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What you're describing sounds less compelling as an actual honest to goodness team and more compelling as something akin to eddv's team where he stylized it as a buncha guys meeting up at the farplane or whatever sharing their stories, which iirc you said you would've docked points on eddv for had you interpreted it that way.

Not a knock though. Definitely see some merit in a story that's structured more like that. Where they're sorta doing their own thing and then it all clicks together.

I still think it's a lot better with more direct contrasts, though. Like, Batman not picking up on a clue because he didn't bother to investigate Gypsy which happened to be a clue doesn't have the same oomph as Batman not picking up on a clue because his mindset directly opposed the method or point of investigation-- like Batman wouldn't necessarily be opposed to investigating Gypsy, he just didn't bother to cause he didn't notice it was potentially important at the time, which is a subtle difference that means a lot to me. Which is why, as I said, I did quite like the idea of Batman and Constantine as a team-up, because there are large swaths of investigative methods and beliefs with zero overlap there, it's very easy.

It's just when you line up all 8, it becomes tougher and tougher to juggle the idea that only Detective 7 out of 8 could have got this clue, and only Detective 5 out of 8 could have got this clue, and that all 8 clues were necessary to solve the puzzle. It may not literally be Criminal Minds if written well, but if not written exceptionally well it can easily become the actions not words version of it, if you're not careful.
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