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Post by Hari Seldon on Oct 16, 2024 1:06:12 GMT
1. - I’m not sure why they needed the lawyer to collide with the REACT agent to break her arm.
2. - Nice to see Seamus Dever on screen again. I liked him in Castle and it’s fun seeing him in a (seemingly) shady role. And he joins the two-timers club. He was in 4x03 Singled Out where he also played a bad guy.
3. - She also plays the ditzy damsel pretty well. Just like she did her first episode as a regular (19x01)
4. - The bad guy took Torres turning down killing the NCIS agent way better than I get the feeling that any drug cartel would.
5. - I appreciate that El Padre was literal and figurative for the name of the head of the cartel.
6. - It’s just like McGee to keep digging and find out that the IG LaRoche also had access to the information. 1. They went a little overboard with making her drop the cartel rubber band. The guy just REACTed.
2. Ironically he played virtually the same character for his little cameo on The Rookie. If we see this guy's wife, I hope his real wife plays her again just like she did on Castle. 3. I should have thought of that, but instead it reminded me of Danielle Ruah in the backdoor pilot for NCIS:LA breaking the headlight to plant the camera in the body shop. 4. Nope. Without plot armor he's dead in 2 seconds. 5. Feels more like something Leverage would do, though Dean Devlin did something similar in his other Christian Kane series, Almost Paradise. 6. Nice touch that LaRoche sounds like 'the roach' but is also a somewhat common name in Ireland, though not as common as Seamus.
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Post by brgjoe on Oct 16, 2024 8:08:19 GMT
What the heck did I just watch? I'm still a bit confused by it. (ok, I get confused rather easily)
Was the entire REACT team trying to break into the room thing a gigantic setup? I'm guessing it was, since about every other line was "Trust me!" and I don't remember Knight saying to Parker "Trust me!" on what she was trying to accomplish. And then in the end of the episode, he asks her if she had been fired or not. Nope! She was actually promoted! So again, I am guessing this was some sort of setup to try and get the lawyer and/or Padre (El Padre dressed as a padre...lol) to confess. Reminded me a bit when DiNozzo and Ziva were doing that fake Guantanamo Bay sell trying to get the hacker to give up his hacker info.
So it appeared we had two moles? Or a mole within a mole sort of episode? And was LaRoche (or whatever that guy's name was) Inspector General at the DOJ? Taking a Deputy Director's job with NCIS sounds a bit like taking a step or two downward on the ladder. Though maybe the pay is better(?) Who knows? And why would McGee have to go to Capitol Hill for hearings? I thought it was just an appointed position that the Secretary of the Navy fills. At any rate, obvious bad guy was obvious. First frame of the episode I thought he was dirty. Maybe this is also a gigantic setup. Like Vance and his superiors think this guy is compromised. So they appoint him within NCIS to keep a closer eye on him. Sorta like the Agent Lee scenario from the past. Keep watching him until he incriminates himself. That's my guess. Otherwise, little of this makes any sense to me.
And this might be a little thing. I don't know anything about the REACT team (if it exists at all in the real-type world). But do they have to have some kind of security clearance to be on that team? You'd think a spouse of a guy who was heavily involved in a criminal carter might have some difficulty getting a very high security clearance. Though maybe that's just me.
And yeah, Torres taking on multiple armed thugs once again....lol. You could see that coming. My only surprise is our heroes came to the rescue just in time. I figured he'd clobber all of them and when they showed up, he'd just smile and say, "See I could handle myself...Trust me!" In the real world he would have been off'ed the second he was made.
So I think it was a bit too convoluted for me to take seriously. Nice to see the team back together and all -- about the only redeeming feature of this. So I gave it a D+.
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Post by verdun on Oct 16, 2024 13:16:02 GMT
To begin, my Grandson is very happy that Katrina Law, who is his first ever "Hollywood Crush," is returning. So from his point of view, all is right with the world. Now we adults found this episode better than we expected. This is the second episode in a row where Parker and Knight work closely together. They do a good job with their interactions (in many ways better than Knight/Palmer) and I hope to see more of them doing so. We figured out that the Torrez and Knight cases were intertwined pretty quickly (these kinds of things almost always are on NCIS) and also picked out the villain quickly. And we did enjoy that "El Padre" was meant to be taken literally. I have no idea about the afterlife, but if the Christian version is anywhere nearly correct, I'd love to be standing to the side when he shows up to meet his maker.  Now we get to deal with the return of Knight and Palmer's reaction. Oh, joy. |
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Post by nas on Oct 16, 2024 19:17:08 GMT
that was an excellent review/critique, brgjoe!
thank you! I couldn’t have said it better myself…
when have the NCIS writers ever stuck to the real facts - like Mcgee’s multiple interviews for the job he applied for?
no need to answer that - - they don’t! that’s what drives a Realist like me absolutely  ….
the scenes in many of the shows I’ve watched where the agent has been made, and the bad guy has a gun pointed at their head - but takes 5 minutes to “lecture” them - always annoys me…
pull the trigger, already!
gotta give time for the cavalry to arrive to save the day, eh?
convoluted was exactly the word I was thinking to describe the episode as I watched it…
as usual, I think you were more than generous with your grade…
nas
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