I feel like we don't talk about how bad Lt. Reed is nearly enough

Reed is horny for Archer and wants him to dom him, I'm not making a joke I actually think this. Every time he fucks up he want's Archer to punish him, physically. Archer made a passing joke once that he would flog him and Reed was about that shit. Between his repressed homosexuality and daddy issues, he's basically Francis Bacon, or a sort of unkind but not inaccurate archetype of the repressed aristocratic British officer class. That is at least genuinely an existing trope. There are enough instances of stuff this that I can't think it was anything but intentional and it's actually kind of interesting characterization, keep an eye out. He's not stodgy for no reason, and I don't know if they meant for him to actually be gay but I imagine if he were he would have no idea how to handle those feelings, he is in every manner deeply repressed as a product of his childhood and the culture he was raised in, he does grow while serving on enterprise and there might be some kind of point to that.

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