Not that it's not usually also offensive - but how sad is it that US tv treatment of Vudun/Santaría is typically less offensive than its treatment of the Roma?

Too bad, too, because the special 200th ep of CSI had an awesome guest director and absolutely gorgeous camerawork. At least it was mostly limited to offensive exoticisation in the "scary primitive people doing tribal dances" scene, as opposed to suggesting that they, for example, kill white parents and steal their babies (thx, Criminal Minds, for giving everyone else something to live down to).

So, how about the Hotch/Rossi this week, huh?

It's really sweet the way they're gradually developing the trust and partnership between Hotch and Rossi canonically, although obviously, if you ignore my slash-goggled eroticised subversive reading, it's just an equally heart-warming platonic friendship. But that doesn't matter! Because they have their emotionally wounded Intense Discussions about Why We Do This and Don't Blame Yourself and You're A Good Man, their reserved manly handshakes and back-pats, their parental tete-a-tetes away from the big ears of the pitchers children. I like that in the Hotch-angst storylines and the Rossi-angst storylines, the other one is always sensitive to the nuances of the angster's behaviour even when the children aren't, and confident and caring enough to offer support verbally and with reassuring bodylanguage.

I need to go back to the beginning of the Rossi eps and rewatch at least the significant ones, because I didn't start shipping it until later and I'm sure that caused me to miss some nuances. Also I'd like screencaps. :/ I was chatting with iscaris about the canonical development of the pairing a few weeks ago (*wave*) and she brought up some stuff that I totally hadn't even remembered about it at all, and I can't allow that state to continue for a pairing I'm actively shipping: I won't know how to arrange my personal canon.