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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?
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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Date: Sep. 6th, 2009 10:17 pm (UTC)What's your favorite CM ship? Hotch/Rossi
At what point did it win you over? 3x18 "The Crossing"
Which episode(s) do you think best represents your ship? Angel Maker 4x02, Omnivore 4x18
Out of the people involved in your ship, which one did you fall in love with first? Hotch.
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Date: Sep. 6th, 2009 10:19 pm (UTC)I ship Hotch with most of the cast. There's just something about him that pulls me in like a magnet. He's angsty, complex, and can be a badass when the writers let him. He (with Reid as a close second) is probably the character I fell in love with first.
Besides my Hotch ships, I also sort of ship Morgan and Garcia and Kevin and Garcia.
My top ship is probably Hotch/Rossi. It won me over last season, and I wasn't really expecting it. I became drawn to the chemistry between the actors and to the fact that when Hotch was with Rossi, we saw a side of Hotch we didn't normally get to see. I think he reveals his vulnerability to Rossi moreso than anyone else who's been on the show (even Gideon). And there was a MAN HUG when Dave was first introduced! :D
As for an episode that represents the ship... How about "Omnivore," because it features one of my favorite Hotch/Rossi scenes--Hotch is struggling with his own guilt over not accepting Foyet's deal, and he opens up to Rossi. Great stuff.
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Date: Sep. 6th, 2009 10:39 pm (UTC)What's your favourite CM ship? Reid and Morgan. (Second is Hotch and Gideon, or former them, maybe not current.)
Which episodes? The one in the hospital. (I'm sorry, I don't know them by name.) You know which one I mean, the one with the jello! And then various other scenes from various episodes. Moments, really.
Which did you fall for first? Oh lordy, Reid. I empathise with him so very very much. On a million and a half levels. I love the show, but if not for Reid, I don't know if I'd love it as much. Seeing myself in the show really made it for me.
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Date: Sep. 6th, 2009 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 6th, 2009 11:22 pm (UTC)If yes:
What's your favorite CM ship? (even if you have more, which is the one that truly has your heart) Reid/Morgan
At what point did it win you over?
Which episode(s) do you think best represents your ship? Sex, Birth, Death, The Instincts, Memoriam, Amplification. The ending of Fear and Loathing is one of my fave moments as well, Reid confiding in Morgan makes me melt.
Out of the people involved in your ship, which one did you fall in love with first? Reid
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Date: Sep. 6th, 2009 11:47 pm (UTC)I'm a Hotch/Reid girl. I do dabble in (and read) pretty much every other type of slash, because I am a romantic idealist and believe in a world where it is not only okay but straight-up ENCOURAGED for pretty, pretty boys to kiss each other. \o/ I never said it was rational.
Um, I came into the show around mid-S2, and I remember being instantly taken by Reid. He was just so awkward and geeky and shiny and pretty and I wanted to pet him. Still do, mostly. =D
I think it was the hug in Revelations -- the secret message and the implicit trust and the passionate drive to save his team member (which, yes, okay, Hotch would have done for any of them, but that's not the point!). It all just came together to make me think they would be adorable with each other.
I never said I wasn't a sappy fangirl!
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 12:04 am (UTC)In this fandom, I have the sad lot of shipping a seemingly very rare ship...Reid/Prentiss. I'm puzzled why no one seems to put them together. They're both nerds, they've had a lot of good connections in canon. Why no love for this ship?
Of course Minimal Loss is a big episode for them, and the conversation they have about Gideon's letter in Scared to Death is a nice moment.
I fell pretty hard for Reid early in my CM exposure (pretty recent, just started watching last spring and am now totally caught up with all four seasons), but I love Prentiss's attitude and fire.
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 01:20 am (UTC)At what point did it win you over? Revelations
Which episode(s) do you think best represents your ship? Revelations 2x15 Damaged 3x14
Out of the people involved in your ship, which one did you fall in love with first? Like most other girl, I istantly fell in love with Reid :D
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 02:37 am (UTC)If yes:
What's your favorite CM ship? (even if you have more, which is the one that truly has your heart) Prentiss/Rossi
At what point did it win you over? Fanfic actually caused me to ship it
episode(s) do you think best represents your ship? Demonology, Amplification
Out of the people involved in your ship, which one did you fall in love with first? Ummm...I love them both, but I guess, I'd say Emily
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 04:51 am (UTC)And then at the end when they're holding hands on the jet and he's stroking her fingers with his thumb...so sweet.
I am a loooooongtime fanfic writer for many fandoms, and now a published novelist who ought to be working on the sequel to her first book, but instead I'm writing an epic Reid/Prentiss fanfic because I can't help myself.
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 05:16 am (UTC)Morgan/Reid.
I think the best episodes would be the one where Reid got contaminated with Anthrax and the one that Jackson Rathbone guest starred in. Can't think of the episode names though.
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 06:29 am (UTC)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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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 06:37 am (UTC)The story is shaping up to be a two-thread story. The A plot has Reid/Prentiss established, they are attending a conference in Dallas and run into Elle Greenaway, which kicks off the catch-the-criminal plot, but this storyline is interspersed with extensive flashbacks about how they got together. I want to get some more of it written before I start posting, hopefully all of it, we'll see how long it takes me to finish. I always write hugely long stories, this one's already 17,000 words and I've barely gotten into the meat of the A plot yet. It's been pretty flashback-heavy up front.
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 07:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 07:46 am (UTC)Though there are times where I think that maybe there should actually be more outside the team significant others. I mean, ok, as much as we as shippers might loathe them because they might "get in the way", there a moment where it feels almost unrealistic to me that all these people would be this single at their age/level of pay/level of looks/level of intelligence.
But I love how good the show is about Reid/Morgan. I remember when I first peeked into the fandom it seems like everybody was shipping a combination of Hotch/Reid/Gideon, but to me it came out more and more that a lot of the good stuff was given to Reid/Morgan. Popular Kids being the first "major" one to me (as opposed to cute subtle subtext ones).
You bring up a really interesting point about Reid making assumptions about Morgan. I never really thought of that and how it might be a problem in a closer relationship. Interesting food for thought.
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 08:07 am (UTC)I do love me some Emily in general. I just rewatched the evil pick up teacher episode and it just boosted my Emily love sky high once again :)
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2009 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
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