If you're a die-hard fan of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, you may want to skip the last part of this fairly short review, labeled as my issues with this episode. Because while I was writing this, it turned out that I had a staggering amount of them, mostly centered around that mess of a storyline. And no, I didn't go too nicely about that.

( Reviewy and very random ramblings. Spoilers, obviously. )

Brace yourselves. Tough one to watch. Tough one to rewatch. Even tougher to process... and damn near impossible to write down, so I ended up using close to 6,000 words. This goddamn show. *sobs*

( Words. And... things. And feelings, and stuff. )

It's... hard doing this review after watching "Double Blind". It was tough before, because "Revenge" sort of ripped my heart out on a whole new level, but now... now there's suddenly so much Tony!pain in my head and overshadowing the rest, and it's really hard to get my thoughts together while all I want to do is curl up in a corner and whimper ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday, I did something I haven't done in more than three years of being in love with this show -- I stayed up and hunted around for a livestream and watched this episode while it actually aired instead of waiting another hour for the download.
Well, okay, technically I didn't stay up. I went to bed at 8 pm, set my alarm to 1.45 am, set up ( Read more... )

I'm late, yes. But I did manage to finish this before the new episode, so hey. ;) It's not quite a full-blown review. I'm concentrating on three major things and some additional thinky thoughts. Rest assured, the next one will most likely kill a lot of my brain cells and provoke something a lot more lengthy. ;)

( Reviewy ramblings. Spoilers, obviously. )

You do realize that Dex, the dog, is actually just a great big metaphor again, right...? ( random rambly things inside, plus a bunch of pics )

I'm a little late with my review -- apologies for that, work was mindnumbing and kinda brutal. I didn't want to skip this episode, though, because even though I had a few plot issues with it, I still think there was more to it than most people wanted to see. And even though it ended up at "only" 3,800 words... since these reviews originally started ( Read more... )

So... everyone still alive? No? Well, same here, so it's alright. And apparently America was dying as a collective, because we raked in 22.86 million viewers with that episode. Which makes it officially the most-watched NCIS episode ever. The reason I'm explicitly dropping this stunning number here is to deliver one final sneer into the haters' ( Read more... )

21.11 million viewers. That's how many people tuned in last Tuesday to watch an episode that promised a lot, based on the few spoilers we had, and even more based on what we didn't hear. 21.11 million is a shitload of viewers. It's an impressive number, especially for a show halfway through its tenth season, which most shows never reach and the ( Read more... )

I have read a lot of things about Tony over the past couple of weeks, and I have to say, some of them merely annoyed me, some of them made me roll my eyes, and some of them left me downright furious. I've seen people say that the show portrayed Tony as unnecessarily pathetic in this episode. That the sad-and-lonely image (even though Wendy-the-ex ( Read more... )