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Last night's NCIS
I've been pretty lukewarm on this season of NCIS aside from the Gibbs'-father episode, but last night's? I loved it.
One of the things that's bugged me over the last couple of seasons is that it feels like they've been turning McGee back into the team joke that he was in the beginning. I don't mind my favorite characters being disrespected and made fun of -- actually I much prefer it to having them treated seriously all the time, but only if they get theirs back every once in a while. And McGee's been on Gibbs's team for five years now; surely he's a competent agent and not just the guy who faceplants in streams and gets mocked by Tony.
So, seriously, I loved this episode to bits. Smart, collected, take-charge McGee is awesome to see, and I loved the team worry too -- Gibbs in "one of my lambs is missing!" sheepdog mode, Abby's adorable freak-out ("You should all get safer jobs!"), Ziva offering to beat up anyone who hurt him. And the plot was fairly twisty, too; all my guesses about the killer were wrong, and I also liked how the ending left the validity of the second confession ambiguous -- the evidence seems to point to her having killed the original victim, but you don't know for sure.
One of the things that's bugged me over the last couple of seasons is that it feels like they've been turning McGee back into the team joke that he was in the beginning. I don't mind my favorite characters being disrespected and made fun of -- actually I much prefer it to having them treated seriously all the time, but only if they get theirs back every once in a while. And McGee's been on Gibbs's team for five years now; surely he's a competent agent and not just the guy who faceplants in streams and gets mocked by Tony.
So, seriously, I loved this episode to bits. Smart, collected, take-charge McGee is awesome to see, and I loved the team worry too -- Gibbs in "one of my lambs is missing!" sheepdog mode, Abby's adorable freak-out ("You should all get safer jobs!"), Ziva offering to beat up anyone who hurt him. And the plot was fairly twisty, too; all my guesses about the killer were wrong, and I also liked how the ending left the validity of the second confession ambiguous -- the evidence seems to point to her having killed the original victim, but you don't know for sure.
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I enjoy NCIS, but I've pulled back from it a lot in the last couple of seasons, because I'm starting to realize that the show's just not going to deliver the kind of emotional punch that I want, at least not with the characters I want. This episode came much closer than most of the previous ones, though -- and Gibbs' unstated confidence in McGee was really fantastic to see!