Since it's canon that she's not suited to be a field agent, I don't feel she needs to get better to serve internal or real-world consistency. She may need to get better to satisfy the audience, but that's different. My assumption that your average young rookie field agent at the Bureau would be more together than she is, but less insightful. And that Web wasn't shopping for together that day.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2005 10:25:21 am PDT #10 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2005 10:34:35 am PDT #11 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Does this go to 11?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2005 10:36:54 am PDT #12 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Web's World
....aaand now I'm hearing Mike Myers and Dana Carvey shouting this as a guitar blares.
Astarte - Jun 23, 2005 10:37:47 am PDT #13 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Lucky 13.
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2005 10:39:27 am PDT #14 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
....aaand now I'm hearing Mike Myers and Dana Carvey shouting this as a guitar blares.
Web's World! Trauma time! Yellow pen!
joe boucher - Jun 23, 2005 10:39:34 am PDT #15 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
....aaand now I'm hearing Mike Myers and Dana Carvey shouting this as a guitar blares.
Web's World! Web's World! FBI! Ex-cel-lent!!
lori - Jun 23, 2005 10:39:51 am PDT #16 of 10001
I have a bruise on my knee. Can I play?
AnthonyDe - Jun 23, 2005 10:44:45 am PDT #17 of 10001
A One that isn't cold, is scarcely A One at all.
Also, I'm taking out some issues I've read around the net, here.
I've seen in two places now, one you'd expect and one you might not, where people seem to want it to be more than just a cop show and take a supernatural spin! Like they want to catch Web putting on a helmet in his hyperbaric meditation chamber. Ok one of the places was the X-Files board but the other wasn't!
I think eventually hidden agendas, ulterior motives and all that good stuff will make it's way toward the surface and that may help people think differently.
Nutty - Jun 23, 2005 10:47:33 am PDT #18 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
putting on a helmet in his hyperbaric meditation chamber.
To ensure that his head wouldn't explode?
...I always wondered what people with headcolds would do if they had to be in hyperbaric chambers. Every time you want to blow your nose, boom!
...What a great idea for a crime show! Head-exploded corpse, locked-room mystery! I am genius!!
Deena - Jun 23, 2005 10:47:36 am PDT #19 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
She's unprofessional. She goes off on her own, disobeys superiors, and jeopardizes investigations not because of inexperience but because she thinks she knows what's best. I don't think that's a fault of the show; she's Mulder to Paul's Scully.
Dang, you made me think. You're right. She's unprofessional. To try to make some sense, she's internally consistent and Web's use of her is consistent to both characters, so I have no problem with her being kept in the group.
Going back to the 4 at the door nit: My husband didn't understand why the 4 of them all pointing their guns at the little girl dropped me out of the story. He laughed at that point. I think I was too caught up in the tension to be able to see the funny. I wanted them to be smart, professional, successful, and to catch the bad guy. I wanted to have some proof that they were covering all the doors (Danny used his walkie talkie to have the outside guys give their 20, but they didn't all speak up before the door was opened, which had me expecting that their perimeter had been compromised and they were DOOMED!) I think at that point I was so immersed in the story that I couldn't see the joke for worrying that the bad guy was going to somehow beat them and bad ugly death that the kids would find first would be the result.