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I Love You, Tommy Brown; s7 ep17; Mar 14, 2012
Topic Started: Mar 5 2012, 12:00 AM (643 Views)
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I guess it was the "shut the front door" combined with the allcaps stuff. It just struck me as immature.

And premature as it turns out because her episode had record low ratings for CM.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a371396/criminal-minds-records-series-low-figures-following-cbs-renewal.html
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Maybe now the producers, writers, CBS and ABC will take notice of viewers complaints. Online fandom is I imagine a small portion of overall fandom. Maybe now that the overall fandom is turning away they will take more seriously the complaints.
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whoah, that is a definite drop in ratings. maybe they will kick up the writing a notch and really listen to the fans' suggestions. crossfingers crossfingers crossfingers
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I'm not sure if that will be enough of a wake-up call since a lot of shows apparently did poorly that night. No idea why. Some of the fans have been saying that it was an overall drop in most shows and that it could have been because Kim Harrison's episode sucked so badly that people didn't bother to tune in. The writers will probably pass it off as an anomaly.

I really do hope that they finally listen. They get so rude over constructive criticism.

Here is a breakdown of the percentages of episodes in the seasons that showed the unsubs up front or early on:

Season 1: 18.2% {4 out of 22 episodes}
Season 2: 26.0% {6 out of 23 episodes}
Season 3: 40.0% {8 out of 20 episodes}
Season 4: 36.0% {9 out of 25 episodes}
Season 5: 56.5% {13 out of 23 episodes}
Season 6: 75.0% {19 out of 24 episodes}
Season 7: 76.5% (so far) {13 out of 17 episodes}

Note that when we get to the beyond 50% range that was when people started to complain about the quality. It's not even so much that we lose the mystery by seeing the unsubs so much is that they show us in lieu of having the team profile. And they now often use Garcia to solve everything rather than do the legwork. The computer thing is a crutch and they no longer go through the paper files as much and don't do the profiling. Also, the contributions of each individual character is now muddled instead of speaking from their unique points of view. Even people who normally defend the show are starting to see it and agree that it is a problem.
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Thanks for the breakdown suceress! thumb up I was at first surprised that there have been 4 episodes that we've not seen the unsub right away ( I thought that it was 2) but then looking at the episode guide at tv.com 4 is correct. There's the first episode of the season (aside from Doyle, Declan's mom being one of the unsubs), Painless (high school massacre anniversary), Unknown Subject (the one with the piano man) and the one with Odo in it (military school). Sorry I just looked at the list and I don't remember all the titles (and am too lazy to look again).
As for the overall decline in ratings for last week, I do believe it is Spring Break time in many places. While we had it here a couple of weeks ago, Ontario had it last week and I think some places in the States had it as well. Maybe next week will be more of a tell tale sign for the ratings.
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I've found that I have a hard time remember what each episode this season has been about. Mostly in the first few seasons if you mention an episode I will have an idea of what that one was about, but these ones are not as memorable.

It Takes A Village was the first episode, IIRC.
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I know what you mean. I used to know the name of the episodes but now, I don't care since all the episodes are repetitive. I have no idea what each episode this season is called. :shrug:
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