#cm 12x13

[wikiangela]

wait that's the end of the episode?? I can't watch the next one rn I'm busy 😭 (but maybe just one more 😶)

"Spencer" was such a good episode, and Spencer is just always going through it, can this man ever catch a break 😭 I can't wait till it's all resolved and omg, as heartbreaking as it is, I'm loving this storyline fr

[aaron-hotch]

here we go prison!reid arc.

[boudreauxh]

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PENELOPE GARCIA & SPENCER REID HUGGING

[sapphicprentiss]

Jennifer Jareau in 12x13 Spencer

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[dungeons-are-too-cold]

Season 12 Episode 13: "Spencer"

Can I just say, Season 12 episode 13 "Spencer" makes me so incredibly upset and I wish I could go back and fix it personally.

Like okay, it's not like a bad episode. It's well written, the suspense is there, it's interesting no doubt.

However

This. Is. Not. Spencer.

Like, I'm honestly kind of pissed as to how this whole thing has started playing out. I recognize that there was a need to make sure Matthew could step away from the show and work on personal projects but the way that they handled so much of Reid's absences makes me just sick to my stomach honestly.

It might be the fact that I consumed the 12 years worth of content up to this point in a relatively short time span, (its been about a month of me watching the show, trying to finish it up to season 12 before it leaves Netflix) but I feel like I know these characters better than I know myself. I have carefully watched the last 12 seasons, I've seen them react to some scary shit and get through fucking awful things in their personal lives. Not a single thing about Spencer would lead him into something this legally precarious.

there is so much that I do understand, like his reliance and trust in experimental medicine (he is a man of science, *cough cough* three PhDs), and his extreme desire to logically fix things and have an answer for everything because that's how he functions and has always functioned. That part about his situation I get, especially when it comes to taking care of his mom, something he has been doing since his dad left. He is fiercely protective of the people that he loves.

However, Dr. Spencer Reid is not an idiot. He would have done his research about what was in those vials. He would have made sure that nothing in the medicine was illegal stateside. He would have known better.

Spencer has made it his business to know everything about everything. It's not even necessarily intentional all of the time, due to the whole memory thing, but knowing everything gives him a sense of control. I know this because I am the exact same way. The security comes from not being able to be surprised, because surprises are always bad, especially in his line of work (and especially considering how this turned out). Consider season 11 episode 11, "Entropy", when Spencer first meets Cat Adams. The whole plot of that episode is based around the fact that Cat prepared for every possible scenario, but Spencer prepared beyond that. He thought of every single detail, he knew for a fact that he could take her down no matter what happened, and he was even able to do so when the plans changed and they had to save all of the people from the bomb on the city gas line. People's lives were on the line, Spencer prepared, and Spencer won.

I can hear the arguments now against this point. "Well Spencer had his team with him then, and he didn't in Mexico," and "Well when his mother is involved, he's to close to think that logically about it," but to those I say politely shut the fuck up. To me, these are both faulty arguments and let me tell you why.

First let's tackle the team argument. Yes his team was there day-of to help take Cat down, but Spencer had to do a lot of preparation before they even sent him into that room with her. As you may recall, the entire plan itself was Spencer's idea. He suggested going undercover. he knew that if cover was blown, she would be more likely to negotiate with a peer. He led the entire conversation with very minimal input from his team who were in his ears the whole time. Spencer masterfully negotiated through that situation because he planned. He considered every possible scenario that could have happened, he made predictions, and he prepared accordingly. That is the work of a genius, which he is, not just in abstract intellect but in social prowess and essentially psychological warfare. This is a man who thinks things through.

Through the entirety of the drug acquisition process over the last few months, Reid was not thinking things through. It's very clear to any viewer that Spencer was clouded and reckless which is entirely unlike himself. Even in the most desperate and delicate of situations, he has never hesitated or failed to read every case file, scour every possible corner of a case, and recognize something that no one else could see because of it. Reid would not have just accepted that the medicine was fine. He would have at least wanted to know the fucking ingredients, examine the validity of this drug he would be giving his mother. Even in his most desperate state to help his mom, he wouldn't have been this stupid about it. He couldn't afford to be that stupid about it, because it was his own mother after all.

Which brings me to the next argument, that he wasn't thinking straight because it had to do with his sick mother. I call bullshit on that too because who in their right mind would give their mother experimental medicine if they had no idea what was in it, especially Dr. Spencer "I am going to attempt to play every single possible combination of chess moves ever" Reid. He is nothing if not thorough. Under no circumstance could anyone every convince me that Reid would not have inquired about the ingredients before he was in a fucking jail cell drugged out of his mind in Mexico and only at the prompt of drug testing by Mexican police.

Granted, I am on the first episode of this arc, so maybe they handle some of this. Only time will tell. However, I do not believe that they will be able to convince me that this is normal or expected behavior from Spencer. There is no way to explain this happening other than meta writing reasons of Matthew needing to be able to step away, which feels really irresponsible story wise. There are so many better ways to have handled the absences and this is truly my least favorite of the infinite possibilities of excuses they could have used.

I will probably reblog this and build my opinion as I watch more, but let me tell y'all I am upsettti spaghetti about this and it makes my stomach hurt.

[mxyficlds]

jennifer jareau in 12x13 “spencer”

[delicatejareau]

jennifer jareau 12x13 icons

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[captainchilly]

None of this sounds like him.

[reidsaurora]

forgot to tell everyone one but!!!

I just finished 12x13 👀

spoilers below the cut btw

i can't decide whether i hate this arc or Diana's Alzheimer's arc more 😭

like??? is this for character development or??? what purpose do these arcs have??? i do not understand <3

anyway yeah, i'm watching the next episode now and i am so happy to have my old Spence back. seeing him dr*gged like that was so upsetting, i'm glad he's back to his quiet, shy self again :)

[wikiangela]

omg Simmons is here!!! 😍😍🥵🥵

I need to get to beyond borders fr haha

[sassycassi]

underrated criminal minds friendships- (3/?)

》spencer reid & matt simmons《

[spencer-reids-adventures]

1x1 extreme aggressor // 3x3 scared to death // 5x9 100 // 12x13 spencer

[queer-whatchamacallit]

So I just watched 12x13 (aaaaAAAAAAAA)

And I may have spoiled it for myself by looking on here but I’ve had this image in my head for a while now and I love how it came out

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SPENCER REID AND PENELOPE GARCIA HUGGING ICONS

[echoquery]

i’m sorry