Not if I agreed with them. I'm a jerk like that.
Fair enough.
I wonder what Matt Roush thought of it. His tastes overlap mine more often than Mike's do. (And damnit, if DH still worked there full-time, I'd have seen 2 eps already, and could have an opinion of my own.)
[But I do have to respond to:
I think Ausiello is a little high on himself, which is a big part of his shtick
That shtick is what gets you a column with your name at the top of it in the entertainment writing world -- nobody gets paid to be humble. It's really not a reliable measure of someone's personality.]
So NCIS isn't an internetty abbreviation, but is the actual name of the show? And it's been on for two seasons? I am so out of it.
It's on at the same time as Gilmore Girls.
That shtick is what gets you a column with your name at the top of it in the entertainment writing world -- nobody gets paid to be humble. It's really not a reliable measure of someone's personality.
That's true. I meant that his writing persona is high on himself. IRL he's probably a completely different person.
So NCIS isn't an internetty abbreviation, but is the actual name of the show?
It used to be Navy: NCIS. Now it's just NCIS, which stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which makes it a governmenty/military abbreviation.
So NCIS isn't an internetty abbreviation, but is the actual name of the show? And it's been on for two seasons? I am so out of it.
I am Jon on both of these points. When people started talking about the NCIS finale recently, I drove myself batty trying to figure out what it was an abbreviation for. Nation's Coldest Igloo Sites? Neighbors Caught In Sewer?
New Cat is Shedding.
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It used to be Navy: NCIS. Now it's just NCIS,
they finally bowed to the pressure that it was stupidly repetitive.
I'm so dense -- I almost typed "But we're not in Natter."
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