Before expressing my idea I'd like to clarify something
And Emily is amazing.She is a different person from her character and should not be blamed if Calleigh does something we dislike.
The fact that some people may not enjoy Calleigh's development doesn't mean that those people are blaming Emily for it, at all.
Emily Procter is an actress who's just doing her job. Surely she can suggest something to TPTB, but her character is written by the writers & not by her. So blaming an actress just b/c her character looks different or b/c you started disliking her character is a little bit stupid, IMHO, & I do think that isn't the intention of those people you're referring to.
I do fell involved in this sentence b/c I'm having some issues with her character, right now, but I, for once, do not blame Emily for it just b/c I respect her & I do think she's just doing a great job in conveyin with Calleigh's feelings & action.
So I'm not blaming her & I'll never dare to do it b/c I respect her too much!
Ok I'll answer to my questions :lol:
1) Has Calleigh changed since s1?
Yes. She changed a lot & usually change is always a good thing especially for any actor. It is challenging! Thank god she changed so that we aren't bored & Emily had some pretty good stuff to work on.
2) Considering what you might have expected from her, has this change been positive or negative for her character?
I'd say both!
On one hand she changed into a human being. Surely, when she just loved guns I thought she wasn't a human girl, I mean she was so concentrated on her job that I really doubted she had a private life. I thought she was living in the lab, quite honestly :lol:. Not to mention that she softened with the men. She gives them more & more space which is a good thing, usually.
On the other hand I do see a weak Calleigh I've never seen before. Of course, she was too strong at the very beginning of the show, but as a person who watched this show since its first episode (I'm not using it as a justification for my POV, it's just that I do feel lots of things happened since the first episode
), I do see lots of changes which seem quite off.
She has gone through lot of things especially from s3:
-Tim's death
-her father drinking & drinking (BTW is he alive or dead in some bar?)
-Ryan's arrival. Let's say that it was just traumatic for a person who had just lost her best friend.
-Hagen's death which hit her very hard. I mean she left firearms for a while b/c of it (I still can't belive she didn't say goodbye to Miami after that event)
-the mole stuff.
-Her 10000000 carcrashes
-her very bad love stories
-her kidnapping
-her lung problems.
Of course she had to change b/c of all these events, but when I see such a weak (pass me this term 'cause I can't think of a better one) Calleigh letting her guards down right when a russian guy is attacking her (maybe that's b/c of her lung problems, but still I don't think it can justify her reaction) I do feel like I've lost my fav. character.
Same thing for her when she's too concentrated on her love stories to think about anything else especially her job.
I mean s1 & s2 Calleigh was so cheerful & so excited to work that when I see her being so listless (I do think that the ladies room scene kind explained it so well) or being involved in very unprofessional actions (even if they're made to help her friends, some actions remain unprofessional!) I feel completely lost. Not to mention that I feel like I've lost part of the reason why I've been wathing this show with so much joy.
3) Do you think Emily has been good at dealing with this change of character? If not, why?
IMHO, Emily has been too good for at dealing with this change.
Her character became so human & emotional. For Emily this kind of acting is just a piece of cake!!! Give her a scene like the one she had in "Wrecking Crew" or like the one she had lots of other Calleigh's centic episodes & you have the icing on the cake!!!
But sometimes I do feel she has very few promotion & when she has it that's b/c of a possible relationship with any other character.
At the beginning of s6 she had some good promotion b/c she was going to be part of a triangle.
Then, from s6 going on she had some promotion b/c she was going to be part of a relationship with Adam Rodriguez.
Ok here's what I'm going to say. Emily Procter is not Adam Rodriguez &, above all, she's not Calleigh Duquesne! They're 2 completely different people.
Calleigh is a fictional character on a TV show while Emily is a real person who's working everyday to make most of the fans happy.
I do think she deserves lots of better advertisments than she's having right now. People are advertizing her just b/c she's "oh she's Calleigh Duquesne, the hot chick who has a relationship with the hot guy!!!!".
No that's not the advertisment an actress like her deserves. We want her to get a so much deserved award, but, IMHO, it's pretty impossible for her to get it as long as she goes one working for this show which is just changing her character so that they can have more viewers & get more advertisment. That's not how it should work for her.
How can she show her great talent with some pretty bad storylines for her character?
She's a great actress & she showed it more than once also in some movies like "Family Plan" or "Turnover". Sometimes I do feel like she has to go on with movies b/c yeas I do think that sometimes her talent is underused or, even worse, used in the wrong way.
Sorry, but I just felt I had to do it
4) If you had been TPTB, what kind of character's develpment you would have enjoyed seeing?
I'll just write one name......Duke Duquesne
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Even introducing her mother could have been a pretty good idea b/c, in that case, we could have really known in what circumstances she had to grow up
