Season Premieres

[badkarma_one]

So, who's waiting with bated breath for the new season to start?

I can't wait for the Season 7 premiere of NCIS, and the first ep of NCIS:Los Angeles right after. I'm glad the Yankees are on a West Coast trip - the game won't start until 10, so the eps will be safely out of the way by the time it starts.

Comments

[rigil_kent]

I really wish I was. Season 6 of NCIS so thoroughly disgusted me on pretty much every level that I'm not actually planning on even watching the premiere live. I'll DVR it and get around to watching it ... sometime. Frankly, I'm kind of hoping there's a decent college football game.

And NCIS: LA ... well, the two introduction episodes kind of bored me to tears (or alternately pissed me off in regards to the portrayal of Ziva), so I doubt I'm going to even bother.

:(

[badkarma_one]

I know other people who feel the same way. I think, though, that there are many things we haven't been told about this past season, and I'm willing to go along for the ride to see how they're resolved.

So, Rigil, what didn't you like about Season 6?

[rigil_kent]

A more apt question would be what did I like. Out of 25 episodes, I liked three.

I made a post back in April (http://rigil-kent.livejournal.com/36163.html) that covers most of my initial issues, but when those final four episodes came out ... my opinion of the current showrunner took a sharp and precipitous nose dive.

Principally, my issues are with the characterizations. I hate the direction they've taken. In s6, Gibbs didn't seem to give a damn; DiNozzo was either the hyper-competent agent he should be ("Agent Afloat," that so-called Tiva arc at the end) or an utter moron incapable of tying his own damned shoes ("Knockout" springs to mind); McGee has turned into a smug, sanctimonious jackass who is flat out mean when it comes to his interactions with Tony; and Ziva ... God, I don't even know where to start with her. For all of their insisting that she's a super spy, I haven't seen a hint of it, especially since she was apparently too freaking stupid to realize that

[badkarma_one]

All good points, and well made.

So -- which eps did you like?

[rigil_kent]

"Agent Afloat," "Cloak" (the follow-up, "Dagger" kind of stunk, though) and "Bounce." The latter two are both riddled with some major plot holes that don't entirely make sense if you think about them, but I still enjoyed them for some reason. I liked elements of other episodes - watching DiNozzo play Eli David in "Aliyah," for example, or Ziva with the two pistols in "Dead Reckoning" - but those three are the only eps I REALLY liked.