She is joining, why did Penelope leave Criminal Minds?

Even with the ratings being up this season, Criminal Minds ended its long run with a series finale that concluded the stories of its characters after fifteen seasons.You may be wondering why their stories ended the way they did after they crossed the finish line.

This is what happened before the end of the show.The BAU was left to work at a non-profit when Criminal Minds ended.The BAU went to a farewell party to say goodbye to their friend and colleague.Speaking to CinemaBlend's Nick Venable, Criminal Minds' showrunner,Erica Messer, talked about the ending of the show.

If you take a look at our entire team, you say, 'If this character leaves, what are they doing?'It feels like if that character leaves, then this one should leave as well.It's like a domino effect.I really don't want everyone leaving.We can imagine, because we've had 325 cases to compare, that this team gets another case, and they get on the jet, but we will never know what that case was.The team is going to keep fighting the good guys and the bad guys, right?The heart of the show is the high-tech room with all her little tchotchkes around her, that's the thing that looks different in a lot of ways.I could handle it in a weird way, like I would say, "I'm gonna use my skills for good, and I'll go over here to some other people who need my help right now."It made sense to me.

It's a big change for the team.She was more than a computer expert, she was the heart of the team.The conversations surrounding the ending of the show included the fact that Garcia was asked out by a man.She accepted his invitation to go on a date.

The Criminal Minds boss has thoughts on why the BAU member decided to leave and work for a non-profit.After years of fighting the darkness, the character decided to shift her attention elsewhere.On the choice of the BAU member to leave.

It was another move on the part of the man.She said that seeing the darkness in the world took a toll on her, and that her skill set doesn't have to be for that.It can be done for other things as well.I'm going to do that instead.I want you to believe that this team still exists and that they are still fighting the good fight.In a place we'll never see, Garcia is doing the same thing.It was important to believe that it would continue.The good guys can't stop being good because the bad guys are going to keep being bad.They have to keep going.That's where it was born.

Criminal Minds found a way to revisit the past as Reid contemplated his future, as part of his ending storyline.It wouldn't includeJJ in a romantic capacity.During the series finale, he spent some time unconscious.It will do that if you face a near-fatal injury.

It was up to Reid to decide: life or death.He also had to make other choices.In the series finale of Criminal Minds, the parallels between the two main characters were explained by the show's creator.

In the second season of the show, he was held by James Van der Beek's character and given drugs that made him go unconscious.He had weird memories that he was holding onto.It felt like an acknowledgment of that, which we'd set up with the character hundreds of episodes ago, and just following through with.Both of them were making major decisions in their lives.It's also with 'Am I gonna live?'What will I do if I live?I don't know if I will keep doing what I do.Am I going to teach?Is there another place I need to go?It was very helpful to the things that he was thinking about.