Go back out in the field with her condition . Who cares if whoever she's with gets killed if she can't back them up. As long as she's out in the field; that's all that matters ( to her ).
shareI thought she came off as a spoiled child as she yelled at Calder and Joan. How many times had both of them been there for her and had her back.
shareThank you! I was waiting for her to stomp her foot like my five year old daughter does during her temper tantrums! And then she went and complained to Auggie about the fact that agents get shoved to desk duty when they are no longer useful... ouch! All those scenes with Annie were painful to watch.
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God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work. -Dean Winchester
Yes it's hypocritical since Auggie himself does desk duty due to a medical condition--blindness and Annie is ok with that! But when Annie has a evne more serious medical condition--heart problem--no in her mind she must continue on and on?!
shareWhy don't you just stop watching the show? Seems like you're wasting quite some time and effort on something you don't agree with. :)
shareDude, are you seriously going to tell me that you ONLY watch shows that you agree with 100 percent??? Sure, I complained about Annie's actions, but I still enjoy the show.
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God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work. -Dean Winchester
Yes exactly. She thinks she controls all agencies, CIA, NCTC...
shareWell, I'm hanging in even though even last year I was writing on here that Annie has become amazingly unlikeable.
But hope springs that the writers are going somewhere with this--that they are creating a horrible person--temper tantrums when the bosses are right, ignoring Eyal when he's the wisest person she knows and always has her back (if my best friend talked sense to me like Eyal did to her, I'd absolutely be listening). Forcing her best friend Auggie to put his career in jeopardy just to keep her in the field wrongly. Is this all to allow her to be reclaimed later? Dunno.
She also has jeopardized another operative, Ryan, in the field by going in together without her being healthy.
Let us count the ways.
So, unless the writers allow Annie to break down completely and have a total renaissance, this show has really taken a nose dive.
Terribly behaved characters are wonderful to hate. But she's just annoying and whiney and selfish.
We have enough of those people in real life without tuning in for more. LOL!
Okay writers. Show us your stuff. Where are you taking Annie? Will you ever allow her to become likeable and sympathetic again?
Tick tock.
I can't disagree with what you and other posters here have written about Annie. But let me try to take the other side:
Annie the character, as drawn, is a gifted agent. Her abilities (language, weapons, hand to hand combat, etc.) combined with her instincts (which must be acknowledged), make her a one-of-a-kind talent. And she knows it.
She has been lucky enough to find the one job she is perfectly suited for. It is no longer a job; it is part of her identity. And she knows how valuable she is as a weapon against enemies of the state, even if others in the CIA and elsewhere forget it or if, in the name of protocol or procedures, the might choose to sacrifice her singular talent.
I don't think she can let that happen. And even if she could theoretically, the person/ego in her would have a very tough time with that. Also, I think Annie would make the case--if she was being honest--that Annie at 80% is better than most of their operatives at 100%.
Having said that, I nevertheless think that Annie, given time, might have worked out a way to accept modified assignment in light of her medical condition. Of course the mission at hand (infiltrate McQuaid's operation) intervened. After the exigency of that operation is over, I think it is possible that the agency might realize that she is too important in the field and agree that they should try to manage her condition. Or--who knows--maybe they will find a way to improve her condition.
I didn't always feel this way about her but she's incredibly selfish (stupidly so), arrogant, and dangerously stubborn. Her character can easily be unlikable at times for me for this reason. I also don't like how predictable she has become with men.
shareI feel the same and it's why I now only watch for Auggie. And I used to really like her. I liked her even with Ben. The spy plots are weak too, to say the least.
shareAnnie is definitely selfish. She always was to an extent, but her good qualities were more front and center the first couple of seasons.
Somewhere between Seasons 3 and 4 they decided to make Annie more of a loose cannon and one that rejected any opinion other than her own. She stopped really listening to Auggie, never much listened to Joan, and finally even blew off the excellent advice of Eyal.
Now, while I still root for her, she is less and less a character whom I think has the right take on a situation. That would be ok if she allowed for more input from her handler and those who do what she is doing, but have longer experience(Eyal)and survived.
My hope is that they are setting Annie up for a course correction that will make her less selfish and more dependable.
What? The first rule about Clone Club is we don't talk about Clone Club?
Now we are almost at the end, and I'm wondering why I stuck with it, haha.
This whole season was just nuts. Start stop. Start stop. Start stop.
Do the producers think people are going to keep hanging in trying to figure out when the next episode is?
We had the first part. Then an extremely long hiatus (in TV Land it was like a century, because I had so many other programs that were really good to watch--that I could watch in 4 parts and 6 parts and enjoy it and be done like with the BBC or ITV) that dealing with Covert Affairs is just too much trouble for the return.
I actually just watched last week's episode thinking it was the finale, only to find out now it's........TWO WEEKS......between that and the finale.
What? Why not just wait until after T-Giving and do it in a three-week patch?
As for likeable Annie, the writers just misstepped on her a few series back....Annie for sometime now has been ME ME ME ME, it's ALL about ME.
Sure she wants to save Auggie, but that's just normal. She should want to save him.
But the writers have just completely missed out on giving her a kind of internal motivation for the past 3 seasons. So her relentless off the grid thing she's been doing for about 3 years now just makes her look rather insensitive toward others, self-absorbed and selfish with no purpose behind it (like patriotism, etc.)
What is her higher purpose here? Does she even have one? It's always about her and how SHE'S wired and how much SHE needs the field. Again, ME ME ME.
Even crack assassin Mitch Rapp from the Vince Flynn novels knows why HE'S doing what he does, living in the shadows and assassinating truly bad people--he knows who the bad people are and they killed his high school girlfriend in PAN AM 103. He's dedicated to his country and to trying to keep it safe.
I thought of Annie when reading another of the Flynn books last week, because she's so devoid of a center of meaning that we can grasp about her.