Joe Mantegna suddenly catblock / why I like Rossi

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There is something about Rossi that is always sweet and hilarious. Gavin de Becker said that men are worried that women would laugh at them, while women are worried that men would kill them (for laughing/rejecting them). Well Rossi had always struck me as the kind of men who wouldn't be afraid or angry at a woman who laughs at him, even if it was in bed. Is this weird? The fact that he stayed friends with his first wife have me reading Rossi less as a man who have failed three marriages, and more as a man who have moved pass three failed marriages (or mistaken match-ups) - his id is not dependent on any conduct of 'his woman'.


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inexplicable

Maybe it's transference. I hate Kate Freelander from Sanctuary, while there are clear cut logical reasons why (um, her character kidnapped someone and sold him to the Evil Corp on the episode that introduced her), reasons that a lot of her fans handwaved as wtf origin bad writing, the fact that I have handwaved similar wtf (Iron Man) but didn't for this character means that there is probably some personal transference going on. It's so bad I stopped watching the series, but hey, kudos for the people who like her character and find something to be happy about, haters to the left!



so my opinion has been completely warped by fandom and shipping. XD


Remembering that tumblr post where someone said their opinion of Gideon was mostly shaped by fanfic, I guess it's time for me to write moar (though goddamn it, I have so many wip in the kink meme it's MEAN.), Gideon fics and Rossi/Gideon fics, because holy fairygodmothers of columbian graded crack, it MAKES SENSE!

...and come now, Harry Potter has a huge Oliver/Percy fandom before those two even have a line in the book together (and in fact, they nevar, but the movie producers were fandom tuned enough to give us a hug in the movie, thank you!).

As much as I like Gideon, I have to say that they way he's been keeping, it was bad for the BAU, and the BAU (or what they dealt with), was bad for him. He couldn't put it down when the case ends. As much as I miss him, as much as I prefer him better, as a beloved character, I have to say that show-wise, and in-universe BAU health-wise, Rossi was better for the team. If only we could have had both though, I think if Rossi had came back earlier, Gideon wouldn't have left like /that/. Rossi would have slapped some sense into Gideon the way he did for Hotch at the end of Omnivore, or he would have told Gideon that it's okay to quit the way he told Jordan so he didn't have to leave like that.