All her actions that got her booted out/to walk were just plain stupid.

They were, but up until that point, she was halfway decent. She did go off the rails spectacularly, though.

Huh. I just had a Winchester-analog moment, where floppy-haired little bro doesn't want to go into the family business. Except this time, the family biz is law.

Oh, god, you're RIGHT.

Haters gonna hate, but I do think she is dumb. All her actions that got her booted out/to walk were just plain stupid.

Agreed. I disliked Elle; she always seemed brittle to me, like she was gonna snap and do something stupid any minute. After she was attacked and then killed that guy, when she was in Hotch's office saying how betrayed she felt because the team wasn't there to protect her, I thought, "Daddy issues much?" Prentiss is better; even though I've had issues with her characterization sometimes, as a whole she feels both real and capable, whereas Elle did not.

Elle never seemed much more to me than a cardboard cutout of a tough hot chick than anything else. Making her brittle and about to snap was the most interesting thing she did--and not all that interesting.

Prentiss has always seemed more 3D to me.

It's telling how everyone refers to Elle Greenaway as Elle, but Emily Prentiss is Prentiss, just like Morgan, Rossi, Gideon, Garcia, and Reid. JJ and Hotch have nicknames, which falls along the same lines. Despite Prentiss's entree into the BAU, she's just another member of the team. I never had that feeling with Elle. She always seemed like the bratty little sister tagging along with her big brothers, where she was tolerated at best. She had to have some brains to get where she was, but her issues did her in.

The actress who played Elle (can't remember her name ... never really cared that much) is on "Persons Unknown". She's playing the bitchy editor of a sleazy tabloid of some sort ... and sleeping with one of the reporters.

yeah, her acting isn't great. I remember her on "The Sopranos" and she was just excellent. I don't know what happened to her since.

Wow. Last night's Lie to Me was good.

The underlings were underused, but the guests were more interesting than they've been in a while.

I love me some Angus Macfadyen...ever since Equilibrium.

::hanging head in faux shame::

Haters gonna hate, but I do think she is dumb. All her actions that got her booted out/to walk were just plain stupid.

amen.

The actress who played Elle (can't remember her name ... never really cared that much)

Lola something. It's italian. Guardini, maybe? I don't care enough to IMDB. Elle was written out because the actress wanted to move back to the east coast. Our gain, really, because I really like Prentiss/Paget.

I loved the Lie to Me, too. Lots of cool overlapping past/present narrative stuff happening.

Prentiss is awesome.

I think my favorite scene-let is at the beginning of one where the women are in a bar and Prentiss comes back with their drinks trailing a man whose pick-up line is that he works for the FBI ... but he can't tell them anything about his work because it's CLASSIFIED. They ask to see his credentials and, when he demurs, ask "does it look like this" and one by one they pull out their FBI IDs.