Every few seasons, they do this, where they have some random mass killing attempt of the agents by some psycho.
And, in this case, the agents must know it's a trap and walk right into it anyway. Is this a way to cast off crew members that they didn't want on the show anymore? Especially since there's a constant revolving door on this show, you wouldn't think that they would need these "cliffhanger" endings/resolutions to get rid of people.
I don't think the "cliffhanger" was intentionally a set up to get rid of a team member, it just happened that way. Over the years there wasn't much of casting off crew members, until recently with Tyler arriving, Morgan leaving, Luke arriving, Hotchner getting bumped, then we get Walker, [Spoiler]killed,[/Spoiler] then we get Simmons. Ugh. I don't mind Simmons, I just don't see the same chemistry within the team as I used to.
shareHopefully it will develop into something great!
shareThe show has been on so long that because of the way the nucleus is set up the Chemistry is never really going to be the same for the characters that get added in. I mean as long as you have Prentiss, Rossi, Reid, JJ, and Garcia everyone else is going to be an outsider to that and no matter how they write them some things are going to feel shoehorned. Case in point Luke is basically cast to fill Morgan's role so they blatantly have written him to share spots with Garcia that don't feel natural, but are part of the show because that is what Morgan would have been for Garcia.
I also don't think the show could survive if they did a major blow up of the nucleus. Meaning I don't think the show could survive if it is Garcia, Reid with Luke, Tara, and four new additions. Even if they brought back Morgan or Hotch still losing that many of the nucleus would be tough to overcome.