Reid spoilers from EW

[klutzy-girl.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds scoop, please! — Rosie

There’s much more to the story about Dr. Reid’s headaches…except you won’t find out until next season, according to EP Erica Messer. “That’s something that we’re talking to Matthew [Gray Gubler] about and the writers are all trying to figure out what stories we’ve dropped. Honestly, that storyline, that whole idea behind that, started before we lost A.J. [Cook] and Paget [Brewster]. There was a chance that we were fearing to lose Matthew just because of contract negotiations, and that storyline kind of got implanted and then never truly paid off in this season, but we want to sort of conclude that next season. That’s the plan.” Thank goodness the Gubler told me he’s all set for next season and exited about it. Can you imagine a Gube-less CM? Hells to the no! This team is magic!

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[hippediva.livejournal.com]

Oh please tell me that they aren't going the 'brain tumor' plotline. *headdesk* The whole series should be remaned "Days of our Agents"!

[arrivee.livejournal.com]

doubt it, but schizophrenia (which would have made sense) would render him unable to work for the FBI.

[hippediva.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Even more predictable. What is wrong with the writers? Collective comas? Boredom? Alien mind-control takeovers by the other networks? It's as if the PTB on this show are having a field day torturing it to death!

[fun-french-fri.livejournal.com]

Thank CBS for firing a bunch of the original writers and bringing in one-offs who barely know anything about the show.

[ayajedi.livejournal.com]

ia

[hippediva.livejournal.com]

Ahh You mean 'business as usual: dysfunction'. Typical Hollywood. And they call Charlie Sheen crazy!! *headdesk*

[x-steffi-x.livejournal.com]

Can we have news on the Shemar/Thomas contact situation?!!

[crystalfairie.livejournal.com]

mte.

[sugakane-01.livejournal.com]

As long as its not schizophrenia or some other form of mental illness, I think I can roll with just about anything.

Although...that explanation kinda has me confused. I was under the impression that MGG's contract was already in place for next season (that he had a year left) and it was Thomas and Shemar that were in flux.

[e-rousset.livejournal.com]

Same here, as long as it's not a mental illness I can roll with anything.

There's still no news, as far as I know, about T.G. and S.M.'s contracts. They're still negotiating.
Erica Messer's words about fearing to lose Gubler seem strange, I too thought his contract was already in place for the next season. MGG might have been in danger when he negotiated his contract last time.

Now, maybe the writers will use that story to prepare the field in case there's an eighth season and MGG's contract is not renewed (since his contract is up at the end of the seventh season)...

The problem is that if they're giving Reid schizophrenia at some point in the seventh season, they won't have a choice, the character will have to leave no matter what.

If, on the other hand, he ends up with a physical disease (that was undiagnosed so far by the other doctors) the writers will have room to work with, he can get better or not.

Of course, they might also tell us that Reid was just really stressed...but then why bring back that storyline at all if it's just to tell us that ?

[sugakane-01.livejournal.com]

That's my thinking too. There's no way they can give him a mental illness and he remain an agent and for me a Reid-less BAU would probably be enough to make me stop watching.

The only thing that has me worried about them giving him a brain tumor or physical illness that we'd see play out is that the writers haven't shown themselves capable of any kind of follow through with stuff like that. We find out Morgan was molested and its basically never mentioned again. Hotch had a couple of episodes (while Morgan was unit chief) where it seemed like he was dealing w/some PTSD and it then it disappeared. They never really dealt w/anything that happened in 100 after he came back. Reid had the magical disappearing drug addiction (one minute he's shooting up in the restroom, the next he's at a meeting declaring himself 10 months clean). To quote Hotch, the writers front site, and trigger press, but rarely do they follow through.

The only arc I remember them playing out in its entirety was Gideon's PTSD. During his entire run you saw little cracks, mini freak outs, stuff that let you know he was still on the edge from his time in Boston. Everything else big, they've dropped.

I just hope if they decide to go back to this story they actually tell a story...a complete, developed story arc.

