Thomas and Paget shoot down the idea of Hotch/Prentiss

[klutzy-girl.livejournal.com]

Write about CBS’ Criminal Minds (airing Wednesdays at 9/8c) — any story about it, really — and a small sect of fans is sure to surface throwing their weight behind a someday romance between BAU agents Hotch (played by Thomas Gibson) and Prentiss (Paget Brewster).

Yet at least two factors might keep the Criminal Minds coworkers from ever broaching a workplace romance. For one, Hotch’s ex-wife was killed by a serial killer not two calendar years ago. There’s also the matter of while it’s one thing to have a lunch date with Lenny, the guy who drives the delivery van at your flower shop, it’s another to mix pleasure with a business that is so not conducive to canoodling.

“I’ve read [about some fans' want for a romance] and I don’t know how to respond to it,” Paget Brewster recently shared with TVLine. “I understand it on the one hand, because in the real FBI, people work so closely and are only around each other, so chances are that sooner or later they date each other. In some ways, it’s human nature.”

But on the other hand — and this is a valid point — “The idea that Hotch and I might be fooling around in a roundtable room when children are dying somewhere is really not appealing,” Brewster notes. “It’s a really hard line to ride, so I don’t know if they’ll ever write that. I really don’t.”

Thomas Gibson was similarly bearish on the idea when we ran it by him moments later, responding, “No, no, no…. Not unless it was one of those drunken evenings between Hotch and Prentiss.” (Yeah, one of those evenings. As if!)

Besides, Hotch is not the sort “to get involved with anybody he works with,” he contends. “Come on, he can’t do that!”

“That being said…,” Gibson added, “we’ll see.”

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Well, now I'm picturing Hotch/Prentiss drunkenly going at it on the conference room table.

Comments

[thecowboycliche.livejournal.com]

This pairing is minor in the fandom? Really?

Because they're not going to ask the actors about Morgan/Reid lol.

[yulia-eru.livejournal.com]

I guess that's exactly the reason(s) xD

[a_blackpanther]

It really is. Especially compared to other pairings (Reid/Hotch, Reid/Morgan, Morgan/Garcia, for example). hotch_prentiss is not very active at all, either.

Well, they could!

[amichevole.livejournal.com]

They're super-active on fanfiction.net. But thank god ship popularity does not equal Canon.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_touched/]

Or Hotch/Reid. lol.

[yamair.livejournal.com]

It's a shame they won't do Morgan/Reid, this is the most natural pairing imo.

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

I think Thomas Gibson ships it, on his blog "they are getting engaged".

He posted that for Rossi and Hotch too, I personally don't find Rossi sexy (it's the beard, I find Mandy super hot until he's plus beard, I might be able to blame Ronald Dahl for this), but dude, I totally see Rossi and Hotch as a couple, and it'll be kinda sweet.

[yamair.livejournal.com]

Omg, he really said that about Morgan/Reid!? What was the context? But he's right, they should be getting engaged, they should be the show's romantic couple.

what Thomas GIbson ships

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

In his blog, I THINK it is his blog:
http://gibsonthomas.tumblr.com/

He posted that picture where MGG was resting his pretty head on Shemar's lap, with the caption of them getting engage, I take that to mean he ship the characters.

Then he later also post a picture of him and Joe, with the same engagement caption. Srsly, Hotch/Rossi would be cool.

Re: what Thomas GIbson ships

[yamair.livejournal.com]

I know MGG has a blog, but not Gibson! I wonder if they come across fanart. omg!! lol

Re: what Thomas GIbson ships

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

Probably, but I think they'll be cool with it as long as NOBODY do anything creepy like approach* them with it.

Did you see the clip of Gibson in a corset in Psycho Beach Party? Plus, he made out with a dude in Dharma & Greg, it wasn't a brief smooch, it was a When You See My Wife, Give Her This long smooch. He's been an actor for a long time, it's just fooling around.

...and MGG was a fashion model.

*Approach: I think that's the definite line crossing. If I had to go into a coworker's office to get something, accidentally knock over a box that tumble out a notebook that opens to drawings of everybody in the office having an orgy - well, it would be awkward, but in that situation, the coworker didn't do anything wrong - everyone have the right to fantasize, in privacy. If they actually approach any of us with that or left it open on his/her desk, THEN it is sexual harassment panda time. Or if it's online, in public.

With celebrities, they are playing characters even when they are not on stage, like, during photo ops and public meet and greets. That's what I think the RPS is about, their public personalities, it's like the Stephen Colbert thing. So I don't see anything wrong with it, as long as there is a big clear but not graphic disclaimer so they'll know to back away if they stumble across it, and that fans keep in mind that these are locker room penhouse exchanges and NOT bring it up to their face evar. Not unless they ask about it.

...and so long as, considering that the locker room fantasies are about real figures, obviously the usual whumpage we do to Reid we really should be careful about writing when it stars MGG! (Oh geez, I was just on the wiki trying to find Sir Ian's opinion on this, but then I found out someone was charged for writing RPS...why? The man in question wrote a fic featuring band members of Girls Outloud being kidnapped, raped, and murder, yikes! At some point, you gotta remember that your right to SHARE fantasies never trumps someone else's sense of safety)

Re: what Thomas GIbson ships

[yamair.livejournal.com]

That's what I hope no one does, shove it in their face. In some other fandoms, people like to twitter fics and other stuff to celebs. It's ridiculous.