really fast in cities they've never been to before, I've lived around *suburb* my entire life, and I still need to use the GPS to get places

3.     Funerals- ok so I get that when they have someones funeral they want it to be emotional, for the team, but what really bugs me is that only the members of the team carry the coffin, like do these people have no other friends? or at least family members, I kinda get at Prentess's funeral why they did that, but at Haley's? dude seriously did she not know any other guys than those of her ex-husbands work mates? I seriously hope that at my funeral I get people to carry my coffin that I've talked about more than the weather with, and I know that the show is about the team, and not about haleys random friends but still, and because they were too wimpy to kill someone actually important off they were trying to make it a big deal but eurgh annoying

4.    Rapidly accerealting body count this seems to be more a problem with network television in general, but especially with criminal minds. I get it, although killing 7 people may be realistic, and a heck of a lot, it doesn't sound that evil, so the really bad serial killer kills 10, then 20, then 30, and seven seasons later we have killers who have 192 victims, 192! is there anyone out there that has done half that number of murders?

5.     Seaver- yes I said I wasn't going to mention it but seaver, eurgh

6.    and finally Emily's nails- they become quite the plot device in the episode where she kinda dies, the team is able to figure out that she was the one holding the gun because the hands of the person holding the gun had bitten nails. Dude seriously, there are 6 billion people in the world, i don't think having bitten nails is a real identifying feature, not to mention it was like eons ago, isn't it conceivable they people can change their nail habbits or whatever, I mean if they were my nails I could understand, but there not, so lame plot device

yes I know nit-picking, but isn't that kinda the point, I mean if I wanted I could really tear appart the sturture, about how there are always 2 people who die, and they save the third, or some of the more tangential leaps or whatever, but I won't, because thats not the point. The point is, like much of the TV I watch, while I could pick it appart till tomorrow, I don;t because there enjoyable to watch, and most of the time, thats all that matters