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Faking It (04x04)
May. 24th, 2017 08:45 pmUndone by circumstance, and a lot of bad luck.
Ziva thinks all men are liars. Tony once told Kate all men are liars. I don't think of this as a continuity error, as Tony's responses to things like this are always situational, and dependent on his relationship with the person making the statement. He tells Ziva that women want men to lie to him, so they do.
When Gibbs puts Tony down, he asked if Ziva told him how to recognize a liar. No, Kate did. At least, Kate did first.
Can we please have the Tony who isn't less competent than Ziva back? I'd think he'd seen enough fake IDs as a cop to be as able as Ziva to recognize them. And what's with McGee and Ziva deliberately ignoring Tony? Are they still punishing him for not being Gibbs as a team leader? Puke duty (without gloves at first) serves them right.
Gibbs speaks Russian; why didn't he try his language on the captive? Ziva speaks French, German, Italian, Turkish (from another episode), Arabic, Russian, Hebrew and English. That's eight, so there's one missing, other than the language of love.
Ducky says "25 years of slicing and dicing." That's a strangely short period of time, unless he was not an ME in his earlier career. I'm in my mid-50s and I've been working for 30 years; however old Ducky is, he's older than me.
Third time Tony gets knocked out. This time by the person he's guarding. Please, please give us competent Tony back. After a number of episodes with very little hash, this one is full of it. Gibbs' backyard needs some attention.
Tony calls the director Jenny, which definitely catches Gibbs' attention.
...and, yet again, it's Tony who kicks in the door. I swear he does it more often than anyone else.
It doesn't surprise me that Mike waited until the bad guy dropped his gun to shoot. He's clearly in the habit of doing as he pleases, and he's been retired a while. Even before that, we know he bent protocol.
I don't find this case particularly compelling. Some of the details are interesting, like the puked up bullet, and the bad luck that led to the killer being caught in the first place. On the whole, though, it's pretty pedestrian. While it's nice to see Mike Franks back, the episode overall is okay, but not great.
Ziva thinks all men are liars. Tony once told Kate all men are liars. I don't think of this as a continuity error, as Tony's responses to things like this are always situational, and dependent on his relationship with the person making the statement. He tells Ziva that women want men to lie to him, so they do.
When Gibbs puts Tony down, he asked if Ziva told him how to recognize a liar. No, Kate did. At least, Kate did first.
Can we please have the Tony who isn't less competent than Ziva back? I'd think he'd seen enough fake IDs as a cop to be as able as Ziva to recognize them. And what's with McGee and Ziva deliberately ignoring Tony? Are they still punishing him for not being Gibbs as a team leader? Puke duty (without gloves at first) serves them right.
Gibbs speaks Russian; why didn't he try his language on the captive? Ziva speaks French, German, Italian, Turkish (from another episode), Arabic, Russian, Hebrew and English. That's eight, so there's one missing, other than the language of love.
Ducky says "25 years of slicing and dicing." That's a strangely short period of time, unless he was not an ME in his earlier career. I'm in my mid-50s and I've been working for 30 years; however old Ducky is, he's older than me.
Third time Tony gets knocked out. This time by the person he's guarding. Please, please give us competent Tony back. After a number of episodes with very little hash, this one is full of it. Gibbs' backyard needs some attention.
Tony calls the director Jenny, which definitely catches Gibbs' attention.
...and, yet again, it's Tony who kicks in the door. I swear he does it more often than anyone else.
It doesn't surprise me that Mike waited until the bad guy dropped his gun to shoot. He's clearly in the habit of doing as he pleases, and he's been retired a while. Even before that, we know he bent protocol.
I don't find this case particularly compelling. Some of the details are interesting, like the puked up bullet, and the bad luck that led to the killer being caught in the first place. On the whole, though, it's pretty pedestrian. While it's nice to see Mike Franks back, the episode overall is okay, but not great.
