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Post by ML Fan on Oct 1, 2008 0:28:10 GMT -5
Have you seen "Capital Offense?"
Tell us what you thought. There are spoilers at our sister site NCIS Special Ops, if you're interested.
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Post by shywriter on Oct 7, 2008 20:03:11 GMT -5
Another home run!!
One of the best moments? In next week's preview:
Papa Gibbs: "...you don't write; you don't call..."
;D ;D ;D
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Post by dzero on Oct 8, 2008 19:07:00 GMT -5
A really good ep, they are having a great season so far. The music in this episode was very different. Sounded like something from a Hitchcock movie. Or maybe they have that music all the time and I never noticed it before? But I think they really tried to make this ep different from any other.....that scene with Ziva getting the signature from the lobyist....it looked like no other NCIS scene. The color, the breeze.  Hitchcock |
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Post by Mr.Clark on Oct 8, 2008 20:59:53 GMT -5
Hitchthingy I got that in a post I made a week or so ago, hilarity. |
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Post by shywriter on Oct 9, 2008 0:52:05 GMT -5
A really good ep, they are having a great season so far. The music in this episode was very different. Sounded like something from a Hitchthingy movie. Or maybe they have that music all the time and I never noticed it before? But I think they really tried to make this ep different from any other.....that scene with Ziva getting the signature from the lobyist....it looked like no other NCIS scene. The color, the breeze. ...just watched it again  (with hubby -- he had to miss it first time ) and you're right -- in the scenes at the Tidal Basin, especially, the music was very Hitch-thingy ( ;D) plus they did a lot of closer face shots, etc-- although I thought that lobbyist scene looked odd because of the use of background scene films with the actors standing in front of the film of the Reflecting Pool and in front of the Tidal Basin....? |
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Post by Mr.Clark on Oct 9, 2008 2:51:52 GMT -5
A really good ep, they are having a great season so far. The music in this episode was very different. Sounded like something from a Hitchthingy movie. Or maybe they have that music all the time and I never noticed it before? But I think they really tried to make this ep different from any other.....that scene with Ziva getting the signature from the lobyist....it looked like no other NCIS scene. The color, the breeze. ...just watched it again (with hubby -- he had to miss it first time ) and you're right -- in the scenes at the Tidal Basin, especially, the music was very Hitch-thingy ( ;D) plus they did a lot of closer face shots, etc-- although I thought that lobbyist scene looked odd because of the use of background scene films with the actors standing in front of the film of the Reflecting Pool and in front of the Tidal Basin....? Yea its kind of a problem when your filming a show in Cali thats set in DC. There's a few landmarks in DC, apparently.  |
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Post by ML Fan on Oct 11, 2008 1:24:22 GMT -5
While I enjoyed the interaction between the team, I thought that it was way too obvious as to who the perp. was, which to me took away from what could've been a stronger episode.
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Post by Aerie on Oct 14, 2008 13:19:28 GMT -5
You guys will have to excuse me because there is a lot I don't understand about TV series. Except recordings of NCIS I haven't watched any series since the summer of 2002, and they were all SciFi where it's okay to know who, or what, the perp looks like. Maybe things have changed in the past 6 years but why must the perp be a surprise.  Why is the episode only a success if we can't figure out the perp until the last five minutes.  If you see the perp do the evil deed in the first few minutes of the show and you continue to watch, do you give it a low score because they've revealed it. Are all the shows like this - you try to guess the perp and if you guess it - the shows a 'dud' I read this scoring thing at the Ops Center after every episode and this has always puzzled me.  Where do I go to read the rules for TV procedurals?  Whoops, I had to scurry back to admit I'm out of the U.S. and I haven't seen any of the new eps yet. I'll get to watch all 4 this weekend IF I decide to come home. |
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Post by Mr.Clark on Oct 14, 2008 17:07:55 GMT -5
The answer to your quandary would be for me dependent on the way the shows written. If TPTB dont show you the perp committing the crime and only show you the scene of the crime after its occurred as is the case in NCIS 98% of the time then the hole fun is the hunt and the suspense. So in order to make it worth watching you have to engineer it in a way that the audience is hanging on there seat waiting for that pay off. You have to build towards it and develop the suspense but in the same vein it has to makes sense that the conclusion was real. When you can predict in the first 3rd of the show whose perp it takes the fun out of the guess work going on on screen in the next third tell you get to the pay off. I've said this far to much lately but there was the great Alfred Hitchthingy ( ) quote "The trill isn't in the bang, its in everything leading up to the bang", so if your goal is for the audience not to immediately know who the perp is then you need to disguise it till the climax. If your already told who the bad guy is the thrill is in the waiting for the other characters to figure out it. Its sort of a literary 3rd Person vs 3rd Person Omniscient debate. |
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Post by AngelZ on Oct 14, 2008 18:59:26 GMT -5
Wasn't Columbo an example of a show where you saw the crime being committed and the thrill was in watching him 'trap' the perp and solve the case? While I love a good whodunit, if NCIS is going to appeal to 18+ million viewers they can't make the crime puzzle too tricky. Yep, they're gonna dumb it down for the masses...and based on many of the online conversations, there are a lot of peeps out there who miss even the most basic details. Thankfully I don't watch the show for the crime puzzles, I watch it for the characters. The extra time to polish scripts and get the details right have really improved the show. The first three eps for the season have been tight and well crafted. Gibbs is suitably grumpy, Vance is a great foil and the banter has been great. Kind of old school NCIS which makes me happy.  |
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Post by Mr.Clark on Oct 14, 2008 21:06:12 GMT -5
I watch it for the characters. Same Here. |
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(with hubby -- he had to miss it first time ) and you're right -- in the scenes at the Tidal Basin, especially, the music was very Hitch-thingy ( ;D) plus they did a lot of closer face shots, etc-- although I thought that lobbyist scene looked odd because of the use of background scene films with the actors standing in front of the film of the Reflecting Pool and in front of the Tidal Basin....?
