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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.
Don’t forget to share/like/+1 the post, for this blog’s sake. :)
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Thanks for the Review. NCIS has been one of my guilty pleasures and I've been enjoying it more and more over the years (I was late to it).
ReplyDeleteI love your shooting range images :)
Emotions ran high watching this episode. Really shocked who it was, when they finally showed the pic. Still mad at the ending. It was the best and I can't wait for next week. Does that make sense. Well if you watched it, you will understand.
ReplyDeleteGuessing and dreaming but I would love to see Tony go for comfort in the arms of David.
Great episode. Michael Weatherly outdid himself.
ReplyDeletePlease, more team Gibbs & less ,or I would prefer, no EJ.
ReplyDeleteMW really did outdo himself this time. I can't get over the one scene in which Tony mentions his mother. Could've sworn he was crying. I like vulnerable Tony, I don't know why, I think it's closer to who he really is. MW said so himself in an interview he recently gave.
ReplyDeleteThey all did a great job, but I really missed Ziva, Abby and McGee as well.
ReplyDeleteyou're welcome! NCIS is an awesome show, it deserves to be praised like this.
ReplyDeleteabout the shooting range images, I should've put the photo of the earless marine from that same episode. LOL
yeeeees, I couldn't decide if I'd let the happiness or the madness take over when the epi ended!
ReplyDeleteselling out high tech stuff like this for anyone to buy?? trying to kill tony??
I need the next episode!! D:
thanks for reading and commenting! ^^
Yes, I'd bet he was nearly crying on that scene!
ReplyDeleteTony crying is pretty shocking, admit it.
I enjoyed reading your review. It's nice to see your enthusiasm.
ReplyDeleteJust one comment though, about Rachel. While it's nice to see a therapist on TV (Rachel is a psychiatrist, not a psychologist), this one is pretty bad both in terms of therapy and ethics. Her treatment of Tony in this episode was all wrong and in her appearance last season, she broke at least half of the ethical guidelines for therapy and assessment.