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seaboe_muffinchucker) wrote2017-05-09 06:43 pm
seaboe_muffinchucker) wrote2017-05-09 06:43 pm
Hiatus Part I (03x23)
We get more emotion out of Gibbs in these two episodes than all the rest of the series put together. These are also the first big Gibbs' back story episodes. I confess, I don't like the flashback sequences (like the ones where he remembers being wounded). Part of it is the way they're filmed. I know this show deals with serious topics, and I'm glad they do. However, I watch it to be entertained and if a scene makes me too uncomfortable (for any of a host of possible reasons), it's not entertaining. These are the scenes I mute or look away from.
The beginning movie discussion does a good job of misdirecting our expectations. It seems like it's going to be the usual mystery. Then the bomb goes off. I have to say that I find Gibbs injuries somewhat unrealistic. That big a bomb in that small a room? He should've been killed instead of just having superficial burns and abrasions. No intracranial bleeding, yet he's in critical condition? I think there are other shows that do a better job of matching the injuries to the reports.
More about Abby's family—her uncle Charlie got his leg caught in a nutria trap. Now, I've heard of nutria before, but I had to go see what a nutria trap looks like. They look to be the same kind of trap that's used to capture feral cats. I'm not sure how or why getting your leg trapped in one would lead to a trip to the hospital. As funny as it is, this scene is the over the top Abby the child. As such, I find it disappointing.
When push comes to shove, Tony is nice. He depends too much on Gibbs to tell him when he's crossed the line; still, as this episode shows, he can control his sense of humor. His stress shows when he's reporting to Jenny and becomes very formal.
Someone complained that they got a different actress to play his daughter in one of the later episodes, and all I could think was "of course it's a different actress; how could you think it wouldn't be?"
There are touches of humor in this, despite the seriousness of what is going on, and for once the writers keep them delicate (Abby's scene excepted), like when Ducky and Palmer are standing in identical poses considering the remains of the bomber. Ducky actually snaps at Palmer, which is a nice and fairly subtle way of showing how much this has tipped them all off balance.
This episode has the Jessica Alba line. If you don't know what that means, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog.
How much time is passing? In the MTAC scene, Tony is wearing the same clothes he had on at the hospital and (possibly) at the ship.
McGee is so lost. He doesn't know what to say to Abby. She's upset that Ziva and McGee are not taking this all as hard as she is and in the same way. Poor McGee, escaping from the women he runs, literally, into Tony, who isn't in the mood for it. Using McGee's tie to stop the nosebleed is very Tony & McGee.
This is the first time we've seen real emotion from Ziva. First episode with Mike Franks. Ducky's mother's brother was named Carkin.
Tony knows he's not Gibbs. Emotionally, he needs to act like Gibbs to prove to himself that Gibbs will come back. I think the others sometimes forget that Tony is more than just an irritating clown. I would say this is the first episode where they were forced to acknowledge that. For example, when Tony is talking about From Russia With Love and doesn't seem to be paying any attention to what Ziva's doing, then shushes McGee and turns at just the right moment.
This episode ends just as Gibbs wakes up, not knowing Ducky. Temporary traumatic amnesia.
The beginning movie discussion does a good job of misdirecting our expectations. It seems like it's going to be the usual mystery. Then the bomb goes off. I have to say that I find Gibbs injuries somewhat unrealistic. That big a bomb in that small a room? He should've been killed instead of just having superficial burns and abrasions. No intracranial bleeding, yet he's in critical condition? I think there are other shows that do a better job of matching the injuries to the reports.
More about Abby's family—her uncle Charlie got his leg caught in a nutria trap. Now, I've heard of nutria before, but I had to go see what a nutria trap looks like. They look to be the same kind of trap that's used to capture feral cats. I'm not sure how or why getting your leg trapped in one would lead to a trip to the hospital. As funny as it is, this scene is the over the top Abby the child. As such, I find it disappointing.
When push comes to shove, Tony is nice. He depends too much on Gibbs to tell him when he's crossed the line; still, as this episode shows, he can control his sense of humor. His stress shows when he's reporting to Jenny and becomes very formal.
Someone complained that they got a different actress to play his daughter in one of the later episodes, and all I could think was "of course it's a different actress; how could you think it wouldn't be?"
There are touches of humor in this, despite the seriousness of what is going on, and for once the writers keep them delicate (Abby's scene excepted), like when Ducky and Palmer are standing in identical poses considering the remains of the bomber. Ducky actually snaps at Palmer, which is a nice and fairly subtle way of showing how much this has tipped them all off balance.
This episode has the Jessica Alba line. If you don't know what that means, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog.
How much time is passing? In the MTAC scene, Tony is wearing the same clothes he had on at the hospital and (possibly) at the ship.
McGee is so lost. He doesn't know what to say to Abby. She's upset that Ziva and McGee are not taking this all as hard as she is and in the same way. Poor McGee, escaping from the women he runs, literally, into Tony, who isn't in the mood for it. Using McGee's tie to stop the nosebleed is very Tony & McGee.
This is the first time we've seen real emotion from Ziva. First episode with Mike Franks. Ducky's mother's brother was named Carkin.
Tony knows he's not Gibbs. Emotionally, he needs to act like Gibbs to prove to himself that Gibbs will come back. I think the others sometimes forget that Tony is more than just an irritating clown. I would say this is the first episode where they were forced to acknowledge that. For example, when Tony is talking about From Russia With Love and doesn't seem to be paying any attention to what Ziva's doing, then shushes McGee and turns at just the right moment.
This episode ends just as Gibbs wakes up, not knowing Ducky. Temporary traumatic amnesia.