Raise your hand if you thought Foyet was holding Jack and Hotch had accidentally killed his own son. *waves* yeah, I thought that too. But then that also would have been really OTT with the misery they heap on Hotch. Not that there isn't plenty already.
I gave up on Spooks after season 5 (got rather tired of becoming attached to characters and then watching them disappear for whatever reason). But you make it sound like that was a foolish decision; I think I'll have to look up some episodes.
Raise your hand if you thought Foyet was holding Jack and Hotch had accidentally killed his own son.
::waves:: For a few tense moments I gawped at the tv in horror thinking that this would be the nail in Hotch's mental coffin (up until that point I'd been positive that the cute "on the case" conversation was an attempt to get Jack to hide somewhere, but... ). They do seem to enjoy dumping all the heavy emotional baggage on him. Now we have to wait to see if TPTB will allow Hotch to heal at all.
I gave up on Spooks for a few years, too -- Adam was just too much of a Mary Sue and I was getting sick of the anti-Americanism and anti-Israeli sentiment. I'm still sick of that, but I did pick it up again with the start of Series 7 and haven't been too disappointed.
I'd love for TPTB to let Hotch heal a little. He doesn't have to be frolicking, but we shouldn't be at a 'one smile per season' rate for too long.
I am usually really pissed when a show kills off the rarely seen wife or girlfriend because it's all about the suffering of the men. I should have expected better from Criminal Minds, because they gave Haley a harsh and magnificent death scene that was *not about Hotch*. It was about her and her son, and I cried and cried.
With the Will and JJ thing, I interpreted that as the "novelty parent" thing, where the kid plays up for the at-home parent then is perfectly behaved for the working parent so that the working parent blithely goes off without understanding the stay-at-home parent. But with the gender role reversal, I see your interpretation as more likely, with silly old Dad and super-competent Mum.
Hotch, Mom, is now Single!Mom Hotch. I have a sneaking suspicion that either Hayley's sister or one of his relatives will try to get custody. I also see them not succeeding. :-)
Eventually I want to see the nanny-hiring process. Whoever makes it to an interview will have to have a background cleaner than Mary Poppins'.
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If Sarah can be a good Tessa, I'm all for it. But I'd like it to be a two-person chess match and not just her running amok on the board.
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*waves* yeah, I thought that too. But then that also would have been really OTT with the misery they heap on Hotch. Not that there isn't plenty already.
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Hotch is effectively broken now; whether Jack can keep him afloat remains to be seen.
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I was just saying this yesterday...
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Raise your hand if you thought Foyet was holding Jack and Hotch had accidentally killed his own son.
::waves:: For a few tense moments I gawped at the tv in horror thinking that this would be the nail in Hotch's mental coffin (up until that point I'd been positive that the cute "on the case" conversation was an attempt to get Jack to hide somewhere, but... ). They do seem to enjoy dumping all the heavy emotional baggage on him. Now we have to wait to see if TPTB will allow Hotch to heal at all.
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I'd love for TPTB to let Hotch heal a little. He doesn't have to be frolicking, but we shouldn't be at a 'one smile per season' rate for too long.
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With the Will and JJ thing, I interpreted that as the "novelty parent" thing, where the kid plays up for the at-home parent then is perfectly behaved for the working parent so that the working parent blithely goes off without understanding the stay-at-home parent. But with the gender role reversal, I see your interpretation as more likely, with silly old Dad and super-competent Mum.
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Eventually I want to see the nanny-hiring process. Whoever makes it to an interview will have to have a background cleaner than Mary Poppins'.
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