NCIS: Twilight SPOILERS and commentary
Jul. 20th, 2005 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justalurkrYes, I am a vain thing. Behind the cut, you will find a response I posted to the mailing list NCISSlash:
This was one of the few episodes (SWAK being the other one) where I saw a real family dynamic under all the nursery school playground fussing that went so far over the top over most of last season. Still, the vibe from Gibbs to Todd was paternal, while the vibe from Gibbs to DiNozzo was anything but. The guys came across as extremely married.
The thing that worked my nerves the most about the episode was the excruciating number of red herrings. They'd been promoting heavily the fact that one agent wouldn't survive, so I believe every single cast member had to have his or her Moment In Peril. It grew wearisome after a while, so that "tucking in for a nap" scene was that much more heartfelt, I guess.
Kate was seriously on her game for "Twilight." I've been watching the reruns every week, and some of the early episodes have her looking like a naive idiot in her relationships with the other agents, inversely to her competence as an agent. Or, the better she does as an agent, the dumber she has to look socially. It happened a lot to all the agents across this past season, I thought. I hope they find a better way to characterize next season. They seem to have given it up for "SWAK" and "Twilight," so perhaps there is hope.
I'm of two minds on how the slash will play out next season. One one hand, the boys (slash pairing is reader's choice) have much to pull them together in the wake of the tragedy. On the other, they may jointly and severally decide it doesn't pay to become family with co-workers and drift rigidly apart. I'm looking forward to finding out how it goes.
Not much to be all that vain about. It rambles, it does.
This was one of the few episodes (SWAK being the other one) where I saw a real family dynamic under all the nursery school playground fussing that went so far over the top over most of last season. Still, the vibe from Gibbs to Todd was paternal, while the vibe from Gibbs to DiNozzo was anything but. The guys came across as extremely married.
The thing that worked my nerves the most about the episode was the excruciating number of red herrings. They'd been promoting heavily the fact that one agent wouldn't survive, so I believe every single cast member had to have his or her Moment In Peril. It grew wearisome after a while, so that "tucking in for a nap" scene was that much more heartfelt, I guess.
Kate was seriously on her game for "Twilight." I've been watching the reruns every week, and some of the early episodes have her looking like a naive idiot in her relationships with the other agents, inversely to her competence as an agent. Or, the better she does as an agent, the dumber she has to look socially. It happened a lot to all the agents across this past season, I thought. I hope they find a better way to characterize next season. They seem to have given it up for "SWAK" and "Twilight," so perhaps there is hope.
I'm of two minds on how the slash will play out next season. One one hand, the boys (slash pairing is reader's choice) have much to pull them together in the wake of the tragedy. On the other, they may jointly and severally decide it doesn't pay to become family with co-workers and drift rigidly apart. I'm looking forward to finding out how it goes.
Not much to be all that vain about. It rambles, it does.
