# "Criminal Minds" appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987 "2010-09-16T17:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/21 "2010-09-19T13:38:34Z")
I mostly enjoy it but sometimes give up when they do the standard ensemble cast show shtick where, during a conversation, each cast member gets one line, and the next one picks up, seamlessly from what the previous one said. This is always done during their exposition to the local cops. Drives me mad, it seems so phony. I think **Law and Order** invented it. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/22 "2010-09-19T13:50:36Z")
It does make some sense when they do it when giving the profile. That is a prepared presentation and each member is contributing from thier own area of expertise. It does seem a little odd when they do just sitting around a table talking. ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/23 "2010-09-19T18:44:39Z")
Reid is still awesome. New analyst: “Satanic cults are actually a myth. In reality, there are two types of satanic killer-” Reid: _long, precise breakdown_ Analyst: “…yes. Um… that was word for word from my book.” Hodges: _sighs_ “We know.” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/24 "2010-09-19T18:51:01Z")
> [@Omi\_no\_Kami](#): > > Reid is still awesome. > > New analyst: “Satanic cults are actually a myth. In reality, there are two types of satanic killer-” > Reid: _long, precise breakdown_ > Analyst: “…yes. Um… that was word for word from my book.” > Hodges: _sighs_ “We know.” Reid and Rossi were at a crime scene and Reid kept trying to get Rossi to agree to sit and talk about his work, Rossi kept saying, annoyed,“Sounds good.” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/25 "2010-09-19T19:07:08Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > > [@BaneSidhe](#): > > > > I fell in love with Spencer Reid right off. He’s so cute and geeky and just…nomnomnom! > > > > I love this show to bits. It’s got the right mix of “ew oh my God!” and brainy stuff that keeps me entertained. > > I know, right? The first time I saw the show, I just wanted to take Reid home with me, and feed him a decent meal, and pet him and stuff! 🙂 > Then when he goes into his ‘socially clueless’ schtick, I just love him all the more! I totally agree! His rambling tangents, and the reactions they elicit, are hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/26 "2010-09-20T04:21:25Z")
Whoever writes his dialog must have a lot of fun with it. Hodges: How did you know [that extremely obscure and unimportant statistic]? Reid: _shrugs_ It was in a government report. Hodges: …and? Reid: _looks perplexed_ “I’m a government employee. I read its reports.” ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/27 "2010-09-20T07:06:07Z")
> [@Omi\_no\_Kami](#): > > Whoever writes his dialog must have a lot of fun with it. > > Hodges: How did you know [that extremely obscure and unimportant statistic]? > Reid: _shrugs_ It was in a government report. > Hodges: …and? > Reid: _looks perplexed_ “I’m a government employee. I read its reports.” Nitpick the character’s name is Hotch which is short for Hotchner. BTW all you Reid lovers, Matthew Gray Gubler has an awesome twitter feed. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/28 "2010-09-20T08:08:35Z")
> [@AmericanMaid](#): > > > [@Omi\_no\_Kami](#): > > > > Whoever writes his dialog must have a lot of fun with it. > > > > Hodges: How did you know [that extremely obscure and unimportant statistic]? > > Reid: _shrugs_ It was in a government report. > > Hodges: …and? > > Reid: _looks perplexed_ “I’m a government employee. I read its reports.” > > Nitpick the character’s name is Hotch which is short for Hotchner. BTW all you Reid lovers, Matthew Gray Gubler has an awesome twitter feed. I’ve never joined Twitter, but this might give me reason to! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/29 "2010-09-20T08:25:47Z")
Oh, it’s Hotch? Huh, I always heard it as “Hodgner” when they say his name. Speaking of, was there ever supposed to be anything between Hotch and Garcia (who, by the way, is utterly awesome)? I always assumed they were an item based on their flirtatious phone banter, but he didn’t bat an eye when she started dating Xander. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/30 "2010-09-20T12:18:35Z")
> [@Omi\_no\_Kami](#): > > Oh, it’s Hotch? Huh, I always heard it as “Hodgner” when they say his name. > > Speaking of, was there ever supposed to be anything between Hotch and Garcia (who, by the way, is utterly awesome)? I always assumed they were an item based on their flirtatious phone banter, but he didn’t bat an eye when she started dating Xander. I think you are confused. Aaron Hotchner (played by [Thomas Gibson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004959/)) is the leader of the BAU. Derek Morgan (played by [Shemar Moore](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005245/)) is the one who has the flirtation going on with Garcia. They talked about their relationship once, and he said because of his baggage (it was revealed he was molested as a child) he couldn’t commit, ot didn’t want to hurt her, or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/31 "2010-09-20T13:06:56Z")
Yea, I was definitely confused there: my interest in a character is directly proportional to my capacity to remember their name, and sadly Derek and Hotch are two of the most generic in my mind. When I think of them, it goes Reid, Garcia, JJ, angsty molested guy, angsty divorced guy, bearded guy, and that black-haired woman whose role on the team I still honestly don’t understand. Then there’s Inigo Montoya, but that was always Gideon’s name. ^^ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/32 "2010-09-20T13:37:05Z")
I love this show. I love the geeky Reid and the overweight yet confident Garcia. One of my favorite unsubs that hasn’t been mentioned iis Frank, played by Keith Carradine. He nailed that role. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/33 "2010-09-20T14:46:00Z")
