Undercover

 I love reading it’s my passion besides art. 

The only down side of being a devout reader is trying to find a story that doesn’t repeat a plot with another one. That’s why I read fanfictions when not reading a book.

I like the element of adding an original character to the plot and maybe that character will be the love interest of one of the main characters. Take for example Tim McGee from Ncis he didn’t meet Delilah until sometime before season 10 of the series and it wasn’t until season 14 he asked her to marry him. 

So that gives the potential writer 9 seasons to give Tim a love interest and then the writer could carry on through the series with that OC being with him. Or you could have him meet the oc instead of Delilah. Both are good. 

But my main concern is a professional writer or even one who wants to be a true professional  (all fanfics writers want to be but a lot fall flat)  do there homework for the characters and even for the plot. You just don’t write what you think should be written and hope for the best.

A good example is this, I came across a story that the FBI loaned an agent to the NCIS to help them track down a guy who sales organs on the black market they find out who it is and have the FBI agent go undercover . Good theme so far but as soon as they find out who the guy was they had the Agent go under cover despite her telling everyone she’s never been undercover and doesn’t know what to do.

That right there is a flat out lie on so many levels. All Agents have been trained to go under cover it’s only those who actually show the potential to do it with out braking character are kept on those types of assignments and if they don’t have someone that will miss them in some rare cases a married fbi will be given that assignment but it’s usually no where near the places some one they know would see them. 

The undercover cases could take any where from a few weeks to a few years not a couple of hours for the agents to actually become there character. They also wouldn’t be themselves and actually walk up to the bad guy right off the bat and ask for the product or person etc because there mark is already on the look out for trouble.

Any good agent would actually work there way up to meeting there mark through who they know to get the product or what ever they are trying to get to. Then they establish a type of friendship or work relationship with there target so they could have enough evidence to put the bad guy away for good. They also would need a good back ground to protect them and there family because  from then on they have a target on there back.

This writer had a good idea for there story but she didn’t do any type of homework for not only the show but the jobs that the characters on the show had. She rushed the undercover operation and many other parts of the story so much that the oc doesn’t feel like she belongs with the story at all.