Elle And Reid Being The Ones To Hang Back Feels Intentional - Tumblr Posts

frankiebirds
1 year ago

anyway: last thing about the fox.

I think the order in which the team reacts to frank fielding* hurting himself is pretty interesting.

A man wearing a plaid shirt indoors. The subtitles at the bottom of the image read: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"
A man in a light coloured collared shirt is mid sentence against a dark background. In the foreground is the blurry and out-of-focus figure of someone mid-movement. The subtitles at the bottom of the image are still: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"

Gideon and Morgan are first, simply because they're the ones closest.

Two figures running into a room, one man and one woman. The man is further to the left inside the room and partially offscreen, and the woman is just entering the room from the right. Both are mid-movement. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No. No!"

Hotch and Elle are next, with Elle a little behind...

Three men, one mostly out of sight, restrain a fourth man against a wall. A woman stands off to the left, away from the altercation. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No!"

But when it comes to actually restraining Frank, Elle, who is still new and less experienced, lingers behind. If you watch the scene carefully, she actually backs away, too.

A man wearing a black vest over a red and white patterned shirt stands just past the doorway between a brightly lit and dimly room, closer to the dimly lit room on the left side.

And finally, Reid stands at the very back. He enters the room but doesn't go any further, and the camera pans down to show him rocking back and forth on his feet, like he can't decide if he wants to run into or out of the room. I think it's possible that Diana self-harmed at some point in the past (although granted, the self-harm in this scene is a different "type") and he may have been having some unpleasant memories.

*the brother of one of the victims, who goes to her house despite her husband not wanting him there, is seen by her through the window, and thinks she mouths "go away" at him when she actually mouths "help me"

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ofc i there's an argument that they just didn't need five people to restrain one person and elle and reid hung back for that reason but to me elle and reid being the ones to hang back feels intentional and even if it isnt analysis isnt really about if your argument is RIGHT its about how well you can argue it also: this is based on what we know about the characters who knows? maybe if elle stuck around longer we would have found out she had a family member who she witnessed having very similar episodes and that would have painted her reaction in a very different light also this scene makes me sad. i wish we'd gotten an update on frank afterwards esp because this hits home. to me this reads very similarly to an autistic meltdown and i have self harmed very similarly during mine not sure how i feel about him being restrained for that reason but i get they didnt want him to hit himself and it was 2005 tw self harm character analysis scene analysis I suppose criminal minds criminal minds rewatch criminal minds s01e07 the fox elle greenaway spencer reid i know i mentioned other characters in this but i didnt really pick their fictional brains lol favourites criminal minds 1x7
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