Post by trinityj1 on Aug 8, 2012 9:38:27 GMT -5
The thing with Frankie is, that although his "I don't know what I'm doing" scenes and the jokes about how he really doesn't belong with this bunch of combat-trained lunatics are sometimes mildly amusing, it just adds a massive underline to how stupid it is that he's there.
If Stockwell traps them into working for him because they are the best and he wants them for nigh-impossible suicide missions because he actually wants them to succeed on those missions... why the hell would he saddle them with the liability of having a civilian around? Frankie has no skills that they don't already have, doesn't have combat or espionage skills, isn't needed to watch them anymore since Stockwell is Big Brother and they're in his fortress of no privacy, and his inept and unwanted presence can do nothing for them but get them killed.
Even if he knew what he was doing, throwing a new guy into such a cohesive, self-contained unit will do nothing but mess it up. Like Decker says, the reason they are the best is because they're a perfect team who balance each other exactly.
I know I'm asking for a little more realism than the show was usually prepared to give, but it's so basic. It really hurts their credibility for me, same as when they would say Amy was a full member of the team. I like her as an operative they use, but saying she's the same as one of them is dumb. Any one of them is a one-man army, she's just a reporter.
And Frankie just has something punchable about his face . I find him pretty fugly, not going to lie. Though, I would have been fine with him if he disappeared after the court martial episodes, because his annoyingness was kind of funny there (especially since the other characters treat him like he's annoying and Murdock calls him on his inappropriately easy-going attitude when everything is going to hell), but as a permanent fixture he's so offensive to me. He steals so much screen time and I just don't care about him.
If Stockwell traps them into working for him because they are the best and he wants them for nigh-impossible suicide missions because he actually wants them to succeed on those missions... why the hell would he saddle them with the liability of having a civilian around? Frankie has no skills that they don't already have, doesn't have combat or espionage skills, isn't needed to watch them anymore since Stockwell is Big Brother and they're in his fortress of no privacy, and his inept and unwanted presence can do nothing for them but get them killed.
Even if he knew what he was doing, throwing a new guy into such a cohesive, self-contained unit will do nothing but mess it up. Like Decker says, the reason they are the best is because they're a perfect team who balance each other exactly.
I know I'm asking for a little more realism than the show was usually prepared to give, but it's so basic. It really hurts their credibility for me, same as when they would say Amy was a full member of the team. I like her as an operative they use, but saying she's the same as one of them is dumb. Any one of them is a one-man army, she's just a reporter.
And Frankie just has something punchable about his face . I find him pretty fugly, not going to lie. Though, I would have been fine with him if he disappeared after the court martial episodes, because his annoyingness was kind of funny there (especially since the other characters treat him like he's annoying and Murdock calls him on his inappropriately easy-going attitude when everything is going to hell), but as a permanent fixture he's so offensive to me. He steals so much screen time and I just don't care about him.