Old friend in town!

My marvelous friend Mark is in town for two weeks, on break from college at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and Sunday, out of the blue, he called me and asked me if I was doing anything? I very gladly invited him to visit. He only stayed an hour or so since he's trying to touch base with his friends in the area (and he seems to be friends with half the people on the North Shore. ::grins affectionately:: ), but he shared some of his film creations with me, including "The Rite of Right Writing", a funny, inspired little short about... lack of inspiration. Move over, "8 1/2".... And also a joint effort he'd helped a friend shoot, "Ulterior Motive", a ten-minute action film in which Mark played one of the bad guys!

More fandom fears: "Criminal Minds"

I'm really fascinated with one of last year's new TV serieses, namely, CBS's "Criminal Minds"; I know I haven't talked about it much, but now that they're running reruns of it and I'm quietly walking away from the next season of "Supernatural" since it looks like they're adding a canon Mary Sue to the mix (namely, a recurring female character who is, a. Dean's girlfriend, and b. another spook-hunter, and c. she's named "Alex", which is almost a cliche Mary Sue name), I thought it was time I affirmed my fondness for this series.

I started watching it mostly because Mandy Patinkin plays the leading character, Agent Jason Gideon, the leader of a team of FBI profilers, but I have to admit, a lot of the supporting characters caught my fancy, particularly Spencer Reed, the youngest member of the team, whom I've dubbed an honorary Aspie since he shows a lot of the earmarks of AS. I like the chemistry among the characters and I love the ultra-twisty, I-didn't-see-that-coming writing, and the at-times cinematographic editing.

But I'm afraid of the badfic this series may spawn... I'm envisioning Gideon/Reed slash, though I've seen signs of a father/son or teacher/student relationship between them. And mind you, Reed seems puzzled by human sexuality except from an intellectional/behavioral analytic POV. He's rather asexual in a "daffy professor"-ish way, aside from the episode where the team is tracking a stalker who's targeted a Hollywood starlet, and said starlet takes a shine to Reed, up to and including pulling him into a pool and snogging him, though mind you, he keeps up his usual intellectual musings while she's trying to smooch him. Priceless! And Gideon is just as slashable as brick, plus, he's seperated from his wife and more married to his work than interested in any romantic interludes.

I would like to see Reed paired with Garcia the girl computer-whiz, though it's been shown in canon that her mischievous snarkiness can go right over Reed's knowlege-crammed head.