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| Springtime for Tv Lovers |
Spring down here is such an awesome time! No more rain, the heat is coming, and most of the shows I watch come back this time of the year! NCIS is one of them, and I must say I was quite surprised by this season premiere! We finally know who was on that photo, and I was deadly wrong for pointing out E.J.!
Though I'm a SpoilerTV Team member, I must say I completely forgot to read spoilers about this SP (but not other shows). I don’t even know if there were many major spoilers available for this. The thing is I knew nothing about the premiere before watching it. There are both good and bad aspects of this method. The good one was that everything was incredibly surprising for me. The bad is that I was very confused with those flashbacks and flash forwards without any notice.
Seeing Rachel again was delightful! It is very handy to have an awesome psychologist as a Guest Star. Psychologists are a quite interesting kind of character in a people-focused show; nevertheless, if overused, they could become irritating. That being said, I agree with NCIS’s approach: dropper doses every now and then are just enough for the public to enjoy Rachel’s appearances.
As a fan, it’s always sad to see Tony devastated like that. Though he joked around quite a lot for a guy who’d just been shot (with an abnormal verbiage of puns he normally spares us of), his behavior couldn’t hide the fact that he was traumatized as we had never seen before. Tony even looks older in the hospital scenes than in the outside ones. Yeah, it’s been nine years (!), MW is no Benjamin Button, but he still looks awesome in suit and sunglasses. :)
I missed more Ziva, McGee and Abby. I understand this was a special episode, focused on Tony and his mission, but I missed a bit of family love. The trio didn’t even show up on “present day” scenes, just on flashbacks. Plus, Tony was so focused on his mission that he himself forgot about the team he’d trust his life with!
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| Sorry, pals, but Papa Brennan forgot about you this time. |
Paying attention to Ducky’s speech to Gibbs about trust, I noticed the major difference between NCIS and NCIS:LA. Ducky was just saying that their team does not keep secrets from one another, and that’s how and why the team works. In LA, the team members are good friends, but they basically hide anything personal, even their addresses and family members, and still they work just fine. Same Agency, different methods, equally positive results.
During the episode, I was about to complain that this was the third time Tony had been in an awesome action sequence that they didn’t show the way they deserved (car bomb on season 5 and Mexico shooting on season 7), but then… BANG! BANG! BANG! D:
Based on the shooting range scene, now Tony shoots way better than he did back in season 1.
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| Poor Paper lady... |
BTW, did you, guys, see it coming? Cade being Tony’s target? Him, EJ and Tony being caught blindsided that way? The existence of a new powerful secret agency? The fact that its agents have turned to the Dark Side of the Federal Force? How long until they try to kill Tony again? Does CI-Ray have something to do with it? Will we survive until next Tuesday to find out?! D:
Please, share your thoughts on last night’s new episode! I’m sure somebody has some bright ideas to enlighten our NCIS-Fanatic minds until the answers come to us in a future Tuesday night.
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