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[kelliem]

Well, that was disappointing. I'd heard it was supposed to be a "Ducky-centric" episode and instead it was mostly a "Jenny-looking-pissed-and-weepy" episode for the most part.

And whose brilliant idea was it to have a supposedly Israeli arms dealer use the alias of "Goliath"? Considering the fact that Goliath was a Biblical enemy of the Israelites? Yeah, I know, he was a traitor, but that's sort of like a Russian mole during the cold war calling himself "Boris Badunov."

I was, however, vastly amused by one thing: when La Grenouille brought out the L'Esprit de Courvoisier and commented that Napoleon was the first to have drunk it, and Ducky kind of did a double-take. ;D

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[matociquala.livejournal.com]

It's a terrible show.

But I watch it anyway. *g*

And yes, that was cute. Also, David seems to have a lot of his sparkle back. He was looking a bit tired there for a while, but he was positively sprightly this episode. "Rigorous for most; rigor mortis for him!"

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

It's a terrible show. But I watch it anyway. *g*

::sigh:: Yes, I'm in the same boat. I will say this season has been better than last, though as bluster is fond of saying, you can't fall out of a basement.

And yes! David did look wonderful in this ep. It was good to see him looking so well.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*davidloff*

I like the actors. I just try to ignore the jingoism and the stupid stupid stupid plots.

Also, the fact that Jethro is an IDIOT, and the narrative supports him. (Because, yanno, assassinating somebody on Canadian soil and thereby blowing a CIA operation would have been such a great idea?)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

The jingoism is what bothers me the most. It's thinking like that which leads to things like Abu Ghurayb. :-P

Jethro gets far too personal about the cases, imho, which is why he comes across as an idiot. He lets his emotions rule him.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Yes. The bit where he's lambasting Jenny for not doing something personally satisfying and stupid is just aggravating as hell.

Here, this cheered me up:

http://etcet.livejournal.com/479095.html

[bluster.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one who was disappointed. Sheesh! Jenny just annoys me. I don't really expect much from this show, but I hate to be teased into thinking we're going to get lots of Ducky and end up with only a little more than normal. I guess I should blame that on the CBS publicity department.

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

I had started to think I was being too hard on the show when I bailed on it, but yeah, this was not good. I'd still watch again for DMc, because he's lovely, but I won't have my hopes up.

And BTW, the issue wasn't that they broke the rules to chase the guy to death (although I have to say that didn't work out all that well for them). The issue was that Ziva was stupid enough to get in a physical fight with two strangers on the sidewalk while she was supposed to be surreptitiously following someone. From only a few yards behind. Without even wearing a hat or sunglasses. Shortly after she had a suspicious face to face conversation with him. This was when my patience ran out, and Ducky wasn't even *there* yet. :)