Lindy Booth or Tanja Reichert ?
Whom do you like better?
sharePersonally, if you liked someone with attitude and spunk, Lindy Booth is obviously your choice. But if you wanted someone who was efficient, easy to get along with in the office, wouldn't mess up your schedule and wouldn't tear down your ego in front of others, Tanja Reichert would be the better choice.
While at first I preferred Lindy, I've now changed my mind. I think that Tanja was a better choice because she was dependable and wasn't ego-centric. One never saw Tanja playing mindgames with Nigel in the office. In the Last Knight, Lindy Booth wanted to get close to Nigel in Sydney's office to intimidate him--so he would get him...THE DRESS but in the season 3 episode Incognito, Tanja wants to get close to Nigel--again in Sydney's office. But this time, its not because she wants to blackmail Nigel but because she cares about him and is afraid of what plan Cate is cooking up behind Sydney and her back for Nigel. And as we find out, Tanja's concerns are well founded when Cate has to 'beg' Sydney for help in Valetta, Malta, to save Nigel from the clutches of the Gurul Nataz.
Its just that in the third season, the producers gave few important roles to Tanja. But in the episodes that she had an important function, she impressed big time such as saving Syd's office and budget in the Wages of Sydney, saving Syd's artifact collection in Antinerial, saving Syd's reputation in front of a very wealthy benefactor in London in Arthur's Cross--maybe the best season 3 episode made. She also found the entrance to the vampire's lair in Warlock of Nu Theta Phi. But in most cases, she turned up only at the end of an episode in the office like 'The Warlord', 'Under the Ice' or 'Faux Fox' asking about Sydney and Nigel's trip. At least, she got a nice role in 'So Shall It Be' showing Syd and Nigel around on a trip. But the producers never quite centered a role around her unless you want to talk about 'Hunting with the Enemy' where De Viega kidnaps her and forces Sydney & Nigel to do his bidding. I don't know about you but frankly I think in most cases Lindy did save Sydney's bacon too especially in the first season but I had the sense that she would have preferred to have taken a pass and seen a shrink, go to the movies or have a tattoo done...if she could. Tanja was the more dependable person, I think. She was a tad more conventional but at least she wasn't irritable as Nigel would say.