CriminalxMinds @ LJ

While I hate the “kill the cop’s wife/girlfriend” trope with a passion, if I were a male cast member on CM, I would also prefer my character’s girl to be dead. With all the hatred caused by the introduction of Beth (she sure must be an unsub because she dared to lay hands on Hotch) and the theories that Maeve would be the team’s stalker/another unsub almost immediately after she was introduced, I would not want to deal with a rabid female fan base. So with this story line they established that Reid is willing and able to get a partner but they did not have to deal with the fallout of jealous crazy fans for too long. Instead they gathered sympathy for the poor woobie. See, everybody wins.