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This is the discussion post for Episode 7x07 - "There's No Place Like Home". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments

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gsyh.livejournal.com

...is how its most scariest unsubs (the crazy ones you can't reason with), are fucking scary, but you can't hate them, because poor poor bastards. Like that lady in Uncanny Valley, it would be the horrors to be one of her victims, drugged repeatedly, wig sewed onto your sculpt, alone with the loony, but could you hate her if you know why she's wrecked like this?

Even that female dominant killer in The Perfect Storm, at the end, she was screaming, "I promise you she'll never be the same.", she was relieving her own trauma, the sexual sadism was more psychodrama than sexual thrill, for her. Hotch sometimes slams the unsub around or is otherwise very rough when he takes them in, but not that time, you could see the pity in his eyes.

This one, like Garcia said, poor kid indeed.

From:

full-metal-ox.livejournal.com

Like that lady in Uncanny Valley, it would be the horrors to be one of her victims, drugged repeatedly, wig sewed onto your sculpt, alone with the loony, but could you hate her if you know why she's wrecked like this?

And that's precisely why it was in the presence of her victims that Reid confronted her, explained that he understood why she'd turned out as she had, and did the heartbreakingly simple thing necessary to neutralize her as a threat. (Being kidnapped, immobilized, and ill-used by a disturbed person who snapped under a father's abuse? Those are moccasins Reid's walked in, thank you.)

From:

gsyh.livejournal.com

/Those are moccasins Reid's walked in, thank you.)/

Amen, poor boy.

From:

nwjarvis.livejournal.com

Yeah, a lot of the long-term character arcs are expansions of Hotch's "Some people grow up to catch them"... the way people react to abuse and/or extreme stress in different ways. A lot of the underlying theme of the show is how to deal with trauma without becoming one of the monsters.