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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-15 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:46:57 -0700
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On 4/16/24 9:41 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> 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.