Okay, everyone, LAST time to gather together to watch one last unsub being taken down, tomorrow nite. I don't want to call it a "watch party" as it's too somber to call it a "party."
How about just a "gathering"?
I fell out of watching when I had a class I was teaching, and it became a "chore" to watch the episodes piling up on my DVR. That's always a sign to me now that a series has lost something, and if I keep putting it off for something better, then the show has gone downhill for me. And it did after Morgan & Hotch were gone.
Yet, this show has been a large part of our TV lives. Many of us got hooked after watching some marathon weekends of watching many episodes in a row or several nights in a row. The first
real "binge watching," before that was even a term.
We've seen 15 seasons of TV unsubs being taken down. Many based upon composites of real FBI unsubs. We know, in real life, to not walk too close to vans that look like kidnap vans, or to assist people who look like they need help placing stuff in one, lest we be nabbed.
We know not to stay in weird, roadside inns, off the beaten path.
And we have a whole list of "Things NOT to do," which have kept us safe.
And we've gotten to know the BAU team and followed them on their own journeys. (And have seen a revolving door of members in the last few seasons.) While some of their storylines seem to have been recycled one too many times lately.
Thus signaling, it's time to go. They risked their lives to keep us safe, in the TV world, and taught us about dangers we never knew we wanted to learn about.
The remaining, original members of the Team deserve a good send off. Let's give them that.
For you guys in western time zones, you can watch "time shifted," as Robinb calls it on the "Dancing With the Stars," threads. It's when she & others watch later. They read the posts along with and only up to where they are in the story, watching along, later, in their own time zones. Yet simply responding to posts as they read along as though we are all posting in time together. And not reading ahead.
And we on the east coast will try not to post spoiler type posts.
Wheels up in 22 hours for East Coasters.
Wheels up in 25 hours for West Coasters.