Pleasure is my Business reaction

[severity_softly]

Okay, firstly some idiot posted uncut spoilers last night. I caught a post on the main CM comm to that just said "*spoilers below*" and no cut too. Thankfully, I stopped reading. I'm sorry for those who were spoiled, though. I hate that shit. To be truthful, I avoid them to the point that I really don't even like subject lines and cut tags with vague references. About five people on my flist used a subject line/cut tag with the name of a character that was awesome in last night's ep in it, and that happens all the time. I suppose I shouldn't complain, as I know that is pretty commonly accepted as okay. I don't even like moods selected that might give away if an episode was good or not, so perhaps my aversion to spoilers far exceeds most people's. Can't really ask for change when I am the one so far out of step with the majority, can I? Heh.

Pleasure is my Business reaction

1. I was sort of surprised at JJ's level of involvement. Does she normally give the profile? Have I not paid attention before? I admit, she was hardly on my radar until recently, but it struck me as odd.

2. Reid + Vest = YUM. I've said it before, but I will probably say it every time he wears one. For serious.

3. Speaking of Reid, was he acting strangely to anyone else? The one person I asked didn't notice, but there was a point when the team was talking something out that he rubbed his eyes and looked tired, much the same way he did during the drug episodes. He also got flustered with the madam, and sexual things usually don't get to him so much. On top of that, he just... seemed strange. If you watch him when they're briefing the lawyers, you may see it.

Or maybe I'm crazy and looking for things once he did that tired face rub thing. I personally would love it if he relapsed. And this is coming from someone who is getting the point of thinking they are piling too much shit on him, too. I would really like to see drug addiction dealt with realistically, though, and the way they just dropped it in season two and didn't revisit it until a year later seemed off. Most people with drug addictions relapse. Most of them struggle and fight and fail, and if they're lucky to be strong enough, they try again.

I know that on a show like this it's difficult to work in storylines like this, but the show handles so many other issues so delicately--mental illness, for one--that it felt like that drug issue was a throw away one, only to be brought up again when the writers feel like it.

I'll get off my soapbox now.

4. Blood spatter on face. Is it weird that I sort of thought that was beautiful?

5. This may be an unpopular opinion, but Haley earned points from me. It seems to me she's sending Hotch videos of Jack. I suppose it's possible that he took it himself (there's no way to tell if it's an email), but the way Jack says "hi dad" seems like someone else is taking the video. If daddy was already there taking the video, Jack would have already said hi to him, right?

6. Hotch! Mmm. I'm sure everyone else has said almost all there is to say, so what I'm going to say is that every time there's a Hotch ep, I love Thomas Gibson even more. The scene on the phone was great, the team all looking sympathetic. They all love him so much. But even listening to the call again, the tiny little strains of pain on Hotch's face, then that last scene. Ungh, so BRILLIANTLY acted. *luffs him*

Comments

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

1) No, that was new. I noticed it, too.

Wasn't he neat? I heart Hotch.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Mmm, he was nummy. *nom noms*

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

*grin* I always think Reid should give him a hug, when I see him being all broody.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Oh, he should do more than hug, and you know it. *G*

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

Everybody likes a cuddle now and then!

And if cuddling turns into seduction and tantric sex, who are we to judge?

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

They should cuddle AFTER the hawt mansexing.

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

LoL! And snog. There should be much snogging involved. Before. During. After. Whenever. Kisses are good!

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

*goes to happy place*

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

Hee! *snuggles* Have I told you lately that I heart you?

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

omg I <3 you too!

[aoibhe.livejournal.com]

M and I were talking about Reid's weirdness too and I asked the same thing @ relapse. And, despite what I do for Lobsters I Adore, druggie!Reid isn't my thing, so I would have to say I don't think it was just you. He did it more than once, too. With the lawyers and on the plane in the beginning, and there might have been a third time, but my mind is still going, "HOOOOOOOOOOOOOTCH" so, uhm. Yes.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I missed the plane thing. I'll have to rewatch. The one that caught my attention was when they were discussing it around the tables, and then I started paying attention to it after that. :D I actually like the drug storyline, though. Not because I like to see him suffer (because that's getting sort of ridiculous), but for the reasons above, and because it makes sense for him, I think.

