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[miss_porcupine]

* trekreversebang sorting has commenced. I know who I've got because I recognized the style, although that was not my driving motivation and it was actually a near thing because I reversed my claims order at the last moment. There was some truly stunning art that I could never have come up with a quality story for, so I made my choices on what I thought I could

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[live_brave]

But all will be for naught if they don't make Rena Sofer go away. Far, far away.

Hear hear!

[miss_porcupine]

I'm trying to decide whether she or the late, unlamented Jenny Shepard annoy me more.

[sarspasm]

Yes! with the NCIS/NCIS:LA. I actually enjoyed the Tony's-dad episode quite a bit, but really have no clue as to what they've been doing with Tony otherwise. And I really miss the old Abby, the one that wasn't such an emotional vampire. She used to be a spunky, resilient gal, and now she's an overly-emotional child holding everyone else hostage with her constant need of reassurance.

I adore Gena Rowlands, but have serious, serious qualms about how the episode played out. I'm not expecting some kind of moral lesson or ethical perfection from them, but they've been questionable for me for a while. I think it went downhill with Ziva, and the seemingly casual acceptance of torture. (I want to like her, I really do. But...) And tehn there's the okay-ing of extrajudicial revenge.

Rena Sofer need to leave, and never ever visit the set. The character and her relationship with Gibbs are just wrong, wrong, wrong.

And I think I've babbled enough in your journal. :)

[miss_porcupine]

As I mentioned above, Gibbs let Franks get away with murder and let Jenny Shepard and Director Vance get away with a whole lot. (As Franks and then Macy let him commit and then get away with murder.) His personal code and the UMCJ are not always perfectly in sync

[sarspasm]

Yup. I'm trying to just enjoy the fluffy snark, but am getting increasingly PO'd about it.

Or that could just be the consequence of watching my boys getting pasted by the Bolts tonight. :-/

[miss_porcupine]

You, fan of the best team in the league, are not seriously coming to me, fan of a team five points out of a playoff spot, to whine about losing to Tampa, are you? That's a shooting offense in some parts... ;)

[infinimato]

Oh YES!

Everyone else I've bitched at about NCIS & the spin-off told me I was (more) nuts, that this season has been just as good as the past years, etc. etc. etc. I can forgive a bad episode here and there, or maybe one not to my taste, but there have been too many crap episodes this season. That said, the last episode with Abby & the puppy made me melt into pieces :-)

I think the only reason I watch NCIS:LA is that I've enjoyed LL Cool J's deadpan snark for ages. The Hetty character, which I really want to like, is a little too deus ex machina, the plots often follow the same formula, and removing one of your "main" characters halfway into your FIRST season could be read as a sign you don't think things are working.

And, Pesach? Oh, yeah this is an "early" year. Yeep!

[miss_porcupine]

I totally adore Hettie. She's a tiny Wizard of Oz, no more or less unrealistic than any of the other wacky things that go on in that universe. Perfect mimicry, amazing and impenetrable covers, awesome computer and other mad skillz... why can't Hettie have some of that, too?

Besides, she looked adorable on that Segway. ;)

[songspinner9]

Yeah, I noticed that the writing for Tony is getting bad - little moments of good character stuff and then lots of writers apparently forgetting the last few years. Sigh...

As I stood at Whole Foods looking at their Passover display shelves, I hear "if you come to the meat department, we are pleased to put out for sampling our first corned beef for St. Patrick's Day".
*giggle*

[miss_porcupine]

This is the time of year when we get the "great for Passover!" signs next to the pork chops, I think...

I actually did check out the Pesach section at the supermarket last week. The locusts hadn't been through yet, so there was actually a fair selection. I anticipate getting myself another package of "gefilte fish" (i.e., k-l-p Swedish fish)....

[shutthef_up]

I chose NCIS season 6 as my recover-from-surgery DVD and it really pulled me in. This season, Tony's yo-yo-ing from annoying frat boy to competent senior agent is making me seasick. Yet, I've rewatched the recent Ziva ep over and over and it gets me every time. It wasn't *quite* what I needed to resolve her issues with capture and torture, but it was something.

I was pretty meh on the mother-in-law ep. Gena Rowlands is interesting but I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. And she's just a leeettle creepy what with her stalking of Gibbs but I'm willing to wait for it.

Hettie is just marvelous on NCIS:LA! She totally reminds me of my ex-boyfriend's mother, whom I adore. I have a bit of trouble with the whole boathouse thing, but it makes for an interesting backdrop I guess.

[miss_porcupine]

NCIS has always had problems with continuity and legality and other misadventures. But the characters have always carried it through. Except now, the characters are just so miserable...