#I probably shouldn't put this in the main criminal minds tag huh

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fuck it I'm going to be controversial and just say it:

I'm glad the character of Aaron Hotchner was spared from the terrible fucking writing of late-season Criminal minds.

I did a #NoHotchNoWatch at the time (which was simply because the show held no interest for me otherwise - small exception Reid but only in relation to his dynamic with Hotch). Eventually decided to give the rest of the show a go since I got enough emotional distance from the loss of my perfect husband my favourite character and blah blah "violence" in the workplace is bad and maybe the show didn't deserve a boycott I guess ... (and it's now available as a brainless streaming choice).

So that means I am only just now discovering exactly how bad the writing got. And DAMN.

I mean I saw it going downhill (even more so from the usual "suspension of disbelief" element that is required) from about season 9, but I had No. Idea.

It's like the show hired all the writers that even Supernatural would have rejected!

So yeah "violence" in the workplace is bad but so is incompetence, and from personal experience I feel like sometimes the people left dealing with it deserve some kind of mental health compensation from the strain it takes. Except the cast members who apparently didn't care.

That is all.