I'm writing a paper on the female characters of Criminal Minds!

[x-forgetromeo.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to get a survey going so that I can get a good idea on a direction for this paper, so can we have a discussion post on female characters? 

What I need for my paper:

• Your gender
• Your age (an age bracket is fine if you're not comfortable giving a solid number)
• Your views on Elle, JJ, Garcia, Prentiss, Seaver, and Haley Hotchner: Do you like/feel indifferent to/dislike/hate any of them? Why? 

Otherwise, let's just have a free-for-all discussion on female characters of the CM verse. :) 

(Also, my laptop monitor is dead, so I might be slow replying to people, but I really appreciate anyone who comments.)

Mods? I'm super hoping this is okay. I didn't see anything against it in the rules, and it's technically a discussion post?

Comments

Re: I HAVE OPINIONS, OKAY.

[ms-creant.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember something about when the contracts were up to be renewed, JJ and Prentiss were being cut because "they couldn't afford it", while the men of the show were being offered raises. That's sort of a first sign.
So, now they're completely removed JJ, they haven't been shy about pushing Prentiss out, and my understanding is Garcia is now on the spin-off, which at least looks like they're trying to push her to exist in that realm, and not the prime. The only female then is Seaver, a character who's still in school.
So...man-heavy Boys' Club just kicked out all the girls.

Re: I HAVE OPINIONS, OKAY.

[beatriceeagle.livejournal.com]

Ah. Yeah, I can see where you got that. Those were all decisions made by CBS, the studio. Bernero, Mirren, and Messer--the creative minds behind CM, the actual "heads" of CM, so to speak--did not want to cut JJ, do not want to cut Prentiss, and did not want to replace JJ. Those were all decisions forced onto them by the network (if you watch "JJ" with that in mind, it's very clear that they let her go very, very unwillingly, and were pissed at the network) and not really things the show and the people behind it are at fault for.

Re: I HAVE OPINIONS, OKAY.

[ms-creant.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, I know nothing about hierarchy in the film (specifically television), so there was my confusion. In my happy world in my head, they're all the same people. My bad.