"The show began with 3 female characters. Going to 4 would make it reverse top heavy. It would not fit with the ratio of law enforcement or what has worked all this time. "
You do realize that sounds horribly misogynistic, right? Having an equal number of women and men on the should wouldn't make it reverse top heavy at all, considering the fact that Garcia and JJ barely had a few minutes of screentime anyway. Also, this is a TV show, the real BAU doesn't work in teams of seven, so skew the ratio of men to women slightly wouldn't be the hardest thing to swallow. Rossi didn't exactly fit in right away, either but they didn't drop him after a season.
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Date: May. 29th, 2011 07:32 am (UTC)You do realize that sounds horribly misogynistic, right? Having an equal number of women and men on the should wouldn't make it reverse top heavy at all, considering the fact that Garcia and JJ barely had a few minutes of screentime anyway. Also, this is a TV show, the real BAU doesn't work in teams of seven, so skew the ratio of men to women slightly wouldn't be the hardest thing to swallow. Rossi didn't exactly fit in right away, either but they didn't drop him after a season.