> [@Omi\_no\_Kami](#): > > Yea, I was definitely confused there: my interest in a character is directly proportional to my capacity to remember their name, and sadly Derek and Hotch are two of the most generic in my mind. When I think of them, it goes Reid, Garcia, JJ, angsty molested guy, angsty divorced guy, bearded guy, and that black-haired woman whose role on the team I still honestly don’t understand. > > Then there’s Inigo Montoya, but that was always Gideon’s name. ^^ You can _forget_ Derek?!?!?!? :eek: Oh, man, he is _smokin’_! Of course, I don’t have to remember “Derek Morgan”, because my sister and I just refer to him as ‘Hot Chocolate’! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/34 "2010-09-20T15:14:18Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > You can _forget_ Derek?!?!?!? :eek: Oh, man, he is _smokin’_! Of course, I don’t have to remember “Derek Morgan”, because my sister and I just refer to him as ‘Hot Chocolate’! 😃 He’s also the guy that always tackles someone every episode. In fact, I think he has tackled vans and trains as well. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/35 "2010-09-20T15:35:35Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > > [@norinew](#): > > > > You can _forget_ Derek?!?!?!? :eek: Oh, man, he is _smokin’_! Of course, I don’t have to remember “Derek Morgan”, because my sister and I just refer to him as ‘Hot Chocolate’! 😃 > > He’s also the guy that always tackles someone every episode. In fact, I think he has tackled vans and trains as well. Oh, I know. I could watch him tackle the freakin’ _phone book_ and love every second of it! That body, that smile, those eyebrows, those crow’s feet. . .uhhhhh, I’ll be back. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/36 "2010-09-20T16:59:28Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > I’ve never joined Twitter, but this might give me reason to! 🙂 Except for Shemar Moore (Morgan) they’re all on Twitter! Gubler’s twitter feed (@gublernation) is fun but occasionally very very random, like pictures of finger puppets or his exceedingly adorable fluffy tiny purse-sized (not that he carries a purse) dog. Kirsten Vangsness (@vangsness) is almost all pictures of hot Garcia fashions and occasional pictures of her hanging out with her awesome TV nerd counterpart friends Pauley Perrette (Abby on NCIS) and Barrett Foa (Eric the computer geek on NCIS LA) which is just hilarious, somehow, that the three of them are buddies. So fitting. Thomas Gibson’s (@gibsonthomas) twitter is 99% pictures from the set. The other day he did a series of pictures of everyone’s footwear, and his followers were meant to guess the cast member by the feet. (Matthew Gray Gubler never wears matching socks. He’s also still wearing tennis shoes because of his knee injury/surgery, it seems. Paget Brewster’s shoes are _hot_. Kirsten was wearing pink platform strappy sandals and off-white fishnets over black nylons.) Now that they’re off the show/more off than on, Paget (@pagetpaget) and A.J. Cook (@ajcookofficial) are tweeting lots of personal stuff, like A.J.'s new hair (the day after she filmed her last scene, she went brunette!) and Paget’s recent veddy veddy interesting notes during a weekend in Vegas with a hot musician dude. Joe Mantegna’s twitter seems to maybe be handled by his PR 85% of the time. It’s mostly promotional tweets. Kinda boring, but when it’s not, it’s great! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/37 "2010-09-20T17:10:18Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > > [@norinew](#): > > > > I’ve never joined Twitter, but this might give me reason to! 🙂 > > Except for Shemar Moore (Morgan) they’re all on Twitter! > > Gubler’s twitter feed (@gublernation) is fun but occasionally very very random, like pictures of finger puppets or his exceedingly adorable fluffy tiny purse-sized (not that he carries a purse) dog. > > Kirsten Vangsness (@vangsness) is almost all pictures of hot Garcia fashions and occasional pictures of her hanging out with her awesome TV nerd counterpart friends Pauley Perrette (Abby on NCIS) and Barrett Foa (Eric the computer geek on NCIS LA) which is just hilarious, somehow, that the three of them are buddies. So fitting. > > Thomas Gibson’s (@gibsonthomas) twitter is 99% pictures from the set. The other day he did a series of pictures of everyone’s footwear, and his followers were meant to guess the cast member by the feet. (Matthew Gray Gubler never wears matching socks. He’s also still wearing tennis shoes because of his knee injury/surgery, it seems. Paget Brewster’s shoes are _hot_. Kirsten was wearing pink platform strappy sandals and off-white fishnets over black nylons.) > > Now that they’re off the show/more off than on, Paget (@pagetpaget) and A.J. Cook (@ajcookofficial) are tweeting lots of personal stuff, like A.J.'s new hair (the day after she filmed her last scene, she went brunette!) and Paget’s recent veddy veddy interesting notes during a weekend in Vegas with a hot musician dude. > > Joe Mantegna’s twitter seems to maybe be handled by his PR 85% of the time. It’s mostly promotional tweets. Kinda boring, but when it’s not, it’s great! Sigh. I very much fear you’ve now given me a reason to spend _even more_ time in front of my monitor! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Brunhilda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@Brunhilda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunhilda)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/38 "2010-09-21T04:19:55Z")
Giving this thread a bump. i want to keep spencer reid (and Matthew Gray Gubler) as a pet. ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/39 "2010-09-21T04:33:21Z")
Bah, give me Garcia any day- if her actress must be gay, at least one can hold out hope for her character. ^^ ---
**Author:** ![Brunhilda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@Brunhilda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunhilda)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987/40 "2010-09-21T04:47:39Z")
No problem man. She seems a lot like folks I grew up with who were into P.C’s – a drinking buddy type. Reid’s just smokin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-appreciation-thread/553987.md?page=3)