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[beatriceeagle]

I. HAVE. CRIMINAL. MINDS. DVDS.

Trying not to be too spoilery, but I've watched the deleted scenes, and they're great -- though one is sort of horribly sad in retrospect.

Okay, off to watch more.

[insert massive squee here]

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[saltedpork.livejournal.com]

:< I'm still totally bummed that we can't watch revelations commentary and the next episode together tomorrow. what do you mean about that one scene though?

[beatriceeagle.livejournal.com]

It's a deleted scene from the original version of Fear and Loathing between Reid and Morgan, except Reid isn't screwed up in it. It's terribly sad.

[saltedpork.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha, it totally sounds like it. i love the way you worded that.

[seraravi.livejournal.com]

GAR! I'm so jealous!!!

I read your description of the scene that might have been, and knowing that there's evidence of what he COULD have been like in that episode if it hadn't come after Revelations is surprisingly sad; it wasn't filmed this way, but with the knowledge of when they did air it, it would almost be like a "what if" of what Reid would be like if he'd never gone through that. What do they talk about/do in the scene?

I'm not lucky enough to have the spare cash to buy the DVD, so do you think you could tell me about some of the best deleted scenes? I am so jealous of you, lucky.

[beatriceeagle.livejournal.com]

That's almost exactly what it's like.

Basically, everything's the same up to when Prentiss walks away on the plane, and then Reid starts making these faces at Morgan, and teasing him about flirting with Prentiss. Morgan says something about how Prentiss is too smart to like a guy who's obviously not ready to be in a relationship, and Reid says maybe he is ready, and just doesn't know it yet. He makes a comment about something his mom said, about women and how they can tell when men are changing. It's so cute, because Reid is so...well adjusted. It's really sad.

There are only two deleted scenes, but they're both great.

[saltedpork.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh, this sounds pretty fruity, but thats just heartbreaking. I wish everyone was back to their well adjusted ways again. just one episode. Id probably cry :[

[seraravi.livejournal.com]

Oh. That breaks my heart a bit. Actually, I found a clip from that scene online just now (I really want to see the rest!), with Reid making all of those delightful faces, and teasing that Morgan has never talked about reading with him (it IS utterly adorable, by the way). And it's especially sad because it let you see just how far he'd come since the beginning of the series; he started out so painfully awkward and closed off and sort-of oblivious, and here he was, jokingly teasing somebody about relationships, talking about his mother, making observations about what another person might not even realize about himself. . . it shows how much growth he'd undergone (you saw it other places, like Physics Magic), and the direction he would have continued in under different circumstances. For the rest of the season, he was largely closed back up and broken, so we never got to see it. I'm hoping that he's starting to recover and head back in somewhat of the direction he was headed in before now, and that he'll still be able to achieve that. The picture I just found of him with a Frankenstein mask on top of his head seems encouraging.

I hope that the whole Gideon suicide thing is just a fakeout, because it seems like the letter is for Reid, and if it wasn't just the writers saying "gotcha!" and Reid finds him. . . it could do all kinds of damage. So I'm choosing to believe that Gideon will just leave the gun on the table with the letter and disappear into the sunset, for Reid's sake.