Most notably, the assertion that Rebecca is too unprofessional at her job, and shouldn't be an FBI agent and therefore the show is ridiculous.
I don't find her terrifically unprofessional. She's the new girl, and young, and a little odd (so fits right in), but she's still an FBI agent. I don't question that and I don't think there's anything in the show that would make me question that. She's not a jaded field operative, obviously, but that's kind of the point.
eta: I'm not saying that she might not be kicked out of the field for some of her actions if she were in a normal group, but this isn't a normal group.
She makes stupid choices sometimes but she makes brilliant intuitive deductions sometimes. I don't think her behavior would be tolerated in a real FBI setting, but I don't think a by-the-books FBI show would be very intertesting to watch, myself. I like Web's World, with all its darkness and perversity and people screwing up.
I don't find her terrifically unprofessional. She's the new girl, and young, and a little odd (so fits right in), but she's still an FBI agent. I don't question that and I don't think there's anything in the show that would make me question that. She's not a jaded field operative, obviously, but that's kind of the point.
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.
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.
Web's World
....aaand now I'm hearing Mike Myers and Dana Carvey shouting this as a guitar blares.
....aaand now I'm hearing Mike Myers and Dana Carvey shouting this as a guitar blares.
Web's World! Trauma time! Yellow pen!
