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  1. Sergio went to the same place Morgan's dog has been at all this time.
  2. There was plenty of Reid in the second half of the season. It just wasn't good or quality Reid until the last episode (at least imo). Also, I'm a bit confused. Why would Reid be mad at the FBI? He did not clear his travel, was doing illegal things with his mother, and by all accounts seemed to have murdered a woman. All the evidence was pointing towards him and it was rational to assume he was guilty. Why would the FBI have an obligation to help him out ? Reid got himself into that mess doing, like Normasm said above me, absolutely stupid things he would never do.
  3. Oh goodness around Halloween of last year there was a " Clown Epidemic" where I'm from. I'm not sure if it was going on in the whole of the US or just in certain places. I'm in southeastern Pennsylvania. People were meeting up at McDonalds to have "Clown Killing" meetings and would go " Clown Hunting" on the Schuykill river. Apparently people dressed up as clowns would pop out of cemeteries and chase people around at night... I was pretty convinced everybody had gone crazy. Utterly bizarre.
  4. This was such a sweet and entertaining story. I haven't had a child yet but I'll take JMO at her word and say you got parenthood right! In a Reid-like fashion, of course. Just out of curiosity, Reid is the actual bio dad in the story, correct? Are you planning on ever writing how that "happened?" Aka did Cat get Lindsey to rape him or was it consensual? It was such a bizarre proposition on the show the exploration of it in fanfic seems intesting. If not, I will use my imagination :) Or if Reid willingly fathered the child what the hell went down...lol I absolutely love the name Nora ! The two names Nora and Lucy are the top contenders of what I want to name my future, hypothetical daughter
  5. Hmm..this is interesting. I read some parts of cm scripts, and one whole one. How a character is supposed to react/feel is often written in the actual script. So, it seems to me that at least initially, it's the writer that decides how characters react emotionally. Which makes perfect sense, they are the story creators. However I do think directors/writers often change the scene once it's being filmed. The writer of the script is on set when filming for this very pupose. Here's a full original cm script I found: http://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/Criminal_Minds_5x02_-_Haunted.pdf If you read the script there are often descriptions of a character's emotional state. However, if you watch this episode you will see that quite a bit changed. So, I assume it's a collaboration that happens on set between the director, writer, and actor/actress. That being said, I do not blame the actors/actresses for playing a certain emotion. Their job is emoting the emotions they are told to. They are not story creators, and emotions are part of the creation of the story. I do think that the CM actors/actresses may be given input how their charcater behaves since they have been on this show a long time and people believe that the actor/actress knows the character well. That being said, I still cannot blame the actor/actress. I judge actors/actresses based on how they convey an emotion, not what emotion they are conveying. What emotion they convey should be up to the story creators. If the writers gives the actor some leeway to make their own choice, I'm still going to blame the writer because at the end if the day they are responsible for the story content, not the actor. The writer should have stepped in if the actor/actress was going somewhere wrong with a scene. I guess I view story creating as the writer's art, and just acting as the actor/actresse's art.
  6. I am still confused by the Reid poisoning drugs thing. Did he do it to knock those two gang guys who killed Delgado and were gunning for Reid out of commission? And he didn't know that so many other people were also going to take the drugs and get hurt ? Or did he want to expose everybody who was involved in the drug club? Did he do it partly for revenge also? I would not blame him at all if part of him did it for revenge. I actually kind of like that, lol, it proves he's no saint. I apologize for being so dense and not understanding!
  7. That would be awful. I don't understand. Reid has no obligation to the baby and an infant would be able to find a good, loving adoptive family immediately. Infant are extremely in demand and many people are desperate for a baby. Many families would do a much better job raising that baby than a single man with a job that causes him to be constantly away would be able to do. He wouldn't even have a claim to custody?
