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SirenSong wrote:Speaking of CM and screencaps....and maybe squirrels ....has anyone found a legal download site for Criminal Minds episodes? I think it's STILL not offered on either iTunes or Amazon which is where I susually go for vids I want to keep. This episode will need to be preserved, after all.

Really? Why on earth wouldn't it be on those sites? MOONLIGHT was on them, for Bob's sakes, and it had barely above half the audience...

wpgrace wrote:

Fleur de Lisa wrote:

wpgrace wrote:Ya know, Fleur... you really only have to like it well enough and long enough to get to April 29, when you are sure to LOVE it (unless they kill him in some really cruel way and then I'll be so bummed... )...

... after that you can forget about it all over again... so you don't really have to get its every nuance, Sweetie...

... tho I DO admire your ardent intellectualism in pursuit of Alex enlightenment...

I do tend to put way too much though into things, don't I??? I guess the bottom line for me was why is CM so popular? And am I missing something?

And one thing I absolutely do not worry about is how the April 29th ep will fare. No worries at all about that. And if he does get 'offed'--he will be the most delicious looking corpse we will have ever seen!

I want him to live!!! Tho he does do a magnificent death scene... as in MB... tho he also did that horrendous death scene in The ManThing...

OK, if he DOES die... hoping for an MB death scene rather than a ManThing one... I'm guessing he learned from that one... still, hoping he lives...

Am I still on topic here at all?

Definitely still on topic, Grace.

You know, I've been watching a few CM to prep myself for April 29 and I have to say, the audience is supposed to hate the bad guy. You can't fall in love with a serial killer, no matter how nicer, kinder or gentler he is? If he comes across too likable and the audience ended up rooting for him to live, then he would've failed as an actor.

I love this movie "Enough" with J Lo and my favorite actor Billy Campbell from "Once and Again" TV show (with my other fave actress Sela Ward). Billy was superb as a divorce and romantic dad in O&A but in Enough, he portrayed as an abusive husband. He was so good that the audience ended up rooting that the victim wife would beat him to a pulp, which she did. So do you see my point? We're in a pickle in CM, Vincent is a bad bad bad guy. Like Marcus in The Invisible.

I love squirrels. Am I still on topic?

Yep. We are all still on-topic, though I am the last person that should be proclaiming that!

I know that I was rooting for "Jasper" on CM this past week, even though he was a killer-but he was a sympathetic character. He had a multiple personality disorder--so, how can you blame Sybil for killing people?

And in one of my fave shows, Dexter, everyone roots for Dex. So, you can have a sympathetic serial killer. But I do see your point. It will be interesting to hear how people who are not obsessed with Alex and ML view him as a bad guy (are there people like that out there?)

God, how I LOVED Once and Again--and Billy Campbell. I was devastated when they cancelled that show.

SirenSong wrote:Speaking of CM and screencaps....and maybe squirrels ....has anyone found a legal download site for Criminal Minds episodes? I think it's STILL not offered on either iTunes or Amazon which is where I susually go for vids I want to keep. This episode will need to be preserved, after all.

Interesting! CBS used to have entire episodes of ML on their site but only have short clips for CM.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/

There gotta be some on megavideo.com or fancast.com sites but it will take some digging.

OTOH, aren't there full season DVDs for sale in the stores?

Hmmm. Sounds like we need to do some researching here.

And I would think that photos would be available from the episode really soon, no?

Ooooh, 2 squirrels now.

Overdamoon wrote:

SirenSong wrote:Speaking of CM and screencaps....and maybe squirrels ....has anyone found a legal download site for Criminal Minds episodes? I think it's STILL not offered on either iTunes or Amazon which is where I susually go for vids I want to keep. This episode will need to be preserved, after all.

Interesting! CBS used to have entire episodes of ML on their site but only have short clips for CM.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/

There gotta be some on megavideo.com or fanvideo.com sites but it will take some digging.

OTOH, aren't there full season DVDs for sale in the stores?

