Into The Gotchaverse! Rejig

Introverted, asthmatic and uncoordinated! Guess who was always picked last for team sports. Especially baseball, which is basically my worst nightmare! Also had my fair share of sexist/rubbish teachers for that subject! It took having an asthma attack for my teacher to realise that I couldn’t actually run any faster without dying! 

Coffee shop/ fix-it/ childhood friends/fluff/pining/modern au/soulmate/fake dating/proposals and weddings/established relationship/domestic fluff/hurt and comfort/meet cute/parallel universe

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Coffee shop or flower shop • alternate universe or fix-it • enemies to lover or childhood friends • angst or fluff • love at first site or pining • modern au or historical au • soulmate or unrequited • fake dating or secret dating • breakup and makeup or proposals and weddings • get together or established relationship • oblivious pining or domestic fluff • hurt/comfort or crack • meet the parents or meet cute • time travel or parallel universe

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Criminal Minds Season 15

For a final Season of only 10 eps, there was a lot packed in to it.

It was cool to see all the flashbacks to earlier seasons, when the cast were so much younger and all their family moments through the years, though they missed out the cooking session at Rossi’s from Season 9, I think it is.

The dénouement involving The Chameleon was pretty epic, it was really interesting to see it all play out. The Reaper still has the most intense/thrilling arc though, and Season 4 is probably one of my favourite Seasons not only of the show, but of TV in general. Seeing Penelope and Diana bond was very sweet, and Reid is definitely right to call them the smartest people he knows, and Penelope’s brain, heart and guts analogy was spot-on ( she is the emotional intelligence or heart, she goes by her gut instinct a lot and Diana is knowledge/learning represented by the brain).

Everyone’s speeches to/about Penelope made me tear up, and I sobbed at the end. She is honestly one of my favourite fictional characters ever, and having her have the last scene just made it so much more special to me! 

SVU missing scenes/parent-child conversations/home life fic ideas

Post Season 9 AU where Kathy died from complications soon after giving birth to Eli. Stabler ends up being a stay at home dad for a while, Olivia helps him out a lot and they eventually get together, by about season 12-ish.  They have/adopt Noah a little earlier than in canon. Lots of Stabler kid drama ( teen rebellion, self imposed parentifying, dating drama like Swing and Turmoil being canon). Stabler retired early and Liv gets to progress in her career, maybe becoming Captain a little earlier. 

Pre-show:

-Maureen turns 10, her sleepover and day out with her friends is cancelled, her dad takes her for a day out (mall, gets her ears pierced, Little Women movie, lunch, bookstore…)

-Elliot helps Maureen with her homework, she writes him a note on an origami heart to say thank you. Elliot creates a drawer at work for all the notes and pictures his kids write and do for him. 

-Elliot and kid(s) bump into Olivia early on in their partnership, Olivia gets invited to come for dinner

-Olivia comes for dinner at the Stablers’, meets Kathy and the kids

Season 1 

-Wanderlust, Maureen asks her dad for money as she’s going to the mall for her prom accessories 

She returns from prom and talks to her dad about it over hot cocoa

Family dinner out in Wanderlust  but Elliot has to work. The kids get him his favourite dessert to go and write him notes/draw him pictures to leave for him when he gets back. 

Season 2

-Dickie forges his dad’s signature for a test ( mentioned in a later episode) and aftermath

Season 3 or 4-Maureen’s high school graduation

Season 5

-Home Dickie waiting for Elliot to come home so they can hang out, then when he has to go into work kitchen conversation with cookies

Season 6

-Dickie had appendicitis, Elliot goes to hospital and stays at Kathy’s mom’s to look after him. 

- Contagious Maureen and Olivia’s plan for Elliot’s birthday surprise

Season 8

-Scheherazade Lizzie and Dickie talk to their dad after their 1st Communion and ask Kathy if he can join them for lunch. 

Dickie’s fight and suspension talk with Elliot

Season 10 

-Paedophile who has pic of young Lizzie. Lizzie talks to Elliot when she’s home and he’s suspended. Lizzie and Eli spend some time together too. 

Season 11

- Turmoil missing scenes  Dickie and his sisters and with his dad, then apology to Olivia. Plays with Eli and his dad. 

- Perverted ( Lizzie in The Sound of Music, surprise, she’s Maria!) and flashbacks to when she was in Anne Frank as Edith and was unrecognisable and brilliant. 

Carisi and Rollins

Their first dinner together when she tells him they’re going shopping for ingredients and he’s cooking. Supermarket scene ( outrage on his part that she doesn’t buy fresh ungrated Parmesan and of course pays for everything). 

He takes her home after the kidnapping, cooks for her, they hang out with Frannie and Jesse.

Amanda asks him to be Jesse’s and/or Billie’s guide parent. He talks with Olivia about being chosen. Is he good enough?

Looking after Jesse while Amanda is giving birth to Billie. They choose a present for Billie together and he gets her a present « from Billie » after. 

Carisi talks to his dad about his feelings for Amanda, they discuss relationships, marriage etc

Baby Sonny supermarket theft story

Baby Sonny helps his mum in the kitchen, they talk about his future plans. 

Young Sonny finds out about his mum’s pregnancy, her abortion and how he looks after her following it ( she says she’s had a miscarriage). 

Carisi plays sports with his dad. 

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Criminal Minds Season 13

The “Wheels up!” scene made me cringe so badly. Fair enough, it was the phrase that got Prentiss through her traumatic experience, but to make everyone else say it was just silly!  Other than that, I am quite enjoying the cases themselves and the interaction between team members is good. Morgan coming back briefly was great, his scenes with Penelope made me cry, but it also made me wish Hotch had been able to come back too. 

