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I understand having a negative reaction to some of the overplayed, lazy stereotypes in both canon and fandom portrayals of Reid, and I often share the feeling, but…

The whole point of Reid is that he thinks and behaves in ways that most of society doesn’t consider normal, and that he has an…

I think Reid’s character is kind of inconsistent.  If he’s such a genius and constantly reads so many books and newspapers, he’d be hard pressed not to make a connection to pop culture references as massive as Twilight or Lady Gaga.  I know they want to make him seem like a nutty professor who’s got his nose stuck in a book from the 15th century all the time, but it would be part of his job as a profiler to keep up to date on current events.  It would make more sense that an unsub is obsessed with Twilight than some obscure scholarly text from the Renaissance, or even the more minute parts of the Bible, based on the lack of exposure any given person would have to those things.  I absolutely love Reid’s character, and I know they have to do something to show that he’s not wired like the rest of us, but I do think sometimes the writers do his character a disservice by making him only know “smart people stuff”.