Who the Hell are these people and what exactly is it what they do?

My guess is exactly the same thing the original BAU team does. *g* But yeah, I get your point.

I didn't find either backdoor Pilot, the NCIS one and the recent one all that gripping, though I do watch NCIS L.A. which is okay. They try to be more "undercover cops" but it's basically just a crime procedural.

What was potentially interesting to me about the team is that they have a former convict on it. Six years in St.Quentin? Possible murder? However, that same thing also took me out of it because the FBI has regulations that ensure someone like that would never be instated as agent, maybe advisor but not agent.

And cute British guy is cute but I didn't know why they did this thing with him and Prentiss there, it seemed somehow forced. It was like they met and instantly clashed.

>>What was potentially interesting to me about the team is that they have a former convict on it. Six years in St.Quentin? Possible murder? However, that same thing also took me out of it because the FBI has regulations that ensure someone like that would never be instated as agent, maybe advisor but not agent.

Same here.

They try to be more "undercover cops" but it's basically just a crime procedural.

That's kind of the vibe I got from this pilot--so they're like the BAU but more undercover and with more gadgets and assembled from people with dubious backgrounds? All the characters and their backgrounds seemed pretty forced and "BE UNIQUE OR DIE" to me.

I don't know, really. And his super-sniper skills were lol-worthy rather than impressive.

That's kind of the vibe I got from this pilot--so they're like the BAU but more undercover and with more gadgets and assembled from people with dubious backgrounds? All the characters and their backgrounds seemed pretty forced and "BE UNIQUE OR DIE" to me.

Which kind of works a bit better for NCIS because I can see how there can be different types of field agents.

And it makes sense that field agents sometimes go undercover but a BAU team are profilers and analysts. Why do they need to go undercover and seedier?

Not saying they all need a PhD in psychology or something but the current BAU team, with all their different educational and professional backgrounds, are good at analyzing. Not one has given me the impression they didn't receive training in that field.
In the same way that even the NCIS L.A. people act like agents with FBI training and regulations.

This new rag tag team has one guy where they copied his backstory straight from Rossi with the picture of the kids whose parents were murdered. It has a token woman who did some profiling but her role was so minor, it didn't make much of an impression. It has a great sniper and God knows a team of profilers really needs a good sniper. Not.

Ironically, the ex-con right now would strike me as the most qualified to profile because he has been there. But still, they should have kept in mind what kind of work the characters on this show will be doing instead of going "they need to be different and edgy".

And that the screenplay was horribly written didn't help. *sighs*


>>Cute British guy might be a reason to watch.

Not really. The character seems to be a bore except for the accent. XD

INDEED. God, it was BORING.

Not really. The character seems to be a bore except for the accent. XD

I meant it more in a "reason to watch as he's nice to look at" way. Character was incrdibly annoying.

I mean he's boring to look at, too. I know he is meant to be attractive, but IMO there's nothing interesting about his looks, you know? He looks pretty in the way a 1000 other actors look pretty, too. (Ironically it's just the same with the character. That kind of 'bad boy charme' is so clicheed that you feel you have heard his banter a hundred times from a hundred different characters before.)

I just finished watching it and was a bit bored by it, not the best episode this season at all.

Exactly. I think it was the first episode ever that I considered to just drop after ten minutes.

Forest Whitaker drives me utterly batshit (wtf is up with his eye?) and no one else on the new team even remotely interested me. Get a new idea, CBS. Enough with the spin offs already.

... is that why Forest was in an upcoming episode?