Iced (03x19)
If you pause in just the right place during the pre-credits snippet, you can see handprints from where the set dressers patted the snow into place for the kid to brush aside. Oopsie. Another oopsie is when Ducky pulls the second body tray out. He pulls it too far, so that when the camera pans around so you get Gibbs and Ducky in the same frame, you can see that the body has no genitals.
More ill-natured teasing, this time of McGee. Even Ducky participates, although his contributions don't seem ill-natured.
You know, looking at the number of times I say I don't like this or that about this show, it's a wonder I watched enough of it to decide I liked it overall. If I'd been watching as it played out (when I couldn't skip the irritating bits), I probably wouldn't have made it through the second episode. The same can be said of Stargate SG1, so maybe it's more a statement about my patience with network TV than any particular show.
I like Gibbs' response to the director's comment "you would've done it" "I was only a Gunny."
Tony did deserve an attaboy for finding the guns. He shouldn't've tried to dump his translating duties on Ziva, though. I think Tony's fluency with Spanish must be in the original character bible, before the writers started taking liberties, since it's carried all the way through from the JAG episodes.
McGee trying to be macho is amazingly funny, even though neither Gibbs nor Ziva change expression. Then he turns around and is worried about not having a warrant, even though Gibbs has called them terrorists. He was good, although still funny, in the interrogation scene.
Of the three interrogations, I think Tony's was the most effective. Ziva and McGee threatened him; Tony ignored him and then gave him some of his patented patter. It made Cesare angry in a way the threats did not. This is definitely the type of character who is going give away more when he's angry than when he feels threatened.
These little meals with the director are a good plot device to sum up what we've learned, and (unlike some other plot devices) they didn't over use it.
Overall, I like this. The mystery is okay, there's only a limited amount of hash, and the whole team does things that make a difference.
More ill-natured teasing, this time of McGee. Even Ducky participates, although his contributions don't seem ill-natured.
You know, looking at the number of times I say I don't like this or that about this show, it's a wonder I watched enough of it to decide I liked it overall. If I'd been watching as it played out (when I couldn't skip the irritating bits), I probably wouldn't have made it through the second episode. The same can be said of Stargate SG1, so maybe it's more a statement about my patience with network TV than any particular show.
I like Gibbs' response to the director's comment "you would've done it" "I was only a Gunny."
Tony did deserve an attaboy for finding the guns. He shouldn't've tried to dump his translating duties on Ziva, though. I think Tony's fluency with Spanish must be in the original character bible, before the writers started taking liberties, since it's carried all the way through from the JAG episodes.
McGee trying to be macho is amazingly funny, even though neither Gibbs nor Ziva change expression. Then he turns around and is worried about not having a warrant, even though Gibbs has called them terrorists. He was good, although still funny, in the interrogation scene.
Of the three interrogations, I think Tony's was the most effective. Ziva and McGee threatened him; Tony ignored him and then gave him some of his patented patter. It made Cesare angry in a way the threats did not. This is definitely the type of character who is going give away more when he's angry than when he feels threatened.
These little meals with the director are a good plot device to sum up what we've learned, and (unlike some other plot devices) they didn't over use it.
Overall, I like this. The mystery is okay, there's only a limited amount of hash, and the whole team does things that make a difference.