[arrivee.livejournal.com]

i wish they had followed through with the drug addiction story line. those would have been intriguing episodes.

[e-rousset.livejournal.com]

A Reid-less BAU would make me stop watching the show too, no question about that.

I think it could be easier for the writers to follow through a physical disease than a psychological one. Showing the symptoms of a physical disease and dealing with it would probably be less difficult.

What I fear is to see Reid simply saying that his headaches are stress related, or Reid briefly consulting a therapist and get better.
If that's what they have in mind, I would prefer them to drop the storyline.

Just like you I want a real, developed story. And I think they could do that if his symptoms are the cause of a physical disease.

[x-forgetromeo.livejournal.com]

What? Morgan's molestation is not ever explicitly mentioned again, but that is in every movement his character makes. Every time he's rougher with someone who hurts children, the way he treats kids and rape victims, how angry he gets about religion because God didn't help him. That wasn't dropped.

Reid's drug arc wasn't dropped, either, but everyone fights me tooth and nail otherwise, so I'm not even going to start on them.

The fact that something isn't anvil-ing you in the face doesn't mean it never happened.

[rambleinblue.livejournal.com]

I would think, even if he had a contract, they could always fire him due to budget cuts. They would probably have to pay some kind of settlement because they broke the contract, but I don't think even a contract is a 100% guarantee of a job.

[arrivee.livejournal.com]

if MGG goes at some point, i will stop watching the show.

[x-steffi-x.livejournal.com]

I'm with you.
Tbf: Morgan, Reid and Garcia are my 'if they leave I'll stop watching' peeps.
I don't want any of the current cast to go though, apart from Seaver, I haven't grown to her really. She's bearable.

[thecowboycliche.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[autumn-mourning.livejournal.com]

Can I just go and give the writers a good bop on the nose?

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

Matthew is under contract until next year, when there are legitimate fears that he will leave the show to write/produce/direct something of his own. If I am reading the writing on the wall, they are shelving Reid's illness until next year to give them a convenient way to exit his character if MGG doesn't re-sign.

Personally, the day MGG leaves the show is the day I am also gone.

[thecowboycliche.livejournal.com]

Wow I thought there would have been much more "OMGYESANGSTTTTTT!!" in this thread. I'm pleased there's not. "Corazon" was a painful ep for me, honestly, and I was a bit glad when the plot line seemed to fizzle out, as others have on this show.

Anyway... I can deal with this as long as it isn't:

a) Schizophrenia or another mental illness
b) A brain tumor or something terminal
c) A return to the drug addiction storyline. He's been clean for nearly 4 years now. I see no reason to go back to that, honestly.

NGL and say I'm not nervous about this, since his contract is supposedly up after this next season, so they might have plans for him to go out with a bang. I'm just hoping for the best.

I remember when they were talking about this and said it had something to do with his "genetic past". I would love if it had to do with his mom or dad not actually being his mom or dad or something like that. OR I would have loved if it were somehow tied to him having some kind of high functioning Autism, though they kind of missed the boat to introduce that during "Coda".

I hope he doesn't go or deteriorate in S7. I don't want to have to stop watching, and/or pretend that S7 Reid doesn't exist. :/

[e-rousset.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the brain tumor theory because it's treatable. As long as he pulls through in the end I'm alright with it.
But I certainly don't want schizophrenia or drug addiction.

I seriously doubt we'll have a plot where we learn his mother is not his mother (same thing with his father).

I'm not going to theorize or get excited by this news. I was so disappointed by the results of Reid's storyline in the sixth season, I won't make the same mistake twice.
For all we know they are just going to confirm that it's stress related...(and I would prefer them to completely drop that storyline than that).

[crystalfairie.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiousity, why doesn't anyone want the whole mental illness plot line?

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

My problem with the mental illness plot is that there is no way Reid could be an FBI agent and have a serious mental illness.

[djan31.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not vague or anything.
I wanted a spoiler spoiler.
I hate surprises!