TV Reaction: NCIS 'Last Man Standing'
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mrwubblesIt's amazing how quickly the posts came flooding out for this episode. This is yet another squee post out of the many for this returning season of NCIS.
Okay, recap:
MD was going after Le Frog. Le Frog croaked (literally), Frogette flew the coop (not so literally because dude, frogs can't fly) and the Prince who kissed the Frogette was accussed of killing Le Frog.
Then, MD croaked in a rather impressive Western showdown way (although seriously, Franks? You went to get tea NOW?) and the team gets split up like a bunch of spilt Skittles.
WTF?
Okay, by now, we all knew the team will be back and unlike House cleaning house (literally), the old team will pretty much be back soon. Like Dean Winchester in Supernatural, yes, he's been in hell for 4 months like our team was split up for over 160 days, the audience wasn't punished to witness the pain of separation.
What we did get was even better, was the fact we see the team missed each other and in their own way, tells Gibbs this without the dreaded OC wah-wah writers might indulge in. Life didn't just go on, the team was in hibernation, waiting for Gibbs to get them back together. And yes, they even missed Tony. -lol-
Vance's (the new Director) reasoning for splitting up his team was dubious at best. As Gibbs said, it would have been nice to have been told. And the substitute team Gibbs got was a painful and pale imitation of our old team and I must admit, a clever ploy from the writers to make us miss our old team even more. Langer, Keating and Lee played out the counterparts they replaced with just enough to be mocking yet not. Keating made a poor copy of McGee, Keating was a bad version of Tony and Lee was so opposite of Ziva. It only made us miss our gang more and you have to wonder if that was deliberate.
Lee turning out to be the badguy gal was a little too contrived for me though. Yes, let's pick the most unassuming, stammering Asian wallflower to be the most evil of all. -shaking head- But I'm giving the writers the benefit of the doubt: the 10 sec reveal may not be as clear cut as we thought...
It did explain the rather 180 behavior of Lee and Palmer because, wow, where did that pairing come from? Kudos to Jimmy for suspecting he was being used and breaking it off. -huggles Palmer-
I was a bit miffed that there wasn't an ulterior motive for sending Tony away like the others. Then again, I'm a Tony girl and maybe that's why. And to be frank, there really isn't much DiNozzo can contribute to this case, or maybe that's what the writers want us to think. Then again, maybe there's an ulterior motive to this. Oi. I could be reading way too much to this, hence why this is a reaction not a review. -lol-
The MTAC exchange was hilarious and I went "awww" when Gibbs told Tony to watch himself and Tony got semi-serious and went "I miss you too, Dad." It was guys being guys yet there was the still miss you, stir crazy, I wanna go home moment.
And Tony called Gibbs "Pa".
-Squee-
NCIS: All in all, for returning seasons go, NCIS came out a winner for me. By default, knowing Gibbs was actively getting the team back gave this episode 3 Oreos. Another for the reasoning for their split, a half (the creme half) for their open concern and showing that they miss each other.
I'm withholding the other half though because of Michelle Lee. She seemed a little too convenient of the 'most unexpected' enemy and I'm hoping things are actually more complicated than that other than she just made a nifty 'Ah hah', but we'll see if her arc, like Le Frog's, goes all the way or flops into those soggy cookie crumbs we all hate at the bottom of the milk glass. :)
Okay, recap:
MD was going after Le Frog. Le Frog croaked (literally), Frogette flew the coop (not so literally because dude, frogs can't fly) and the Prince who kissed the Frogette was accussed of killing Le Frog.
Then, MD croaked in a rather impressive Western showdown way (although seriously, Franks? You went to get tea NOW?) and the team gets split up like a bunch of spilt Skittles.
WTF?
Okay, by now, we all knew the team will be back and unlike House cleaning house (literally), the old team will pretty much be back soon. Like Dean Winchester in Supernatural, yes, he's been in hell for 4 months like our team was split up for over 160 days, the audience wasn't punished to witness the pain of separation.
