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Meanwhile, on other shows ...
Shockingly, I'm actually watching other shows besides LoM! Amazing, I know. I just keep forgetting to post anything about them. Mostly because I haven't really been blown away by anything dazzling.
I went into my thoughts on the "Ghostfacers" episode of Supernatural in this comment thread over here. Now we're caught up on the latest and ... I kinda just want to write this season out of my personal canon. This wasn't a bad episode, but it's gotten to where I'm so braced to cringe when I watch the show that I'm not even enjoying the good bits anymore, especially since the show seems determined to live down to pretty much every low expectation that I have. And, no, I don't know why SPN is getting to me so much worse on the race & gender stuff than most of the other things I watch. But it is.
None of the recent NCIS episodes have really knocked my socks off, either. This past week's ... I kept feeling all through the episode that Ziva was wildly OOC. Her reaction didn't make sense -- this is a woman whose shot and killed her brother in her first episode on the show, for pete's sake. I really like Ziva as a character, and I generally quite like the episodes where we see beneath her facade to the person inside, but her shell-shocked behavior just felt wrong for her. It was like they'd written the episode for a different character and then retrofitted it to Ziva at the last moment.
I don't even remember the last few episodes all that well. They've been enjoyable enough while I was watching them but not, apparently, memorable in particular. Well, except for the dog episode, which stuck in my head mainly because I disliked the whole idea of the dog getting more sympathy than the guy who was mauled by the dog. I get that Abby's softhearted and can be a bit flighty when she's distracted by something, but considering how protective of her friends she normally is, I couldn't help feeling that her condemnation of McGee for shooting the dog in self-defense was a bit over the top.
Is that all I'm watching right now? I guess it is. Of course, I'm also re-watching LoM again from the beginning, so it's not as if I'm suffering for lack of entertainment.
I went into my thoughts on the "Ghostfacers" episode of Supernatural in this comment thread over here. Now we're caught up on the latest and ... I kinda just want to write this season out of my personal canon. This wasn't a bad episode, but it's gotten to where I'm so braced to cringe when I watch the show that I'm not even enjoying the good bits anymore, especially since the show seems determined to live down to pretty much every low expectation that I have. And, no, I don't know why SPN is getting to me so much worse on the race & gender stuff than most of the other things I watch. But it is.
None of the recent NCIS episodes have really knocked my socks off, either. This past week's ... I kept feeling all through the episode that Ziva was wildly OOC. Her reaction didn't make sense -- this is a woman whose shot and killed her brother in her first episode on the show, for pete's sake. I really like Ziva as a character, and I generally quite like the episodes where we see beneath her facade to the person inside, but her shell-shocked behavior just felt wrong for her. It was like they'd written the episode for a different character and then retrofitted it to Ziva at the last moment.
I don't even remember the last few episodes all that well. They've been enjoyable enough while I was watching them but not, apparently, memorable in particular. Well, except for the dog episode, which stuck in my head mainly because I disliked the whole idea of the dog getting more sympathy than the guy who was mauled by the dog. I get that Abby's softhearted and can be a bit flighty when she's distracted by something, but considering how protective of her friends she normally is, I couldn't help feeling that her condemnation of McGee for shooting the dog in self-defense was a bit over the top.
Is that all I'm watching right now? I guess it is. Of course, I'm also re-watching LoM again from the beginning, so it's not as if I'm suffering for lack of entertainment.
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Last weeks Supernatural was *eeeee meep Lorne!* and then I stopped watching and did other stuff. I have a huge problem with Dean and his choice of words so I hardly watch SPN (it's the only thing that had me in stitches watching Ghostfacers: the little skulls. *g*)
NCIS ... I liked Recoil. Like it a whole lot, I thought Cote did a great job. And getting grazed by a bullet on the forehead could throw a person off her game for a couple of days, so that didn't feel too OOC for me (then again, I'm a huge Tony & Ziva fan, so I cut them tremendous amounts of slack :D).
It looks like most writers had a hard time picking up the story line after the strike and it is not helping that they have to squeeze the season into 19 or 20 episodes instead of the usual twenty-four. Too bad.
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I used to really love SPN but, wow, my interest in it has tanked lately.