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Age: late 20s
Location: Iowa
Favorite TV Show: I'm fickle. Right now, I'm totally in love with CM--it's all new and shiny and wonderful. But look below, and all those shows were considered favorites, too. ;)
Other Shows Watched: Brothers and Sisters, Heroes, SPN, Merlin, Project Runway, Law and Order.
Favorite Quote: "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." C.S. Lewis
Favorite Color: Purple
If I was a criminal, I'd be... not the kind they catch on "Criminal Minds." I'd be caught by the Law and Order cops, I'm sure.
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And now onto my discussion point. Disclaimer: I've only recently started watching the show and I pretty much marathoned my way through all the episodes thus far, so I definitely could have missed something. I'll feel kind of foolish, but you know. You'll have that.
Anyway, I've been reading a lot of fanfic lately and it seems like a lot of authors make Reid kind of...helpless. Like, can't cook, can't take care of himself, that kind of thing. Which isn't bad, but when I was watching the show and learning his backstory, I immediately thought that he'd have to be fairly decent at that kind of thing. "My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic who'd forget to eat if she wasn't properly medicated and supervised." So he had to take care of her and himself until he went off to college. It's obvious she got worse as time went on, but he said his mother didn't notice he didn't get home until midnight when he'd been tied to the goalpost because she'd had an episode.
And once he got to college...well. I guess I don't know about prodigies, but do they let 12-year-olds live in the dorms? He went to Caltech, and it seems like Diana stayed in Las Vegas. Hmm. Maybe he stayed with a host family like a foreign exchange student might?
Plus, he has Ph.D in chemistry--surely he can follow the directions in a simple recipe to make something? ;)
Anyway, your thoughts? If this was discussed previously (it doesn't look like it was discussed recently, at any rate), sorry, and if you wouldn't mind linking, I'd appreciate it!
alphabet26Age: late 20s
Location: Iowa
Favorite TV Show: I'm fickle. Right now, I'm totally in love with CM--it's all new and shiny and wonderful. But look below, and all those shows were considered favorites, too. ;)
Other Shows Watched: Brothers and Sisters, Heroes, SPN, Merlin, Project Runway, Law and Order.
Favorite Quote: "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." C.S. Lewis
Favorite Color: Purple
If I was a criminal, I'd be... not the kind they catch on "Criminal Minds." I'd be caught by the Law and Order cops, I'm sure.
*****
And now onto my discussion point. Disclaimer: I've only recently started watching the show and I pretty much marathoned my way through all the episodes thus far, so I definitely could have missed something. I'll feel kind of foolish, but you know. You'll have that.
Anyway, I've been reading a lot of fanfic lately and it seems like a lot of authors make Reid kind of...helpless. Like, can't cook, can't take care of himself, that kind of thing. Which isn't bad, but when I was watching the show and learning his backstory, I immediately thought that he'd have to be fairly decent at that kind of thing. "My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic who'd forget to eat if she wasn't properly medicated and supervised." So he had to take care of her and himself until he went off to college. It's obvious she got worse as time went on, but he said his mother didn't notice he didn't get home until midnight when he'd been tied to the goalpost because she'd had an episode.
And once he got to college...well. I guess I don't know about prodigies, but do they let 12-year-olds live in the dorms? He went to Caltech, and it seems like Diana stayed in Las Vegas. Hmm. Maybe he stayed with a host family like a foreign exchange student might?
Plus, he has Ph.D in chemistry--surely he can follow the directions in a simple recipe to make something? ;)
Anyway, your thoughts? If this was discussed previously (it doesn't look like it was discussed recently, at any rate), sorry, and if you wouldn't mind linking, I'd appreciate it!
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Date: Jan. 1st, 2010 10:13 pm (UTC)As for the college thing. My personal canon is that Reid went to UN-LV for three years, then Cal-Tech at 15 for his doctorates. Given that his dad walked out on his mom when he was 10(?), I don't think he'd be comfortable abandoning his mother only a few years later. And given Diana's reasons for not being institutionalized ("all my things are here") I doubt that she could have moved from LV to supervise Spencer at Cal-Tech in undergrad. And I'm not sure what options Spencer would have in on-campus housing at 12 (most college are wary of that kind of thing).
However, Cal-Tech for graduate degrees (and being 15), makes finding housing for him slightly easier from the administrative point of view. And he could still come home for holidays to check in on his mother.
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Date: Jan. 1st, 2010 10:33 pm (UTC)Yes. This. Exactly.
And given Diana's reasons for not being institutionalized ("all my things are here") I doubt that she could have moved from LV to supervise Spencer at Cal-Tech in undergrad.
I knew there was something that made me think she hadn't left LV, thanks! Yeah, very doubtful she moved to CA.
And I'm not sure what options Spencer would have in on-campus housing at 12 (most college are wary of that kind of thing).
Yeah, and it's not like he had relatives to live with or something.
However, Cal-Tech for graduate degrees (and being 15), makes finding housing for him slightly easier from the administrative point of view. And he could still come home for holidays to check in on his mother.
That makes sense.
ETA: And thanks for the welcome! :)