[ SECRET POST #2292 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2292 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Criminal Minds]


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07.
[Zero Escape]


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08. [repeat]


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09.
[Veronica Mars]


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10.
[Mariqueen Maandig/How to Destroy Angels]


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12.
[Fire Emblem Awakening]


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14. [SPOILERS for Teen Wolf]



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15. [SPOILERS for Walking Dead]



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16. [SPOILERS for Walking Dead]



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17. [SPOILERS for Walking Dead]



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18. [SPOILERS for Hell on Wheels]



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19. [WARNING for rape]



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20. [WARNING for guro, non-con]
http://i.imgur.com/1TrlMId.jpg


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #327.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What were the reasons?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have inside info or anything, but essentially, CBS didn't want to pay Paget Brewster. They don't want to spend money on the show so they keep jerking around people and firing cast members they think cost too much.

It's weird because it's not like Criminal Minds is an unpopular show - it's not a ratings behemoth anymore but it's at least a workhorse and it's going to kick ass in syndication for them, so while it is at the end of its natural life span, I don't understand why they'd want to play hardball with people. It's very strange. Again though I'm not too well versed in the whole situation

[(Anonymous)]

I had not heard/read that! This is one of those shows where I watch but know next to nothing about the behind the scenes stuff. Was this jerking around people the reason AJ Cook left for awhile?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that is exactly the reason.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, isn't that old hat by now? That whole thing went down the first time PB (and AJ Cook) left the show (though if I remember rightly PB didn't actually want to come back but CBS forced her back through a loophole in her contract), but this time she left the show because she wanted to do something else. Or was fed-up with CBS, which really, no one could blame her for.

[elephantinegrace]

Basically, CBS got the money to produce a spinoff called Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior by firing Brewster and Cook (Prentiss and Jareau). The spinoff ran for one season before being canceled, so both women came back. Then Brewster decided she wanted to focus on comedies instead, so she quit the show. Then I stopped watching because Emily's my favorite character. As far as I know, JJ's still on the show.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't believe that Paget Brewster wanted to focus on comedies and that her departure wasn't related to some degree to corporate bullshit from CBS.

It doesn't make sense that way.

[dantesspirit]

JJ is still on the show as of this current season.

[loracarol]

(I know the secret's about Emily, but JJ and Emily's issues are really tied together, so please forgive me for talking about both of them.)

JJ and Emily were both let go of the show, with claims that they were costing the show too much. However, given that they were 2/3 of the main, reoccuring female characters on the show (I don't really count Strauss, because while she's there, she's not part of the official team), rumors circulated that they were being let go because they were the two female characters (or they were when I was watching.) I... I kind of believe them? And that tends to color my judgement. Mostly because they also have Thomas Gibson, and Joe Mantegna (sp?) and I'll be switched if they don't get a higher raise, given their acting history.

(It pissed off the writers, and the actors, who thought it was all bullshit, but executives gonna execute. I remember JJ's "last" episode being really good, and being a middle finger to the executives, but it's been a while since I watched it, so...)

Anyhoozle, they got fired, and then they hired a new female character, but no one liked her, and then they brought both JJ and Emily back (Emily had faked her death, rather then actually die, as had been assumed), only then Paget Brewster decided she didn't want to stick around (and who could blame her?), so she left again as soon as she could. It was all a bit of a mess, really.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2010/06/14/criminal-minds-drops-a-j-cook/
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a228895/criminal-minds-stars-slam-aj-cook-axe.html