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On 5/11/2017 at 6:05 PM, ReidFan said:On 5/11/2017 at 5:48 PM, Droogie said:
Real bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
This. So much this. Some of y'all know me from other sites. My "signature" on a few of the sites is "Courage cannot erase our fear, courage is when we face our fear" from Seize the Day in Newsies the Musical. The character who sings that is Davey. Spencer and Davey are very much alike (might explain why they are both my favorite characters). Davey reminds me a lot of Reid. Or visversa as David/Davey has been around a lot longer than Spencer if you include the actual movie. . .ANYWAYS ...Reid has shown that aspect of himself tenfold.
While I do think Spencer has grown, as almost anyone would in 12 years, I think his bravery has always been there. Yes, he typically uses his words and massive brain to one up an unsub or in one famous scene, an unsub's father, who in my opinion was far more evil than his daughter.
While I don't necessarily want him to become a "physical-first" type of person (no idea how to word what I'm thinking), it is nice to know when "push comes to shove (no pun intended) " he can hold his own.
On 5/11/2017 at 6:03 PM, normasm said:Just have to re-post this because you nailed it, Droogs!
he has always been a badass!
One of my favorite "tv tropes" is Badass Bookworm. And yes, they list that for Reid. Lol.
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Another title Reid might have . . .
Hopefully not from that ***** ...it definitely wouldn't have been consensual or he could've been stolen from.
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57 minutes ago, MMC said:
Nor am I. But at this point in time I was just so relieved as well as overjoyed seeing that beautiful man out of those awful prison clothes and finally being sprung from that hell hole that I really didn't give a damn which team member had been sent to fetch him. All I cared about was that he was finally out.
I also agree with you about Garcia. I can abide her when as you say she's not acting like a middle school kid, otherwise I tend to find her somewhat irritating.
Oh trust me, I was so relieved to see him out of prison, I didn't really care who was there. I just found that bit with the hugs very nice.
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I loved this episode, a solid "A" from me. :) I could talk about a lot of things, but one thing i'll mention is that though I'm really not a JJ fan (don't wish her harm, she's just not a character I care for much) and am only a Garcia fan when she's not acting like a middle school kid, I absolutely LOVED the fact that Reid could hug both of them. If memory serves, both attempted to hug him in "Spencer," and he couldn't hug back because of the handcuffs and the first things he does upon release in Greenlight is hug them both.
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13 minutes ago, ReidFan said:
Is anyone else bawling?
"let's get my mom back"
I'm a sobbing mess.
yep yep
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2 hours ago, Danielg342 said:
Call me crazy but I'd welcome that. This team has operated flawlessly and harmoniously for far too long, with the only real adversity it ever faced being in "It Takes A Village". I would think that a team that has had as much turnover as the BAU has had over the past six years (including the need to hire a new Section Chief and a new Unit Chief) as well as a villain that effected some of that turnover, impacted one team member and sidelined another would have quite a lot of adversity to contend with.
The potential is there for the team to be coming apart at the seams with Emily forced to do everything she can to keep it together but...nada.
Yeah, maybe it's just "drama for the sake of drama" but I think after 11 seasons, the show should at least explore things it hasn't. Like real intra-team adversity.
That's cool, that's your opinion, but I think we'll just have to disagree. :) After all, it would be super boring if everyone agreed on everything. My reasoning is that for the team to not function as a team, would mean, the eventuality of innocents paying for that lack of teamwork. This team, isn't like a lot of jobs where intra-team conflict causes headaches. Intra-team conflict in this team could mean disaster. For you, this opportunity (intra team drama) would be a welcomed change, for me, I wouldn't like it. Now, if they disagreed on procedure, and the like, that would be one thing (like I said above, always agreeing on everything is boring, after all! :) ), but to doubt someone's innocence, for me, would be totally different.*shrugs*
No biggie and it's a moot point in any case as it didn't happen. :)
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3 minutes ago, Danielg342 said:
I love this, all of it. You could even throw in Emily trying to be a "middle ground" between these two factions and try to keep their disagreements cordial when all of them have a lot of anger boiling underneath. It could have been a real testament to her leadership skills.
More to this point, but we could have had the old guard wonder if Reid was going down the same path, with the newbies believing that Reid is. Perhaps some of the old guard might even get reflective themselves and wonder if they're close to going down that same dark edge that took out Jason Gideon and nearly took out Hotch.
