Tonight's NCIS

[janedavitt]

Under the cut.



Loved the first part of this two-parter, and found some bits of this genuinely moving (Gibbs' reaction to those poor tortured children, Ziva's distress throughout) but there were parts when I had to look away I was so smacked in the face by the anvils.

Tony declaiming loudly in church as he talked to God? Embarrassing to watch.

The chaplain? I liked her on SGA okay, but here I wanted to smack her SO MUCH. Where did she get off strolling into the squad room and demanding updates? Who asked her to fix Tony's soul? Why couldn't she let the father have his moment of peace?

Sheesh.

And the end with Tony and the kids had me rolling my eyes. Whatever.

Gibbs carrying so much weight of grief for a female Marine he'd known a relatively short while and it resurfacing all over the place seemed awfully OOC somehow. Sorrow, yes, but to this extent when he had (thankfully) zero involvement in her death? What happened to Flores just didn't relate to the sad death of the Marine, apart from the fact that they were both women.

And on a small, petty point, how the hell did Flores get home after being tortured and captured with a perfect manicure? The camera focused on her hand closing into a fist at the end and her nails were long, beautifully shaped, not a broken one amongst them.

I got a kick out of Gibbs being so coolly menacing and the punch but I loathe the gooey sentiment dripping everywhere and the heavy religious angle.

Comments

[justhuman]

I didn't mind the chaplain as much, but yeah overall she was anvilicious.

Obviously they're setting Tony up for some personal insight and growth this season. The wonderful episode with Kate's sister that they referenced and here speaking to someone else who has a councilor's credentials.

I did not get the kid thing at all. I mean we know that Tony is terrible with kids - good with teenagers, but not small kids. No doubt a part of this is the fact that he had the weirdest "childhood" ever, so he doesn't know what kids are supposed to act like. That doesn't translate into "fear of kids" to me.

I'm much more concerned with the idea that they are trying to "fix" Tony -- I can't imagine that they would do it right.

[janedavitt]

I think if Tony's scared of kids (and we've seen him try to hard to impress them in the past, falling over his feet to seem cool) it's because he was bullied by them in the past (as we found out in the flagpole incident) or because he's scared of what they represent; a family, a commitment, settling down.

Either that, or he concocted a plausible half-truth to get the chaplain off his back. Tony can be tricky :-)