[ SECRET POST #2801 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2801 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 031 secrets from Secret Submission Post #400.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[philstar22]

You don't see any difference? Really? They seem like completely different characters with completely different personalities. All they have in common, really, is being brunette and being members of the BAU.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

They're personalities are really different.

They do look similar and neither is a favorite character of mine, but I can't think of too much they had in common otherwise.

[(Anonymous)]

On a kind of casual level they're the bruiser/action girl trope... in the episodes that aren't really focused on them I could see them coming off as pretty similar.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, so could Mandy Patinkin's character & Rossi and/or Hotch. Gruff, tortured leaders.

Or Hotch and Derek. Stoic leading men.

Or Prentiss & Derek, actually. Derek fits the Bruiser character type too.

But if you actually pay attention to the show you notice they are actually all quite well drawn, distinct characters, especially for a procedural. I think some people just expected Prentiss to be Elle all but in name just because they're both brunettes & one was replacing the other, and a little bit because they're women & female characters can be written very flatly & used only as plot devices.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, kind of. But that's only on the most superficial level. Do any digging and the differences are rather glaring.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT
This may come a shock, but not everybody "digs into" and analyzes shows and characters. They watch, superficially enjoy and then move on.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, a bit sensitive, aren't you? Sure, lots of people watch and enjoy without indulging in lots of analysis, but to be honest, you don't need to analyze at all to see the differences. They're that obvious. You'd have to be watching the series on mute with NO skill at picking up on body language not to grasp them.

[(Anonymous)]

How was the above a "sensitive" comment? It was a statement that rebutted one of, I assume, yours.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, you're right. "This may come as a shock" doesn't sound snarky at all, and it certainly doesn't imply that a person is remiss for not knowing the obvious thing. You'd have to be a literature professor at Oxford to figure out the differences between Elle and Emily because they're so alike with their brown hair and their... brown eyes, and two arms and legs and stuff. I mean, my god, so similar, amirite? It's absurd to expect the casual viewer (i.e. the person who's doing TV the right way by not noticing or analyzing things because that negates enjoyment) to tell them apart. Everyone who claims to see significant differences between them is probably just lying.

Or... maybe you're not picking up on the completely different personalities for a variety of complex reasons. I don't know.

[elephantinegrace]

Exactly!

Elle's character was written out with her impulsiveness. Emily was pretty much the definition of cool and calm. If it had been Elle, for example, infiltrating Luke Perry's cult with Reid, she would've punched him and gotten both of them killed (hypothetical character development across the seasons not withstanding).