Criminal Minds S01e11 - Tumblr Posts

frankiebirds

1 year ago

I love how Spencer gets defensive of mentally ill unsubs. Just imagine how many comments he probably got about his mom growing up. That was the 80s and 90s - people were less aware of mental illness, made fun of it more, and people loved to talk.

I wonder if he always stuck up for her or if he couldn't. If he knew he shouldn't snap back at the neighborhood boys that were twice his size or the teacher that talked about things she didn't know about. I wonder if people made comments like that about Diana. Saying oh it's too bad what happened to poor Diana. She is too ill to work and her husband left her... She was so sweet too. And Spencer knows she is still sweet - that she can be sweet when she is lucid enough to remember who he is, when she reads to him and calls him Crash - even though she might never know that she is the reason he is bruised.

I like to think that Spencer stood up for her but he might also be too smart for that. He would have to shoulder those comments about his mom. He would go home and cry into his pillow because the world was hating on the only person he had left for something she can't control. But then Spencer gets himself into the FBI, gets a badge and a gun and a score of degrees, and he never has to listen to another negative comment about his mom - or anyone with mental illness.

Spencer might not have always been able to protect his mom, but he sure as shit isn't going to let anyone bad mouth her now.

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frankiebirds

1 year ago

A close-up of a man's face indoors. He is wearing a suit. The caption at the bottom of the image reads: "Thanks. And how is it having Gideon around?"

A detached tab containing a video call with a blonde woman. The tab is titled: VIDEO CONFERENCING - DATA LINE 67. The caption at the bottom of the image reads: "You can have him back whenever you'd like."

The man in the suit smiles. The caption at the bottom of the image reads: (CHUCKLES)

oh i know garcia bragged about this for weeks.

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not fic criminal minds criminal minds rewatch criminal minds s01e11 blood hungry penelope garcia aaron hotchner morgan got a text right after saying “I MADE HOTCH LAUGH” he told me himself garcia & hotch criminal minds 1x11

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frankiebirds

1 year ago

A man in a dark shirt enters a hallway lined with coats of various colours. A woman in a dark jacket is mid-turn, startled by his approach. The subtitles at the bottom of the image reid:
-"Hey."
and
-"Dude!"

The man in the dark shirt leans one shoulder against the doorframe, amused and smiling. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "Dude? Okay, you're way too tense."

The woman in the dark jacket walks down the hallway, head turned to look back at the man coming inside. The subtitles at the bottom of the image read:
-"No, I'm not."
and
-"Yes you are. You got anything?"

morgan and elle's friendship is so severely underrated and i wish we'd gotten more of them. they go on vacation together! there are also some lines in the first episode that, at least to me, imply that they knew eachother before. morgan is introduced talking to/quizzing trainees, so that seems like the most likely way, but. i don't know. i love them and i would have been curious to see how it would have been elaborated upon had lola glaudini stayed on.

(side note: i love morgan's pose and face in the second screencap. he's so silly)

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not fic criminal minds criminal minds rewatch criminal minds s01e11 elle greenaway derek morgan elle & morgan i see them as friends but i could also see them having a thing honestly the whole cast has such good chemistry with eachother even the ships i dont like im like “yeah i get why you would ship that” most of them some confuse me but there aren't really any ships i have outright negative feelings towards also: random curiosity. a part of me wonders if the beginning of this scene (the parts in the post) was scripted? i dont know. lola's “dude!” feels very genuinely startled and i dont think “you're way too tense” is ever elaborated upon i have no idea though lmao she could just be a good actress! i am once again babbling in the tags. ill shut up now blood hungry criminal minds 1x11

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frankiebirds

1 year ago

i hate mary mays* and im so glad the characters (especially hotch) treat her with the appropriate amount of disdain. especially hotch's disgusted expression when she insists she did it to protect him.

Outdoors at night, a man in a suit and patterned tie stares, disgusted, at the out of focus figure of a woman with short blonde hair in the foreground.

hell, here's a brightened up version so you can really look at that expression.

I Hate Mary Mays* And Im So Glad The Characters (especially Hotch) Treat Her With The Appropriate Amount

hotch doesn't emote a lot, either in his face or his voice (he's just like me fr) but to me this reads pretty clearly as disgust, especially followed by this exchange.

The woman with short blonde hair, who is also wearing a brown fur coat and a pearl necklace, looks at the out-of-focus figure of the man in the suit in the foreground. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "What else was I supposed to do?"

The man in the suit and patterned tie looks down and to the right, half his face cast in shadow. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "Almost anything would have been better."

sidenote: i would have really liked to see an earlier part of this exchange comes back, where mary mays asks hotch if he has children, and when he says yes, asks if there's anything he wouldn't do for them, to which he responds by saying that he wouldn't clean the blood of their victim off the floor. not quite so dramatic, obviously, but it's not unreasonable that jack would have some issues in his adolescence, for reasons i don't think i need to say. so. fic concept:

at some point in jack's adolesence (11-14ish?) he chronically shoplifts, and hotch catches him. maybe he finds the items in his room, maybe they're out together and hotch catches him doing it and realises it's not the first time. either way, he makes jack return the items and apologise, and has a conversation with him about it, wondering where he went wrong and deciding to take jack to a therapist. jack is seriously reluctant, and after some prying, hotch realises that jack is taking after him wrt emotional repression and believes that talking about his feelings would make him weak or less of a man, because his dad isn't do it, and his dad is as masculine as one gets. to motivate jack to go to therapy (and actually engage) he starts going to therapy himself. because he needs it. they all do. possibly some flashbacks or references to hotch's childhood, where he acted out very similarly and his father was uh. less than kind. insert somewhere a flashback to this scene. obviously it's very different, shoplifting isn't comparable to murder and cannibalism, but. you know. parallels. this is really half-baked and bad and random i'm sorry lmao.

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frankiebirds

1 year ago

so nice of reid to offer to do elle's files for her. what a gentleman! <3 no takebacks!

Three people walk through a dimly lit lobby while other people mill about behind them. From left to right: a man in a suit and blue tie, a man in a green jacket, and a woman in a dark jacket with a fur-lined hood. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "Thank you. Now I get to go back to the 15 folders on my desk."

A fourth man, dressed in dark clothing, joins the group from the right. The man in the green jacket has his brows furrowed and the man in the suit and blue tie is looking at him. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "Wait a minute, 15? I have 24."

The man in the green jacket and woman in the jacket with the fur-lined hood face eachother. The caption at the bottom of the image reads: "That's because I slipped you four of mine on Friday. Yep."

(Not included in the subtitles on the last image: Cross-talk with Reid saying "What?!" while Elle is saying "four of mine" and Elle following "Yep," with "Mmhm."

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