Because I'm curious like that

[thelana.livejournal.com]

In spirit of the show hopefully coming back soon :) CM really made me realize how many great potential ships there are that I never would have thought about till I found fandom.

So wondered, do you ship?
If yes:
What's your favorite CM ship? (even if you have more, which is the one that truly has your heart)
At what point did it win you over?
Which episode(s) do you think best represents your ship?
Out of the people involved in your ship, which one did you fall in love with first?

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[dragonladyk.livejournal.com]

So wondered, do you ship?

In canon, very rarely. In fanfic/iconage, all the time. I love gen, too, though. It's a lot harder to find well-written gen than well-written shippyfic, perhaps because fewer people are trying.

I know that quite a few commentators are pretty hard on shipping, and, well. *pffft* Shipping allows me to explore both other aspects of the characters than what we see on-screen, as well as the pscyhology and concepts that catalyze and form a deeply committed pairbond.

That, and Gregory House is completely, absolutely, 100% right: it is all about sex. Even if you're asexual. (I love House, but he needs to lose the minions. They're dragging him -- and the show -- down.)

What's your favorite CM ship?

Het: Hotch/Prentiss.
Slash: Rossi/Reid.

I favor Hotch/Prentiss the most because on the very, very last episode of the show that will ever be made, I want Hotch/Prentiss to be made canon. Because every Big Name Fan in this fandom's head would explode exactly at the same time, CBS.com would implode under the weight of the Hotch/Reid contingent's paroxyms of unbridled rage and the Morgan/Garcia complaints of how unfair it was, the resulting LJ wank as the H/P folks strive to defend their ship from attack would make the GSR wars of CSI look like a fricking English tea party, and I would be sitting there in the chaos, laughing, as the fix-it fic came flying in from all sides as fast as people could type.

You'll note that I said this is my wish for the very, very last episode. The show ending in a bang of wanktastic explosion from every corner because the most hated pairing in the entire fandom was made canon is funny, like a building exploding or fireworks lighting the bushes on fire. A wanktastic fandom war that drags on for seasons while the show plummets into the depths of suck (Buffy, CSI, SGA) is just plain miserable.

Nobody wants that, and I don't want my ship to be the ship that started that off. As long as there is a future for CM, it needs to stay ship-free, IMO, and especially Hotch/Prentiss free. Because JJ/Will and Garcia/Kevin pretty much proved these people can't write decent shipping to save their mortal souls. Canon shipping among the team would drag this show down to the depths of suck so fast it would leave a whirlpool in its wake.

That being said, Morgan/Reid being made canon in the last show ever would be funny, too. (Or Hotch/Reid, I'm not picky, even though the feminized-Bella-Swan!Reid of H/R fanfic makes me want to kill Reid off in a myriad of painful ways.)

The Moral Guardians' Sekrit Gaye Agenda Wank is always a five-bucket-o-popcorn show.

At what point did it win you over?

Hotch/Prentiss: In Birth and Death. "Hatred of politics" my ass, Em. You ain't foolin' nobody. And then there was the way Hotch spent two seasons afterward dragging Emily around like a security blanket.

Rossi/Reid: It was really Inner & Severity's fic that won me over, then I started seeing the subtext everywhere in the show. Rossi has a passion for beautiful things, Reid craves stability, and they have complimentary issues -- neither of them zens easily.

Which episode(s) do you think best represents your ship?

Hotch/Prentiss: "In Birth and Death," "Ashes and Dust," "Honor Among Theives," "Angel Maker," "Demonology," "Minimal Loss," "52 Pickup," "Mayhem," and "The Instincts."

Rossi/Reid: "Limelight," "The Instincts/Memoriam," "Masterpiece."

Out of the people involved in your ship, which one did you fall in love with first?

Hotch, who I have loved from the moment I first saw the show onward. I hated Emily with a firey passion when she first showed up. Around "Honor Among Thieves" she stopped being annoying, so I forgave her. And now I love her.

Reid. I adored him from "Derailed" onward. The writers are currently trying to turn him into a helpless butt-monkey, so he's lost some serious cool points in my book. Still, when they let Reid kick ass without going on and on and on and on about his issues or how much danger he's in, I like him. I wanted to drown Rossi in a bucket up until "Limelight," but he's stopped being a Grade AA Jackass, so I forgave him.

DragonLady