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Spencer Reid Birthday
Jul 28 2010, 5:29 AM EDT
Ok so I am looking for Dr.Reid birthday I search the web and came up with Monday October 9th 1980.we can deduce that Reid was born in 1980 (Riley Jenkins was killed in 1984; Reid was 4 when Riley died). But I am not sure where the responders got Monday October 9th. tho Oct sound likely as the birthday episode was early in the season. Anyone got anymore info? 8 out of 8 found this valuable. Do you?
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Wolfeaddict |
1. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Jul 28 2010, 9:28 AM EDT
Was it stated in the episode that Riley was killed in 1984 (making 1980 the year Reid was born)? Cause in "Plain sight" it's stated that he's Reid's 24th bithday. The episode aired in 2005, making 1981 the year he was born. And said episode aired on October 12th, which would make his DOB October 12th 1981.
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2. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Jul 29 2010, 5:40 AM EDT
"Ok so I am looking for Dr.Reid birthday I search the web and came up with Monday October 9th 1980.march 27 3-27 he states this in season 4 episode 8 right be for he tells his joke. when the girl asks how old he is and he begins rambaling, but when he says it its almost to him self and is very low and hard to hear! hope i helped. 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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3. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Jul 29 2010, 8:28 AM EDT
"march 27 3-27 he states this in season 4 episode 8 right be for he tells his joke. when the girl asks how old he is and he begins rambaling, but when he says it its almost to him self and is very low and hard to hear! hope i helped. "I just re-watched the episode and he doesn't say March 27, he says something like "...as of last month I turned 27..." 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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4. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Jul 30 2010, 6:55 PM EDT
I don't think the writers even know when Reid's birthday is. They have never really said. He was wearing short sleeves on his birthday and he did turn 24 in "In Plain Sight". In "LDSK" they said he'd been with the FBI for three years (although Hotch could have been exaggerating). In "Memoriam" a news article said Reid joined the FBI at 22... But then they had to mess things up in "Mosley Lane" and have Reid say he'd only been with the FBI for 5 years x months and x days (sorry, can't remember the exact quote).Bottom line is the writers didn't pay attention and they don't have it correct in continuity. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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5. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Jul 30 2010, 8:36 PM EDT
"Bottom line is the writers didn't pay attention and they don't have it correct in continuity."Thanks for the input guys!! 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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6. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Aug 2 2010, 5:26 AM EDT
| Post edited: Aug 2 2010, 5:27 AM EDT
"I don't think the writers even know when Reid's birthday is. They have never really said. He was wearing short sleeves on his birthday and he did turn 24 in "In Plain Sight". In "LDSK" they said he'd been with the FBI for three years (although Hotch could have been exaggerating). In "Memoriam" a news article said Reid joined the FBI at 22... But then they had to mess things up in "Mosley Lane" and have Reid say he'd only been with the FBI for 5 years x months and x days (sorry, can't remember the exact quote).I agree, they screw up the timelines of all the characters sooner or later. Though in case of Hotch saying that in "L.D.S.K." he said it to an UnSub so it stands to reason that it's not true. And it could have been that Reid turned 23 pretty soon after joining the BAU which would make it a year later and wouldn't make it wrong when he's saying that in "Mosley Lane". You're welcome, geeKISSexy. :) Do you find this valuable? |
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7. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Aug 7 2010, 2:27 PM EDT
Well, the time he gave in Mosley Lane would have had his stay at the BAU start with the pilot episode and he'd already been at the BAU for a year or more.In Tabula Rasa they established that he was with the team for at least a year before the pilot episode. I'm very nervous about season 6 because Oanh Ly and many of the older writers are leaving. I know that the guy who wrote "Revelations" is going to the spin-off. I heard they are bringing in some writers from ER and Third Watch (both of which bore me to tears). Do you find this valuable? |
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8. RE: Spencer Reid Birthday
Aug 9 2010, 7:22 AM EDT
Haven't seen "Mosley Lane" yet, so I can't speak to that.
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9. Spencer Reid's Birthday
Jan 20 2012, 11:09 PM EST
His birthday was October 12th,1979 and the team missed his birthday LAST YEAR because Prentiss was 'dead'! Then Riley Jenkins was killed 1984 BEFORE October!I think? 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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10. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Jan 23 2012, 4:29 AM EST
Is it stated anywhere in an episode that this is his DOB? And where did you get the year? I think the "problem" is that we don't know if his mentioned age is meant to be for the year the episode aired or the year it was shot.
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11. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Jan 28 2012, 6:45 AM EST
In season 1 he turns 24 (2005) and in season 7 he turns 30. Although his birthday was shown in 2012, it was filmed in 2011, making his birth year 1981.I think :) Do you find this valuable? |
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12. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Jan 30 2012, 4:28 AM EST
Agree with you on the first bit. As for the problem with him turning 30 in 2012, it's not stated in the episode when he turned 30 specifically, just that they missed it, so it could have been weeks or months prior to the episode already, so that would put it in 2011. Which would fit with him being 24 in 2005.
