Don't you hate that they are killing everyone in revolution? Like there's no need for that, it kinda feels to me like the constant bringing up old cases in the season 14,15. Like get creative ideas instead going the same route of grieve? Will could just never appear in the show and be mention once a while, instead of being dead. The same with Rossi's wife. For me it's lazy writing and lack of ideas. Just going for the shock value
Honestly, no, I don't hate it. Lol. That's the thing about Criminal Minds, a central tenet to the show:
You say there's "no need" but those deaths have been the driving force behind particular dramatic storylines that they wanted to write on the show.
People die. That includes husbands and dogs that save lives. I'm not sure what service would be served by pretending everybody's lives will stay happy all the time. This isn't a fairytale show, this is a show about real concepts.
I personally am not interested in a television show where the characters never face adversity. To me, that's boring as hell. And also very unrealistic.
Everyone is right to want shows that cater to their interests and needs, but here's the thing. Evolution isn't suddenly some new chapter where suddenly the writers decided to start killing people. Was it necessary for Haley to die? And so brutally?? How did that add value to Criminal Minds, but Will dying did not?
I was 15 years old when my mother died, of cancer. Natural cause, like Will. After she died, I have a very vivid memory of sitting on my bed with my father. I clung to him and we both wept.
When I saw this scene play out, a near perfect mirror to my own childhood experience, it was a shot to my gut. A powerful visual reminder of a time I went through the exact same thing. It was crazy to see something I went through play out on screen exactly as I experienced it. So, this scene is really important to me. I really really love it. I wouldn't have this scene without Will's death.
You may think it's lazy to kill Will. Maybe. But I don't know how else they could write and act scenes to portray these emotions without killing who they killed. I think it's important and meaningful to show that these characters are not immune to the regular maladies that befall people in their every day lives. The actor had publicly stated he was never going to come back to the show. So we're just doing to do some comical "oops you just missed Will he went out the back door" type storytelling when instead it's an opportunity to give the characters something real to experience? I don't think they would have ever killed Will if the actor hadn't said he was done. If people want to blame someone, blame him, lol.
With Krystall, they wanted to show how her loss drove Rossi deep into darkness. How he lashed out at his friends, how he wasn't taking care of himself, how it gave him an outlet to become unhealthily obsessed with Voit and to take risks he never would have normally. A happy Rossi with a supportive loving wife would not be in the mental space for any of that and season 16 would have had to play out very differently.
I just keep coming back to this:
This is what Criminal Minds is and always has been. It's about showing how these people still get up and move forward every day. How they pour themselves into catching serial killers and being heroes when their own lives aren't sterling and wonderful.