Hmm, while that may be interesting for you snd all the power to you if this floats your boat, I'd still have to say, it would ruin the arc for me. Not to be rude, I like that the newbies don't question Reid's innocence. To me, that would mean, they also question the team and the collective "smart" of the team. I mean, if they think Reid was capable of murder, and that the BAU members who knew him for at least a decade can't see that, then the newbies would be wondering how the older members were so fooled or didn't see it coming. There wouldn't be any trust in the team. Thus, there wouldn't be a team, at least a useful team.
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1 hour ago, secnarf said:
Even in these scenarios - with overwhelming evidence or self/other-defense that can't be proven - I can't buy that the team wouldn't believe him if he says he didn't do it, or would believe he killed someone out of malice or selfishness when he claims self-defense or defending someone else.
This. I still wouldn't buy it given the new scenarios, please no offence meant, Daniel.
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1 hour ago, Danielg342 said:
Random thought: what if the Reid arc was written to have the team believe he was guilty, with only Reid knowing he was framed? Would that make the arc more palatable?
Not to demean you or your opinion at all, but besides Matthew's superb acting skills, the knowledge that his team has full faith in Reid and his innocence, is what's making this arc watchable for me. Favorite character or not, I think I would lose interest in CM if his team, especially the older members of it, didn't know him enough to think he was capable of murder. Yes, they might could have believed he was drugged into it, but still, that would've been mostly out of his control.
Just my two cents though :)
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1 hour ago, normasm said:
Ooooh, Lindsey Vaughn? Why would she do anything to hurt him? Or help him, for that matter? Interesting. Plus, god I'm so glad to see Diana visiting Spencer. If anyone can get him to fight, maybe it is she.
Yeah, I'm excited about the next episode and the 2-part season finale :) I know Lindsay changed her name to Katie at the end of 3rd Life, but she easily could go back to it (and apparently has, given the character's name Gia is credited with.
Why she would target Reid? My guess, she's bat- crazy. Maybe she saw him as trying to interfere with her wishes for the unsub teen to be killed (even though it didn't work and he was killed anyways). Or something led Scratch to her and she's under his influence.
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49 minutes ago, Aethera said:
You don't have to put stuff in this thread in spoiler tags, it's all spoilers here. :)
I wish I had as good a memory as y'all do about past events. I had to go look up it up, because I'd totally forgotten that Aubrey Plaza was the hitwoman, and then I immediately got excited for that idea. I will say though, if she does come back, I'd prefer she were on her own instead of with Scratch, or that she'd get the best of Scratch in some way.
Ah. Ok. Honestly, I just copied and pasted my post from a different site I had just written the idea and it copied the spoiler tags.
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Press Release is up:
And new theory on the woman Reid sees killing the doctor:
Guys. . .what if the mysterious woman unsub Scratch is using is Lindsey Vaughn (Gia Mantegna)? You know, the girl from 3rd Life? She's in this and we know that case impacted Reid!
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1 minute ago, ReidFan said:
hmmm I just rewatched A Beautiful Disaster.....that lovely, emotional, touching, heartrending goodbye between Reid and Morgan.
It would be absolutely criminal if they neglect to touch on this relationship in the episode in which Shemar is guest starring. It's absolutely imperative that he's there for *Reid*, first and foremost. Much more than the Baby Girl stuff with Garcia.
AMEN. I have to believe they will have a brother moment, anything less is tantamount to criminal in my opinion.
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3 minutes ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
Her name is actually Dr. Sarah Reese. They bend the HIPAA rules all the time on television shows. I've just come to expect it.
Boden clearly knew. It was obvious when they were in their interview with their supervisor (I assume that was Hatcher? I didn't catch his name). And if Hatcher didn't also know, then he's oblivious, because they were horrible liars. That definitely has to be the reason why they are going to re-training.
Thanks, I couldn't remember it. She isn't a favorite of mine and I need to catch up with most of the episodes this year. I close a lot on Thursdays at my job.
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2 hours ago, Xantar said:
The taking a knee issue is way bigger than we can address in this thread, and it will also probably get too much into real-life political issues. I'll just say that one can support the troops and not feel obligated to say the Pledge of Allegiance in school. The military is not the same thing as the country.
True. I'm pro-both but that's all I'll say (and wouldn't have said this much had it not been a topic on the episode lest it veer off outside of the episode constraints). I don't like it when shows try to make points from controversial news issues, it tends to get way over simplified and somewhat loopsided on the part of whatever the writers feel is the right side.
Anyways, another thing I liked was seeing Reese (???) from CMED. I need to catch up on that show. I did question whether she had the right to tell Casey as much as she did, even as little as it was during the detox scene. Maybe she was given permission to do so.
