Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bitchelle Speaks
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.26.2003
Everyone thinks I have Nina's job! It's so weird. When I first came in to rehearse, I was asking the writers, "Okay, what's my job? What do I do?" And they were like, "You work for Tony, but beyond that we don't want to get too specific. We want the freedom to have you guys go out into the field, do interrogations or just analyze stuff on the computer. We don't want to pin you down to a specialized job like 'the tech person' or 'the gun person.'" So they just set up the hierarchy: Mason, Tony, and then Michelle. And now that Mason's gone, Tony has his job and I have Tony's job. So, come to think of it, I do have Nina's old job.
There you go! And now Carrie has your job. No wait, she has Paula's job. Who has your old job?
[thinks] No one. No wait! The bald guy! [laughs] We told him [Val Lauren] that there was an entire thread on him.
Yeah, there is. Have you gone into your thread?
Oh yeah. But I can't do it too much. Some people come to the set and -- I don't know if it's your site -- but people get really upset when they read what's written about them on some of these forums. I know there were a couple of people who went to the Fox site and got really bummed out.
Yeah, people get really weird about this show. It brings up a lot of weird emotions. Some people totally confuse the character with the actor. A lot of people on the Fox boards blame Leslie Hope for getting raped, for instance. Sometimes my editor and I get these angry emails from viewers who read my recaps. They are so over-identified with the show, they truly believe that my recaps are a personal attack on them. The irony is, I actually love the show. I just nitpick.
You see, that's what's fun about the show. My friends and I all get together and watch it and we completely tear it apart. You can't take it too seriously. It's a Fox show! It's really good, smart, brilliantly done pulp. It's not The West Wing. It's way too earnest not to rip it apart. And, hello? I'm on the show and I feel this way. I can't believe people get all in a bunch about that! Some people act like "Trekkies" about 24 sometimes and it's truly confusing to me.
There are these moments that I refer to in my recaps as "ambiguo-glances." An "ambiguo-glance" is a look that various characters give each other where you're either checking someone out or you're plotting to kill them. It's impossible to tell which. Do you know what I'm talking about?