Six Sleeps To Christmas!
It’s six sleeps to Christmas! And therefore, it is time to spread some holiday cheer, because I had a pretty great week and full excitement has just hit me this weekend. I have my pyjamas on, Christmas songs playing on YouTube, and it’s been snowing! I love Christmas time!
( Firstly, the non-NCIS-related stuff, because I’ll get all rambly on that later! )
( Firstly, the non-NCIS-related stuff, because I’ll get all rambly on that later! )
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I agree. In Chimera, after he realised McGee really didn't appreciate his jokes about missing Brain Matter and his sea sickness, he said sorry. It was added shortly after, but McGee was leaving the room, so I don't know if he heard him or even believed it was sincere, but Tony did look sincere. A "Whoops, I went too far" expression.
And after the "Steady Probie's stomach" moment, it's easy to miss because they're in front of the camera, which is concentrated on Gibbs and Ziva, so you only see their arms, and it's blurred, but even after joking about it, Tony kept a hand on McGee and check if he was really okay.
There's an improved relationship between him and Tony - he seems a lot more tolerant of Tony's occasionally biting humour - almost like he sees through the bullshit more. (Or like maybe ( ... )
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They could probably throw in a few more Kate references - I'd actually love to see them mention her now, nearly five years later, because it'd make a bit more sense. When they mentioned her directly after, it seemed like it was kind of a no-go area and that they actually hated talking about her. Which would make sense, I suppose, from Gibbs and Tony's uncommunicative POVs. I'm still capping S2, LOL, and their continuity is way better from a case view - they'll mention something that happened in the previous episode, which is so simple but kind of unusual, and doesn't happen much in the new seasons. Comfort fic is my lifeline!
My Tony-fangirl brain would completely agree with you, I'd love anyone to notice that Tony wasn't himself - but then I also think that Tony's method of hiding his inner pain is pretty effective - and I don't think any of them were really noticing anyone's pain in S6. They were ( ... )
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I've heard mixed reviews for Farscape and having read that it was made in Australia doesn't give me much confidence, I know exactly how bad our film and television industry can be, although we do have our moments of brilliance :-)
That's a good point about the Kate references, everytime she was mentioned you could see the grief and I did love how they did that. Apparently there was a reference to her in Truth and Consequences but I didn't notice it, even when I went back looking for it. I am so looking forward to all these caps you have, you certainly know how to drag out the anticipation ( ... )
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We do humour well, although it's very much an Australian sense of humour but I recommend steering away from most of our dramas or movies. (The one exception would be Blue Heelers). Ben Bowder whump is certainly tempting! I'll add it on to my list of things to watch :-)
I interpretated that reference to refer to Ziva and not Kate. Not surprising you got stuck on Chained which is full of hot Tony but don't forget about all the fantastic Tony episodes that come after it:
Was the end of s3 when DpB left or was it the end of 4? Because when he did the whole feel of the show changed. I have to saw that I think the only good thing to come out of s5 were all the Requiem fics. I can't say I really noticed them drawing together, in fact I noticed the opposite - Gibbs going off on his own in Requiem, Tony being mean to Jimmy in , Ziva's withdrawnness in Recoil and the start of McGee's jealousy issues in In The ZoneIt is hot again today although there is supposed to be cool change later on tonight. ( ... )
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Ben Browder makes a very good punching bag - they really find every single way to whump him they can, I'm not sure how much whump there is in comparison to Daniel, but there's about twenty times more whump for him than there is for Tony. That's a lot of pain. :-D
If I hadn't been sneaking around the TWOP forums, I don't think I'd have thought about Kate much at all. Eep, I know, there's so much meaty and pretty stuff to go! I think that might be a reason I'm being so slow, though, I love SWAK but it's right before Twilight and then that leads to S3 and it starts getting painful ( ... )
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Well Daniel is whumped on average every 3rd episode which isn't too bad ;-) I'm not really a fan of Cameron Mitchell whumo but that's because I usually wish it was Daniel getting it so if he was out of the picture I think I could very easily love Bowder whump. *g*
Season 3 is my favourite season so I don't quite see your hesitation. There's so much lovely Tony!whump in it, not to mention MW looking rather hot for the whole season.
I notice a difference after s4, not just in the story line but also in the quality of the editing and filming. I really wish MH hadn't created a fuss. I need to rewatch s5 (and s6) again and few it from the perspective of our discussion. Stakeout was the first ep after the writers strick. I want if that break ( ... )
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I think once you've got a favourite whumpee in a show, it's hard not to just want them whumped. I'm not particularly proud of it, but if anyone in NCIS suffered a major injury and it wasn't Tony, I'd probably get a little bit huffy. I was okay with Gibbs being the one in the explosion, but if they ever do the typical crime procedural ZOMG one of them is going to be badly hurt, it would make me extremely happy if it was Tony. And he recovered prettily, of course, but still. I'm pretty sure that if the showrunners do follow even the tiniest portion of fandom, the preference for Tony whump would be obvious!
You're right, there are so many episodes in S3 that I love, but it all leads up to Hiatus, which just upsets me. Well ( ... )
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I haven't heard of Outnumbered before but I'll definitely have to check it out ( ... )
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