I agree with a lot of what you said. The whole thing felt very forced. The new show itself might not be that bad (I'll probably give it a couple watches, at least, just to see), but them trying to introduce the characters like that just fell through, in my opinion. Making Rossi and Hotch seem like they've known Cooper forever was awful, and everyone all, "I've heard stories." well, we haven't and it made me roll my eyes.

Prophet was the only interesting person to me, I wish they had focused on him a little more than anyone. That's another thing, I know this was specifically for them to introduce the new cast/show or whatever, but the lack of original characters really irritated me.