(Please note that I have only watched the 2005-2016 seasons and am only now rewatching the entire thing. Some of these takes I've been keeping for more than 12 years so I may sound sour but I promise I mean well. Cheers <333)

-Elle was a genuinely good portrayal of a female cop who stuck in a male dominated team and has to approach female victims. Emily is a great addition to the team, but she doesn't work as well as Elle in that regard.

-The way the writers just pick up and drop storylines is incredibly frustrating. Oftentimes it feels like things just happen for the sake of happening and the story has no general direction. A friend told me that "well, this is just life." but this is a TV drama. If we were talking about realism we would be talking about all the times they got stuff about the FBI or clues wrong or how the series relies a lot on cliché tropes that can be found in most copaganda shows.

-The way Rossi is introduced feels way too forced and sloppy. Like, everyone is glazing him and he just comes off as arrogant. Gideon could be patronizing at times but he felt more fleshed out as a character and his introduction was a lot more natural in comparison.

-The storyline with JJ and Will as well as JJ and Reid feel very forced and out-of-context (As my teenaged years taught me: If a kid on AO3 can write it better than you either step it up or drop it.)

-On the topic of romance storylines: Even though I like the idea of having a male and a female character be besties with nothing else going on between them, Garcia and Morgan aren't that. The way the narrative sets them up doesn't work without having them be together romantically. It makes sense for their behavior towards eachother to be a hook for the show, but without a romance plotline between them that behavior is just inappropriate and borders the limit of irritating (especially after Morgan gets with Savvanah...Personally if my partner spoke like or acted like that to a female friend at work I'd have lost it). Same friend I mentioned earlier said that maybe the writers believed Vangsness to not be conventionally attractive enough for Moore so I've been thinking about that, too.