I just don't trust him - I haven't watched the Season 5 premiere yet, I'm about to but there is something very slimy about that guy - NEVER did like nor trust him at all...is he even back for Season 5? I'm sure he is, but I'm just sick of his "I know it all attitude" and walks around w/a chip on his shoulder.
shareI agree with the poster above, the writers haven't given him anything to do. Overall, I don't mind the character, but he was better last season when it wasn't clear what side he was on.
His falling for a prostitute is rather silly. Considering how ambitious they originally wrote him as being, he would know better. He certainly wouldn't be dragging her into a coat closet during work events with a room full of spies who are trained to catch others doing things they can be blackmailed with.
They just don't know what to do with him anymore.
"I am allowed to think everyone is stupid for 10 minutes."-- Randy Susan Meyers
I'm ready to agree about the coat-closet bit, but as for him falling for her; they are not called 'femme-fatales' for nothing.
Even if she isn't one; at this point, the head between his shoulder blades may not be the one he is thinking with where she is concerned. Please let me quote one of my co-workers:
More great men have been brought down by "P", than bullets.
Can anyone say ‘Monica’?
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
I'm ready to agree about the coat-closet bit, but as for him falling for her; they are not called 'femme-fatales' for nothing.
putting himself in the situation to begin with
I like Calder.
I think he is in over his head at the moment.
1. I think he is suffering from a case of: Be careful what you wish for...."
2. I think he is whipped.
It seems as if he envisioned being-in-charge as a means to move and shake and get things done. So far all it has turned out to be are meetings, briefings, and pushing papers while the bread and butter work get done elsewhere.
As for his pompadour, I guess he didn't envision falling for her. Being in love can make you do some crazy things. Hang out in coat closets? Hang on when you know it’s in your best interest to let go?
Calder is so used to being a man in control that he is almost floundering because now he is neither in control of his professional life nor his personal one.
Even so, where the Agency is concerned and his team, I have no doubt about his integrity.
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Pompadour?
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Pompadour?
I know well who Madame de Pompadour was, but I have never heard of her name being used as a synonym for mistress or lover. Pompadour was an estate in France. It would be like using Cornwall for the Duchess of Cornwall as a synonym of mistress. Pompadour was never as far as I can ascertain even archaically used as a synonym. You are confusing it with "paramour". Which means an illicit lover.
shareI also thought "paramour." So you were not alone.
"Madame Pompadour" was a common slang usage in the past when I was growing up. She also was known for her outrageous hairdos....so when I was a kid and a young woman, it was common if you teased your hair up and got a crazy hairdo, your friends or mom would say: "Oh look here comes Madame POM-pa-DOUR!"
So my immediate thought was...what was wrong with her HAIR!?
As for Calder....
....did anybody else wonder when she berated Calder outside the police station and he said "I'm done" if Calder was going to call up his police friend inside and say "Forget it. I withdraw my request for a favor. Come out and get her and throw her in the tank!"
I did. haha
Right now, Calder comes off as a moron. This story with him pining for the hooker has done him no favors. I hope that there is some twist to it where Calder has a purpose to doing what he's doing but if there isn't, he really is just asking for trouble.
shareAnd seriously, what the hell. That seemed to come out of nowhere.
If you're happy and you know it, go sit in the corner and think about your life.