Most Glamorous Audience Surrogate Ever

[annavere]

I have decided this is Fiona's key role on Burn Notice, or at least the one with the strongest emotional loading for me. She's crucial to the team, hyper competent, whip smart, lethal, sexy as hell and I adore her for all those reasons - and unlike typical audience surrogates she is neither a fish out of water nor a requester of endless exposition (that's Madeleine, quite frequently).

Instead, what Fiona does is stand in for the audience in every major argument she has with Michael, constantly pointing out to Michael that he does FAR better work as a burned spy than he ever did before, and that he can actually have a life now (ironic how he constantly says he wants his life back when being a spy was clearly an excuse not to have one). She's always telling him not to trust the latest stuffed suits trying to control him while asking why he'd even want to go back to an agency that's treated him like dirt all this time. She wonders why he can't just be happy with the delightful show he's in. Fiona completely represents us, and no matter how many times she makes the same plea to him and he fails to heed it (the type of wheel-spinning relationship that normally drives me up the wall), it always gets me.

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[killabeez]

Fi! ♥ ♥

Long ago, I used to muse about a crossover where Fi meets Stacie from Hustle—who plays much the same counterpart to Mickey on that show, although Stacie and Mickey plainly both knew they were better as teammates than lovers. (One presumes from experience.)

[annavere]

Some people are not good romantic investments and Michael Westen is definitely in that category, too. They've hit the reset button on him and Fi getting together at least twice on the show so far, and I normally hate that sort of thing, but in this case I'm chalking it up to Fiona being smart.

She would be amazing in crossovers. Who doesn't need an explosives/ammunitions expert?