This is a great topic. With all the "great names" and "beloved characters" you tend to forget that it's the small parts that are essential to creating the episode, too. I really loved the neighbour in "What Fresh Hell" - he was totally believeable. I can't really comment whether they have disappeared in S7 (haven't seen any of it), but I do think there's a tendency for those characters to vanish once the regular cast becomes "more interesting" than the plot. This has, in some part, happened to Criminal Minds like most others shows with a couple of seasons on their track record.
I think one wonderful bit player was the Secretary in P911, when they question her about which children have left school at the end of last year and she couldn't remember. She finally does give them helpful info, but before she knows it, the team is gone...
I really liked the hooker in "Memoriam", too - she went from "hitting" on him to having her curiosity piqued by his comment. Though I'm not sure if Reid being so oblivious is also because he is preoccupied with the case. He's not even really into the game he's playing (I think it's Black Jack?) Another character from "The Instincs/Memoriam" would be Diane's doctor. He seemed like the grandfather type you'd trust with your secrets.
I also really liked the tech girl from "Lo-Fi/Mayhem". Her part was a bit more than a "bit", but I like how she worked so well with Garcia and how Garcia seemed to mother her and try to help her deal with all the awful things she sees - and all of it wasn't some huge drama, just acknowledgement that this is part of the job, too. Also in this category of a bit more than a bit would probably be Steven Culp's Lawyer from Tabula Rasa - he was amazing the charocal-grey scene is one of my favorites, ever.
One actress who really worked the one scene (actually, it was two, but one important one) she had was the girl in "The Popular Kids" who confided in Gideon that the kids had seen the tourist decompose for months.
The Landlady from "Scared to Death" who calls in about her missing tenant was fantastic, too. Just the kind of lady you'd think would REALLY keep track of her tenants.
I'll have to do some thinking about this, maybe I can come up with a few more :)
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Date: Feb. 6th, 2012 08:26 pm (UTC)I think one wonderful bit player was the Secretary in P911, when they question her about which children have left school at the end of last year and she couldn't remember. She finally does give them helpful info, but before she knows it, the team is gone...
I really liked the hooker in "Memoriam", too - she went from "hitting" on him to having her curiosity piqued by his comment. Though I'm not sure if Reid being so oblivious is also because he is preoccupied with the case. He's not even really into the game he's playing (I think it's Black Jack?) Another character from "The Instincs/Memoriam" would be Diane's doctor. He seemed like the grandfather type you'd trust with your secrets.
I also really liked the tech girl from "Lo-Fi/Mayhem". Her part was a bit more than a "bit", but I like how she worked so well with Garcia and how Garcia seemed to mother her and try to help her deal with all the awful things she sees - and all of it wasn't some huge drama, just acknowledgement that this is part of the job, too. Also in this category of a bit more than a bit would probably be Steven Culp's Lawyer from Tabula Rasa - he was amazing the charocal-grey scene is one of my favorites, ever.
One actress who really worked the one scene (actually, it was two, but one important one) she had was the girl in "The Popular Kids" who confided in Gideon that the kids had seen the tourist decompose for months.
The Landlady from "Scared to Death" who calls in about her missing tenant was fantastic, too. Just the kind of lady you'd think would REALLY keep track of her tenants.
I'll have to do some thinking about this, maybe I can come up with a few more :)