Regarding Elephant's Memory

[gershwhen.livejournal.com]

Hey, just finished watching a rerun of Elephant's Memory and I have a question and then a point for discussion.

1.  Who is the guy who gives Reid his one year coin?  Are we supposed to know who he is as a character?  Or was he a guest cameo?

2.  Does anyone else get the feeling that the team was too hard on Reid in this episode?  I sometimes think that Morgan is allowed to get upset and punch doors, Hotch can go back to work with a hearing impairment or after he is almost murdered and they are cut a lot of slack.  Yet Reid is considered in the wrong every time he tries to define what this kid has been through and points out the that the adults should have done more.  Is it just me?

Comments

[bbt-criminal.livejournal.com]

Thing one: Reid was out of line.
Thing Two: anyone, profiler or not, could see it coming a mile away. The team knows that Reid always over-identifies with picked on loner kids.

The most annoying thing about this episode for me was the disruption of time. It's 10 months later already? What did I miss?! Oh, nothing. They just couldn't be bothered to actually show us any true addict behaviour, if there was any. If the addiction was that bad, then he'd have had to hit bottom, which usualy entails losing either your job, your friends or your family. Reid lost nothing. It was a cop-out from start to finish. It's the only time CM wasn't brave enough to go where the map lead. Sure, it would have been angsty and hard to watch, and a lot of Reid fans would have stopped squeeing. Big deal- it would have been a lot more believable than what they did.

All that bitching, and this is still my favourite episode- i pretty much cheer every time i see Reid tell them it's their fault. "You could've helped him. But you didn't." Damn skippy it's your fault, Owen deserved better.

[iamtheliquorr.livejournal.com]

I agree about the drug plot. I marathoned the whole series in an extremely short time, but I was a more than a bit "buh?" over the way the drug plot was handled. It seemed to easy, for lack of a better term. That is a plot thread I've have definitely liked to see explored more. (Hmm... fanfic anyone?)