My dossier

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

Name: admiralandrea aka Andi and I write under ALF
Age: 39 in 17 days!
Location: Taunton, Somerset
Favorite TV Show: Tie between Criminal Minds, NCIS:LA and Numb3rs
Other Shows Watched: NCIS, Bones, Doctor Who, Survivors, CSI:NY, Primeval, The Mentalist
Favorite Quote: "Go home. Find a wench, raise fat babies, live a good long life" - Porthos to D'Artagnan in Three Musketeers
Favorite Color: Purple and pink
If I was a criminal, I'd be... Uncatchable

My penchant for crime shows is a bit funny, considering I'm civilian police staff in real life. But I only watch American shows and mostly federal agencies, so that it's less likely I'm going to complain about all the procedural mistakes *g*

I've written fanfic since 2001, first in Stargate SG1 and The Sentinel fandoms and more recently in Numb3rs fandom. I've tended to be mono-fannish in the past, but have been branching out more lately, with fics in both NCIS and NCIS:LA fandoms. I recommend smallfandomfest for a good source of CM prompts, if you're looking for ideas. I've got a prompt I picked up there I hope to write soon.

My favourite CM character is David Rossi, but I like most of them, although I'm not a fan of the recent super!Emily developments I'm seeing.

One of the other reasons why I love this show is because I have 99% of a degree in psychology (one final exam to pass). So it really is a busman's holiday for me ;-)

Hope to get to know you all soon!

(PS my fic can be found at alf_fic as my personal LJ is flocked)

Comments

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

::waves:: Hi!

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

Hi! :waves back: Cool icon!

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I like yours, too. I'm rather fond of Rossi myself. I especially like writing him, though I've only done it once.

I know what you mean about super!Emily...I don't know what the writers are thinking.

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

That icon is by sallymn Rossi is just wonderful :happy sigh:

They did the same thing in Stargate with Sam Carter and it just annoys me. Whilst I have no problem with strong female characters in principle, when they become all-powerful, solve-everything types, way beyond their character boundaries, it just p***** me off! /soapbox

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

LOL...s'ok, soapbox away!

I love strong female characters too, but the characterization has to support it. Emily was always portrayed as reserved and contained, and without an obvious trigger to push her beyond those boundaries (kind of like Hotch with Foyet), it makes you go...huh?

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what happened to Hotch was totally believable - he's been wound so tight for so long, he was bound to unravel eventually.

But what's happening with Emily makes no sense at all.

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

I guess we'll see. Unless the writers don't follow it up, which will be very disappointing.

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

I tend not to have a lot of faith in TV show writers being consistent with their characters, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if they didn't follow up.

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

Nor I. But I suppose that's what fanfic is for, right? XD

[dragonladyk.livejournal.com]

The only way this new!Emily makes sense at all is if Hotch and Foyet is the trigger.

Which I actually have no problem with. Violence does not affect the victim only, but also everyone who loves the victim platonically, filially, or romantically.

DragonLady

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

You have a point.

I'm not seeing anything in Emily that seems intended by the writers to lead the mind down this particular road of development. I agree that violence affects everyone (and oftentimes in unexpected and unpredictable ways), but I guess what I'm saying is that if my mind is working too hard to make that connection then the writers aren't doing their job properly.

Of course, there could be cues that I'm missing.

[dragonladyk.livejournal.com]

I do not think it's coincidence that Emily said "no one deserves to have [their ability to feel safe in their own home] taken away from them" during the same episode she freaked out on a guy who broke into his victims homes and lay in wait for them before raping them... which is exactly what Foyet did to Hotch (though whether the rape was symbolic via a knife and an implicaiton or actual physical rape is debateable due to network constraints).

We'll also remember that Emily was the one who found him missing, who was at the hospital, who saw his chart (so if there was semen in a wound tract, she would know), who was driving him around, who was following him out of crime scenes when he couldn't handle it. On top of that, she was the one who opted not to read the book of The Fox's questions Foyet's "letter" was inside the whole time. And she wasn't "fast enough" to help Hotch or save Hotch the second time. It would be improbable if she didn't have a stronger reaction than the rest of the team.

DragonLady

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

I'm filing all this under "cues that I'm missing."

[miggs13.livejournal.com]

I have ancestors from Taunton...cool.

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

That is cool! I've only lived here since April 2009, but I've worked here since the August of 2008.

[dragonladyk.livejournal.com]

Violence affects those who care about the victim almost as much if not as much as it affects the victim, which is something most shows gloss over or ignore. Criminal Minds has always been different, showing the full effects of violence ("Limelight" and "The Last Word" as the most heart-wrenching examples). I give props to the show writers for having Emily made "different" by what Foyet did to Hotch, especially since she isn't doing anything we haven't already seen Hotch already do at one time or another ("Mayhem," "Shades of Gray").

DragonLady