1) Has Calleigh changed since s1?
2) Considering what you might have expected from her, has this change been positive or negative for her character?
3) Do you think Emily has been good at dealing with this change of character? If not, why?
4) If you had been TPTB, what kind of character's develpment you would have enjoyed seeing?
1) Yes she has. I think that if we all think back seven years ago (or just about since we don't exactly what the show's timeline is) we will all see we've gone through changes in our personal lives and way of thinking and doing things.
2) I think it's been positive and realistic. Season one and two Cal was
innocent and cheerful and then season three came. I think that the reality of the job really hit her hard in this season with Speedle's death and then her personal life was also shook up with Hagen's suicide. So, in came season 4 which was kind of the robotic year for Calleigh. That cheerfulness and innocence was barely there; she was all about business and IMO lacked a lot of emotion. Which I don't think was totally unrealistic after what she had been through. She did have her moments here and there but definitely not the same Cal.
From somewhere in season 5 till now, I think the writers have been trying to bring out the more human side of her. I think that Calleigh has been realising that life is not all about the job and that there are more important things to it. I think that experiences like the death of the witness in
Wrecking Crew, and her helping out that woman and her baby in
DeLuca Motel have made her more open to emotions, something that I definitely think she did need. I do think they put her through way too much physical danger and that it may not have been necessary for her to go through so much. But, at the same time, I love all this episodes so I really can't complain about it
. I do love that even through all the danger and physical stuff she still remained Calleigh strong. Cause I have to emphasize that I do not think that showing more emotion or being more in touch with your human side makes you weak or changes your strong will. Not at all. I actually think it makes her a stronger human being which is so Calleigh. Anyway, I was saying that through everything she still remained strong cause take:
Stand your Ground: guys came, she took her gun out Calleigh D. style, told them she was a cop, and when they came back she had this great action sequence where she actually rolled around the ground and shot her a** off. I loved that opening sequence. She was all business about it until she realised she may have caused someone's death. So here we were showed that she actually FELT this and it shook her up, so we had tears. I loved this cause it was a really heartfelt and human reaction. So I think we had a great balance between strong, super Calleigh D. and human Calleigh D.
All In: I think Cal rocked this episode. I saw her taking charge of the situation and basically she saved herself. Strong Calleigh D., trusting her team by knowing they would understand her clues, talking to one of the guys she saw as the weaker of the two so she could get out of the situation. I never saw her weak or as a damsel in distress at all in this episode, but I did see she was shook up by what was happening which is realistic and expected in this kind of situation.
Smoke gets in...: again strong-willed Calleigh. Because of her being so independent and strong-willed she insisted on going back to get the body and that's why her lungs got screwed up. At the end of the episode of course she looked weak, she had gone through
a lot pysically and she was tired and in a hospital bed, so that's normal. But it was not her essence as a person that was weak as we can see with her sacrificing herself to get the body and preserve te evidence. That's so Calleigh D.
So I guess that what I'm trying to say is that even though Calleigh HAS changed and is becoming less detached and more in touch with her human side I do not see this as her character becoming weaker. Not by a long shot. Like I said before, I actually think having these characteristics in a way make her a stronger human being which is so Calleigh. I think this cause in all this scenarios we see Cal basically taking care of herself but at the same time we see her being touched by what happened and having a reaction to it. Not like when Hagen killed himself and she basically shut everything out and wanted to keep on working and simply not deal with it. That's not healthy. Or like when Speed died and we saw no tears. I loved how she was so strong that she was this steel magnolia, but I also like that now we see more feelings and reactions when stuff like this happens.
3) Emily has done wonderfully in basically everything. She rocks
.
4) I would like to know more about her family and I wouldn't have put her through so much. With half of the stuff she's been through it would've been enough. But I guess Calleigh-centric episodes bring in high ratings...
Oops sorry for the long post, got too excited I guess
