I do ship, but as darkhawkhealer said, I prefer to keep shipping limited to fanfic/fandom/roleplaying, rather than seeing it happen in the show. In some cases -- like House and Harry Potter, since those are two of my other fandoms -- I wouldn't mind/wouldn't have minded seeing some fanon ships happen in the source text (like Remus/Sirius or House/Wilson), because in those cases, the respective writers wound up emphasizing the characters' romantic lives for certain reasons (i.e., because it's a part of growing up for Harry and his friends, or because trust is one of the big themes of House, in general, and trust is very easy to explore in many dimensions in romantic relationships). CM, however, is not one of these cases. I think introducing intra-team romantic storylines into the show itself would seriously distract from what the show does best -- the unsubs, their different levels, finding them, the actual work of profiling, how the unsubs and the cases impact the team and the victims, etc. -- and, since, really, that's why I watch the show, I wouldn't want to compromise it just to watch Matthew and Shemar make out or similar.
Favorite ship: ...I feel like I sort of gave it away already, but I love Morgan/Reid.
When I was first won over: Honestly, it's complicated. The first episode I watched was "Sex, Birth, Death" from s2, because a friend mentioned Reid saying, "I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind" to Morgan in the midst of some discussion about how I knew Matthew from elsewhere and rather fancied him. The quote intrigued me, so I watched the episode, which did give me some feelings of, "Oh, Morgan and Reid. I'm going to end up shipping you, aren't I?" Then I went back to the beginning and started watching from s1, and, honestly, the first time in s1 I really got shippy feelings for Morgan and Reid was in "LDSK" when Morgan comes over and puts the whistle around Reid's neck after he's just failed his firearms qualification. I really liked the apparent well-mannered, playful antagonism between them then, and since, I've enjoyed watching it grow from that into a still often playful and head-butting, but much deeper, respectful, and sensitive relationship, regardless of how much shippy-ness I tend to project on their interactions.
That said, I don't think I really had my moment of, "Oh, yes, I could totally see you two in a functioning, romantic/sexual relationship" until about "Elephant's Memory," and in my personal slant on things, I'd even go a step further and say that I wouldn't put them as really in said relationship until after "Minimal Loss." Up until "Elephant's Memory," the respect they have for each other was obviously growing -- but there are still a lot of instances where one will make an assumption about the other (usually Reid making one about Morgan) that, regardless of the intent or veracity, is still disrespectful, c.f. Reid challenging Morgan's religious beliefs in "Lucky," Reid going off on what he assumed Morgan would have had on his childhood bedroom walls in "Elephant's Memory." But once they have that beautiful moment of sharing, where Morgan admits to having been bullied as a kid and Reid shares his horrid experience for the first time, a lot of their personal walls start to come down with each other, and the fact they now trust each other enough to share those things was fundamental to really making me ship them the way that I do (which is to say: as something I could see working, and write about as working, rather than something I'd mostly write as wish-fulfillment).
Favorite episodes for shipping: "LDSK," "Sex, Birth, Death," and "Elephant's Memory," as said above, but besides those... "Revelations" and "Profiler, Profiled"; "Amplification," "Conflicted," "The Instincts," "Memoriam," "The Instincts," "Fear and Loathing," "The Popular Kids," and... to be honest, I could stick shipping into most episodes, so I'm just going to cut it off there.
First fell in love with: Reid. At first, Matthew was the big reason why, but then I watched the show and totally fell for the nerdy genius and all his different levels.
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Favorite ship: ...I feel like I sort of gave it away already, but I love Morgan/Reid.
When I was first won over: Honestly, it's complicated. The first episode I watched was "Sex, Birth, Death" from s2, because a friend mentioned Reid saying, "I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind" to Morgan in the midst of some discussion about how I knew Matthew from elsewhere and rather fancied him. The quote intrigued me, so I watched the episode, which did give me some feelings of, "Oh, Morgan and Reid. I'm going to end up shipping you, aren't I?" Then I went back to the beginning and started watching from s1, and, honestly, the first time in s1 I really got shippy feelings for Morgan and Reid was in "LDSK" when Morgan comes over and puts the whistle around Reid's neck after he's just failed his firearms qualification. I really liked the apparent well-mannered, playful antagonism between them then, and since, I've enjoyed watching it grow from that into a still often playful and head-butting, but much deeper, respectful, and sensitive relationship, regardless of how much shippy-ness I tend to project on their interactions.
That said, I don't think I really had my moment of, "Oh, yes, I could totally see you two in a functioning, romantic/sexual relationship" until about "Elephant's Memory," and in my personal slant on things, I'd even go a step further and say that I wouldn't put them as really in said relationship until after "Minimal Loss." Up until "Elephant's Memory," the respect they have for each other was obviously growing -- but there are still a lot of instances where one will make an assumption about the other (usually Reid making one about Morgan) that, regardless of the intent or veracity, is still disrespectful, c.f. Reid challenging Morgan's religious beliefs in "Lucky," Reid going off on what he assumed Morgan would have had on his childhood bedroom walls in "Elephant's Memory." But once they have that beautiful moment of sharing, where Morgan admits to having been bullied as a kid and Reid shares his horrid experience for the first time, a lot of their personal walls start to come down with each other, and the fact they now trust each other enough to share those things was fundamental to really making me ship them the way that I do (which is to say: as something I could see working, and write about as working, rather than something I'd mostly write as wish-fulfillment).
Favorite episodes for shipping: "LDSK," "Sex, Birth, Death," and "Elephant's Memory," as said above, but besides those... "Revelations" and "Profiler, Profiled"; "Amplification," "Conflicted," "The Instincts," "Memoriam," "The Instincts," "Fear and Loathing," "The Popular Kids," and... to be honest, I could stick shipping into most episodes, so I'm just going to cut it off there.
First fell in love with: Reid. At first, Matthew was the big reason why, but then I watched the show and totally fell for the nerdy genius and all his different levels.