Yeah, I'm starting to realize that season was a total anomaly. It was also after that they kicked Bellasario out of the day-to-day running of the show. I don't know how much he had to do with the storylines and character development we saw in season 4. I loved the Tony/Jeanne arc, but hated the Jenny/Frog stuff with a passion and despised Jenny just in general.
Ack. I'll keep watching, though. I like all the characters and I love that at least Jimmy and McGee are getting better arcs as time goes on. The rest are sort of in suspended animation, and while that grates against the growth of the others, I think they're afraid to change them too much because most people who watch the show like Tony, Abby and Gibbs just the way they are.
I loved the Tony/Jeanne arc, but hated the Jenny/Frog stuff with a passion and despised Jenny just in general
Last night, USA showed "Blowback," the ep where Ducky had to pose as a arms developer trying to sell his product to the Frog after McGee and Ziva chased the actual guy until he died from a coronary. Jenny just went off on them and straight into eyes-turning-red mode. I don't know what it is about NCIS and their various attempts to give their characters a Big Bad to obsess over capturing (Jenny/the Frog, S1 Gibbs/Ari)--I think it just makes the good guys look crazy when they go off the cliff.
No, I don't watch SVU and CI. All the CSI shows make me want to strangle the characters, and I start rooting for the lead investigators to get shot. Whiny, self-important whatzits. I don't see any of them writing down "You could be wrong" or whatever Gibbs wrote down. I could be wrong as well, I don't watch them often enough.
I suppose you'll say the NCIS people are whiny and self-important, and I'll disagree with you, but I've learned that I don't mind disagreeing on this.
Epic, I know, right?? It totally bugged! I kept saying "they should know better, they film in LA!"
All the CSI shows make me want to strangle the characters
On the whole, they don't write them particularly likably, but they don't fit the tortured past stereotype you complain about either. That's why I cited SVU and CI--it's Olivia Benson and Goren to a tee. Most of the other procedurals I watch vary from not-character-intensive (the CSIs, which are also pretty crap) to ones with characters who might have tortured pasts, but hardly carry it around as much as say, Gibbs does. Though I'd love to see him crossed over with Hotch from CM. At least one of them is totally in the clear for avenging his wife's death. But he was a bitter SOB before that even happened.
Epic, I know, right?? It totally bugged! I kept saying "they should know better, they film in LA!"
Ummm, poetic (whatever) license?
Because they couldn't get Castle to do it.
Jeffrey Deaver...Seamus Dever...that was weird for a second.
Oh, yeah. I hadn't actually noticed that.
So I'm rewatching Freaks and Geeks, and OMG... Sam Weir is Sweets! The cast of F&G just astounds me!
