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[a_blackpanther]

Reid never learns & a bit about the spin-off. From two different articles on SpoilerTV.

Can you ask ‘Criminal Minds‘ creator Ed Bernero if Reid will ever learn about pop culture? Because while he may have grown up and matured by his experiences at the BAU, his obliviousness (to ‘Twilight‘ and so forth) should be rectified. What’s more, the show is in its fifth season and we still haven’t seen Reid’s apartment! – Dalyn
Sorry, Dalyn, but Bernero refuses to budge on the issue of Reid’s pop culture ignorance. “We believe that most of Reid’s time when off-duty is taken up by studying the criminal mind or by teaching the things he’s learned – and we’ve done episodes in which he’s done both of those things,” he tells the Big Tease. “We just don’t think that he’s as interested in things like ‘Twilight’ as the rest of us are.” Turning to the matter of where Reid hangs his hat, Bernero asks: “Aren’t we all just a little bit afraid of what that apartment would look like?!” Fair point.

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I hate the idea of a Criminal Minds spin-off. Is there a way you can assure the fans that nothing is going to change and they won't steal writers and stories from the original? — Diane
ADAM: Who am I, State Farm? I can't guarantee anything, but I can ask executive producer Ed Bernero to give it a shot. "The 19th episode [which could launch the spin-off] is going to be a Criminal Minds episode and you'll meet some new people," he says, downplaying the future possibilities. "We're focused on doing the best Criminal Minds episodes we can and introducing these new characters. And if it goes, it goes. We all really care about the first show."

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Is it just me, or all CM spoilers accompanied by quotes. Do these people have Ed B. on speed dial or something?

Comments

[britt-m-89.livejournal.com]

I would love to see Reid's apartment. You know it's filled to the brim with books. And all his furniture is his from his mom's house, nothing new.

[benitle.livejournal.com]

“Aren’t we all just a little bit afraid of what that apartment would look like?!”
Haha, not at all! It probably looks like a live-in library. I wouldn't be surprised if he had to sleep on books (as in: mattress on top of books instead of an actual bed frame) because he has so many.

[drasticbarbie.livejournal.com]

that's about what i'd think. i was wondering last night. would it be very clean or a complete mess?

[a_blackpanther]

I was reading this book the other day and one of the characters, a professor, has his office so full with books he's created a maze with all the books tacked on top of each other. Just enough space to travel from the door to the desk and to the couch. I think Reid's apartment would be kinda like that.

[benitle.livejournal.com]

That's totally how I picture it, too.

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome. I want to live there - wait, that was my room around essay-season.

[knit.livejournal.com]

I know his apartment would be full of books, but I'd be so amused if it didn't. If one of the other team-members came over for the first time and was like "this doesn't look anything like how I pictured it."

idk. That would amuse me. "What do you mean?" "oh...nothing."

[eiko82.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that would be pretty awesome!

[jujuberry136.livejournal.com]

That would be hilarious.

Especially since said team member would probably try to sneak around to see if all the books were just stuffed into a spare closet or something

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

The thing that bothers me about Reid's pop culture ignorance is that 1) it's been so uneven, with "The Performer" hitting preposterous levels (he doesn't read fiction? He liked Proust at age 11, a thing I have not been able to manage ten years later, he's working on a philosophy BA, and we're supposed to believe he simply doesn't read fiction?), and 2) this is a guy who takes in a page of text about as quickly as most of us take in a poster, and he remembers everything he reads. Even if he didn't go out of his way to read the m15m recaps, you'd think he'd know what things like Twilight are just by accident.

TL;DR, I just hope they don't start leaning on cheap, Hollywood!nerd characterization when he's been such a nuanced character for most of his run.

[a_blackpanther]

I'm pretending most of that episode just didn't happen. Exactly because of the characterization problems.

Cool comm, btw.

[elventree.livejournal.com]

Well we know he watches some fiction - Star Trek and Star Wars. So he's not completely ignorant about pop culture.

[enmuse.livejournal.com]

Agreed. While I feel like Reid will always lack social grace and be ignorant of childhood interactions/games (kissing rhyme anyone?) almost anything written would be free game for him. I mean, if you could read superhuman fast and remember every word, why the hell wouldn't you read anything available? I'd think he'd come across some "pop culture" via the team -- like if JJ leaves a novel lying out, Garcia drops grapic novels on his desk... lol.

Also I feel like he can't be completely ignorant of pop culture because there must be some knowledge needed when gathering background on victims & unsubs to complete profiles.

(please forgive typos. Net is not working so resorting to 3G and iPhone)

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Also I feel like he can't be completely ignorant of pop culture because there must be some knowledge needed when gathering background on victims & unsubs to complete profiles.

Exactly. His job is all about people. I can see why sparkly vampires wouldn't make the top of his priorities heap, but why would he disdain any sort of information that could help him make connections? There are much subtler and more interesting ways to delineate how he's socially and intellectually isolated--and to their credit, the writers usually go that route.

[cloudzrshibby.livejournal.com]

I agree with you both about the fiction thing.

I'm gonna go ahead and believe that he does read fiction, but, you know, GOOD fiction. He definently has background with it though. He's read at least on graphic novel in the show, explained Star Wars references, explained Pinocchio, and I don't remember the episode well but he read that one science fiction novel about 10 times over when that one guy started bombing Seattle.

[underhand-glory.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I feel like a lot of the nuance in Reid's characterization can be attributed to MGG's portrayal rather than the show's writing.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have to give you that one.

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Completely off topic, but what does TL;DR mean? It keeps cropping up and every time I see it I am left scratching my head!

[enmuse.livejournal.com]

"too long, didn't read"
=D Yes, I'm so proud I can answer that now, lol. I was totally confused about it earlier this year, too.

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[scarimor.livejournal.com]

"The 19th episode [which could launch the spin-off] is going to be a Criminal Minds episode... "

What?

[sodoesrachael.livejournal.com]

"The 19th episode [which could launch the spin-off] is going to be a Criminal Minds episode... "

Serious? And here I thought it was going to be CSI... darn.

Also, honestly, I don't think Reid has many books in his place of dwelling. Why would he? He remembers them all, word for word, no need to keep them. He probably keeps the ones that have personal significance for him, like the ones his mother read to him as a child.

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

I am so not excited about this spinoff. I really want to give it a chance but everything I'm hearing about it just keeps turning me off more and more.

[citymusings.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the spoilers.

I'm cautiously optimistic on the spin-off. Since so many of the good crime dramas are getting up there in years, I'm starting to think it's in my best interest to start loving some of the new ones so I'll still have something to enjoy when they start knockin' off my longer-running shows. I just hope the spin off goes in a slot that's open for me to watch it in. ;)

[ladymalchav.livejournal.com]

I really like Reid's ignorance of pop culture. He doesn't seem like the type to watch tonnes of TV, not regularly anyway. He'd be more of the kind to buy the DVDs of something that interested him than watching it on cable.

I didn't have TV for about 3 years, and the only way I found out about recent pop-culture (including Twilight) was through the internet, and Reid also doesn't seem like the kind to be hanging out in LiveJournal comms during his free time.

I'm just saying, it's incredibly easy to miss out on pop culture references if you don't care about them.