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.
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'The Killer In Me'
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.
Scrappy - Jun 23, 2005 10:24:09 am PDT #8 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
bon bon - Jun 23, 2005 10:25:11 am PDT #9 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2005 10:25:21 am PDT #10 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
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.