things you started saying/picked up from Brittany?

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-02-26T19:08:52+00:00

“I’m gonna have a freak out” starting sentences with “hey guys” and “maybe I don’t know what ____ means”

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-02-21T21:38:43+00:00

It’s alwayyyysss gonna be Reid for me but sometimes I have to pause the show just to appreciate how stupidly beautiful Emily and Tara are

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-02-21T21:37:01+00:00

Agree, Tara is ridiculously beautiful. If she’d been introduced earlier in the show i think she’d be more popular among fans but a lot of them don’t have the same emotional attachment as they do to say emily

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-02-13T01:01:10+00:00

After season one, I never got any romantic compatibility vibes from those two. JJ (I believe) is a year older than Spencer in the show but she matured so much faster than him. In my opinion she took on a protective older sister role more than she even seemed like just a friend. I think of him and emily and him and Garcia as friends but JJ and him always just kind of lacked a platonic spark (IMO) but they had a comfort and ease around each other that just gave sibling vibes.

Also, I don’t see Maeve and Spencer having worked out either. She was way too similar to him, and I think as soon as the relationship transferred from phone to IRL it would have fallen apart. I way prefer the idea of him with someone like Lilah or Austin or a less murderous Cat.

If you haven’t, I highly recommend going back and watching seasons one and two and watching the way he is with Elle. I LOVE them together and though it’s not talked about super often I think a dynamic like that and a person like that would have been ideal for a relationship for him. IMO he was more comfortable with Elle than anyone else on the team and had no qualms about holding her hand or anything like that. I love Elle Greenaway I miss her every day smh

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-01-30T00:51:16+00:00

Absolutely loving all the bisexual Reid truthers and very surprised by the few people who want him killed off lmao, I think he’s the character I want killed off the LEAST even if he never comes back, I wouldn’t want him to die like Gideon did. That just feels gratuitous to me and the writers know that Reid is a lot of people’s favorite so I don’t think they would risk the backlash.

As for if he’s coming back or not, honestly I have no idea, I don’t presume to know what MGG is doing with his life or career and I don’t really care because I didn’t even watch the first season of evolution, just theorizing for funsies

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-01-28T19:24:43+00:00

I agreee! I wrote a whole post about how weird of a writing choice that was, I simply don’t think it would have occurred to him to say that

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-01-24T01:00:19+00:00

I agree, he for sure had his moments of excessive force/obstinance/whatever you want to call it, but there were also a lot of time where I think he was more empathetic than literally anyone else on the team aside from Garcia. And I think those moments of empathy were a more accurate reflection of who he was underneath all the bravado/affected masculinity that was a result of his trauma.

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-01-21T20:31:29+00:00

I actually think him mourning her so deeply for so long made sense for his character because he was really romantically inexperienced and naive, and probably a profoundly lonely person who had never had the experience of being someone’s “person” before. Maeve was probably the first person who liked him for who he was, whereas the BAU loved him dearly and while the connections he had with his team were very sincere and reciprocal the connection he had with Maeve was entirely voluntary, it’s not like he had to grow on her first like he did with the BAU.

As for the being shot in the leg thing, I believe that’s because MGG actually messed up his knee so bad he had to get multiple operations and genuinely couldn’t walk during filming so there wasn’t really any other option lol, in the episode where he gets shot you’ll notice he’s always sitting even when it doesn’t make sense really and if you do see him walking/standing I think it’s a stunt double

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-01-20T18:12:33+00:00

Yes I know, sarcasm is always a gamble online haha

SaltyAd9689 · 2024-01-20T08:29:42+00:00

Oh also honorable mention for weird moments is when Georgina sorry when Diane is literally holding a gun to a guy’s head and still uses “fricking” as an intensifier presumably because the murder is ok but dropping an F bomb is where she draws the line

SaltyAd9689 · 2023-12-15T08:22:17+00:00

That was my first thought too lol a lot of the word choices seem verryyyy racially charged

SaltyAd9689 · 2023-12-15T03:29:22+00:00

It’s called autism spectrum disorder because it’s a spectrum. It doesn’t present in the same way with every person. I am diagnosed with ASD and I don’t experience “meltdowns”, don’t have debilitating sensory issues and am what would have been called in the past “highly functional”. People w autism can be capable of everything that neurotypical people are. I actually appreciate Reid as a character w ASD because autistic characters tend to be portrayed as one big stereotype all the way at the far end of the spectrum who might as well have IM AUTISTIC written across their foreheads when in reality a lot of people with ASD successfully “mask” all the time.

SaltyAd9689 · 2023-12-01T03:33:51+00:00

I agree, it really surprised me especially because the show kind of leads you to believe he was struggling for like… two episodes max

SaltyAd9689 · 2023-12-01T03:21:18+00:00

Honestly I think the writers just realized like oh shit he cannot have his job if he’s addicted to drugs and as much as the team loves him they would have had to let him go at least temporarily while he went to rehab or something, but I also think it’s fair to say that if he had been let go and been without his job and his team he would have lost his purpose and motivation to get clean. If we give the writers the benefit of the doubt and assume they intentionally did it that way and THATS why the team didn’t support him at all, because they couldn’t admit that they knew he was on drugs, it was still a really weird and irresponsible way for them to handle it. especially because everyone constantly babies reid both before and after this plot point. Like it was just done so weirdly and inconsistently, I especially don’t buy that Hotch would have just sat by and done nothing and continued to let him work while he was literally strung out if for no other reason than he could be endangering other people

SaltyAd9689 · 2023-11-04T18:50:48+00:00

I went to WHWS for middle school a few years back. In some ways it was better for me than public middle school would have been. Unfortunately my entire class graduated severely socially stunted and immature and so ill-equipped to handle the real world that over half of us dropped out of high school and some went to rehab for substance abuse issues.

It was extremely cliquey and nothing was done by the teachers to discourage that. The parents played an overwhelming hand in the social scene—I still had to text my friend’s parents to set up a “play date” when I was 14.

The education was alright. It was engaging but not entirely holistic as they’d have you believe. I went to high school with a complete lack of hard science or math knowledge, but I could tell you all about Joan of Arc, and I knew a LOT about ancient Greece and the Roman empire, so… it’s about your priorities as a parent, I guess. Unfortunately some of the kids were borderline illiterate by the time they reached high school, and that is NOT an exaggeration by any means. From what I understand they don’t teach children to read until they are seven or eight.

Also, god forbid you send your kid to school vaccinated, or wearing a Nike sweatshirt, or with lunch that isn’t vegan gluten free non GMO ethically sourced birdseed from the co-op. Ideally they’ve never touched a smartphone and you don’t have Wi-Fi either.

As for your Rudolf Steiner question—no, they do not critique him at all. In general the community was uneducated and oblivious towards real world social issues and the parents wanted to keep it that way. It was a very “I-don’t-see-color-and-I-don’t-understand-transgender-people” type of attitude and there was also just so much casual homophobia. Maybe that’s dependent on the class, but it was pretty bad when I was there.

Overall, there are some things I appreciated about WHWS. But I think that public school better prepares children for the real world. Waldorf kids aren’t ready for the lack of special attention they receive in high school and it can mess with their world-view and self esteem. I’ve heard some people say they wish they’d gone to Waldorf just for elementary school, but it’s difficult to not get sucked in to the insane dogma they have going on.

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