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The phone...

posted 10 years ago by Frank_Grimes_Sr
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Was anyone else annoyed on how careless McQuaid/Annie were with her phone?

Great, smashed it so they can't track you...but you just drop and leave it there?

Why would they carelessly just dispose of it there in the woods, knowing full well that the agencies are after them?

I would have thought they'd do a better job of hiding/disposing it, especially since McQuaid was careful with his laptop and tracking.

Yeah, I've already seen the discussion on how Annie's a terrible field agent, and I wouldn't necessarily disagree...but I sort of expected more from McQuaid.

Maybe one could argue the writers purposely did that so Hailey would find it, confront Annie, Annie uses her "charm" and both save lives/the day.

Or maybe I'm looking too much into it.

"I'm better than okay, I'm Homer Simpson."

[–] darkavenger77 10 years ago

Great, smashed it so they can't track you... but you just drop and leave it there?

I thought the same thing. Stepping on a phone in the dirt and breaking the screen is no guarantee it is not transmitting. Simply pulling the battery will do so. If nothing else, put it on a bus heading out of town.

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[–] justKryptonite 10 years ago

It's not really that Annie is a bad agent as much as the writers are just bad writers. A lot of stuff you just have to look past, sorta like how the people she follows just have to look right past her when they turn slightly and she is right there!! They just pretend they don't see her, I pretend the spying is good and just focus on the fact it's a fun show.

[–] Frank_Grimes_Sr 10 years ago

Haha true...but it stopped being "fun" when they decided to go grim-dark-serious business starting with Season 3ish and definitely from 4 - present.

I guess they wanted to start taking the whole spy stuff serious now.

We even lost the fun intro

"I'm better than okay, I'm Homer Simpson."

[–] Andrejia05 10 years ago

Yes, this. I do the same. I ignore all bad spy aspects because now they're sort of part of the show. I don't think anyone who actually wants to watch a spy show chooses CA.

As I understood, the show took a darker tone as requested by the network. Think the writers just started pilling problems but remained basically the same.

[–] Dobbsysugarmuffin 10 years ago

It was a stupid decision and it's partly because Annie doesn't always think things through fully. I still don't buy her as this amazing agent. She can barely keep up in normal fight scenes.

It's bad writing too. I just don't get the whole witch hunt over the phone with the guy who found two set of prints that matched McQuaid and Annie. I get that it looks suspicious because it was smashed, but just because McQuaid's prints were on it doesn't mean he was physically there with her. I can guarantee if they ran a scan on my phone that they would find fingerprints of about five or six different people because I hand my phone off to people when I'm showing them things. I thought that part was just crappy writing.

[–] Frank_Grimes_Sr 10 years ago

I think she was better when they played up the whole linguistics angle from season 1.

Now she's just ridiculous...a female Borne, but not as slick or even stealth.

I try giving the writers the benefit of the doubt...but some of their choices...mind boggling.

"I'm better than okay, I'm Homer Simpson."

[–] MiddleToe 10 years ago

My first thought, was that she carries a "fake" phone - all spys should. When they get confiscated, they have a back-up phone hidden, like the extra gun in your boot. Doesn't everyone do this? Is it just me?

[–] !!!deleted!!! (41638798) 10 years ago

Yes, FrankGrimes, the writers underestimated the pull of the total package we had in the first few seasons--INCLUDING that fantastic little song and her waltzing round in that sexy little spy dress.

Then...gone. Waaaaa. Theme tunes are part of the package! haha

It reminded me how much an intro song can affect a show when Series 2 of "The Bridge" (the real one not the U.S. knockoff) arrived.

With popcorn in hand, phones turned off, sitting rapt for those first haunting strains and aerial shots of....THAT bridge...

"Echoes start as a cross in you..." cue the mists, the black night, the shining lights of Copenhagen in the distance and the bridge standing tall as far as the eye can see...and...BUM BUM BUM...

and we're OFF!!!! It's The Bridge! It's the Bridge! (Cue Two: fists in air, jumping up and down in seat). "Echoes............"

Yeah, no more Covert Affairs tune. Well, it did telegraph the beginning of the show that was fun and I really enjoyed to one that was pretty depressing if enjoyable at times.