Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-15 (Monday) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:46:57 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 78 Message-ID: References: <1897848941.734976774.764905.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:46:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0239df61a7de7e1ec7ddc9d0952d312b"; logging-data="1230746"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187NbbqNcN34c2LYDM6CpLQ" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qkF/ErhIdQ4lRPKINvsDXKP/BiQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <1897848941.734976774.764905.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 4289 On 4/16/24 9:41 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Ian J. Ball wrote: > >> What did you watch? > > Hey, thanks for asking! > > NCIS 10,000 > > The adventures of the NCIS crews in the far future! > > No? At least that might’ve been interesting. > > A completely pedestrian, and mostly boring case involving revenge REVENGE > on all of NCIS, by the Relative of the big bad from their very first case. > (no, Ian, it wasn’t ice queen, and we didn’t get blackadder). Booo! (Who is the Ice Queen?...) > This was terribly written, and just swimming in big stupid. The evil > villain, who has been plotting revenge REVENGE for 20 years, just started > taking shooting lessons, three months ago, and is now a crack sniper, > taking out targets at 1000 yards. Speaking of crack snipers, with the > mystery villain making attacks against the homes of everyone that’s ever > been in NCIS or helped NCIS who did they not call to warn? Gibbs! > > These attacks take place in the form of fire bombs. You can see from miles > away, and yet somehow managed to do no damage whatsoever. > > Director Danielle Ruah from NCIS Los Angeles literally phones in her cameo > via MTAC. Despite their promise of lots of cameos and publicity releases of > Callan posing with the mothership team, most of them were just thrown in as > an afterthought via stock footage at the very end. There we finally see > Gibbs. So, this was just archival footage? (It really seems like Harmon has *retired* retired from acting. It doesn't seem like he'll show up in anything ever again. Kind of like Richard Dean Anderson.) > I’m not sure we saw Ducky. We got my favorite DiNozzo scene. Did they have Kate?! Did they have Jenny Shephard?!! Did they have Vivian Blackadder?!!! > And > even drop-ins from the very lesser series New Orleans and Perth. Hopefully with gratuitous Georgina Haig footage!! ;p > But the biggest stupid of the whole thing? There was absolutely no reason > whatsoever for the evil bad person to involve NCIS. They weren’t even the > target. And if they had left them alone, they would have gotten away with > their evil scheme. All of which had been safely set into motion before the > episode even began! The baddie could have gone home and watched the whole > thing unfold on television, and never even been suspected. But for some > reason, instead they took a shot at somebody who wasn’t involved with any > of their grievances at all. > > Best part was Fornell being the only person left who remembers their first > case. So Fornell was actually in the episode? > Special guest star, the rich techie guy from Bones. > > This was so massively underwhelming. I didn’t even bother to watch the > previously recorded special about the special. I just flipped over to some > BLUE BLOODS reruns. Which were the point in time when Nicki was at her most > annoying on her way out and Eddie was at her most annoying on her way in as > Nicki‘s annoying replacement. Oh, and they had the most annoying mayor ever > from Rizzoli‘s Isles. It was all very annoying. Even Lilith Sternan Crane.