You know, I give a lot of crap to the writing on Criminal Minds because of its general terribleness, but now that the season is over, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the decent writing being done somewhere along the line in the production.
Take a look at the letter that I'd assumed was the corpse's suicide note from episode 106: Devotion.
So someone actually sat down and wrote something - that alone is worthy of applause. What's even better is that the letter actually reads well:
Dear Dad,
Can you say goodbye to somebody when you've never really gotten to know them? I wonder because this feels a lot like a goodbye to me.
Lucky Number Ten. It's always been my lucky number but it almost feels like the universe laughing at me . Poor Tami. She sends another letter and it comes back with that angry RETURN TO SENDER finger pointing right in her face.
I won't write after this unless you write back. I don't want money or anything, I just want you to acknowledge that you know I'm out here. I'm out here and I'm part of you and I'm writing and writing and writing-
(cut off) write back.
Love,
Tami
See? While certainly not Valerie or anything I'll remember in a week or two, it's certainly a perfectly good example of in-character writing, and far more competent than I've come to expect from Criminal Minds.
So great work, whoever made that prop! You deserve a raise! Or to get hired on a better show, if Suspect Behavior was cancelled between me writing this and now.
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