#criminal minds s02e11

[frankiebirds]

the day i stop thinking about the ending of s02e11 sex, birth, death is the day i die.

like. reid coming extremely close to needing to be dragged away from nathan?

both garcia and reid's expressions here? reid, who cares for and identifies with nathan, garcia, who has (i believe) never seen a dead body* in person? (also, you can't see it here because it's a still image, but reid's breath is hitching here and he looks close to hyperventilating)

*i know nathan is not dead here, nor does he die at all—the point im making is that having never seen a dead body in person before would make you more unprepared for seeing the aftermath of an unsuccessful suicide attempt than someone who has

reid makes no movement to clean the blood off his hands until gideon is right in front of him. he just stands there and stares like hes dissociating until gideon comes up and, in my opinion, sort of startles him into acting.

and gideon putting an arm around reid and taking him away from the scene while morgan does the same to garcia. hhhh.

this is the most emotional we see reid get up to this point. he's yelling while he's trying to keep nathan arrive, enough to strain his voice. i dont think hes so much as raised his voice at all up to this point.

i wonder how long he washed his hands for before he deemed himself "clean".

[maybethistimemegz]

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[hotch-girl]

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[frankiebirds]

i really like this moment for its reminder that nathan is a child. anton yelchin was seventeen when this episode aired (not sure when it was filmed), and given that nathan is said to be a highschool sophomore, he's even younger. fifteen, maybe sixteen? (i was fifteen at the start of grade ten, sixteen when it ended, and i was almost always the oldest person in the class)

i think sometimes that's missed. not than nathan is very young, because that's an important part of the episode, but fifteen specifically. not so much a young man frightened by his own desires but a child. i couldnt get a screenshot of it because it's a very quick and subtle movement, but nathan's statement in the second screenshot is provoked by reid simply nodding in response to his first. he's so young that reid is the older authority figure he's looking up to and seeking reassurance from.

and judging by reid's expression after nathan leaves, he's just been reminded too.

[frankiebirds]

HOLLY: (a sex worker): A lot of johns from the Hill stop by on the way to work. RHONDA (also a sex worker): We always say the same politicians yelling about cleaning up the Hill are the ones dropping fifty bucks with us before they make the speech. HOLLY: It's true. And the more important they think they are, the quicker they accidentally finish up with us. It's weird like that. EMILY: No, that's pretty much universal.

HELPPPP. emily my beloved.

[frankiebirds]

on a real-world note: i havent seen most of the films and tv shows that anton yelchin was in, but it's apparent from what i have seen that he was an incredible actor, and by all accounts he seemed like a lovely person too. may peace be upon him.

[frankiebirds]

I think part of the reason I feel so strongly about nathan harris' character is this line. heads up that this is going to be dark and personal:

i have never experienced homicidal thoughts, but I do have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, with Harm OCD as a major subtype, directed at both myself and others. They started while I was quite young, and often manifested as images of the aftermath of violence on people I cared about, with myself as the perpetrator. Like many people, I was at the time under the mistaken impression that Contamination OCD was the only kind (which I do also experience to a lesser extent). With no other obvious option, I came to the conclusion that I was a horrible person, that these were desires, and I had this exact thought process many times before understanding what was happening.

I don't think Nathan Harris has OCD (or, he might, but if he does, I believe it's coupled with genuine homicidal thoughts, as the thoughts he's having excite him just as much as they scare him), and I think the episode and character are more impactful if he doesn't have OCD. (if that makes sense? I would love to see more depictions of Harm OCD in media, but I don't think Nathan Harris is the character for it. Sympathetic representation of Harm OCD is very necessary, but the way to do that isn't by taking away sympathetic representation of people struggling with homicidal thoughts).

But I still relate to him on some level.

[frankiebirds]

i Don't like this line and i think it's at odds with the rest of the episode, although i'm not 100% sure if i'm supposed to agree with gideon here. if im supposed to agree with him, i dislike this line, but if its supposed to be ambiguous or im supposed to disagree, i do think it's in character for gideon, who is probably a little jaded after the amount of time he's worked the job.

i dont know. i dont like the assertion that nathan, who is fifteen/sixteen and asking for help, is just doomed.

(although i'm curious if gideon changes his mind by the end of the episode. i'll keep an eye out for that)

[maybethistimemegz]

Criminal Minds s02e11 Sex, Birth, Death

I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind.