Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-15 (Monday)

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.