NCIS: LA 3.16- Blye, K

[miss_lucy21]

- Is it just me, or does LA do a better job with female characters than NCIS does? It just feels that way to me this episode.

- I'm not sure if I was ever supposed to actually believe that Kensi might not be innocent, but I never did think she did any of it. I think she could be capable of it, but why would she kill the people who had the answers she wanted? Because she could have gotten those answers from the first guy killed (if she was in fact killing people), which would probably obviate the point of killing anyone else.

- Deeks cares a whole hell of a lot about this team. I think that may be easily overlooked in his eager puppy routine. He's growing on me more than he had been prior to this point.

- Thank you, Sam, for confirming my theory that G is definitely not the only paranoid one in your partnership. You just hide it better.

- This episode did a great job of drawing the parallels that Kensi and G are an awful lot alike. Except, Kensi's questions are more readily answered, even if they are difficult answers. However, I think (and G basically confirmed) that G's known for a very long time that whatever answers he's able to find may not be answers he wants to hear, but he still needs to hear them, whereas Kensi was much less prepared to hear what she did. One definite difference between the two is that G is far less naïve than Kensi, although that could be a function of just being older as much as anything.

- Oh, Granger. You know, you come off as an intelligent guy. But you are handling these people *all* wrong, and I am even more convinced now that it has got to be on purpose. Because you're taking out Donald Blye's team and you want to throw them into chaos so they don't figure it out? That's my suspicion, anyway, at this juncture, and I think it's clearly a futile objective, if that is the case.

- And on a really shallow note, Chris O'Donnell does *not* look good in that shade of green. Way too yellow/warm, although green is a nice change from blue (except the man looks delicious in blue, so, y'know, not complaining). Although it does lend credence to the fact that G could probably not give a damn about his every day wardrobe.

Comments

[hagar_972]

That this show is a lot better about their women had been obvious since somewhere early in S1, and then cemented when they gave us Nell.

There were previous references to Sam being paranoid. The episode with - back in S1 (Nate was still around), with Kensi's harmonica. Sam confessed to having some seriously heavy-duty safe installed at home. And then there was the time that Kensi made them survival kits.

I liked the way they played the Kensi-G similarities. This, too, has edges going back a long time (the last Hunter episode comes to mind, but there were earlier instances), but they never called it out quite this explicitly. It's a nice layer in the characterization of this team.

I don't think Granger did it, y'know? It's too obvious. There's also that destablizing them is totally the wrong way to go if he wanted to draw them away from himself, and even a cursory scan through their record as a team would've told him that.

And as an aside, Kensi makes a remarkably unconvincing serial killer. Which is all sorts of funny, because she really should be a prime candidate.

[miss_lucy21]

Yeah, you know, I knew about the Kensi-G parallels, in the back of my head, but it wasn't until the beginning of this episode where it moved from the back of my head to the front of my head, if that makes sense. It was around about the point where Granger starts interrogating her and she was sassing him right back, actually. I thought "someone's been hanging out with G too long...no, wait, that's *all* Kensi. Huh." In hindsight, it's like, oh, *duh*! Which is a mark of good character development, in my mind, because they could have bashed us over the head with it long ago.

I think it is too obvious that Granger's doing it, which is partly why I think he's involved. But perhaps not the killer.