TV Reaction: NCIS 'Last Man Standing'
Sep. 24th, 2008 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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. :)
