Criminal Minds S01e04 - Tumblr Posts

reid dresses like a lesbian especially in the early seasons. source: i own a nearly identical shirt

My brain isn't working fantastically right now so this may not be super coherent, but I'm having Thoughts on the way Morgan profiles, especially in season one, where he has these moments of "okay, I'm the unsub. Why do I..." while the rest of the team says "okay, why would the unsub..." even when he's not talking about the psychology of the unsub (which he isn't really in this scene: this scene is him realising that the victim didn't hear the unsub break the silverware because he did it after killing her) even the language he uses differs from the rest of the team.

I don't know. I might come back to this more coherently later, but I think Morgan's empathy is one of his strongest traits, and I think the fandom, and sometimes the writers, forgets that in lieu of portraying him as Macho Man #503 (can't imagine why... /s)

I think the rest of the team, as skilled as they are, tends to stand on the outside and guess what being on the inside may have felt like, while Morgan tries (and often succeeds) at getting inside.

I love this scene a lot and it lives in my head rent-free. I can't really think of another way to interpret it other than that this is elle telling reid that the reason he can't get a date isn't because of something wrong with him that he needs to change but simply because he doesn't ask people out (or, more broadly, lacks confidence).

I have seen some spencelle shippers read this as elle saying "hey. ask me out" but i disagree, not because i don't ship spencelle (i sort of do, elaboration in the notes) but for the following reasons:

I think elle would have realised very early on that if she was going to wait for reid to ask her out, she would be waiting years

i don't think she gives enough of a fuck about gender roles to wait for The Man to ask her out

she generally seems confident

i lean more towards her being very new to the BAU in the early episodes. I don't recall right now if there's an official anti-fraternization policy or if that's a fanfiction trope, but even if there isn't, entering a relationship with a coworker that early on is an easy way to mess up her career.

i think she was waiting until she was more established to start anything, but then, well, everything happened, and she left before becoming established enough to feel comfortable taking a risk like that

this is still the most funniest spencelle moment for me. spencer fucking panicking between elle and jj and he double takes on elle's chest 😭💀

Criminal Minds | Plain Sight (1x04)