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Anyone see the TV Guide article about the splashy 200th episode? Feels like Don Bellisario repeating himself again (but with better results). There was talk of Gibbs doing an "It's a Wonderful Life" thing about possibly never joining NCIS (what if his wife and daughter had never been killed?). This sounds suspiciously like "What If" the 200th episode of JAG where the main characters share a meal at a Chinese restaraunt and all get the same fortune about "the road not taken" and imagine alternate paths for themselves. Disaster. Like one of their worse Christmas episodes. I'm hoping this one will be much better.
It should be noted that by the time JAG hit its 200th episode in its 9th season, they were trying to recover from a shark-jumping season finale/premiere combo that angered the fanbase and their numbers (never as lofty as NCIS is now) had begun to trend downward, slowly at first and then much more steeply. Even if this is a similar idea, I have to hope that it's executed much better than JAG's was because a return to shoddiness of "What If" could be a negative tipping point for the show.
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It was okay. It wasn't schlock like JAG's 200th, but it wasn't gripping in and of itself. Viewership was split where I watched. I will say this--I never EVER saw Kate and Tony as believable marriage material for one another. Also, I believe the alternate reality coupling of Tim and Abby was meant to kill off that romance thread. She's just too much woman for him. Sorry, Tim. It's not clear how alt Jen Shepherd died (I'm going to assume that her disease just ran its course). I thought it was very cheap and lazy of them to have non-widowed Jethro die on deployment. That was particularly hollow.
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to be honest that was the only part of the show that made sense to me. without his family being killed he would have no need for NIS therefore most likely would have continued with his military career which he could have died during service. what I didn't like was gibbs being an [expletive] trying to push everyone away.
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But we've SEEN that side of Gibbs before. Obsessing over Ari, obsessing over his family's deaths, the way he reacted to the blame game over the whole Pin Pin Pulla (or however you spell that bomber's name) disaster. It was annoying but believable. Here's the thing--from what they showed us, it seemed like they were insinuating that if the girls hadn't died, he was less than three months from dying in action. I could see him staying too long and dying in Sarajevo or Chechnya or Afghanistan, but before Desert Storm? Cheap.
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Catch up time! Concerning the 200th, I agree with the assessment that it was okay, but not great. I'll use spoilers, just in case:
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I do enjoy the focus we're getting into Tony & Gibbs this season. One thing I noticed, Tony & Wendy were engaged 9 years ago. Then they also say that it was while he was still with Baltimore PD. If I remember correctly, during season 1, we find out that Tony'd been with NCIS for almost 3 years. So maybe I missed something or the writers/producers missed something.
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I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that Wendy (as a schoolteacher) was in a long-term relationship with Tony, that they met when he was still with the Baltimore PD and that nine and a half years ago, she broke off the engagement. Not all of these things add up, I thought Abby had been at NCIS as long as Tony, but while Gibbs knew Wendy very well, Abby had never met her...or even seen her. JAG ran into some of these problems as they tried to introduce new characters from "the past" later in its run, but this seemed like a better constructed attempt (even though the idiosyncracies are annoying). This seems to be a recurring theme with Bellisario shows. Quantum Leap had some of the same issues.
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I'm finally caught up on this show, so I can now come back on this thread without fear of spoilers. I'm surprised no one is talking about the big news - Gibbs has a love interest?!? I think it's good that he's pursuing a relationship, and unlike some of his other potential interests, I can stand the character. At first I found her a little annoying, but she's growing on me.
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Samantha Ryan is growing on me, as well. It helps that she's being played by Jamie Lee Curtis-- there's some serious star power there, so the character stands out when she's in a scene. I also like that she appears to belong to Gibbs's age category (unlike the usual love interests), despite having a young son. It also feels like it's being presented as a case of serious like rather than love, which feels less forced to me. I would be happy with her as a recurring character.
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Not a good long-term match though. That's why keeping it at "serious like" for a little logner and having them go their separate ways is a good idea. Too many secrets, too many bodies buried for it to turn into love without that being a disaster. She's a good character and she works well with Harmon--but, not a good long-term pursuit (for exactly the opposite reasons that Jeanne was not a good long-term pursuit for Tony and I have to stretch to remember her character's name now). Hollis Mason was probably the best match they've created for Gibbs, but Su Thompson (who a decade earlier was playing the "mom" in Disney movies of varying credibility) used the role as a springboard to attempts at finding her own series. Sadly, it didn't work and we lost an interesting NCIS character. Rather the inverse of what happened to Sasha Alexander. Losing Kate turned out to be the best long-term move for the show and one of the better bolder moves in the series run and she found a role on TNT that fits her well.
Personally, I think the most intriguing partner/foil/interest they've brought on for Gibbs since Hollis left was CGIS SA Abigail Boren (no, no one's going to call her Abby). Yes, there is an age difference, but she's not some sweet young thing that Tony or Sr. would chase, and while she does put up walls, her defense mechanisms and habits would seem to be far more compatible with Gibbs' own behavior. ![]() As for other love interests for Jethro...um, have there really been many? Jen was in the past, and you could see why all the exes were just that. Is this a reaction to the ill-fated introduction of as Abby says "Mallison" Hart two seasons ago? Yes, that was a mistake. However, this is one failed experiment, not a pattern.
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Saw this week's episode as was a little bit disappointed. Comments under spoiler cut:
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