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But it's one thing if you time travel with a machine that calculates the point in space-time to make the person end up in the "same" location. That requires the exact space coordinates of the location you are travelling from, and then a computer can pretty easily calculate what coordinates that would be in the time you are traveling to. In this case, Gordon didn't want to travel from the coordinates he was currently at (out in space). And he also didn't know the exact coordinates of the place he wanted to travel to, neither in his time or the past time. All he had was a photo. How did the time travel event "know" which space coordinates to send him to?
So no, that excuse doesn't fly. I don't remember exactly how the time travel worked in the season 2 ending, but if it worked the same way it was also wrong.
Listen to your to words: "How time travel worked." Teleporting is not time travel, it's teleporting. Yeah, it was said once without explanation. So we are to believe that, based on some photo on a phone, he could think of an exact location in the space-time continuum, to make him teleport to a safe location landing on his feet instead of ending somewhere in space or 100 meters above or below ground. It's ridiculously unrealistic. Worst MacGuffin I've seen.
Unfortunatenly, this episode suffered from not addressing the ridiculuously big plot hole. How on Earth did Gordon end up on Earth? So we are to believe, for no reason and not even mentioned in the episode, that when the time travel event happened, he was also safely teleported to Earth instead of ending up in empty space. It was enough make-believe to have time travel logic that made him go to a place in time he was thinking of recently or whatever lame excuse they had, but to also teleport him?
I know it's not just me being bored with the show in general due to seeing so many episodes, because I have rewatched the first few seasons a couple of times, and they are still entertaining in a way the later seasons aren't. Feels like the hunt and the unsub is the focus. Most episodes were good. The mediocre or boring ones were the ones that were revolving around team members, which btw all of the seasons endings seem to be about, a new team member every time or the whole of BAU. For some reason they think something happening to the team members are the most exciting thing that can happen. I can't speak for other viewers but to me that's totally boring and not why I'm watching the show. I actually couldn't care less for the team members, Garcia is an absolute nuisance and the others are just meh... I can't understand how people can find them interesting. I simply do not care about them or their private lives. Other shows, I care about the characters, here I don't care if they die or not, doesn't bother me one bit. The only character I really cared about on criminal minds were that Elle chick that were in the first 2 seasons.
These days I sometimes skip a few minutes here or there if it's not related to the episode's unsub. If I could, I'd watch each episode stripped from everything but the case.
This show's really gone down the drain. There's no more "criminal minds", just personal stories and lame ridiculous villain archs, and then some 10 minutes effective time that actually deals with this episode's unsub. And in this episode they managed to outdone themselves in writing a baffingly bad serial killer case. What killer would come up with such a moronic plot? Killing everyone with needle, except one person with food, not realizing the feds would check the food he ate, where it came from and who prepared it?
Please cancel this show already. I can't take it anymore but have to see every new episode since I've seen them all from start. Save me from this nightmare.
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