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777, I didn't know they were still showing Those Who Kill. I thought they yanked it after showing the pilot and first episode. I quite liked it. Are they showing later episodes?

I love that season 4 (in the middle of the very serious The Instincts episode) outtake; the whole sequence of his face-pulling is hilarious, and I always have to go back and watch it again for Shemar and the other guy's utter lack of reaction!

I think he knows people find him attractive, but this all came to him in very late adolescence. I had a similar experience of attracting people once I was past my early 20s. If he is like me, he doesn't trust this allure he has, and he knows (like I did) that this beauty he has is fleeting, and superficial. I think, and I hope, he knows that this beauty he possesses now is a very short-lived gift. Although women have it harder than men, he too will eventually fade in his physical beauty. But, if he is the interesting being we think he is, he will still be interesting beyond the point that he makes us want to breathe into a paper bag!

We MGG fans better enjoy this moment when he belongs just to us! It won't last long...

Just saw that, Old Dog. I wonder if it's part of a bigger shoot like the Bello one?

Oh, Austen was just a flirtation, for someone belatedly learning to flirt. As with Lila, I was glad for the character development of Reid to be treated well by two hot girls. It helped him grow up a bit. It was part of the natural maturing of the character, which was later interrupted, and even later, somewhat gutted, IMO. No, I never saw Reid taking up seriously with Lila or Austen, but each girl showed him he was attractive to girls he was attracted to. I also liked Dr. Kimura, but she seemed a tad old for him, romance-wise.

"when he's SO clever and brilliant, I kinda have to breathe into a paper bag." I love this so much!

That is great makeup. It looks like there could be more than just the graze. A bullet that lodges, even superficially, has to be surgically removed, and there would be a period of observation, gowned, of course, even if the patient was released a few hours later. Neck wounds scare me. Period.

One can be a psycholinguistics expert without being able to speak any language but their native one. Psycholiguistics has to do with cognitive processes, sussing out how people use grammar and choose words, etc. to communicate. Blake and Reid psycholinguistically analyze messages in English, for the most part. It has nothing to do with knowing how to speak a foreign language.

FA, Reid is a linguistics expert, and knows many languages, and, as we've seen since season 1, has frequently been tasked with building linguistic profiles.

I think Morgan made that up, Willowy, about the van. I can't see how he wouldn't have known that happened, it would have been on the news... Minor point, I guess. EDIT: Actually, that bit was Garcia's final OMG of the night, but i still don't see how 1) he wouldn't have heard about what happened, and 2) how it would have been on the internets in 2014. But, like I say, minor point.

I totally agree, willowy! Even though we knew who the unsub was from the beginning, it held my interest. Good profiling, smart Reid Hotchness, and balance! Balance is what we've been asking for, and this was really well done. Fast-paced, and crisp.

Zannej, not to spoil yer possum party, but either take that thing into the vet and vaccinate it for rabies, or have animal control come pick it up for relocation. Don't fool around with feral animals in your home!

Just saw a tweet from Harry Bring that the whole cast will have a scene on Wednesday, which is the last day of shooting season 9. Hmmm, let's see.... Who's betting they'll be having a toast at Rossi's, for the 3rd finale in a row?

Oh, man, zannej, this is so spot-on! Every time i see that scene I nearly shout "Brain chemistry, Reid? Ever heard of it?!" Sheesh. I love and respect a great many people who call themselves Christian, and some of them actually are scientists, and many of them aren't this rigid in their belief systems (to imply, as the writer did, that God is the explanation for everything and Science kneels down in its presence). I've come to believe the only honest thing is that I don't know anything when it comes to death and the presence or absence of God. The Reid of canon probably would have said he had a strange experience that broadened his perspective and gave him a new empathy for those who explain near-death phenomena in spiritual terms, even if he knew what was going on scientifically. Sadly, something like this would have been too complex and subtle for the time frame, and wouldn't have furthered the secondary story about Rossi's religious dilemma.

I have a particular eye for the moment Hotch realizes Reid should stay in the home lab in Amplification, knowing he's already probably dead meat, and he (Hotch) sent him in there (well, sort of). The light goes out behind his eyes, the tension in his shoulders gives way a bit to sagging as he assesses both Morgan's and the General's takes and decides Reid's best chance is inside working the case. And when Reid chews Prentiss a new one when she asks "what is wrong with you?" and he comes back with she's only known him a few seconds and she doesn't know what she's talking about, this is awesome acting on both their parts. When he rounds on her, her eyebrows seem to leave her face, she's so surprised. And MGG did such a good job of acting pain/guilt/shame coming out through accusation, that he deserved an Emmy just for that scene, IMO. Oh, and his voice took off to wherever Paget's eyebrows went to...

mstaken, I agree that Paget brought so much to a sketchily-drawn character. But I think the dichotomy in the character that you're talking about came because they tried to plausibly write out Emily when Paget, not satisfied at being pulled back to recurring status, asked to be able to leave the show to try for comedy shows. When all that happened happened (I won't go into my version, for which you may thank me!), and she had to be written back in, none of the plot points rang true. Despite her best efforts, even Paget wasn't able to really pull it off. The same thing happened with JJ/AJC with the write-out/write-back-in, but that's for a JJ thread, I suppose. This site has too many threads, IMO.

