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

[a_blackpanther]

I'm just wondering why, for all that is holy, are journalists so fixated on this pairing. It's my pairing, but it's definitely a minor one from a fandom POV. So why do they keep asking writers/actors about it?

The showrunners have repeatedly said no workplace romance will happen between the main characters.

[phibatola.livejournal.com]

i like them as friends. How they always have each others back (like Garcia and Morgan) but I actually like that criminal minds is the one show without ships. I hope they choose not to go there.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

I'm okay if the show goes the route of no romance between anyone. If they try to go the Prentiss/Morgan route, though, it will definitely be hypocritical because all the things in this interview would apply to that pairing as well. I'm perfectly happy imagining my OTP happening in all those at-home moments the show doesn't show us. I don't really want at-work romance on the show from anyone anyway (except keep the flirting between Garcia and Morgan).

[gothrockrulz.livejournal.com]

I understand perfectly the arguments against ships in CM, especially with Hotchner involved. And if the writers decide to keep things ship-free, I'm okay with that.

As someone who leans toward Hotch/Prentiss, though, I think the writers could pull off a sort of unspoken ship, if they so chose. They could write the episodes in a way to show that the two of them may be attracted to each other, but obviously can't "get together," because Hotch still grieves for Haley.

Just my two cents. :)

[dysfunkshunell1.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't see anything remotely between Hotch and Prentiss other than mutual respect. No different than between Rossi and Hotch or JJ and Morgan.

The show toyed with Reid and JJ in early seasons (Gideon giving Reid tickets to JJ's favorite football team for a date) and now it really feels as if they're toying with Morgan and Prentiss--because that was quite the confession with Hotch, not to mention in the most recent episode.

Yes, they say they won't do this or that but the same could be said about Grissom and Sara in CSI and I believe even House and Cuddy. In the end, they want ratings and they'll do what they think will get them.

Fraternization is usually frowned upon between supervisor and subordinate so Hotch and anyone on the team would probably not happen. And given the single members of the team, the only plausible characters left are Morgan and Prentiss. ...Things that make you go hmmm.

[hotch-fan.livejournal.com]

Leaving aside the fact that I just can't see Hotch and Prentiss together, I really hope the CM people stick to no couples among the team, I think the show is fine the way it is, they should leave couples and things like that just for fanfiction.

[eiko82.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I love CM is simply that there is no office romance between any of the team members. They're just colleagues and friends.

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

I am a fervent Hotch/Prentiss shipper.

Having said that, I dont want or need for the writers to make anything canon....they ruin everything. I also wish the media, or whoever, would stop asking about it, its obnoxious. Its already been established there will be no canon ships amongst the major players and I think that's best for fans who ship, dont ship, and everything in between. Lets stick to the family dynamic, the good subtext, and the profiling...the rest is fun to make up but I wouldnt want to leave it in the hands of CM's often irresponsible writers.