Talk:Criminal Minds

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Contents 1 Pic 2 CTV simulcast x Simultaneous substitution 3 Cast pic 4 Discussions of Violence in Criminal Minds 5 Psychological Aspect 6 Season 2 Dual Release Dates 7 Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

[edit] Pic

What happened to it?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.237.16.234 (talk • contribs) on 07:48, November 15, 2006 (UTC); Please sign your posts!

[edit] CTV simulcast x Simultaneous substitution

in In Canada, the show is simulcast on CTV the word simulcast leads to Simultaneous substitution, although that page states that simulcast is something different. -- zenek (85.71.30.103 11:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Cast pic

There's a conspicuous absence from that cast pic... --129.98.214.109 07:53, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussions of Violence in Criminal Minds

Has anyone tried writing up a section on Criminal Minds and violence, perhaps including some critical reviews of the program? I've seen evidence that Mandy Patinkin left the show because he was becoming morally disturbed by the level of gruesome violence on the show. (75.16.241.13 (talk) 05:55, 11 December 2007 (UTC))

• I think the series itself reflect this strongly, not just the violence, but the tragic inevidability of how the violence comes to exist, by the constant struggle by the BAU team themselves not to go out of their minds. For the rest, physical violence has almost become normal on television (comparing CM to the average action movie I'd say CM is actually quite low on it), it is the psychological violence and the amount of reality that can make the series quite disturbing... and that is not just a bad thing I might add, because the series usually strongly humanises the unsubs...which makes us remember not only that theyre not such bad people, but also that it could happen to anyone, including ourselves --Daraku no Tenshi (talk) 17:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

• • Citation from the Criminal Minds site: Patinkin says this show "has worn me down. It is physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting." --Daraku no Tenshi (talk) 20:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Psychological Aspect

"Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself." - I think it should say that it focusses on the psychology behind the criminal/unsub, since in most shows it is an important theme how a human turns into, for instance a serial killer. I feel this series in fact empathizes strongly with the unsubs, often reflecting that they became what they are not by choice but by their own tragic past. One of the most typifying quotes from the series I believe came from Hotch when he said that mostly the criminals they catch view back on them (BAU) as the only ones who ever really understood them. --Daraku no Tenshi (talk) 17:18, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Season 2 Dual Release Dates

"October 2, 2007 | March 6, 2008". What does this mean? I apologize if I just can't see it, but I think there should be some kind of clarification as to why Season 2 Region 1 has two release dates. Is it being re-released? If so, is it being released on high definition optical disc? Is it just another DVD? More bonus features? What's the deal?
-Sana (talk) 21:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Well I just did some research on tvshowsondvd.com and I didn't find anything, so I removed this second release date. Perhaps someone intended to place it under Region 2...
-Sana (talk) 15:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 16:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)