No, I seriously DID become a fan of ranting on facebook. xD
This week Gubler gets to flex his formidable — albeit slender — acting pecs, delving deep into Reid’s inner demons. Ever since that bone-chilling post-Super Bowl two-parter, when a psycho killer played by James Van Der Beekpumped him full of Dilaudid (a prescription drug similar to heroin), Reid just can’t say no to drugs.
“He’s wondering whether he can even still function at his job,” Gubler says. A chance meeting with an old archrival forces him to confront his addiction — with startling consequences. “I usually try to make Reid lovable, so this is killing me,” he says. “I think fans are going to hate him, but [the addiction] makes him human.”
From this site.
<rant> So I actually kind of like the fact that Dr. Reid gained a drug addiction. xD Don’t get me wrong, It’s sad and all but as Mr. Gubler himself said, it makes Dr. Reid more human and also, gah. I really can’t explain it. For me, I love seeing Reid not being able to handle something. I watched re-runs and new episodes of Criminal Minds before starting the show from the beginning so I saw Elle Greenaway having troubles, I saw Derek Morgan accused of murder, I knew Aaron Hotchner was divorced, and I knew there was a deeper meaning to Jason Gideon suddenly not being on the show besides ‘he must have retired’. Seeing the episode where Dr. Reid was kidnapped and drugged and then him taking the drugs after the UnSub was killed, made the adorable nerd who knew everything real for me. Not to mention finding out about his mom’s condition but that really didn’t seem to affect Reid at work. The drugs REALLY did. He was rude to Emily Prentiss and his team witnessed that. Yes, Emily confronted him, asking him if he was okay because she’s never seen him like that and Dr. Reid blows up at her saying she doesn’t know him well enough to say that but his team knows him. His team knew there was something wrong when he misinterpreted Emily’s helping him on victimology or whatever they were working on…
My mother had been telling me that he gets clean, he’s no longer addicted. So I’ve been on the lookout for an episode that really shows Reid confronting the addiction… As of now I am starting (in my “Watching-in-Order Marathon) episode 6 from season 3 and there hasn’t been a big scene about it yet. And since I have knowledge on drugs and what it does and especially since this drug, Dilaudid, is injected where the forearm meets the arm at the elbow… If Reid were still taking the drug, he wouldn’t want to show off his elbows and the marks from taking the drug. But Reid has been rolling his sleeves up and wearing shirts with short sleeves so I just don’t get what is going on. Perchance my mother saw episode 24 of season four: “Finally, in “Amplification” (4.24) Reid risks himself severely to save Washington D.C. from anthrax and almost dies as a result. Even while in pain, he refuses medication, so he is clearly still clean from his drug use” (IMDb) and that may be the episode where it talks a lot about this addiction. I will have to wait to get to that episode to find out.
For now, I am leaving all present knowledge behind (which is SUPER hard for me! I also have an eidetic memory…). But I do so love Dr. Reid having this addiction! I am sorry but I… enjoy it. No idea why. Don’t ask.
“*Spencer Reid talks about fire being an arsonist’s drug… the team looks at him knowingly* real subtle, Criminal Minds writers. xD hahahaha I KNEW that one talk with Gideon couldn’t get him off heroine THAT quickly! (is it wrong that I love seeing Reid with an addiction…? :s” -my facebook </rant>
