I'm writing a paper on the female characters of Criminal Minds!

[x-forgetromeo.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to get a survey going so that I can get a good idea on a direction for this paper, so can we have a discussion post on female characters? 

What I need for my paper:

• Your gender
• Your age (an age bracket is fine if you're not comfortable giving a solid number)
• Your views on Elle, JJ, Garcia, Prentiss, Seaver, and Haley Hotchner: Do you like/feel indifferent to/dislike/hate any of them? Why? 

Otherwise, let's just have a free-for-all discussion on female characters of the CM verse. :) 

(Also, my laptop monitor is dead, so I might be slow replying to people, but I really appreciate anyone who comments.)

Mods? I'm super hoping this is okay. I didn't see anything against it in the rules, and it's technically a discussion post?

Comments

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Gender: Female
Age: 23

Elle: It's a bit difficult. I was late for the party and so I met Emily first, and really liked her, so when I watched the older episodes I already knew she would be replaced. Though now I've watched the old episodes a couple of times and she has some quite awesome scenes. I don't love her but I like her.

JJ: she stayed to colourless for me for most of the show. Before AJ's RL-pregnancy she didn't seem to have much character at all.

Garcia: I love her. Full stop. She's awesome (and probably the character I'm most like)

Prentiss: Again love. It's hard to put in words why. I just do.

Seaver: So far the show hasn't given me any reason to like or dislike her. We got hit over the head with her backstory in the first episode and since then nobody seemed to have bothered giving her any characterization.

Haley: More on the like than on the dislike side. I personally do not think that the show ever give reasons to have very strong feelings about her.