Zannej, I'm getting dizzy trying to keep up with who's moving what post where! Too many categories, not like TWoP in that regard. And yes, everyone, hug your doggies!

I like a lot about what is said, specifically about excising the torture porn in favor of an expanded Reid cog/view with multiple witnesses. Good idea!! Also, the confirmation that they are going in the right direction with Morgan and Savannah. He needs to grow up, but it could have been Reid to point up how much he could lose if he didn't prize her. And the JJ stuff, oh, man. When Prentiss did that imitation of him in Season 7 "sorry doesn't bring it back!", that was funny, not borderline racist. And no, I definitely don't think anyone (not the writer, not the show runners, etc.) would ever intend something like that, it's just, badly written and poorly executed. Tell me, because I truly don't know: what other major network show allows amateurs to write a full episode of their major money-making show? CM did it last year with Ed Bernero's son, but, I don't think it's a good idea to put what is essentially an intern out alone with a writing cred on a major network TV show. If they fail, they fail big. But it just reflects on the show runner and all the executive producers when that happens. And I feel for Ticona Joy, she may have talent. But the show runners should never do that with a first-timer. Pair her with a veteran, at the very least...

JMO, your entry was neither too long nor annoying! I'm of the opinion that Erica Messer has not even asked Jane Lynch. The woman thrives on staying busy, I'm sure that she'd love to reprise Diana, but we'll have to "forget" the Grand Canyon subplot...

Old Dog, I think her part is being kept under wraps, which means to me that it's big. Don't know what to make of Dunkle deleting his sm. I do hope that, if they are shaking up the writers, he will be the first to go, followed by his buddy and BZ. Hire back a few of the oldies-goodies.

Haha, mstaken, I'm not normasmom, or anyone else's mom! normasm is simply my mother's first name followed by her 2 initials. Love and miss her. And, yes, if I had been a mom, a daughter would have Norma in her name for sure! When Elle and Reid bantered, it felt more like Reid was in on the joke. This SO much. And I'm not sure they connected on a sexual level, but definitely Reid loved her, and I think she held him in the highest regard. I always imagined she was bisexual and not interested in long-term relationships of any kind with the team, except friendship. I think if she was attracted to anyone on the team sexually, it would definitely be Hotch. She just felt drawn to Reid, not as much as he was to her, again, my take after seeing those episodes so many times.

I think Reid's relationship with JJ, from that awkward football game date (which I have no need to know more about, they obviously decided it wouldn't go anywhere) has been platonic. He really wanted her to like him that way, but from the time she made him wear that stupid hat, and Morgan teased him about being fed a piece of cake by "Mommy", I knew that he would chalk it up to another unrequited crush, which he totally expects from the females he's attracted to, and has since Alexa Lisbon scammed him in high school. I think Reid's relationship with Elle was more of a surprise (to both of them), because, as others have talked about here, she treated him as a man - a very young man, but a man deserving to be treated as such. In Derailed, at the end, he seemed so pleased and almost giddy that she was thanking him obliquely for saving her bacon, and they even got some "normal" jokes going about Gideon being called Mom. And by the time he came to her hotel room trying to talk her down and soothe her anxiety, I felt he truly loved her, in a very deep and manly way, not necessarily sexual, but he loved her as Elle.

I love this show, too. I will watch it until it ends, or they tell MGG to take his ball and go home, whichever comes first. The nearly 10-year arc of the writing of this show has gone straight down in the last 3 to 4 years, with a few waves upward that caused those of us faithful to the original premise and approach to feel some hope. I (we, it seems) have the right to call crap as I (we) see it, and you certainly have the right to defend said perceived crap as you see fit. I respect your opinion, but we totally disagree on this.

Zannej, in the US at least, people who are declared incompetent and placed in a mental institution against their will, which happened to Reid's mom by his action, cannot act on their own, nor can their guardianship be transfered to anyone on a whim, not her doctor, not William Reid. This isn't fanwank, it's reality. Even if they find meds that work to keep her lucid 100% of the time, she will still not become competent in the eyes of the law. Changing her guardianship would take a legal procedure and Reid, as her guardian, would either be instigating it or fighting it. William Reid has no control over Diana, even if he pays the bills, which we've never been told he contributes a cent. So, I can't cut slack for this kind of wild stupidity of the writers and researchers.