Meredith Quill May 8, 2015 Share May 8, 2015 (edited) Here's where you can nitpick, complain, and pick apart all things happening on Quantico! Edited October 3, 2015 by stacey 1 Link to comment
Cara September 28, 2015 Share September 28, 2015 Looks like they missed more than they hit. http://quanticofactorfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/09/run-pilot-aired-72715.html?m=1 3 Link to comment
Just Here September 29, 2015 Share September 29, 2015 (edited) http://quanticofactorfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/09/run-pilot-aired-72715.html?m=1 Nice find. Some of the nits are minor (type of gun), and I'll push back on the "recruited" comment because (1) it's a typical Hollywood trope and allowable in my opinion, and (2) there could be situations where someone's unique expertise or situation is useful to the FBI. And, the find-the-secret assignment was clearly fictional, but as a plot device, it was a nice way to dump some exposition about the main characters without having the typical pilot-y clunkiness. I kinda see FBI and CSI similar in terms of requirements. I did always think though that those recruited for the FBI had prior police experience or even detective work. Can one go straight from a university program like Criminal Justice and go straight into the FBI? That I don't know. Cara posted this FBI Jobs .gov link in the episode thread, but I'll add that if you read the biographies for agents in leadership positions (e.g., Senior Agent In Charge at field offices) on the FBI website, they do tend to have 5-7 years of local law enforcement experience. Also, I'll just mention this here (again): In Malawi, the general agent of consent is 14, so Brian J. Smith's character probably would not have been guilty of rape, based on what was mentioned in the pilot. (Miranda only uses the phrase "slept with.") Edited September 29, 2015 by Just Here 1 Link to comment
Bruinsfan September 29, 2015 Share September 29, 2015 When an organized FBI swat team showed up at Grand Central Crater before NYC firefighters and immediately reacted like the first woman they saw picking herself up out of the rubble was about to push a plunger detonator, my eyes rolled so far back in my head that I could actually see the brain cells killed by watching this pilot. 6 Link to comment
Raja September 30, 2015 Share September 30, 2015 Looks like they missed more than they hit. http://quanticofactorfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/09/run-pilot-aired-72715.html?m=1 I guess you can handwave the FBI background checks that the entire class told all the friends and acquaintances that were interviewed during the background checks that they were not accepted before being untrained and going undercover to report for training. Link to comment
Trini October 5, 2015 Share October 5, 2015 (edited) Does the FBI really have recruits live together in dorm-style accommodations? (I'm guessing 'no', but confirmation would be nice) What about married recruits?* *(Yeah, I know, on TV everyone needs to be single and free to hook up with whomever for maximum DRAMA.) Edited October 5, 2015 by Trini 2 Link to comment
Crim October 5, 2015 Share October 5, 2015 Is it normal that the woman who provided Alex with the security camera footage stuck around to ask questions about who the suspect was and who the agent entering the building was and such? Sure, she provided the requested footage just because Alex was wearing FBI gear, I presume, or maybe she was blinded by Alex's hotness, but it was still supposed to be an official investigation. Link to comment
Cara October 5, 2015 Share October 5, 2015 Does the FBI really have recruits live together in dorm-style accommodations? (I'm guessing 'no', but confirmation would be nice) What about married recruits?* *(Yeah, I know, on TV everyone needs to be single and free to hook up with whomever for maximum DRAMA.) They do live 2 to a room with a same sex roommate. Males and females do not share a bathroom the way they do on the show. The academy lasts for 20 weeks. Link to comment
Ailianna October 9, 2015 Share October 9, 2015 Is it normal that the woman who provided Alex with the security camera footage stuck around to ask questions about who the suspect was and who the agent entering the building was and such? Sure, she provided the requested footage just because Alex was wearing FBI gear, I presume, or maybe she was blinded by Alex's hotness, but it was still supposed to be an official investigation. Actually, getting video from store surveillance is a pain in the behind, and you pretty much always need the person who works there and knows how your specific system works to get the footage. Plus later you have to have them to testify about it anyway, so yes, in real life, someone would be there, but not a barista, because she wouldn't have access to the surveillance cameras. For obvious reasons. The thing that drives me craziest is actually their T-shirts in the training sequences. They would, 1. all be the same, and 2. not be cut nice and low for certain attractive females while everyone else is wearing normal crew or small V-neck T-shirts. I get it, she's beautiful--but in the FBI academy, she's not flashing that at people. Not for long anyway, if she tries to change things up to show off her assets. 1 Link to comment
