An alternative perspective

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EDIT: This is a post for people to talk about WHY THEY WILL STILL WATCH. This isn't for people to reinterate sexism, why CBS sucks, etc. Please keep that in consideration!

I want to try something, and I'm sure it might not go over well. Mods...use your powers if you feel it right. But I think we need this here.

There are some of us, while sad AJ is leaving, who aren't going to stop watching the show. We may have thought some of the protests went too far. We may be excited for the change in team chemistry. Basically, we're gonna give it a shot.

We're also afraid that however calm and articulate we are, we'll be seen as flamers or we'll be flamed. I thought this could be the post for those of us who need to get this off our chests. Need to vent in another direction.

Feel free to be anon. I'd urge nobody to slam other fans, just talk about what they hope for season 6, why they aren't going to stop watching, etc. I don't want ANYONE ON ANY SIDE to feel insulted.

Whadda ya think?

EDIT: This is a 'Why I will watch' thread, not yet another place for people to state 'why they won't watch.'

Comments

[the-gubette.livejournal.com]

My decision not to watch isn't about me being butthurt over Em and JJ. It's because without strong female characters, I simply am no longer interested in CM anymore.

This.

I was upset at the cuts, but the thing I am most upset by is the lack of strong female characters. There was an article circulating around that said (please forgive the paraphrasing) that the author didn't want his kids growing up in a world where the strongest female character on network TV is Meredith Grey.

I know that AJ and possibly even Paget will go on and get other jobs and be successful, because they're phenomenal actresses. But I am saddened by the message it sends to viewers that female characters are at best interchangeable and at worst, disposable.

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

I would like to read this article. You wouldn't happen to have a link, would you?

Honestly, some of the comments on this post are making me D: so hard. Thanks for proving CBS right, guys. I just love the smell of internalized misogyny in the morning (well, it's evening here, but sentence had a nice ring to it).

[the-gubette.livejournal.com]

article is here (http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/popcornbiz/Criminal-Minds-Cutting-Loose-Female-Cast-Members--Isnt-That-Kinda-Wrong-96385974.html)

There's also the point that CBS just signed Charlie Sheen's 2 million PER EPISODE contract (which I'm pretty sure is more than AJ and Paget make in a season COMBINED) and yet they need to make budget cuts on CM?

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the article! It sums up a lot of my issues very well.

Not to mention the absurd amount of bank they must be giving Forrest to appear in the spinoff. The spinoff itself has only one female character who had what, three lines on the backdoor pilot?

Guys, CBS isn't sexist! Stop trying to be offended!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nextboldmove_/]

I love this: 'Stop trying to be offended!'

Other peopel co-opting things to be part of their cause. Now let's put it this way:

IT'S A TV SHOW. EVERYTHING ENDS EVENTUALLY. Even MASH ended.

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

OK!