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frankiebirds
1 year ago
A teary-eyed man in an orange prison jumpsuit sits in a dimly lit room. In the foreground is the out-of-focus figure of someone dressed in green and white. The subtitles at the bottom of the image read: -"Three days ago..." and -"You're not looking at me."

god i love tony todd. i get distracted by this scene every single time because TONY TODD!!!!

if my voice sounded like that i would make it everyone else's problem.

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criminal minds criminal minds rewatch criminal minds s01e07 the fox on an unrelated note when i was showing this episode to my girlfriend we were joking (okay mostly me) that the reason reid is so freaked out in this scene wasn't because it was baby's first interrogation and he was nervous but because he was like “what the hell. this guy looks like tony todd.” i THINK its canon that reid likes horror movies? he probably tends towards sci-fi horror and obscure weird shit (affectionate) but i could see him enjoying candyman and even if its not canon that reid likes horror films and is just a popular headcanon tony todd did also play a star trek character! i dont know. its a very stupid joke and a very tense scene that i probably ruined for my girlfriend by giggling about tony todd but. w/e criminal minds 1x7
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frankiebirds
1 year ago
Eight wedding rings, six gold and two silver, lay scattered on a wooden table.

the fox is a really good episode that i had less to say about than i thought i would. karl arnold is scary, his actor is excellent, and it's a in general a very tight episode. the ending is especially good and haunting, with the reveal that arnold has killed six other families of four (and therefore twenty-four more people) than we're initially led to believe.

i understand that karl arnold is returned to in a later episode? i've never actually gotten to that one before, but hopefully i will now.

it's getting really hard to watch just one episode a day, especially since i've already seen every episode up to 5x02. but im trying.

i do have one other thing to say about the fox, i just need to go back and grab a couple screenshots for it.

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frankiebirds
1 year ago

anyway: last thing about the fox.

I think the order in which the team reacts to frank fielding* hurting himself is pretty interesting.

A man wearing a plaid shirt indoors. The subtitles at the bottom of the image read: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"
A man in a light coloured collared shirt is mid sentence against a dark background. In the foreground is the blurry and out-of-focus figure of someone mid-movement. The subtitles at the bottom of the image are still: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"

Gideon and Morgan are first, simply because they're the ones closest.

Two figures running into a room, one man and one woman. The man is further to the left inside the room and partially offscreen, and the woman is just entering the room from the right. Both are mid-movement. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No. No!"

Hotch and Elle are next, with Elle a little behind...

Three men, one mostly out of sight, restrain a fourth man against a wall. A woman stands off to the left, away from the altercation. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No!"

But when it comes to actually restraining Frank, Elle, who is still new and less experienced, lingers behind. If you watch the scene carefully, she actually backs away, too.

A man wearing a black vest over a red and white patterned shirt stands just past the doorway between a brightly lit and dimly room, closer to the dimly lit room on the left side.

And finally, Reid stands at the very back. He enters the room but doesn't go any further, and the camera pans down to show him rocking back and forth on his feet, like he can't decide if he wants to run into or out of the room. I think it's possible that Diana self-harmed at some point in the past (although granted, the self-harm in this scene is a different "type") and he may have been having some unpleasant memories.

*the brother of one of the victims, who goes to her house despite her husband not wanting him there, is seen by her through the window, and thinks she mouths "go away" at him when she actually mouths "help me"

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ofc i there's an argument that they just didn't need five people to restrain one person and elle and reid hung back for that reason but to me elle and reid being the ones to hang back feels intentional and even if it isnt analysis isnt really about if your argument is RIGHT its about how well you can argue it also: this is based on what we know about the characters who knows? maybe if elle stuck around longer we would have found out she had a family member who she witnessed having very similar episodes and that would have painted her reaction in a very different light also this scene makes me sad. i wish we'd gotten an update on frank afterwards esp because this hits home. to me this reads very similarly to an autistic meltdown and i have self harmed very similarly during mine not sure how i feel about him being restrained for that reason but i get they didnt want him to hit himself and it was 2005 tw self harm character analysis scene analysis I suppose criminal minds criminal minds rewatch criminal minds s01e07 the fox elle greenaway spencer reid i know i mentioned other characters in this but i didnt really pick their fictional brains lol favourites criminal minds 1x7
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frankiebirds
1 year ago

anyway: last thing about the fox.

I think the order in which the team reacts to frank fielding* hurting himself is pretty interesting.

A man wearing a plaid shirt indoors. The subtitles at the bottom of the image read: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"
A man in a light coloured collared shirt is mid sentence against a dark background. In the foreground is the blurry and out-of-focus figure of someone mid-movement. The subtitles at the bottom of the image are still: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"

Gideon and Morgan are first, simply because they're the ones closest.

Two figures running into a room, one man and one woman. The man is further to the left inside the room and partially offscreen, and the woman is just entering the room from the right. Both are mid-movement. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No. No!"

Hotch and Elle are next, with Elle a little behind...

Three men, one mostly out of sight, restrain a fourth man against a wall. A woman stands off to the left, away from the altercation. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No!"

But when it comes to actually restraining Frank, Elle, who is still new and less experienced, lingers behind. If you watch the scene carefully, she actually backs away, too.

A man wearing a black vest over a red and white patterned shirt stands just past the doorway between a brightly lit and dimly room, closer to the dimly lit room on the left side.

And finally, Reid stands at the very back. He enters the room but doesn't go any further, and the camera pans down to show him rocking back and forth on his feet, like he can't decide if he wants to run into or out of the room. I think it's possible that Diana self-harmed at some point in the past (although granted, the self-harm in this scene is a different "type") and he may have been having some unpleasant memories.

*the brother of one of the victims, who goes to her house despite her husband not wanting him there, is seen by her through the window, and thinks she mouths "go away" at him when she actually mouths "help me"

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