Chaos Theory October 12, 2015 Share October 12, 2015 I was having dinner tonight with my cousin who is an FBI agent and we were talking about new shows we liked and hated. Of course she "just couldn't" with Quantico. First off there is no Best of the Best class and second if someone who just graduated from the FBI had just committed a terrorist act the entire class and the idiot who did the background check to let that person into Quantico in the first place would get their ass arrested. There is no way any of her classmates would be let anywhere near this. If this was real life they'd all be if cuffs until proven innocent. 2 Link to comment
Cara October 12, 2015 Share October 12, 2015 (edited) Realism and this show don't exactly go together! LOL http://quanticofactorfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-realistic-was-this-weeks-show-i.html?m=1 Edited October 12, 2015 by Cara 1 Link to comment
redsox7819 October 12, 2015 Share October 12, 2015 (edited) Without making it political, it is sad that they got right was the picture of the current president. Edited October 12, 2015 by redsox7819 Link to comment
Drusilla October 17, 2015 Share October 17, 2015 I almost hurled when I saw this and I had been so looking forward to it. The worst of the worst is, the FBI have a media and entertainment facilitation department that the writers etc could have availed of. Maybe they did but chose to ignore everything anyway. New recruits to Quantico out on the streets of NYC investigating? Even I know that doesn't happen. If I was in the FBI I'd be mighty peed off! Link to comment
Cara October 19, 2015 Share October 19, 2015 How realistic was it this week? http://quanticofactorfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-realistic-was-this-weeks-episode.html?m=1 1 Link to comment
aradia22 November 2, 2015 Share November 2, 2015 This is not a procedural nitpick but I watched the first four episodes in a row and at this point it's getting ridiculous. She wakes up in the rubble. She gets in fights. She trudges through water. But it's like they hit a reset button so the next time you see her she has a full blowout and a full face of glamorous makeup. I don't think a beautiful woman can't also be smart and capable and strong but there's a difference between beauty and glamour. She's made up all the time. It's stretches belief at Quantico, it breaks it completely in the "present" timeline. 2 Link to comment
Cara November 3, 2015 Share November 3, 2015 I've been posting links to this blog. But the show is so ridiculous it is ending. http://quanticofactorfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/11/god-aired-11-01-15.html Link to comment
henripootel November 4, 2015 Share November 4, 2015 I've been posting links to this blog. But the show is so ridiculous it is ending. Too bad - the entries were brief but entertaining. Somebody should tell the blogger that people might not be commenting because her site demands login from existing accounts in order to comment. Many of mine link back to my real identity so no way I'm using them. Sorry blogger, I get enough bs from google already. She's also right though that this show bears so little resemblance to reality that it discourages correction. I mean where do you start? With brand-new agents spearheading investigations because their dad pulled some strings? To say nothing of said character being a known associate of a suspect so widely regarded as guilty that they officially ordered her immediate murder? At least the idiots on Greys Anatomy were vaguely recognizable as medical-type people. Link to comment
misstwpherecool November 19, 2015 Share November 19, 2015 Unsure where to comment but in reality Quantico/art has unfortunatly imitated real life in regards to the recent Paris attacks. I did see the warning at the begining of the last show acknowledging the Paris attacks. Just like the Quantico story real life has had a large scale terrorist attack with many similar types participating. Then in a related police raid this week in Paris much like the house they raided in the story some of the participants are again darn close to or mimicking characters in the show. When I heard there was a women terrorist in the attacks and she committed suicide I started thinking the sisters. Then today it turns out the women terrorist was called 'the cowgirl' and was not a hardline Muslim again like one of the sisters. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3325180/Two-fingers-world-Pictured-Europe-s-female-suicide-bomber-booze-loving-extrovert-nicknamed-Cowgirl-love-big-hats.html But the raid epis/arc and real life raid just removed any stretch that this Quantico story/season has life imitating art. Condolences and speedy recovery to all the victims of the Paris attacks. Peace Link to comment
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