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

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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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Seaver: Hate. As someone who is supposed to be around 30, she's way too immature emotionally and intellectually. She's even that way if one fanwanks she went directly into the Academy after her Bachelor's (making her 22/23). She's constantly on the verge of tears (or has the "I'm soooo sad" face) and she asks questions that I can't imagine anyone with a college degree - let alone Academy training - would ask. Her exposition lines can't even be considered as audience clarifications, since she asks questions I also can't imagine the audience is even thinking.

Granted, Reid is also emotionally immature, but there's a reason the FBI overlooks this. I can't find a single one for Seaver.

As a character, I also resent the time the show is taking establishing her instead of the other characters. For instance, I much prefer the Reid/Rossi bonding over seeing Rossi playing video games with Seaver. Imagine that scene with Reid instead - and *that* is what I'd rather see. I also don't like that in essence, she's taking Reid's place as the baby on the team - particularly since Reid is *still* the baby of the team. So now, two people the team needs to watch out for.

Hayley: Indifferent. Pluses: She was a strong woman, even in the face of death. She was a great mother too. Hayley to me personified the idea of Perfect Housewive (and in the successful way, not the dysfunctional secret-drinker way). Negative: Haley and Hotch had to have been married (or together) for around 20 years before they had Jack. So Haley suddenly not realizing exactly who her husband is, and worse suddenly expecting him to change, just made me lose a ton of sympathy for her during the divorce storyline.

Hope this helps, and that it's not too late.