Full seasons are for sale, but I haven't been able to find where you can download a single episode....legally.

It is really odd which shows are available for download and which aren't. The Mentalist isn't available for download either. Again, not on Amazon or iTunes at least.

Weird, huh?

As for promo photos, I think we already got what we're going to get. I don't think CBS generally releases any more closer to air time. We'll have to rely on someone screencapping the promo once it starts running. Not great quality usually, but at least it's something, right?

Yes, SS. It is something. And we, as ML fans, are used to being happy with what little we can get.

Thanks for checking on the downloads, etc. One would think that with the huge poplularity of The Mentalist, that would at least be available to download. Then again, sometimes TPTB decisions make no sense to me.

SirenSong wrote:

Overdamoon wrote:

SirenSong wrote:Speaking of CM and screencaps....and maybe squirrels ....has anyone found a legal download site for Criminal Minds episodes? I think it's STILL not offered on either iTunes or Amazon which is where I susually go for vids I want to keep. This episode will need to be preserved, after all.

Interesting! CBS used to have entire episodes of ML on their site but only have short clips for CM.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/

There gotta be some on megavideo.com or fanvideo.com sites but it will take some digging.

OTOH, aren't there full season DVDs for sale in the stores?

Full seasons are for sale, but I haven't been able to find where you can download a single episode....legally.

It is really odd which shows are available for download and which aren't. The Mentalist isn't available for download either. Again, not on Amazon or iTunes at least.

Weird, huh?

As for promo photos, I think we already got what we're going to get. I don't think CBS generally releases any more closer to air time. We'll have to rely on someone screencapping the promo once it starts running. Not great quality usually, but at least it's something, right?

One correction. It was supposed to be fancast.com, not fanvideo.com in my previous post.
They're showing full episodes of Dollhouse, Numb3rs, NCIS, all the CSI's, Harper's Island, Cupid .. but not CM. And no The Mentalist either. Maybe it's up to the individual show distributors.
http://www.fancast.com/
http://www.fancast.com/full_episodes

Harper's Island is good. Jill Blotevogel (from ML) is the writer for HI.

Fleur de Lisa wrote:Then again, sometimes TPTB decisions make no sense to me.

Oh Fleur, you are the queen of understatement today!

*wiping tears of mixed mirth and fury out of my eyes*

Fleur de Lisa wrote:
God, how I LOVED Once and Again--and Billy Campbell. I was devastated when they cancelled that show.

Me too, fleur! I used to wear my hair like Sela Ward and have an entire wardrobe of cardigans because of the show. Are you a fan of "Thirtysomething" too? Same excellent pair of writers. Ookay, I'm definitely OT now.

allegrita wrote:

Fleur de Lisa wrote:Then again, sometimes TPTB decisions make no sense to me.

Oh Fleur, you are the queen of understatement today!

*wiping tears of mixed mirth and fury out of my eyes*

*holds Alle's hand and offers a kleenex and a cocktail* Me too Alle, me too...

Oh, man! I can't believe they don't offer single episodes of CM for download. That was something I was going to get on Amazon and put with all the eps of ML. My Alex collection.

But I don't want to buy a whole season for just one episode.

Just is not my cup of tea.

Now, where are the squirrels again?

BTW: Happy Easter to all my friends who share Alex insanity here in the US and across the globe! Love you all!

I think to be off topic is what this thread is about---being off topic!

allegrita wrote:

Fleur de Lisa wrote:Then again, sometimes TPTB decisions make no sense to me.

Oh Fleur, you are the queen of understatement today!

*wiping tears of mixed mirth and fury out of my eyes*

Tee hee. Working hard on my subtle manuevers!

Squirrels are gray.

Loved 30 Something, too.

Think that about catches me up!

I'm not quite sure why Fleur is seeing squirrels. But I have a doll for almost every occasion.

Carol~~~LMAO!!!

lisa is seeing squirrels because lisa is slightly crazy