Darcy

100 episodes of Luke Alvez (50/100)

no promo pictures. no sneak peeks. no episode stills to zoom in on and overanalyze

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Oh I'm probably gonna give a play by play lol

just finished 19x06 and OMG PENELOPE MY BABY SHE JUST WANTS TO SEE THE GOOD IN OTHERS

rossi walks in. he's bedraggled. dressing like shit. hair looking like shit. basically allover looking like shit, and this is an ongoing thing he's had for a while as already presented by the narrative the episode before. luke asks him how his night was and he answers brusquely, not caring to engage in small talk.

jj notices his cup of coffee, bearing the logo of the hotel he'd been living at.

she warily asks him about it. she just watched rossi flip out on both luke and penelope the previous episode so she's hesitant, but, she also can't just let it go.

he just ignores the question. moves on and asks about the case. his demeanor grumpy.

jj's just like.. oooookay..

she shares a look with luke. they both know rossi's a hot fucking mess but every time they try to say anything he's just an asshole to them. they are lost. they don't know what to do.

and in that 10-15 second scene, we keep the thread going of rossi's mental status. his depression, his anger, how his whole life has unraveled and how it's bled into his work and his relationship with his coworkers, people he ostensibly calls family.

SCENE OF ALL TIME TO BE HONEST. i love this scene so much. penelope is the one to get anywhere with rossi at all, because with everyone else he lashes out and they back off, but penelope doesn't give up. she gives it right back to him. and he lets her. and they argue, they argue about how penelope doesn't want to go back to the bau, they argue about rossi's lack of caring for his own mental health, but then they share their feelings, even rossi. he is vulnerable with her in a way he isn't with anyone else on the team. they have been through too much, known each other too long, to let an argument get between them. and we learn so much about each character in this scene, what their lives have been like since the last episode of s15. UGH i love this scene so much. rossi & penelope are such an important dynamic and relationship to me.

and then the way this scene ends 💕💕💕

S19 was supposed to be focused on Luke Alvez, but how much focus was actually on Luke?

Apart from Roxy (Oh! Miss you my love 😘) I didn't felt there was any key element to say this was a Luke's season. While I love both JJ and AJ, they always focusing on her emotional side story while neglecting other characters (Not Rossi! papa can have a break. We have seen so much of his emotional side) are not making a great impression with the viewers.

At the very least they could have shown us a little flashback of Tarbecca wedding, but 🙂‍↔️

I don't know about Kirsten but I am damn sure that Adam was all in for GarVez from the moment they shot this scene 😁

The tension in this scene alone laid a major dent in my Morcia truth😭

I was flabbergasted, to be honest, when I started shipping these two because shipping Penelope with anyone other than Morgan felt like a crime to me at that time.