[albydarned.livejournal.com]

And, despite what I do for Lobsters I Adore, druggie!Reid isn't my thing, so I would have to say I don't think it was just you.

*cackles long and into the night* Oh, man, the return of the druggie!Reid would be, like, confirmation for me that there is a God, and he loves me. Or something of that nature. I might offer sexual favors to the writers ... ;)

WHY AM I SUCH A TERRIBLE HUMAN BEING?!?!

[nebula99.livejournal.com]

I was putting Reid's fidgeting down to his own Daddy issues, but an ongoing struggle to stay clean would be realistic.

And a big fat Word on spoilers. I hate it. It used to bug the hell out of me on the CM yahoogroup - spoiling fans is just bad manners and there's no excuse for it.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

That is another good option that I hadn't thought of. I dunno, just some of his behaviour really reminded me of the times when he was fucked up. The talk with the lawyers was a bit more fidgety, but even then there seems to be an almost sluggish quality to it...

[shinealightonme]

3. I thought Reid was acting a little strange during the scene with the madam (well, first reaction was "OMG HILARIOUS" but my next was, "wait, he never gets flustered talking about this stuff"). Of course, couple the sudden embarrassment talking about sex with the recent wardrobe choices and the fact that he seems to be tired in this episode, and, well, maybe it's not the drugs that are affecting him ^_~

4. Not weird at all. That was a gorgeous shot.

5. I'm pretty sure Haley took that video - before he says "Hi dad" he says something that sounds rather like "look mom, look what I can do." Personally, I sort of grudgingly have a kind of decent opinion of Haley. I just can't hate her, especially not when things like this happen, or when she lets him see Jack at dark-thirty at night after the case in "Seven Seconds."

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

3. Mmmm, Aaron is shagging him rotten. >.>

5. I don't like her by any means, but I try to see her a a human being and not a monster like many people do. This just reinforced that.

[ubervirgin.livejournal.com]

I kind of think that Reid got sort of flustered while talking to the Madam because he was paired with Prentiss, who is a woman that he knows. It could also be that he was specifically asking a woman that looked as though she was about his mom's age about sex and what clients ask for. This is also the agent that was propositioned by every single prostitute he spoke to while canvassing with Hotch in a past episode.

I like the think that Reid may have been slightly out of character because of his concern for Hotch. Hotch was caught in a gigantic politically charged case, missing his son, and chasing a female unsub that was...fixated is too strong a word, but definitely preoccupied with him.

We could also assume that the eye rubbing was due to lack of sleep because they were trying to solve the case as quickly as possible and were dealing with uncooperative people.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but he's looked at bondage/s&m/torture porn and shit with women that he knows all the time, and talked about sex with older women too. He's also witness Hotch struggle a lot, and most of their cases are probably rough on the sleep aspect. Lo-fi/Mayhem, for example, he seemed on top of his game, and that was an exhausting case!

[ubervirgin.livejournal.com]

Yes, they have had cases where Reid lacked sleep, but I like to think that he and Hotch got together after Lo-fi/Mayhem and now he has to get used to Hotch venting at him about the idiots they are dealing with while trying to solve cases.

I've also noticed that he seems less embarrassed about sexual topics when he is able to use knowledge regarding their history, etc, to show intellectual knowledge. He seems to be a bit more hesitant when he is talking to a person about their specific sexual encounters.

I think he could have also been uncomfortable about playing "the married couple" with Prentiss. Kind of like, "why do I have to pretend to be married to my sister?".

[sophie301.livejournal.com]

Im agreeing with the Reid thing, he seems to be a bit twitchyer and out of it reacently and would really like to see a relapse or at least him dealing with some of the shit he's been though reacently although this may just be because i like my Reid pretty dark and angsty.

