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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'm liking the sound of that AU. :D And I'll have to check out the episode; I don't have cable, but I do have my ways ...
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But now, Max was always evil and just using the League to destroy metahumans and nobody ever liked him anyway.
One of the reasons I could never get that upset about SGA and the way the writers waffled over making Rodney comic relief and a hero in his own way.
Our AU is silly and littered with marysuish OFCs and a lot more fun for us than anything the company's printed in a while. There's another bit setting things up but the main body of the AU is here: http://madripoor-rose.livejournal.com/514049.html#cutid1
Where we rolled our sleeves up and started rewriting the canon. Starting with L-Ron...Elle Rawn, in the new android body it's been off having built by the Cluster, showing up at a certain Swiss castle to rescue Ted from Max and Max from Brother Eye.
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It's a shame, in a way, that mainstream comics at the time weren't really doing coherent, long character arcs -- because Max's character development, rather than being one solid story that's collected into a TPB somewhere that I can rec to people, is seeded in bits and pieces in between everything else, and there's like 80 issues that you need to get the whole picture, of which maybe 5% of that (or less) is Max's character arc. It's not really something that's easy to rec except as part of the whole thing -- which reminds me, I've actually been meaning to do a pimping post for the Giffen-DeMatties Justice League for awhile now (oh woe, I have to re-read all those issues, what a sacrifice ;D). And then you have to tell people how DC ended it, which, just ... AAAARGH.
I'll definitely take a peek at your AU when I have time. And, really, is it even possible to write the Giffen Justice League characters in a way that *isn't* kind of silly and cracked-out? :D