Hotch DOES come off...idk, happier in the first season. I think the Fisher King case was a turning point for Hotch, Reid, Gideon and Elle. I always look to that episode, and Gideon's speech about "I got nothing left" and how he needed a sanctuary and it had been taken from him as the point in which his breakdown became sort of inevitable. I think getting that head sent to his cabin was the beginning of the end for him.
With Haley...I don't think of her as evil incarnate. I do see her as the type that wanted the 2.3 kids and the white picket fence and the life that from the outside everyone looks at and envies. I think she felt kind of...idk...bamboozled in a way. I mean, she married a boy who wanted to be a lawyer and ended up with a man who hunted psychopaths. I think that marriage was a case of two basically good people who wanted different things and couldn't find a compromise. I think, honestly, she loved Hotch but didn't really understand him the person he became (like when she insisted being in the BAU was what he did and not who he was...imo it's a really big part of who he is) and he loved her but couldn't give her the life she wanted without giving up something he felt he needed. He could have switched to another division but he would have been miserable and eventually resented her and she would have eventually resented him. *shrugs* I always kind of saw them as two people who got married when they were young and then instead of growing together, they grew apart. Who you are at 19 and who you are at 35 can sometimes be light years apart. I think there's so much vitriol w/Haley b/c of the "implied affair" and because towards the end of their marriage her writing was...not the most sympathetic. I wish that cell phone had never rung. :(
And I really, really want to know who/what convinced Hotch to go with "Jack" when he was obviously so uncomfy about naming his kid Henry, Jeffrey, Charles, ect because of the serial killer connections LOL.
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With Haley...I don't think of her as evil incarnate. I do see her as the type that wanted the 2.3 kids and the white picket fence and the life that from the outside everyone looks at and envies. I think she felt kind of...idk...bamboozled in a way. I mean, she married a boy who wanted to be a lawyer and ended up with a man who hunted psychopaths. I think that marriage was a case of two basically good people who wanted different things and couldn't find a compromise. I think, honestly, she loved Hotch but didn't really understand him the person he became (like when she insisted being in the BAU was what he did and not who he was...imo it's a really big part of who he is) and he loved her but couldn't give her the life she wanted without giving up something he felt he needed. He could have switched to another division but he would have been miserable and eventually resented her and she would have eventually resented him. *shrugs* I always kind of saw them as two people who got married when they were young and then instead of growing together, they grew apart. Who you are at 19 and who you are at 35 can sometimes be light years apart. I think there's so much vitriol w/Haley b/c of the "implied affair" and because towards the end of their marriage her writing was...not the most sympathetic. I wish that cell phone had never rung. :(
And I really, really want to know who/what convinced Hotch to go with "Jack" when he was obviously so uncomfy about naming his kid Henry, Jeffrey, Charles, ect because of the serial killer connections LOL.