User blog comment:Porterfield/Reactions to the Season 8 Premiere/@comment-1743689-20120929015726

I actually kinda like what they're doing with her. She's the current anti-team and outsider, if you will. And, if you remember, Rossi was the EXACT same way (he told news reporters that a criminal was impotent in order to draw him out and I want to say he revealed a detail they weren't telling the press). It took a bit for the members to warm up to him. She's just starting at that same point. Although Reid knows her, so that's different. Since she also has experience and some backstory already, we're sure to have some of her old open, past, and cold cases come back to haunt her.

I like her and her skillset will be valuable. Just don't make her into another know-it-all like Gideon or Cooper and I'll be happy. And I do mean that a lot.