In before LJ decides to crash again

[a_blackpanther]

This is the discussion post for Episode 6x20 - "Hanley Waters". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

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I don't think I'd be able to do what Hotch is doing either, but in some way I think he wants to take the responsibility of counseling the team to assuage his guilt or maybe find some way to battle it.

I'm not an expert on Hotch as a character, but from what I've seen, I feel like he would consider it his duty to do so, given that he has to carry the burden of knowing that Prentiss is still alive...I can only imagine how isolated he must feel. It's not like he can just call up J.J. and talk about it...my guess is it would be too suspicious and both of them are extremely cautious people.

I agree that Seaver being involved in the therapy sessions would have been unnecessary and I think the show did this one great thing by not including her, but I agree with what lovechilde wrote below...I wish they'd do a better job integrating her into the team...I wouldn't even mind another semi-Seaver centric episode if it made us see another side of her character. For now she's one-dimensional and it's irritating.

And o ya, the Reid haters CAN step...they're not allowed here :P.