Honestly, Morgan's line that this would make him a better profiler enrages me every time I watch that scene - that's not what Reid's looking for or needs at that point.
I think that's the point, though. That scene closely mirrors Elle's conversation with Reid in "Aftermath"--it just showed both of them how utterly alone they were in their situations. Aftermath!Reid and Morgan don't get it--they haven't been through the same sort of thing--and Elle / F&L!Reid both kind of smile and go through the motions while they're just getting that no one understands what they're going through.
So for me, the thought of his team members watching him struggle, but not coming forward to help him in any practical way, makes me roll my eyes when they talk about them all being a family.
They do this *a lot*, though. They did it again with Elle (their two trauma arcs are very, very closely paralleled). They're pretty shit at looking out for each other when someone isn't in immediate, life-threatening danger. It happens enough that it's *in-character* for them to not look at things on that personal level. I always thought it was intentional--the people who are supposed to know everything about behaviour don't apply that to each other.
And yeah, the current staff of one-off writers is just...ugh. I don't honestly trust them to do much of anything with the headaches. I think they've basically slaughtered Reid's characterization this season, though (oh look at me I'm a wide-eyed innocent oh was that a rhetorical question hey I'm going to be Matthew Gray Gubler instead of Reid in this slasher film voice-over is that cool yeah yeah absolutely of course of course).
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I think that's the point, though. That scene closely mirrors Elle's conversation with Reid in "Aftermath"--it just showed both of them how utterly alone they were in their situations. Aftermath!Reid and Morgan don't get it--they haven't been through the same sort of thing--and Elle / F&L!Reid both kind of smile and go through the motions while they're just getting that no one understands what they're going through.
So for me, the thought of his team members watching him struggle, but not coming forward to help him in any practical way, makes me roll my eyes when they talk about them all being a family.
They do this *a lot*, though. They did it again with Elle (their two trauma arcs are very, very closely paralleled). They're pretty shit at looking out for each other when someone isn't in immediate, life-threatening danger. It happens enough that it's *in-character* for them to not look at things on that personal level. I always thought it was intentional--the people who are supposed to know everything about behaviour don't apply that to each other.
And yeah, the current staff of one-off writers is just...ugh. I don't honestly trust them to do much of anything with the headaches. I think they've basically slaughtered Reid's characterization this season, though (oh look at me I'm a wide-eyed innocent oh was that a rhetorical question hey I'm going to be Matthew Gray Gubler instead of Reid in this slasher film voice-over is that cool yeah yeah absolutely of course of course).