Ya know everyone has thier own opinion, & it would be completely different if TPTB were allowing the other characters to have stories along with all her drama, but they've put them on the backburner & I dislike that.
Besides that, breaking down someone walls, even as tough as Calleighs, could be done & SHOULD have already been done with the kidnapping & losing William - that would have been enough. I don't care how tough the person is - numerous tragedies that are as ridiculous as labs catching fire, & getting in car accident after car accident isn't necessary & neither is inhaling insulation (IMO).
Personally, I'd appreciate more what they're doing with her if the problems were more of a personal nature like involving a problem with her Father or Mother, a death, something a little more believeable than all these situtions "on the job" that they seem to think is what would break a person down.
I can certainly agree Horatio & Eric have both had lots as well. But I give them the benefit of the doubt simply because their issues have at least been hit by personal tragedies & not just having terrible luck on the job, which is how I see all these little "tragedies".
I don't think every one of them have carried any significance in developing her character out. After a certain point it just becomes annoying & unbelieveable. Im not dogging the character by any means, I just don't enjoy, nor do I find it entertaining, to watch them carry her through all these incidents over & over again . I don't consider it evolving, it's more repeticious at this point. It doesn't help that they've shoved all of it into the past 2 years either, & it's not exactly subtle when it's always "something" in like every other episode.
I do see your point. But Calleigh has been built up to be soo strong for sooo long that two events is not going to break her. Wound her yes, but not break. That would only make the character then look weak and it would totally be unbelieveable. B/c after 5 seasons of being this "tough as nails" character, who has been through a ton of crap both as a child and an adult and TWO traumatic events happen and all of sudden she is a crying puddle of mush? NO WAY. Also, should she had broken then we would all be calling her the thing that, IMO, TPTB don't want to turn her into b/c she has never been:
A damsel in distress.
She needs to be "wounded," either emotionally or physically, b/c the walls are just too thick. As someone said above she has become sort of "robotic" and in order to break that a lot sh*t has to happen. So those two events you described, while very traumatic, are just chips off an extremely thick iceberg. Look, if her father's drinking problem didn't break her as a child chances are it is never going to be the thing that pushes her over the edge and breaks her. Trust me, I am speaking from personal experience on that one. Rome wasn't built in a day.
The very fact that she has to go to the hsopital this time makes the situation more real to everyone around her and especially her. After both those incidents she either went home or dealt with it in her own way (morgue scene with William)....going to the hospital and physically being forced to confront her
own mortality is way more earth shattering, IMO, for someone as emotionally blocked off and "robotic" as she, more often than not tends to be. Calleigh has a tendancy to run from emotional stress/situations but when stuck in hopsital bed with I.V's strapped to you, makes it a little hard to do so.
When Eric was shot it was easy for her to show emotion b/c she didn't want to lose another friend, who is probably more than a friend, and b/c it was about someone else. To be faced with one's own mortality is a totally different emotional rollercoaster. It is always easier to admit that you are scared FOR someone than it is to admit you are scared FOR yourself when you are that emotionally closed off.
How many other storylines have been put on the back burner b/c of H or Eric's drama? Even Ryan's getting fired, attempting to get rehired and then finally getting rehired, IMO, got in the way of other storylines on the show. There were one too many eps when that was going on, that I felt, interferred or took away from the episode story. The truth of the matter is, it happens with ALL of them. People are just more attuned when it happens to one character either for bias or affection of that particular character.
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