Criminal Minds

What can I say about her? That she can manage the press even if she is under pressure. She isn't a profiler, but what she does is important to the team. Besides she can even be annoyed (not with one of the team) but she won't show it. She is brave. When she shot the dogs and even when she shot the guy who attacked Garcia and she didn't even blinked. Everything to defend her family (the team) wow! She is really courageous. What do you all think of her?

She's the best, no doubt about it! I've always thought of her as the puppetmaster, because she is the person behind the scenes that makes everything click. She's a catalyst, really provides a spark to the team with her energy and good attitude. That's what I don't understand about people saying her character is boring, I just don't see it. She is very energetic and does a variety of different things for the team (handle the media, control the local police from trying to kill the agents, picks the cases, helps grieving families, and has even shown off her profiling skills from time to time). Extremely intelligent, though I think that intelligence gets ignored by many because of the fact that she is surrounded by some of the brightest people in the country. Very manipulative, is able to make anyone do exactly what she wants them to do without much effort (tricks the media into saying what she wants them to say, for example). One thing she does constantly is hold her ground, lets everyone know that the media is her problem. When the media prints something that didn't come from her, or if someone runs their mouth to the media without her permission, she gets ticked (as she should, since it makes her job that much harder). Also a very subtle sense of humor, kind of like Hotch's in that it is sarcastic and generally goes by unnotice. I really just like everything about her.

That is one of the things I like about her character. Is that she can do all things and everybody does what she wants them to do it.She moves them with one little finger. Like if she was playing chess with them!!! Ha Ha Ha I like my definition!

I like that she doesn't want to be a profiler. I like that she struggles to find the right amount of caring to do the job without being jaded or getting destroyed by caring too much. And, she can make up an outrageous story about killers and camp and get two profilers who are trained to tell when someone is lying to totally buy it - but she can't hide that she's in a relationship. And, she's an ace shot, and excellent at darts and soccer. She's very persuasive. Even when there isn't an official request for a case, sometimes she gets the local cops or Hotch or whoever she needs to work on to make the request official.

I think that she is someone that a lot of people (including myself) can relate to. She is disturbed by a lot of what she sees, but she is also tough and keeps moving forward. She isn't a profiler, but she is still very intelligent (there are many, many people that are intelligent, but not a lot of profilers). The fact that she is convincing but can't hide everything (which you mentioned), I think that makes her character more complex. Why can she convince Morgan with that lie about camp, but can't hide the relationship with Will from Morgan or Prentiss (or Reid, for that matter)? I would like to see her be profiled by one of the profilers (I know that Hotch did a small profile, and that they have a rule not to profile each other, but I think it would be very interesting to see what one of the profilers sees in her). Persuasive and manipulative, definitely. And I think she gets a little satisfaction when she realizes that she has tricked someone into doing what she wants/needs them to do, when she has their back against the wall. Her ability to do that makes her extremely good at her job, and don't we all get a little satisfaction when we realize that we've done our duty well.

I know what you mean. She is a little manipulative. Like in this episode I don't remember the name of it. But Hotch wants information about the unsub something like that but the dude wont give any information so JJ tells him that she really needs the information so they could finish. She tells him in a flirty manner and it worked! And she turns around smiles at Hotch. Who by the way is all serious like always.

Yep, but that is part of what I like about her. She knows exactly what she needs to do to get the job done. She also kind of teases the more annoying media members every now and then (like how she acted like she was going to give one guy info, and then told him to rethink his tie). Really funny stuff.

What I like about JJ is that she's got the ugliest job on the team and she doesn't complain that she's overlooked, though she frequently is. I like that she doesn't need the accolaids, she just wants to do her job as well as possible.

Yeah. I find it amazing that the hardest job is the one that gets overlooked. She does all the little things that make it click. She also plays human shield between the BAU and hostile police/media. For some reason, that doesn't sound like a fun job. She is also the only one that loses sleep at night wondering whether she chose the right case and thinking about the future vics in the cases that she didn't pick. Sure, the others might lose sleep because of something else, but it probably isn't near as bad as thinking that hundreds of victims are dying in other cases and you can't do anything about it because you can only choose one. How do you decide which one is most urgent? JJ is very decisive, she does what she thinks is right and apologizes later if need be. She doesn't hesitate, which allows her to pick the cases and prevents her from backing down to jerks that try to tell her how to do her job. I get frustrated sometimes when I hear people say that she is a boring character, because she is actually very complex. She is also someone that a lot of people, like myself, can really relate to. Sure she isn't a genius or a profiler, but I don't think that you have to be a profiler to be an interesting character (and besides, she has profiling ability, but she decided that she had a job she loved instead of trying to get more recognition).

Well, they have started focusing some more on the unique challenges to her job. Birthright (the first episode I honestly loved post Rossi) was about her getting every case and how most of the victims were like her. And, The Crossing showed her talking about the case she turned down and why taking the case in that episode was so important. And, we found out that part of her job wasn't just picking the cases, but justifying her choices to some committee (too lazy to put in the dvd and get the exact conversation and youtube is acting up). I wish they'd show her giving a press conference again, every once in awhile. A good scene is in Open Season in season 2, where she instructs the sheriff on how to deliver bad news.

Even though I thought that season 3 was the worse of the 3, they did do a good job with JJ. Unfortunately, they haven't shown her much at all this season. Hopefully that is just because they are trying to hide the pregnancy (which I don't understand, since they are writing it in), and she will be back to press conferences and other such things when she comes back from maternity leave.

I can't wait for a new episode to air and for JJ to come into view with full picture so we could see her belly. Oh and I forgot to say something. In the first episode of season 4 she looked very pale and with black spots at the bottom of her eyes. Like if she couldn't sleep at night. But it was a great episode.

Pregnancy does weird things to women, so maybe A.J. was having trouble sleeping. Or maybe her make-up stylist made a big "Oops!" LOL! I'm just waiting for the pregnancy to be over on the show so that she can get a good amount of screen time again, they are trying to hide her too much right now.

I don't much like they are hiding her if it is written on the story already! But yeah I want her to get more attention (back to work.) Ha ha LOL

I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that A.J. wasn't completely comfortable with having her pregnancy on screen. I read an interview with her about it, and she said she was nervous, that not a lot of people had to go through their pregnancy on national TV. She also joked around a little bit, saying that she didn't want it to look like JJ was going to the doughnut shop too much. I would provide where I found the interview so that you could read the whole thing, but it was a while back and I can't recall where I found it. My point, though, is that maybe the hiding of JJ's belly has less to do with the writers (who shouldn't worry about it because they are writing it in) and more about A.J. not being completely comfortable about it. A.J. has always seemed like a private person, you don't see her in the media spotlight much at all, so it might be a bit of an adjustment for her to be getting a little more attention because of the baby (part of what I like about her as an actress is that she does seem to be rather private). Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it is possible that that is why they aren't showing it (the only other show that I've seen recently with a pregnancy written in is Without a Trace, and they showed Sam quite a bit). Ah well, as long as JJ gets more time after the pregnancy then I guess I can be patient.