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I won't comment on the military aspect other than to say I'm very pro-military and leave it there and didn't care for the knee subplot. It seemed that they were trying to cash in on the controversial issues. I don't typically like it when any show tries that. *shrugs*
I didn't have an issue with Casey breaking the window. As someone else pointed out, he did have a right, even an obligation, to do that. Kids die in overheated cars way too often. There's also been cases, one of which near where I live, where a child died locked in a car who froze to death. So, I didn't have an issue with him breaking the window.
I, like many others, don't like Gabby (I wish she and Criminal Minds' JJ would disappear together somewhere far away). Do the writers take pleasure in making her such a caricature of a mary sue? Even when she somewhat gets in trouble, it's played for laughs (at least, that's what the retraining announcement seemed to be, for me).
Not so sure if Casey should've done the whole fire/police thing at the end. I do have a 18 year-old niece who I would do anything to protect (and her 12 year-old brother and sister as well an 3 year-old niece), thankfully they all have good heads on their shoulders, as the saying goes. I loved Casey trying to help, but I wonder if it's going to be a hindrance instead.
As for the trainee, I liked his heart, shall I say. What I mean, is that, I liked he was willing to train. There was something endearing about him. True, he was an idiot with the CPR thing, but I liked something about him. I did wonder if either the actor or the character had something going on with his seemingly stilted speech. He reminded me of a dear friend whom is autistic. NOT making fun of it at all, just an observation.
Benny annoyed me, but I think that was the point of him in this episode.
What is up with Anna? That seemed to be quite the attitude change. My town doesn't get NBC very well, ever since they went digital in '08 and I wondered if I missed something with my tv fading in and out on the channel (I don't have cable so rely on broadcast tv).
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I guess we put clips in the episode thread. Mods feel free to move this if need be:
Two new clips:
More of the cognitive interview
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1 hour ago, MMC said:
Wouldn't Reid's so called eidetic memory play a part in helping him gain back his true memory much faster than it appears to be.
Not necessarily, MMC. Eidetic memory, from what I'm to understand, deals primarily with what ones reads, and, yes, sees. However, he was drugged with at least cocaine and heroin, and possibly something else that I can't recall the name of. It's doubtful, that between the drugging (whenever and however it occurred), the adrenaline and the likely terror from the tragic turn of events, that he was on the top of his game enough to store it in a reachable part of his brain. It's probably there, just locked away, if you will. Also, I don't think many, if any at all, people could resist Scratch's trickery. Reid's a genius, but not infallible. *shrugs*
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4 minutes ago, normasm said:
Am I the only one who thought about Scratch when Reid made the chemical reaction in Hell's Kitchen? The little puff of smoke? It could be that, like the people with the sage making them suggestible, Reid was exposed to the chemical smell he made in the laundry by Scratch in the hotel room? Once he smelled it (remember, he was given a job in the laundry by Shaw, told the drugs were going to be pushed through there, and sure enough, here comes the drugs), he has a reaction that was planted by Scratch. And Reid, being a Chemistry PhD, would test to see what they were. They contained what Scratch orchestrated them to contain, and Reid is now roiling in false, planted memories which continues into this week.
hmm, intriguing thought. :)
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5 minutes ago, ReidFan said:
I just rewatched it today. He scoops powder out of that box next to him (presumably the laundry detergent). He drops a few drops of clear liquid into it (Presumably bleach? ammonia?) Science experiments? We didn't see him do anything to the little packet of presumably, the cocaine.
more red herrings. and little hints. (hell, I'm grasping at any available straw now!)
Very true. Good catch :-)
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3 minutes ago, normasm said:
Oh, wow! That is a faulty recovered memory, no doubt, but poor Reid! Remember, Scratch can make people see things that aren't there, like Reid being shot in the head, etc.
Exactly, I thought of the first time the BAU had to deal with Mr. Scratch. I'm certain it's more of the same (or rather, slightly different as the first time was a present-day hallucination).
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2 minutes ago, ReidFan said:
*argh*
*rips hair out*
exactly! Hopefully Tara is able to convince him what he sees isn't the truth because there is NO way. . .
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Second Sneak Peak:
This has GOTTA be a red herring.
Reid any day now would be a very good time to get your true memory back . . .
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Spencer Reid: Gorgeous Gray Matter
in Criminal Minds
You throw it away and your beta will haunt you. J/k . . .maybe. :D
Love the Reid eyeroll icon :)