Twilight (2x21)
It has a nice mystery beginning. I did not recognize the shooter, so did not expect this to be an Ari episode. I very much like the music that they use for the Air scenes.
This is such a good episode because the finale comes as such a shock. It is truly stunning, in the literal sense. Keeping the focus on Gibbs during most of the episode is part of why it works.
I mute a lot of the beginning, until the bomb under the car, when it becomes obvious this about more than two dead sailors. One of the parts I don't like is Kate and McGee working so hard to make themselves dislike Tony. Are they trying to prove everything's back to normal? I especially don't like the scene when Tony's lying down in the bullpen. What he says initially (she's too smart for that) is a nice thing to say, but that's not what McGee wants. McGee wants Tony to be a jerk, so he pushes and pushes. This is probably the closest I've come to disliking McGee.
I do notice that all teasing goes out the window when Tony sees the bomb under the car. Both his coworkers believe him immediately and do as he tells them. Kate, at least, is genuinely frightened for him when he hasn't appeared at the top of the hill before the bomb explodes.
It is cute when he goes to lie down in Abby's lab and she lies down next to him. First introduction of Bert the farting hippo. She's now well established as very emotional.
Gibbs' is positively fatherly. All the orders he's given to Tony during the first half of the show have involved resting or eating. It's cute the way he orders everyone home and instead they stay and sleep in the office. Kate has the nightmare about Gibbs with his throat slit. Tony sleeps in the same position he has in every episode so far, with his feet on either his desk or credenza, and his head on either the credenza or his desk (depending on which way he's facing). McGee manages to sleep sitting up. Kate looks the most comfortable.
Kate shines at what she's had the most training for, protection, while still being a competent investigator as they solve the mystery they've been presented with. All of which makes her death even more shocking.
This is another episode where Tony's and Gibbs' additional years of experience show: they both understand at once why the dock is being targeted. I wonder, however, whether they'd yet to decide that Tim's father was an admiral, since he doesn't get it the same way.
One unbelievable thing: Ari giving the little girl the teddy bear and she takes it without finding her parents and asking permission. Second unbelievable thing: her father picks her up while she's holding a strange teddy bear and doesn't ask her about it. I don't knock the bear itself; it was a good idea. It's giving it to a specific little girl that's bad. If they'd placed it somewhere, maybe even on the ground, no one would've looked at it twice; they'd've assumed some kid dropped it.
This is such a good episode because the finale comes as such a shock. It is truly stunning, in the literal sense. Keeping the focus on Gibbs during most of the episode is part of why it works.
I mute a lot of the beginning, until the bomb under the car, when it becomes obvious this about more than two dead sailors. One of the parts I don't like is Kate and McGee working so hard to make themselves dislike Tony. Are they trying to prove everything's back to normal? I especially don't like the scene when Tony's lying down in the bullpen. What he says initially (she's too smart for that) is a nice thing to say, but that's not what McGee wants. McGee wants Tony to be a jerk, so he pushes and pushes. This is probably the closest I've come to disliking McGee.
I do notice that all teasing goes out the window when Tony sees the bomb under the car. Both his coworkers believe him immediately and do as he tells them. Kate, at least, is genuinely frightened for him when he hasn't appeared at the top of the hill before the bomb explodes.
It is cute when he goes to lie down in Abby's lab and she lies down next to him. First introduction of Bert the farting hippo. She's now well established as very emotional.
Gibbs' is positively fatherly. All the orders he's given to Tony during the first half of the show have involved resting or eating. It's cute the way he orders everyone home and instead they stay and sleep in the office. Kate has the nightmare about Gibbs with his throat slit. Tony sleeps in the same position he has in every episode so far, with his feet on either his desk or credenza, and his head on either the credenza or his desk (depending on which way he's facing). McGee manages to sleep sitting up. Kate looks the most comfortable.
Kate shines at what she's had the most training for, protection, while still being a competent investigator as they solve the mystery they've been presented with. All of which makes her death even more shocking.
This is another episode where Tony's and Gibbs' additional years of experience show: they both understand at once why the dock is being targeted. I wonder, however, whether they'd yet to decide that Tim's father was an admiral, since he doesn't get it the same way.
One unbelievable thing: Ari giving the little girl the teddy bear and she takes it without finding her parents and asking permission. Second unbelievable thing: her father picks her up while she's holding a strange teddy bear and doesn't ask her about it. I don't knock the bear itself; it was a good idea. It's giving it to a specific little girl that's bad. If they'd placed it somewhere, maybe even on the ground, no one would've looked at it twice; they'd've assumed some kid dropped it.