This is such a great movie! I love how the story is told/framed, I was totally invested in it and have a new heroine!

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SVU dream

I had an SVU related dream last night!

It was really fun, I was invited to a big party at the senior Carisi house, either for baby Nicky’s christening and/or the big wedding celebration. My parents were also there, and told me to go and put my gifts on the gift table.

After doing that, I chatted to Serafina and Dominick Sr, they were so lovely, just like one of my sisters’ Italian parents-in-law. Dominick Sr gave me a big hug and Serafina called me “bellissima” ( very beautiful). I think I must have been a childhood friend of Sonny’s in my dream, as I really wanted to see and catch up with him!

Then I ended up holding baby Nicky ( he was very cute and cuddly) and had a chat with Chris Meloni ( 100% the actor and not in the role of Elliot Stabler). He complimented my childcare skills, and I told him how I thought Elliot was such a good dad on the show and asked him if he’d already had his kids by the time he started on the show. I also asked him if he and Isabel Gillies ( who played Kathy) had had any say in who got cast as their kids as they all realistically looked like they were a product of the two actors actually procreating. I can’t remember his answers, but he said he has a very close bond with the young man who plays Dickie ( and has done so since the pilot!). I work in childcare so we talked about raising kids, education, and, at one point, he took baby Nicky from me and was very cute.

Maybe I just felt like we should have got a proper big wedding for Carisi and Rollins, with the girls being flower girls, maybe Fin as best man and lots of good food, moving speeches and a first dance. And we never saw Amanda’s pregnancy with Nicky or his christening so my brain just created it and put me there too. 

SVU Season 16-17 rewatch

Season 16 is really good as a way to get to know the characters if, like me, you stopped watching after Season 12 ended and weren’t sure if it was worth continuing with.

I am very glad I did!

Amaro is just Stabler 2.0, as far as I can tell, but with a little more self-awareness as he realises he needs anger management classes and realises he needs to get out of the force for his physical and mental well-being and that of his kids. 

Olivia was obviously very attached to him, so I felt bad for her as she just keeps losing people. Working with Amaro evidently helped her get over Elliot leaving, and it seems like her relationship with Amaro was healthier than the one she had with Elliot. 

Amaro’s been linked romantically to Amanda, I believe? They are very similar from their upbringing and the way they internalise everything, so I c1n see why they would be drawn to each other.

When the two of them are talking/working  together and Carisi comes to give them some info/an update and they simultaneously answer that he’s not interrupting was funny. 

There’s a courtroom scene where Amanda is being questioned/cross-examined and she is asked about doing the right thing/having enough emotional support/what it means to be a good person and she’s looking in Carisi’s general direction. Very subtle, but made me squee!

I love that he hangs out with her and Fin outside of work, at the video games convention. Fin is still calling him noob/newbie at this point, so perhaps Rollins invited him? Those two always know all the celebrity gossip and who the famous people they need to talk to are. It ties in nicely to their later hang outs where they watch trashy reality TV together. Carisi I can see reading all his sister’s magazines and going to the movies with them to watch rom-coms growing up, as he seems to know a lot about them/says he loves them in the ep with the former teen actress and the producer.

Do we ever get the story about how Sonny was saved by the priests at his Catholic church? He mentions it in the big vlogging/TV religious family episode. I always saw him as a good student. For example  he’d be top of the class but would always ask questions so the other shyer kids who might not have understood and didn’t dare to ask would understand. Or he would tutor them. He seems to work very hard and be very focused, so I think he would be a favourite of the teachers. 

We know he was bullied physically and probably verbally too ( by Bobby Bianchi, at the very least), maybe because he was a bit of a goody-two-shoes. I really can’t see him ever getting into trouble at school or at home. We know he wanted to be a priest, so maybe he just spent a lot of time at church events to escape the bullying/find some real friends.

I was so prepared to hate Mike Dodds but he is very humble, is a bit annoyed to be there because of his dad’s nepotism and he refuses to be a tattle-tale. He apologises when he oversteps his boundaries, listens to feedback and generally gets on with everyone on the team. If he hadn’t had a fiancée, I’m sure he would also have fallen in love with Olivia too! 

Olivia is a very good Lieutenant. I see a lot of Cragen in her, as he would often give the team one-on-one pep talks and always tried to do the right thing when it came to members not doing things by the book. 

Maybe it got lost in translation, or I just struggle to pay attention to and understand the courtroom scenes, but Barba apparently says “Booyah, Fordham Law!” as a comeback/closing argument in a Season 16 episode, but I have never seen it though this is my second time watching. 

He was funny too when Carisi gives his personal and legal opinion on something and Barba says “That’s just your opinion, but yes, it’s correct”. 

Barba also wears fun, brightly coloured socks which are visible when he puts his feet up on the desk. I thought that was a fun way to show that he’s got a soft/emotional/fun side. Maybe because I know how he behaves in later eps towards Olivia, but I definitely find him less cold/unlikeable than I did during my first viewing. 

Something I read about was that potentially the show was going to have Barba and Carisi become romantically involved. Apparently the actors and writers were on board, but the network head said no. 

This would have deprived us of Rollins and Carisi though, and that would have been a big loss. Maybe someone like Dodds could have been gay and had a fiancé, thus having an openly gay member of the team and maybe some tension with Dodds Sr there. However,  Fin’s son Ken gets a storyline in that vein, when he and his husband have a child. 

On the tu/vous ( informal and formal you form) thing, Carisi uses tu with Amanda when she is at the hospital. This may be because they are of the same rank, but it definitely shows a level of friendship/closeness. 

Olivia, on the other hand, uses vous with everyone! Even Dr Huang, who she runs into with Barba, and she’s not in the office. She uses vous with Dodds Jr, even though she outranks him!