  8. Willowly- Sorry about mistakenly quoting you. I tried to delete it but am having technical difficulties.
  9. Oh... I didn't use Wikipedia for anything? Okay I am very very confused. :/ I have learned the hard way that Wikipedia cannot be trusted! :) EDIT: Oh my goodness I now see what Willowly's "editing" comment was in reference too. I didn't look up to read the previous posts after I was quoted by Mislav. I now understand. So sorry!
  10. In the profile they said something along the lines of "these guys want to kill as many people as possible and then commit suicide. The only reason Owen has been targeting specific targets instead of going on a rampage is because Jordan gives him something to live for." At the moment that Reid withheld the information that Owen was going to the police station and not the graveyard, Jordan already left him. So, Owen had nothing to live for. He wants to commit suicide by cop, yes, but he also wants to kill as many people as possible in the process. At least according to the profile. If Owen only wanted to hurt himself I would feel differently about the situation. But he wanted to hurt himself while taking down as many other people as possible. There were more people than the BAU in that police station. I'm sure they were alert, but nobody suspected that he would be coming to the police station. They were not super vigilant, because they had no reason to be. Please remember that Owen had automatic weapons- those things can do an extreme amount of damage in an extremely short time. If Owen managed to get into the station ( which wouldn't have been hard, it didn't seem like anybody was on lookout) they could all be dead before they even knew what was going on. Or heck, even if there were several people on lookout, Owen still probably could have mowed them down with an automatic weapon. Owen did not have a shotgun. If he did, I would feel very differently about this situation. People in the BAU are not caught off guard when it comes to tragedy. But they for sure can be unprepared when a gunman with automatic weapons waltzes into the station with the aim to kill as many people as possible, especially when members of their own team say he's going to the graveyard. I don't think it crossed anyone's mind that he would be going to the police station. Also, it wasn't just members of the BAU that were endangered but everybody else in the police station, and really anybody that got in Owen's way. I absolutely love Reid but I do believe that what he did was very wrong and very selfish. It's okay, everybody has flaws. Reid has also shown to be very selfless in pretty much every other situation. But I don't think in real life his team members would be able to get over it so easily.
  11. Oh I totally agree. I don't think he was defying orders or that he should have been reprimanded. I was saying that Morgan took an unnecessary risk to save the unsubs life. He couldn't just leave the unsub hanging there without trying to get him help of course, but he absolutely was not obligated to take that same fatal jump that the unsub did. But Morgan knew that if he didn't the unsub would for sure die, so he took the risk. I was just trying to highlight a time when Morgan risked his life for an unsub, since everybody always talks about Reid doing it but never Morgan.
  12. Okay so connecting to my previous post I have recently re-watched Elephant's memory. This is one of my all-time favorite episodes, but I noticed something different this time around that I haven't before. Before, I always thought that Reid identified himself with Owen due to his past. Reid simply felt very bad for him because he had experienced the same thing. He wanted to save him so bad so another kid wouldn't die in front of him, prompting him to take drugs. Now, I'm thinking that Reid was identifying him in the current time. Owen was dealing with his trauma by killing those who hurt him and eventually killing himself. Reid was heavily craving drugs to deal with his past trauma. The bad father, an absent parent, extreme bullying, etc are all past traumas that Reid and Owen share. Owen was succumbing to killing the same way Reid thought he was succumbing to drugs. I think Reid was making parallels to Owen in the current time. Reid also talks about how people could have prevented Owen from doing what he did the same way somebody could have made drugs less attractive to Reid if they reached out to him when he was struggling growing up. It is stated in the episode Revelations that people take drugs in order to escape. If somebody would have done something Owen wouldn't need to escape and neither would Reid. When Reid saves Owen he is saving himself. It is more of a selfish act than I previously thought. If Owen dies then he gets the ultimate "escape." Since Reid is drawing extreme parallels between themselves, this means that they have both succumbed and Reid would take drugs again. It shows that they are both really too damaged to get through life. You can see Reid squinting his eyes when he's talking to Owen. He's expecting