SU and CM

[antongarou]

(I hope this is the appropriate forum)I'm about 10 eps into CM, and I was discussing with the friend who introduced me to CM how the two teams will get on. I suspect that Chaz and Reid will pretty much abduct each other and start speaking stuff that will sound like chinese to both teams about 10 minutes in, although Chaz will be horrified with Reid's indifference to food quality. Gideon(yes, I know he's out of the team at current timeline, but I'm talking the team I know) and Reyes will either cooperate in manipulating everybody else or, more likely, will start a manipulation deathmatch for control of both teams while Hotch and Falkner try to keep the fallout minimized. Any other thoughts?

[txanne]

I think Reyes would eat Gideon for lunch. Gideon has prima-donna tendencies; Reyes is just singleminded.

Except that everyone on both teams has a single, overriding goal that would keep them from rivalry: they all want to save the world from monsters.

Now Strauss, she'd go through Celentano like a Sherman tank.

[eschatonic]

The women would get together and be friends in five minutes, and Sol would join them. Brady and Morgan would be all awkward and weird for a while because Brady would be reminding himself 14 times a minute that Morgan's macho attitude is not meant as a come-on.

[Elizabeth Bear]

The women would get together and be friends in five minutes, and Sol would join them. Brady and Morgan would be all awkward and weird for a while because Brady would be reminding himself 14 times a minute that Morgan's macho attitude is not meant as a come-on.

Morgan calls Brady "pretty boy."

Brady: "I don't think that phrase means what you think it means, pretty boy."

...and then there's Reid trying to get Chaz to teach him how to pick up girls.

"Just be yourself."
"I'm a spaz."
"Quit ogling starlets and go after girls who like spazzes."

[Elizabeth Bear]

Now Strauss, she'd go through Celentano like a Sherman tank.

Ahh, but on a one-for-one parallel, Celentano's opposite number is not Strauss, but Hotch.

...and Hotch would go through Celentano like a Sherman tank through a rice-paper wall.

[MadGastronomer]

...and then there's Reid trying to get Chaz to teach him how to pick up girls.

"Just be yourself."
"I'm a spaz."
"Quit ogling starlets and go after girls who like spazzes."

It's so awesome that Chaz gets this. One of the things I love about him.

Now, if we could just convince him that socks in bed is Bad.

[Elizabeth Bear]

...and then there's Reid trying to get Chaz to teach him how to pick up girls.

"Just be yourself."
"I'm a spaz."
"Quit ogling starlets and go after girls who like spazzes."

It's so awesome that Chaz gets this. One of the things I love about him.

Now, if we could just convince him that socks in bed is Bad.

He has a beta metabolism. Always cold.

...buy him an electric blanket?

[MadGastronomer]

He has a beta metabolism. Always cold.

...buy him an electric blanket?

I think I told him my favorite solution at one point: a heating pad, turned down low, tucked under the covers on one side of the foot of the bed. Then not only can you tuck your own toes under it, if your sleeping partner has cold feet, they can tuck [i[theirs[/i] under it, too, and not put cold feet all over you. Plus, keeping your feet warm keeps the rest of you warmer, too.

[VCorvidae]

...and then there's Reid trying to get Chaz to teach him how to pick up girls.

"Just be yourself."
"I'm a spaz."
"Quit ogling starlets and go after girls who like spazzes."

It's so awesome that Chaz gets this. One of the things I love about him.

Now, if we could just convince him that socks in bed is Bad.

He has a beta metabolism. Always cold.

...buy him an electric blanket?

They make electric mattress pads, you know. Lovely things on cool mornings (and it does so get cold in Florida.)

[MadGastronomer]

They make electric mattress pads, you know. Lovely things on cool mornings (and it does so get cold in Florida.)

My mom uses one, and she lives in Sebastian, FL.

[txanne]

Hot water bottles. And if you're very lucky, a knitter loves you enough to make you a platypus-shaped cover for it.

[antongarou]

Gideon has prima-donna tendencies; Reyes is just singleminded.

I don't remember Gideon behaving like a prima-donna anywhere. Mostly he's in the same position, teamwise, that Reyes is(i.e. Father) and has many similar tendencies. I think the main difference is that Reyes' self conception is "researcher" while Gideon's is "cop".

[Korvar]

Rossi + Todd would be interesting.

I decided a while back that CM is SU's "Down the Hall".

Hafs, Garcia and Abbey from NCIS were in a WoW raiding guild until a little while a go.  They were quite terrifying.

[eschatonic]

Rossi + Todd would be interesting.

I decided a while back that CM is SU's "Down the Hall".

Hafs, Garcia and Abbey from NCIS were in a WoW raiding guild until a little while a go.  They were quite terrifying.

Todd frankly has much better people skills than Rossi and displays unhelpful attitude problems a lot less often. Rossi and Reyes, on the other hand, always seemed to me to be a lot alike: brilliant, arrogant, issues with this whole "teamwork" thing.

The whole CM team would believe Sol's stories for days, at least, until they noticed the wolf-like smiles of the SU people and/or became suspicious when people like Faulkner* started telling him to explain once and for all how he lost those fingers and then sticking around to hear the version he comes up with this time.

Oh, and Hafs, Garcia, and Abbey? totally WoW raiders. Totally trade fashion tips via webcam. When they get together in the SU/CM meeting, Hafs and Garcia will be wearing matching nailpolish and earrings from the same Etsy seller.



*You know she would. She did that thing to Brady with the chocolate cockroach. She would do it, and she would keep a straight face.

[Elizabeth Bear]

Gideon has prima-donna tendencies; Reyes is just singleminded.

I don't remember Gideon behaving like a prima-donna anywhere. Mostly he's in the same position, teamwise, that Reyes is(i.e. Father) and has many similar tendencies. I think the main difference is that Reyes' self conception is "researcher" while Gideon's is "cop".

Reyes has a better history of not grandstanding in ways that get people shot...