#like jordan being shipteased with morgan
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might get set on fire for this but. reid and seaver would be kind of cute...
#theyre being babies its not my fault#theyre being shipteased and im not hating it!#ashley seaver#spencer reid#reid/seaver#reidxseaver#do they even have a ship name?#reaver#is that it#criminal minds#criminal minds rewatch#gotta be honest im getting the sense that MIGHT be part of the reason people talk so negatively about her :/#tbf im not far into her run so there might be shit she does#(i know about 'sorry i asked' scene but tbh that's a bau thing not a seaver thing)#but at least at the moment i feel like some of the vitriol directed her way is because she's shipteased with reid.#like jordan being shipteased with morgan#she's a WOMAN and she's IN THE WAY!!!
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here's the jordan analysis i promised. it got really long so it's under a cut </3 also to any jordan fans jsyk this is more a meta analysis of the role she serves rather than an in-universe analysis of her character, so. no major character insights if that's what you're hoping for.
as i've said before, i also don't understand the vitriol i've seen directed towards her when she was in eight episodes and occasionally mildly annoying at worst. i think most of the people who hate her do because she was a. being shipteased with morgan b. (temporarily) replacing jj and c. a woman of colour who breathed. i don't love her, although i do think her and emily should have fu— uh. who said that? anyway:
what i do really like is the narrative role she serves during her episodes, and especially during this one. with any long-running show with dark themes, there's always a risk of the audience becoming desensitized—a guarantee, even, if it goes on long enough. i think a lot of these shows (including cm, on occasion) fall into this trap where they think the solution to that is to constantly escalate, which i think is a huge mistake. you'll desensitize the audience faster when you're just showing them increasingly awful things; at a certain point you'll even bore them. also, it will inevitably become extremely unrealistic, and you'll start to sensationalize if you aren't already.
i think jordan's introduction was a really fantastic early effort to prevent the audience from becoming desensitized. we're following a cast of characters who have all been embroiled in awful things for years or decades. it's their job and it has been for a long time. the characters are already varying degrees of desensitized and they're the ones we're identifying with as the protagonists.
and then jordan. right away she's out of her depth and overwhelmed, and in this episode, she says outright that she can't do the job. i think it was also a great choice that the case in the episode isn't a particularly horrifying one (obviously they all are and the revelation at the end of this episode is really tragic, but jordan saying "im out" after this case reads very different than if it had been after something like no way out where it's clearly among their worst cases).
she's a reminder to the audience that the people we're watching are not normal. no normal person could do the job they do. the vast majority of the audience, if transplanted into the show, wouldn't be reid or emily or morgan or hotch—they would be jordan.
#criminal minds#criminal minds s04e11#criminal minds 4x11#normal#jordan todd#scene analysis#character analysis#i suppose? i might need a third analysis tag but i dont know what it would be#yes im probably giving the writers too much credit </3 this is MY takeaway#although i think andrew wilder is very genuinely talented and this is one of his episodes so i think its entirely possible that#the idea of jordan as an audience surrogate was on his mind#not fic#criminal minds rewatch#my gifs
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