God I Love Tony Todd. I Get Distracted By This Scene Every Single Time Because TONY TODD!!!!

god i love tony todd. i get distracted by this scene every single time because TONY TODD!!!!

if my voice sounded like that i would make it everyone else's problem.

the fox is a really good episode that i had less to say about than i thought i would. karl arnold is scary, his actor is excellent, and it's a in general a very tight episode. the ending is especially good and haunting, with the reveal that arnold has killed six other families of four (and therefore twenty-four more people) than we're initially led to believe.

i understand that karl arnold is returned to in a later episode? i've never actually gotten to that one before, but hopefully i will now.

it's getting really hard to watch just one episode a day, especially since i've already seen every episode up to 5x02. but im trying.

i do have one other thing to say about the fox, i just need to go back and grab a couple screenshots for it.

what is it with criminal minds and establishing interesting things about their characters that they never follow up on. there's a big one later on in this ep but i just noticed this as well. i would like to know about that time morgan was in deep cover for eighteen months! please!

re: what happened behind the scenes, the executive producer, Ed Bernero, said that Lola Glaudini (Elle's actress) left because she was unhappy in LA and wanted to move back to the East Coast. Lola Glaudini has not confirmed that, so take that with a grain of salt. source

I also really like Elle and her depature makes me sad but i feel like it was one of the better-written ones in the show. I'll talk about it when i get to it—I have Many Thoughts.

(sorry for hijacking your post and not really adding much! i also love and miss elle)

okay i know i’m new to criminal minds and i’m only on season five but i was SO SAD when elle greenaway left the team!! idk if anything happened behind the scenes, like if the actress was focusing more on other projects or if something happened to get her removed from the show, but i was honestly really upset to see her go, especially in the way she did

i know trauma is a powerful thing and the constant stress of that coupled with the case that eventually made her quit was probably a lot but UGH i can’t stop thinking about how well she would get along with rossi and prentiss! how happy she would be that penelope has a loving boyfriend!! how she would give jj’s baby all the love in the world!!! HOW GOOD HER CHEMISTRY WAS WITH REID AND MORGAN!!!! she was literally becoming my favorite character and then she was just gone :(

thought just struck me while watching this ep—I wonder if interacting with Dr. Landman made the team appreciate Reid more.

God, at least our genius doctor with an aversion to handshakes isn't Like That.

I love this scene a lot and it lives in my head rent-free. I can't really think of another way to interpret it other than that this is elle telling reid that the reason he can't get a date isn't because of something wrong with him that he needs to change but simply because he doesn't ask people out (or, more broadly, lacks confidence).

I have seen some spencelle shippers read this as elle saying "hey. ask me out" but i disagree, not because i don't ship spencelle (i sort of do, elaboration in the notes) but for the following reasons:

I think elle would have realised very early on that if she was going to wait for reid to ask her out, she would be waiting years

i don't think she gives enough of a fuck about gender roles to wait for The Man to ask her out

she generally seems confident

i lean more towards her being very new to the BAU in the early episodes. I don't recall right now if there's an official anti-fraternization policy or if that's a fanfiction trope, but even if there isn't, entering a relationship with a coworker that early on is an easy way to mess up her career.

i think she was waiting until she was more established to start anything, but then, well, everything happened, and she left before becoming established enough to feel comfortable taking a risk like that