NCIS season finale

[donutsweeper]

I could say I cared, but I'd be lying.

So... Jenny's dead.  Vance is the new director.  Franks stole random dead agent's "insurance policy."  Ziva's fired (well the liaison position is terminate) McGee's reassigned to cyber-crimes, Tony's sent to the USS Ronald Reagan and Gibbs gets a new team.   Oooh.  Don't care.  Sigh

Comments

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Which one is Ducky?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Ducky (the ME) and Abby (the Goth lab genius) weren't in the last scene so presumedly they still have their jobs at NCIS HQ

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

oh! which one is Ziva then? Did you read the ficlet where Jack ends up in Ducky's morgue?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Ziva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziva_David) is the Israeli, she replaced Kate when Kate was killed off the end of S2.

Do you mean the ficlet, The Autopsy Table (http://donutsweeper.livejournal.com/61187.html)? :) I wrote that one

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Really, it was a very slow and boring episode. It crawled slug-like across the screen until the end. Jenny's dead, so? Vance is annoying, but they always are when they first take the Director's position.

I admit, I am curious to find out how they're going to get the team back together, but after such a slow episode, I do find it hard to care.

At least it didn't depress the hell out of me like yesterdays episodes of Bones and House. They annoyed me too. Didn't like them at all.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

how yeah- House especially was depressing as hell.

Oddly, I'd have liked this episode a lot more if there wasn't that final scene in Vance's office. So he's mysterious and shreds something in his own file. oooh. Then scatters the team to the wind. Big whoop. I doubt anyone out there in fandomland believes the team will NOT be back together after a few episodes.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I had a feeling you wrote it.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Jack fits nicely in NCIS. Then again, he fits most places nicely!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

So Tony's still alive. And he'll be back. He'll be back, right? He has to be! *clings to Tony*

... At least this means I can continue watching the show.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Yep. Still alive.

The first hour of the show was fine, if a bit boring and predictable. But the second hour was just lame, boring and annoying (I don't care about Franks or Vance) but i guess Tim, Tony and Ziva showed Vance (the new director) that they answered to Gibbs, not him.

the last scene was just annoying- because we all know the team will be back together within a few weeks... November sweeps on the outside, so what is the point of the random, fake tension of splitting them up?

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I can live with anything as long as Tony's still alive and around. And he'll be back. Right? Right.

So it's all good in my world. Yay!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I assume he'll be back. I assume they all will.

It's just that it's a lame, tired plot device- sending them all away. It's suppose to create tension and the "ooh- who will Gibbs' new team be and what will happen to the others?" and I just can't care. If they'd only sent away one person I'd wonder if they'd be returning, but all three?

I'm just disappointed. I wanted to be on the edge of my seat awaiting next season and I'm not.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Me? I'm just relieved Tony is all right. I don't particularly care about the rest-- but then, it's an entirely different situation for me. I don't ever get to see anything in time, so having to wait for the next season isn't exactly different from waiting for the next episode.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh, I'm thrilled they didn't kill him off. But I never liked Jenny and this whole finale felt contrived.

Basically, I'm just let down by the whole thing, does that make sense?

[chatona.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense! I guess I just didn't have any expectations so I'm not disappointed at all :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

see, when it comes to TV I'm not the best fan, I'll admit that. It's rare for me to keep watching a show week in and week out, year after year. These sort of forced tension plot devices just annoy me

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I get that! Any kind of forced tension is stupid. At least when it comes across as forced.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

and this was sadly, poorly forced.

If it even ended with the four agents entering Vance's office and him saying "I've made a decision about your team" or something than it would have been better... but this is just lame

*sigh* Tim's in the same building and Tony's easy to re-involve in a case (they've assisted on cases aboard ships before) I have no idea how they'll get Ziva back, but I really don't care about her character all that much either

[chatona.livejournal.com]

That's sad :(

Tim in the same building means he'll be around anyway. Abby's not going to let him work there and not see her and if he's hanging out with Abby, he'll be updated on the current cases - and I bet Gibbs will want his computer skills and then, bam, he's back.

I don't dislike Ziva, but I don't care too much about her. As long as Tony and Gibbs are there, I'm happy.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yeah, it'll be easy to get Tim back too.

I'm not unhappy with the finale, just unaffected by it. Does that make sense?

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Yup, that makes sense - though I'm kind of getting the impression you're unhappy with being unaffected by it :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

season finales should mean something. Especially ones where the "Team is in jeopardy, will they ever work together again?" This episode? *shrug* I can't even think of a good episode tag for it. It limped along and ended on a sour note. I'll watch the S6 opener when it airs, but in no way am I counting down the minutes or dying for spoilers about it or wondering how it's all going to work out.

I'd rather I was.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense *nods*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I made sense. what a shocker

[chatona.livejournal.com]

you'll survive the shock, right?