Also him getting flustered when talking to the madam was kinda odd (if very cute) because im pretty sure he was discussing Ed Gein quiet happly in Cold Comfort and he was way creepyer than anything the clients would have asked for.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Dude, I KNOW! Didn't he seem almost a little TOO excited talking about Gein? O.o lol!

[sophie301.livejournal.com]

lol maybe he just really like the texas chainsaw massecer?

mmm... skin suit *ewww*

[albydarned.livejournal.com]

Okay, so basically everything that you mentioned about Reid having a relapse? I WOULD PAY BUNCHES AND BUNCHES OF GOLD, SILVER, AND MONEY TO SEE. :D That being said, I really don't think that the show is going to go back there with him, just because they pansied out of the drug storyline the first time around (they wanted to have Reid on drugs all the way through season 3, but the studio heads didn't like that, BOO ON THEM!) and we've already had the Reid-heavy storylines for this season.

That being said, I often wonder (at least once a day, BECAUSE I AM THIS LAME!) what they are going to do with Reid next. Each year, he seems to get at least one episode related to him and his issues, and they've already done up the drug line as much as possible, and this year was with his parents ... who knows? A relapse would be best, in my opinion, because I want to see Reid suffer it's the most realistic option at this point, but meh ...

I noticed that Reid seemed really off in the scene with the Madame, and as much as I wish that it was something big and meaningful, I really suspect that it was the writers being sloppy and going for the "Reid is a big ole' nervous virgin" line. But then my inner Reid/Prentiss shipper got started, and then it went all downhill from there ... ;)

[kyrdwyn.livejournal.com]

I could see Reid being twitchier and rubbing his face more often as part of a struggle with the cravings for the drugs. He's had them before (Elephant's Memory) and they do affect his work, so the twitches, the stumbling over the interview with the madam, could totally be in line with him spending his days dealing with the case and his nights being awake all night, doing something, anything to keep himself away from the drugs, watching the clock and knowing that every minute, every hour is a minor victory, but if he stops clockwatching, stops doing whatever, the odds of him giving in sky rocket.....so yeah, he's getting very little sleep and it's affecting him.

Also, I don't see him as using again unless he found a different place to inject, since he's wearing shirts with the sleeves rolled up in this ep, which would increase the risk of a co-worker noticing the marks. Unless he's doing it because he wants to be caught.

Anyway. Enough wierd musing from me. Too early in the morning over here.

Although I must add that Reid +pants low on hips + pocket watch fob = damn sexy in that penthouse raid.

[505death.livejournal.com]

1) Yeah, I was surprised too! She had a lot of screen time, though.

3) He looked really tired. I was expecting something about that. It was intentional, so I assume the writers want to let it in the story. And yes, drugs are possibly the reason -it would be fine, it's important to the character.

5) Yesss, I thought the same. I don't like Haley, but she's in contact with Hotch because of Jack and it makes him happy! :D I think she took the video.

[flynn-boyant.livejournal.com]

3.) See I thought I was crazy because I thought something was off in Reid's behavior in this and the last episode, if not before--just moments that seemed strange. (But no! Other's have seen it too!)

I agree he was flustered with the madam and normally that wouldn't have gotten to him. He talked to the prostitute in Vegas just fine (I guess one could argue that he was distracted by the stuff going on with his father but if anything I would think that would make me more uncomfortable around people he didn't know but that's just me....) I mean, yeah, put him in a social situation where he's trying to attempt flirting (or someone flirts with him) and he'll get nervous but when it's for a case he doesn't seem to have the same problem talking to people.

Also, I thought it's been odd that he's so jittery during the profile presentations with local law enforcement. He can't seem to stand still during those and there's some odd anxiety in him I feel as of late.

I don't know. I just think there's been something off and like you I wonder if he's had some sort of relapse or is on the brink of one.

Moving on...this episode was a lot of OMG HOTCH! and OMG REID IN A VEST! for me. :)