What we did get was even better, was the fact we see the team missed each other and in their own way, tells Gibbs this without the dreaded OC wah-wah writers might indulge in. Life didn't just go on, the team was in hibernation, waiting for Gibbs to get them back together. And yes, they even missed Tony. -lol-
Vance's (the new Director) reasoning for splitting up his team was dubious at best. As Gibbs said, it would have been nice to have been told. And the substitute team Gibbs got was a painful and pale imitation of our old team and I must admit, a clever ploy from the writers to make us miss our old team even more. Langer, Keating and Lee played out the counterparts they replaced with just enough to be mocking yet not. Keating made a poor copy of McGee, Keating was a bad version of Tony and Lee was so opposite of Ziva. It only made us miss our gang more and you have to wonder if that was deliberate.
Lee turning out to be the bad
It did explain the rather 180 behavior of Lee and Palmer because, wow, where did that pairing come from? Kudos to Jimmy for suspecting he was being used and breaking it off. -huggles Palmer-
I was a bit miffed that there wasn't an ulterior motive for sending Tony away like the others. Then again, I'm a Tony girl and maybe that's why. And to be frank, there really isn't much DiNozzo can contribute to this case, or maybe that's what the writers want us to think. Then again, maybe there's an ulterior motive to this. Oi. I could be reading way too much to this, hence why this is a reaction not a review. -lol-
The MTAC exchange was hilarious and I went "awww" when Gibbs told Tony to watch himself and Tony got semi-serious and went "I miss you too, Dad." It was guys being guys yet there was the still miss you, stir crazy, I wanna go home moment.
And Tony called Gibbs "Pa".
-Squee-
NCIS: All in all, for returning seasons go, NCIS came out a winner for me. By default, knowing Gibbs was actively getting the team back gave this episode 3 Oreos. Another for the reasoning for their split, a half (the creme half) for their open concern and showing that they miss each other.
I'm withholding the other half though because of Michelle Lee. She seemed a little too convenient of the 'most unexpected' enemy and I'm hoping things are actually more complicated than that other than she just made a nifty 'Ah hah', but we'll see if her arc, like Le Frog's, goes all the way or flops into those soggy cookie crumbs we all hate at the bottom of the milk glass. :)
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Last Man
Date: 2008-09-24 11:12 pm (UTC)I think perhaps in regards to Tony that we haven't heard the whole story. That was the sweetest thing ever when he said "I miss you too Dad." All in all, I was pleased with the episode, but can't wait for Tony to come back too.
Re: Last Man
Date: 2008-09-25 03:52 am (UTC)I'm hoping the next episode is a good Tony-centric episode with a dash of team in there for support. But I hope it's not frat boy Tony and we get a glimpse of why Gibbs would have made him his senior agent in the first place.
The Michelle twist did throw me, I'm usually good at guessing too, but I'm hoping there's more than meets the eye.
Huh.
I probably shouldn't have watched that Transformers movie over and over again before replying huh? LOL
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Date: 2008-09-25 12:13 am (UTC)I laughed and say, "Yeah!" when Abby gave Gibbs her ultimatum--"You have a week, well 10 days, okay two weeks MAX to get them all back." I figure that was an inside joke from the writers and producers to let us know that they'll all be back together in two weeks. It may also have been an inside joke that that's what most of the fans were saying on the various boards. "Okay, I'll give them two weeks and they'd better get them all back." In fact, I predicted two weeks somewhere myself! LOL
The "Dad" scene from Tony was very funny, but I'm glad it appears we'll be seeing more of him next week.
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Date: 2008-09-25 03:56 am (UTC)That was why I had hopd it wasn't Lee, because the writers had set her up to be so innocent that of course they'll turn her around and "ah ha!" becomes the baddie. But they did. The episode though, was written brilliantly. Not flawless, but it did have me rewatching the episode, something I hadn't done in quite a while since SG1...