Yeah, I'm going to miss her if she ultimately leaves, but I can't blame her one bit for wanting to give them the big ol' one-fingered salute.

I need to find out who wrote this ep of CM and smack them straight upside the head. Seriously? That was some massive 2x4ish storytelling with a healthy dose of Mary Sue.

I liked the actress and even the character well enough (facially she actually reminded me a bit of Elle), but she really wasn't given much to work with.

I thought that the character was very uneven. How does a recruit who runs the obstacle course in her spare time and got a concussion in hand to hand combat not be able to handle an unsub that she knows is dangerous? It's not even like he caught her by surprise.

I will be very upset if the whitefont comes true I dislike that actress, I didn't mind her in the Inside, since her annoying demeanor worked with the character, but I will have to bitchslap Eddie personally if he keeps her on. Seriously.

(facially she actually reminded me a bit of Elle)

Action-wise she did too. Which is probably why I feel so icky.

Because while strong female agents would be yay, women who do stupid things and then need to be rescued by the mens is less yay.

If it was Garcia, sure. She's not a field agent. But show me someone who is supposed to run the course, be strong and be a survivor and then she's whoopsie trapped by a bad guy she specifically should have been able to at least feel unsure about? Not loving it. At least they made her young so that's a little handwave.

Eh.

I need to find out who wrote this ep of CM and smack them straight upside the head.

None other than Mr. Bernero himself.

How does a recruit who runs the obstacle course in her spare time and got a concussion in hand to hand combat not be able to handle an unsub that she knows is dangerous?

I get that, but then the more I thought about it the more I came to understand her actual reaction. Her badassery has only been in training, and I'm surmising she's never faced a real-life situation. When she finally is in a life-and-death situation, it's not just your standard "I'm an FBI Agent and I don't feel like dying today" response; it's compounded by her personal history and the reason why she went to the unsub's house in the first place. Emotion overrode her training, and the only way that's acceptable is because she's still a recruit. (Of course, that opens up a whole other can of worms as to why a recruit is with the BAU.) So yes, I can understand why she didn't do what she's been trained to do. Doesn't mean I like it.

Yeah, the idea that a recruit needs to be rescued--I'd rather that, than she be some actual Mary Sue with awesome powers. I don't think she was Mary Sue at all. She had a special and tormented past, but she didn't twig onto what was happening all that super fast, she wasn't a closet ninja. She was reasonably flawed.

None other than Mr. Bernero himself.

Bah.

I want Simon to smack him around some.

Oh, and dear God if they go down the route of Reid crushing on her, I may really have to smack a bitch, my shipping tendencies notwithstanding.

Weevil and Keith Mars on Bones!

Speaking of Reid, I loved the part where he is reciting the litany of physical areas he had trouble with during training and that they had to actually make an exception for him HA!

(Of course, that opens up a whole other can of worms as to why a recruit is with the BAU.)

Bingbingbing! This is my main issue with her character. They've at least tried to keep somewhat with FBI reality when it comes to most of the main characters' length of service before they finally got promoted to the BAU, although Reid was an exception (and I was equally glad when he mentioned just how much of an exception he was this week; I'd always suspected that Gideon cashed in a lot of favors to get him past the various FBI requirements). But, if they make her a part of the BAU right out of the academy, that's really going outside the show's fundamental parameters.