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[izumi-masaki.livejournal.com]

Didn't see this posted yet so...

This is the discussion post for Episode 7x09 - "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

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[nwjarvis.livejournal.com]

Rossi is a former Marine.

BTW, since when does Morgan call her "Strauss" to her face? Seems a trifle disrespectful for an Assistant Director/Deputy Director or whatever her title is...?

[tryxkittie.livejournal.com]

lol ikr

re: Rossi is a former Marine

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

Wow, was this the first time it was mentioned?

Because it threw a lot of assumptions out the window.

I thought of Gideon as the lone guy who was in the army and Rossi is The Writer who doesn't get his PTSD thing.




...and now I have even more reasons to ship Rossi/Gideon, huzzah!

Re: Rossi is a former Marine

[chreesko.livejournal.com]

It was also mentioned in 5x03 and 7x03 as well. Maybe other episodes, too, but those are the only two I can remember. IIRC, it's hinted that he joined the military to avoid getting sucked into the mob.

This is just my personal interpretation, but I'd be shocked if any of the team members didn't get the PTSD thing. The job aside, they've all suffered some sort of major trauma before joining the BAU (Rossi's dead baby, Morgan's abuse, JJ's sister's suicide, etc.), so they probably all had first-hand experience even before the traumas the job heaped upon them. Hunting serial killers isn't really the sort of thing that emotionally undamaged people do (within the universe of the show, at least. I have no idea about the real people who do this for a living).

Re: Rossi is a former Marine

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Yeah, everyone had angst, but like, different? In fact, having pains might make it harder to sympathize or understand someone with /different/ pains sometimes.

/IIRC, it's hinted that he joined the military to avoid getting sucked into the mob./


I really like Rossi, he's had just enough bad boy vibe in him to be sexy, not actually bad in a way that makes you feel guilty for liking him. Reminds me a bit of Ray in Due South.

Re: Rossi is a former Marine

[nwjarvis.livejournal.com]

I doubt the damage we see in Gideon came from his Army days - they would have been, what, 35 or 40 years ago? I think his damage is more from the cumulative effects of all those gambles he's taken, especially the times he's lost.

And there's no reason Rossi shouldn't "get" the PTSD thing - it's not exclusive to the military. You can trust me on this one; those of us in public safety type jobs - cops, firefighters, paramedics, and so on - are very subject to it. I'm sure there are others.

[kgrier.livejournal.com]

Both he and Prentiss find ways to voice their dislike of Strauss in a professional setting. Prentiss' "Ma'am" is one of my top 20 moments on the show.

In this instance, though, I think Morgan was just operating under the impression that she was his partner and they were in the field on a case, so he was reacting to her the way he would anyone else on the team. She was going a bit off the rails, he was thinking he smelled alcohol, and he was trying to get her attention and reign her in.