[Spoiler Alert] to get a love interest

[klutzy-girl.livejournal.com]

Former Dirty Sexy Money star Bellamy Young will guest in an upcoming episode of Criminal Minds as Beth, a museum curator who meets Hotch (Thomas Gibson) in the park while he’s training for triathalon.

The episode also guest stars Charles S. Dutton, playing a boxing trainer at a Philadelphia gym.

Before the start of the season, showrunner Erica Messer teased a new romance for one of the agents, but declined to give details. She had also hinted, however, that she wanted this season to see a new beginning for Hotch, whose ex-wife was killed a few season ago. “Hotch … has been going through the motions of raising a child as a single working parent and mourning the loss of a great love,” she told EW after the premiere. “And even though he and Haley were divorced, she was his first love, his only life and all that. We’d really like him to smile again and let go of that. It’s going to be new and exciting for all of us and the audience.”

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I'd love for Hotch/Prentiss, but I'm completely fine with this since Hotch deserves to be happy after his divorce and Haley's death.

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[e-rousset.livejournal.com]

Are you joking about Reid getting all the romance sotrylines ?
He kissed an actress who deliberately made him fall in a pool for that very purpose and that was it, it wasn't a romance in the slightest.
He got a phone number from a bartender because she liked his magic trick and that was it too. Not a romance either.

- Hotch/Haley was a big, big thing,it took screen time and even became one of the focal point of the Hotch/Foyet storyline.
- Morgan had more screen time with Tamara Barnes and subtext with Jordan Todd,
- Garcia/Kevin anyone ?
- JJ/Will, anyone ? And let's not forget that they have Henry.
- And we're going to meet one of Rossi ex-xife...

I fail to see how Reid gets 'all the romance storyline', he never had an actual romance on the show. You can't call what we saw for him 'romance', he never even had a SINGLE date, just awkward moments with two women in 6 + years and I didn't find it convincing at all (and I'm not the only one).

That being said, I prefer it that way for more than one reasons.

I want the writers to concentrate on Reid's genius, and apparently his centric episode of the season (and probably the only one, just like in season five and six...) will concentrate on that aspect.
Good, he's a one of a kind genius and the writers tend to forget that very regularly.
I also think that if they wanted to have a romance for Reid they would mess it up, it would probably be like : "look, we're going to throw another bimbo at him".
So I'm glad about the romance NOT being for him.

I also hope for a reappearance of Jane Lynch this season, after three years.

I'm also glad to see Hotch having a lighter storyline this season. Given how dark his storylines have alway been, he needs lighter stories in my opinion. And I'm happy about him getting some loving too.
Now Prentiss just needs to find a nice boyfriend outside of the team later.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

You are right. I posted that when I was half asleep. Reid doesn't get all the romance. But for the first several seasons, he was the central focus character. We know more about his background than any other character (we do know about Hotch's family in the sense of his marriage and kid, but not his background). And I found that really frustrating. I've enjoyed the last couple of seasons that haven't been all Reid-centric, and I don't want that to change. Although, I wouldn't mind an episode or two with Jane Lynch.

[e-rousset.livejournal.com]

I understand your point of view but I think that the central character of the show during the first seasons was clearly Gideon. Even the actors admitted that 'Gideon was the show'. They didn't even know if the show could really go on without him when the actor left.

It's true that we know more about Reid's background than some other character's background. But there hasn't been anything on that front (Reid's background) for a very long time.
I think the writers wanted us to understand where Reid was coming from, socially he's unlike any of his teammates who are/were much more adjusted.

Also, as you mentioned, we saw Hotch home life extensively (at least compared to the home life of the other characters) and we still see that. By contrast, Reid is one of the only team member whose apartment/house has never been seen.

We also get glimpses of Hotch life as a Unit Chief when he's with Strauss or another higher up.

We also saw some of Hotch past cases and there has been several references to his career as a prosecutor.
It's something we can't see for Reid because his carrer as the FBI pretty much starts with the show, he was only in the FBI and in the BAU for something like two years before the show started.

But I understand you wanting to see more of Hotch's background.

I know you mentioned some of these points on your post (Hotch's home life), my point is : we do know more about Reid's childhood than Hotch's, but Reid in return will never get the kind of scenes Hotch has/had concerning his private life, (at least never to that extent).

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd like to know more about JJ or Garcia or Rossi, the characters we haven't learned much about. But I'll take a Hotch storyline because he lost his wife and deserves to have a little happiness.

[e-rousset.livejournal.com]

- Well, we'll see more of JJ, Will and Henry very soon (episode 7).
- Rossi's storyline is coming up and it will be a two parter (and the actor said he wanted to see Rossi's past as a Marine explored too);
- Episode 8 is also a Garcia's episode and apparently, from what the writers have said during chats, episode 13 will feature Garcia and Kevin again and I think they'll play a big role.
- Episode 12 should apparently deal extensivly with Prentiss trauma (that's what Breen Frazier said and he'll involve Hotch a lot).

So, your wishes are coming true ;).

I personally hope episode 11 will be a good Reid episode and that maybe, just maybe the story about his mother's problems mean we'll see Jane Lynch (even if it's the last time she appears on the show).

[e-rousset.livejournal.com]

And I meant, that we'll see Jane Lynch at some point this season (even if it's the last time). We know episode 11, 'True Genius' isn't about that.