NCIS:LA Catching Up
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miss_lucy21So, I went back in the time machine to Christmas commercials and started to catch up with the LA crew. It was...okay. Sort of.
The Gold Standard was not so much. I actually missed Deeks, which tells you just how much he's grown on me because I used to not be able to stand him. And I could have cheerfully strangled Eric to just shut him up because damn, he was annoying. I did laugh my socks off at Kensi and Granger because she was just digging herself in and then digging some more. I actually can't tell you what the hell happened in this episode, because it's apparently disappeared from my brain in the about 2 hours since I finished watching it.
Free Ride was better. They can knock off the casual sexism at any time. And Sam can take himself a giant deep breath and use all of his brain when it comes to his wife. And possibly listen to his partner, who does not seem to think that Michelle is incapable of taking care of herself and also is probably keeping a eye on the situation anyway, which is how he knows the bad guy whose name I can't remember isn't anywhere in the US. I think they could have done the undercover on the aircraft carrier a little more cleverly, but I couldn't tell you how. The case was pretty good- it followed and I didn't figure it out immediately, which is always good. I like being stumped. And the end was adorable. Hetty finding Sam a way to be home for Christmas Day and him being so excited he scooped her right up (I've honestly been waiting for that to happen sometime or another. This was a good time for it). And yeah, I can let Eric and Nell have that moment. Particularly if it means they'll quit dancing around each other (for the record, I think they'd be a very cute couple and they seem to suit. But the way the show's been going about it has been seriously annoying).
Drive was all right- fun Kensi undercover scenes (and Deeks acting like OnStar amused me). And continuity always makes me happy. But it kind of took me awhile to figure out why exactly these car thieves would be after this mostly homeless woman. Unless I missed something. I thought they did a reasonable job with the portrayal of Jenny and Talia. A lot of shows (ahem, Law and Order) would have very much played into a number of stereotypes about poor people and the homeless and for the most part, they didn't. Oh, and the New Year's Resolutions were cute. Kensi and G are cute together anyway (in a completely unromantic way. I think they'd recoil at the idea as themselves). But Sam should have really told G that the pop had caffeine in it when he got it. Not all orange pop does, though, so it was reasonable for G to think he was in the clear. Although his logic was very G. "Oranges don't have caffeine." "Yeah, G, there were no oranges in what you were drinking." "Oh." Oh! And I liked how Deeks is also a January baby. We tend to be a little sensitive about our birthdays, what with them coming right at the beginning of the year after the holidays, so it makes total sense that Deeks would have an early January birthday, because he's just like that.
I'm currently in the middle of the next episode (Paper Soldiers?). From what I have seen, though, I like. Nate! Team ducking psych evals! Deeks diagnosing Kensi's bad mood and trying to get everyone else to be sensitive to it (badly, but hey, he tries)! I'll watch it from the beginning when I get back to it (I got interrupted by dinner and then I gave up the controller) but it was looking good from what I saw.
The Gold Standard was not so much. I actually missed Deeks, which tells you just how much he's grown on me because I used to not be able to stand him. And I could have cheerfully strangled Eric to just shut him up because damn, he was annoying. I did laugh my socks off at Kensi and Granger because she was just digging herself in and then digging some more. I actually can't tell you what the hell happened in this episode, because it's apparently disappeared from my brain in the about 2 hours since I finished watching it.
Free Ride was better. They can knock off the casual sexism at any time. And Sam can take himself a giant deep breath and use all of his brain when it comes to his wife. And possibly listen to his partner, who does not seem to think that Michelle is incapable of taking care of herself and also is probably keeping a eye on the situation anyway, which is how he knows the bad guy whose name I can't remember isn't anywhere in the US. I think they could have done the undercover on the aircraft carrier a little more cleverly, but I couldn't tell you how. The case was pretty good- it followed and I didn't figure it out immediately, which is always good. I like being stumped. And the end was adorable. Hetty finding Sam a way to be home for Christmas Day and him being so excited he scooped her right up (I've honestly been waiting for that to happen sometime or another. This was a good time for it). And yeah, I can let Eric and Nell have that moment. Particularly if it means they'll quit dancing around each other (for the record, I think they'd be a very cute couple and they seem to suit. But the way the show's been going about it has been seriously annoying).
Drive was all right- fun Kensi undercover scenes (and Deeks acting like OnStar amused me). And continuity always makes me happy. But it kind of took me awhile to figure out why exactly these car thieves would be after this mostly homeless woman. Unless I missed something. I thought they did a reasonable job with the portrayal of Jenny and Talia. A lot of shows (ahem, Law and Order) would have very much played into a number of stereotypes about poor people and the homeless and for the most part, they didn't. Oh, and the New Year's Resolutions were cute. Kensi and G are cute together anyway (in a completely unromantic way. I think they'd recoil at the idea as themselves). But Sam should have really told G that the pop had caffeine in it when he got it. Not all orange pop does, though, so it was reasonable for G to think he was in the clear. Although his logic was very G. "Oranges don't have caffeine." "Yeah, G, there were no oranges in what you were drinking." "Oh." Oh! And I liked how Deeks is also a January baby. We tend to be a little sensitive about our birthdays, what with them coming right at the beginning of the year after the holidays, so it makes total sense that Deeks would have an early January birthday, because he's just like that.
I'm currently in the middle of the next episode (Paper Soldiers?). From what I have seen, though, I like. Nate! Team ducking psych evals! Deeks diagnosing Kensi's bad mood and trying to get everyone else to be sensitive to it (badly, but hey, he tries)! I'll watch it from the beginning when I get back to it (I got interrupted by dinner and then I gave up the controller) but it was looking good from what I saw.
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