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13. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Jan 30 2012, 9:34 AM EST
Sorry, didn't explain myself too well.... was saying his birthday was in 2011 :)
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Wolfeaddict |
14. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Feb 2 2012, 5:00 AM EST
Oh, okay, then I agree fully with your comment. :)
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IrishLafey |
15. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Mar 3 2012, 1:19 PM EST
I've been working on making a CM timeline for fanfiction. First, let me say that there is only a bare minimum of continuity between episodes. For example, Spencer is shown as both computer and internet literate and a total technophobe. (I don't have enough space to prove this, but watch a few episodes yourself, and you'll see he both shows computer competence and total ignorance that cannot simply be justified by the fact that he prefers paper. His alleged computer ignorance is usually a device to have an excuse to explain something computery to the audience. Its also used to show that Garcia and Spencer are different types of nerds so they don't encroach on each others' character archetypes.)Now, onto Spencer's birthday. The most concrete I can get is that his birthday is sometime between 9/11 and 1/1 Why? Gideon gives him tickets to a Redskins game, and their 2005 season was 9/11-1/1. I think you could argue as far back as July, as I think July was when tickets went on sale for the season. Assuming that each CM's season covers roughly a calendar year of the character's lives then the team is out of town an average of 18.5 times in a year. So really Spencer's birthday can't be any earlier than August because Derek asks him how the game was in the very next episode. There is absolutely no progression of seasons in the show, so unfortunately, going by what clothes people are wearing is only minimally useful. There is also absolute NO reason to believe that the air dates are related to the dates in the show. For example 1x19 "Machismo" aired 4/12, That being said there is no way to reconcile the Redskins season in 2005 and the one concrete date we are given that season (11/1 in 1x19). Without continuity the best we can do is a ballpark estimate of Spencer's birthday sometime between late August and late December. Personally, I think he's a Virgo ;) Do you find this valuable? |
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16. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Mar 4 2012, 4:17 PM EST
Very interesting. If you have notes and such on the timelines that you post anywhere, I'd love to see them. Nov 1 is Day of the Dead, right? That's how we know the day and that it was Hotch's birthday? Do you find this valuable? |
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17. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Mar 5 2012, 8:50 PM EST
Nov. 1st is indeed Day of the Dead. In a canonical sense, yes it is also Hotch's birthday. However, based on everything else that I've sorted out, like how often the BAU is out of town, and again assuming a season covers a calendar year, it's very difficult if not impossible to reconcile what Spencer's birthday must be, even with a three month window, and having Hotch's birthday be in November. Its really complicated, I'm still trying to see if I can find a way to reconcile it (though, Aaron seems more like a Taurus to me, which is April, but I'm sure our dear Dr. Reid would have plenty to say about how illogical astrological signs are ;) ). I haven't completed the timeline yet, its a rather massive undertaking, I'm realizing. However, in the process of working on it, I started a blog to post my thoughts on some matters, I posted about Spencer's birthday there, and how often the BAU is out of town, so if you're interested, take a look. http://fanlogic.wordpress.com/ Do you find this valuable? |
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18. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Mar 6 2012, 7:25 AM EST
Excellent! Thank you!Would you mind if I shared your link on my Tumblr? I like to keep tabs on resources about character continuity. I'm too lazy to look it up, what astrological sign would November 1 be? Was I the only one that couldn't believe the team would forget Reid's birthday? Garcia is all over social sites and uses computers so much you just know she has all sorts of e-mail alerts, an online calendar, and reminders to not forget. I know that Reid is probably not on any social sites (although he apparently views blogs online) so Garcia wouldn't get a friend reminder for him from Facebook, but she would have had some sort of calendar thing to remind her of events. Reid might even point out if there have been some coincidences involving astrology and behavior of people born in certain months. I'm not sure what the statistics are on how accurate the astrology seems to be though. That would be interesting to study. What are the Virgo traits that you see as fitting for Reid? I'm rusty on astrology and I'm feeling too lazy to look it up right now. I have too many tabs open in my browser. LOL. Do you find this valuable? |
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19. RE: Spencer Reid's Birthday
Mar 6 2012, 7:49 PM EST
November 1st would be a scorpio, which does fit to a certain extent for Aaron, but that's the problem with astrology signs, we see what we want and they're sort of vague. I disagree with the idea that Spencer is a technophobe. Why on earth would he not be interested in something that would give him nearly limitless access to any information he could ever want. The problem with books is that the publishing process alone takes a minimum of nine months, so by the time he would get the statistics he so loves, they'd be out of date. I'm sure he reads lots of periodicals, but I have to think that Spencer would love the internet. There's canon evidence both directions honestly. I do agree that he probably wouldn't be on facebook or the like though. I could go on at length about why I think Spencer's a virgo, but I think I'll save that for my blog lol, but some highlights: "Virgo is a very independent zodiac sign. They are fully able to put their intelligence to use and get things done for themselves. It is possible however that their narrow mindedness causes their creativity to suffer and they may lead regular routine lives. They may dwell too much on the past and over complicate things and this may limit their ability to move forward and confuse themselves." Spencer has shown, on more than one occasion that he obsesses over injustices he's suffered in the past. He's evolved over the course of the show, that he is no longer so narrowly focused, but when we see him trying to beat Gideon at chess and Gideon telling him to think outside the box, that's what's going on, he's trying to get Spencer to think more creatively and intuitively. That's just a brief overview. Oh, and please, be my guest to share my link on tumblr, that would be great. Do you find this valuable? |
