The more Gideon episodes I see, the more I like him. Especially the relationship between him and Reid.

Aw, quester beat me to my favorite Gideon moment! The fact that the artist was equating him with her father and saying he made her hot was just disturbing (of course, that was her intent).

I really love how Gubler played the out-of-his-element Reid in this ep. He keeps trying to reestablish his status as Dr. Spencer Reid, Profiler, but is constantly making Lila more upset with every fact he tells her, which gets him even more confuzzled.

It's hilarious when, in the S5 finale, JJ and Morgan are busting Spencer about Lila while they're flying out to LA, and Prentiss and Rossi just have blank expressions since she was before their time.

As for Gideon, I still have issues with his departure (both the character's and the actor's), as does the team (I love Barb's story that she linked upthread, and how she addresses this!!), so I can't say I like him or no. All the supportive moments he has with Reid and Hotch are just thrown back in their faces in the beginning of S3 when he leaves with just that note for Reid.

I think that's why I'm having problems even beginning that fanfic I really want to write about Gideon and Reid's relationship beginning, because I can't get a handle on Gideon's mindset. I'm thinking about starting my CM fanfic writing with another one I've got percolating about Reid as seen through Rossi's eyes post Uncanny Valley. (Yes, I'm a massive Reid fangirl--he's really my way into this fandom, more so than Garcia, as much as I love her to bits.)

I haven't seen the episodes that deal with Gideon's departure yet. It's part of my obsession with ION, I want to see the order and evolution of the relationships on the team in a way that makes sense.

When I started watching, I was able to start from the beginning with Ion's last cycle through the first four seasons, so I know what you mean. I couldn't resist the A&E reruns, however, so I did get a bunch of eps out of order (one of my first eps was the S2 two-parter with Tobias Henkel, so I got a big dose of Angsty Reid right off the bat).

Tonight's rerun of A Real Rain made me rethink which ep I'll first show my mom next week. That one is a good all-team ep that doesn't focus too much on any one character, and it also has great Garcia-and-Morgan phone flirtation, so I think I'll show that one first, followed by Derailed for a really good unsub, although A Real Rain does seem to parallel Derailed in terms of the unsub (psychotic hearing voices saying that "he's so tired" at the end), but this time the unsub doesn't survive the standoff.

It's weird, I've seen some episodes several times but there are still huge gaps in continuity. I'm glad ION is running things in order. A&E just confuses me.

This piece on Mad Men includes video of the opening sequence (I think) of Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Last night, I decided to finally watch all of CM's "100" on YouTube (after watching bits and pieces of it in the past). Great ep, gutwrenching, and Gibson broke my heart. Also, I loved that they went with nothing on the soundtrack other than Hotch's breathing when he was clearing the house before finding Haley's body.

Question: We've not seen them do that Reid-recites-a-conversation-from-memory thing before, have we? It's obvious how he's doing it--since's he's a visual eidetic, he's converting the phone conversation between Hotch and Foyet into a transcript and visualizing that in his head--but that's something new I don't remember seeing on the show.

No, they've never made any previous reference to him having an above-average recall of the spoken word. But it was too perfect in this episode, and it seemed apparent in his delivery that he wasn't hearing it to repeat it.

In fact, they have made the point that he remembers what he reads, not everything he hears.

it seemed apparent in his delivery that he wasn't hearing it to repeat it.

During the conversation, they cut to a reaction shot of Reid, and he's obviously concentrating, with his eyes moving back and forth like he's reading the words while they're bein spoken. A very cool way for a visually-oriented person to remember the spoken word, I thought!

not everything he hears

"What's the new tech's name?
"Gomez, I think."