Why I Do Not Read the Jacket Copy, #446

[mrissa]

"Joining them this season is Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster), who quickly learns there's nothing these agents would rather do than profile murderers and put them away!" -- the DVD box for my new Season 2 Criminal Minds DVDs

Now tell me honestly: isn't that on the list of lamest things ever? Seriously. It makes it sound like Mandy Patinkin is skipping around the plane singing, "We're gonna get a murderer, we're gonna get a murderer, wheeeee!"

Having tried to write synopses (shudder), I have some sympathy for the folks whose job it is to write these little thumbnails, but for heaven's sake.

Comments

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

EEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!

"New team member Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) joins the team in their single-minded dedication to profiling and capturing murderers."

Better?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

The other thing that sticks for me is "Um. What *else* would they be doing at work? It's like if Ethan Hawke joined a fishing boat crew, and quickly learned that there's nothing these fishermen would rather do than cast the net and catch fish!"

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

That's just ... ow.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge crank about it, but I did want to mention: there's a bit of a movement afoot among persons with handicaps to have people regard "that's so lame" as rather akin to "that's so gay".

Just a small thing, I know, but I thought I'd mention. Won't judge you if you decide not to adopt the shift, either. :)

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Don't these agents have hobbies?

[katallen.livejournal.com]

::giggles at Mandy::

So nearly and vaguely correct yet still completely and utterly wrong -- for multiple meanings and levels of wrong.

[I think I'd be more attracted by something along the lines of -- In season two, the team is joined by Emily Prentis, who quickly learns that there's much more to the job than putting murders away.]