to get shot. But he doesn't care because he knows that if Owen dies he will go back to drugs and his life will be over. He also didn't want to see another kid die in front of him. On the jet home, Hotch tells him to "catch the rest of that movie." I took this as making parallels once again. Reid said that the somebody "should have seen the signs" with Owen. This is Hotch "seeing the signs" with Reid. Now I think the confusion lies whether Reid only saved Owen because he didn't want to see another kid die in front of him again and if that kid dying in front of him was the only reason Reid wanted to go back to drugs. I am going to say "no" and that the kid dying in front of him was only a trigger. We learn more about Reid's past and why he would want to escape in this episode. Also, after Reid tells the goalpost story, he says something along the lines " Owen just wants to escape. I know what that's like." I think this is a reference to drugs. Reid wants to escape using drugs, and there are many reasons why he wants to do this besides the kid dying in front of him. Of course, he can't admit this to Hotch. I also wonder if interpretation depends on if you're a casual vs more strict viewer. Reid's drug story happened a long time ago from this episode, in season 2. All of Reid's childhood issues were even more dispersed throughout the series. So, they give the " he didn't want another kid to die in front of him" angle so the episode makes sense in isolation to the casual viewer whereas loyal viewers know there is a lot more going on with Reid's addiction. I mean, I definitely think that kid dying in front of him affected Reid a lot and having it happen a second time would too. I just think there was more to it than that. Am I crazy ? Basically, I'm saying Reid sees Owen as himself and sees Owen killing and his own drug use as akin. Or maybe I got this all wrong and Reid can simply relate to having revenge fantasies. I am also struck by how selfish Reid was. Reid knew that Owen was going to the police station, but he didn't tell Hotch or Morgan or Rossi, who he was with. The really awful part however was that he didn't even call JJ or Prentiss, or anybody else at the police station to warn them. If Owen got there first, they would all be caught off guard. Let's not forget that Owen had automatic weapons-automatic weapons are all but impossible to possess in the US because they are so lethal. The only reason Owen had access to them was bc his dad was the tactical trainer. If he opened fire with his automatic weapons at the police station, many, many people would be dead including possibly JJ and Prentiss. I understand that Reid wasn't thinking clearly bc of his drug cravings, but wow. He really should've been fired. Owen got to the station very shortly after Reid got there- Owen very easily could have gotten there first. Reid didn't only risk his own life to save Owen. The more I think about it, the more I don't understand how the team members, especially JJ and Preniss, could trust to work with Reid again. In their line of work you have to be able to trustb your team members. Reid pretty much sacrificed them for Owen and himself. Of course, it turnd out fine, but there was a greater chance it wouldn't have. How do they know that Reid wouldn't let his emotions get to him again? How would they know that Reid would be able to overcome his drug habit that made him so emotional? Of course we know with hindsight that Reid was fine after that, but they didn't then.
  13. What you said about this being relatively minor in the scheme of things is very true:) And they call Reid a kid because he's younger than everybody else and it's a cute nickname. They don't actually think he's a kid like Reid thought the suspect was a kid. Reid really reiterated that it was a kid to the cops and to Hotch in the plane scene. It was apparently a large part of why it triggered him and why he was so adamant about saving Owen (who actually was a kid) I think Hotch would have corrected him if the "kid" Reid was talking about was really almost a 30 year old man. The episodes also aired on either side of the 2008 Writers Strike, so there ended up being like 3-4 months between the episodes. I guess they could have forgot.
  14. I! not sure if this belongs here or on the Profile the Show thread, but since it involves Reid I'm gonna put it here. So I noticed that in the episode Elephant's memory in the Clean Cops meeting Reid really makes a point that the suspect who was killed in front of him was a "kid." He repeats it several times. However, in 3rd life it is stated that Ryan Phillips ( the suspect who got shot) is 28 years old. That is not a kid! Reid was actually 26 at this time, too. That means this "kid" was two years older than him. 26 year old men do mot call 28 year old men "kids." Reid told Hotch about this suspect's kidness also at the end of the episode, who I think would have called him out on it if he was really talking about an almost 30 year old man. I'm being too nitpicky?
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