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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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With Ziva, I kept hoping she was only acting like she was falling for the guy so she could catch him in action and it really would be him. And then when it turned out her instincts were correct I was happy, but... her entire reaction to the situation just felt wrong.
Not mentioning the latest episode because I don't know if you've seen it yet, but I didn't like the bottom line of that either.
(I am still enjoying the show in general, though. The small moments in between.)
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The Ziva episode kinda felt like it had been written for a different character. I like Ziva a lot (she's grown on me tremendously from her early episodes) and I was happy to have an episode focused on her, but her reactions didn't feel right. Who knows, maybe the writers are trying to backpedal from her hard-bitten-killer image, but if so, it's just coming off as inconsistent characterization.
I do still enjoy the show (obviously) but there are a lot of little things that bug me about it.