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criminalxmindsWrite 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.
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.
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what Thomas GIbson ships
Date: Nov. 13th, 2011 12:36 am (UTC)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
Date: Nov. 13th, 2011 03:40 pm (UTC)Re: what Thomas GIbson ships
Date: Nov. 13th, 2011 04:28 pm (UTC)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
Date: Nov. 13th, 2011 05:15 pm (UTC)