Random Hotch/Reid Thoughts

[me-and-thee.livejournal.com]

Because I clearly suffer from a bad case of Fandom OCD, I've been thinking about a couple of Hotch/Reid scenes and stuff I've noticed while re-watching some older episodes, and I'm curious to know what you think about them:

- The pilot. Did you notice how many times Reid turns around to look at Hotch before getting on the jet?! And how he waits for him on the plane ladder? OMFG they're so obvious.

- What do you think Reid could have possibly answered if he'd been there, too, when Hotch asked the team to list his biggest, um, flaws in "Revelations"?

- Maybe it's just the shipper in me, but isn't Hotch the one who's always translating Reid-ese into English? (i.e. in "Compulsion", when he suggests Reid talks to the students because they're his age but Reid ends up rambling about FBI acronyms instead.)

- I love it when, at the end of "Damaged", Reid says - in reference to his and Hotch's 'trip' to see Hardwick - it was 'ultimately uneventful'. Because, in my twisted, slashy mind, it registers as something like 'I'm not telling you because our boss almost got us killed but I need to protect my love.'

- Hotch seems slightly obsessed with using Reid. *g* In "Revelations" (or was it "The Big Game"?), when he says to Gideon that he feels like he only ever uses Reid for his intelligence/knowledge but teaches him nothing. And then, in "Elephant's Memory", when he replies to Reid's hotashell awesome 'Are you punishing me?!' line by saying he is just using him.

Have a nice day, everyone!