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Post by Mr.Clark on Jan 12, 2010 8:44:42 GMT -5
I can't listen to people batting around that many superlatives in such a short time span, it makes me nauseous. Technically, not all that many superlatives. Compliments, enthusiasm and fan-girl level skweeing, you mean? 
(I liked it! If nothing else, just turn down the sound & watch it. MW looks SO good in it!)Meh its a bunch of Hollywood types raving about each others dedication skill, hard work, talent etc. the whole thing feels like its a few British accents away from a Monty Python skit. |
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Post by ML Fan on Jan 12, 2010 19:27:05 GMT -5
I hope that "Flesh and Bone" lives up to your expectations. I wonder if anyone remembers that MW played RW in the Natalie Wood biopic. |
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Post by dzero on Jan 14, 2010 15:58:19 GMT -5
I liked this ep, two good eps in a row after the horror that was the Christmas ep ;D. Could have used more of Tony partying with the prince though . And I'm just throwing this out there but I think NCIS should add the yoga girl and the front desk girl to their cast full time. Probably be a pain to write them into every episode but I think we can all agree it would be worth it.  edited for spelling  |
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Post by Mr.Clark on Jan 14, 2010 18:08:21 GMT -5
I liked this ep, two good eps in a row after the horror that was the Christmas ep ;D. Could have used more of Tony partying with the prince though . And I'm just throwing this out there but I think NCIS should add the yoga girl and the front desk girl to there cast full time. Probably be a pain to write them into every episode but I think we can all agree it would be worth it. I'd be willing to buy that Yoga girl was actually an undercover DSS agent secretly sent in by the State Department to monitor the prince. Seems a perfectly plausible cover.... |
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Post by Michele on Jan 15, 2010 3:53:52 GMT -5
I loved this episode, got to see it live a friend on twitter sent me the link.
they got to bring RJ back, cause he was great. MW and RJ did a great job as Father and Son. Also the idea that SR was a Conman was great, poor Tony for finding out his life has been a lie.
they even added what went down in SWAK. Loved Tony and Gibbs at the end.
well done to the cast and crew.
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Post by ML Fan on Jan 23, 2010 0:02:39 GMT -5
I liked seeing Tony with his father and wasn't really bothered by McGee's behavior towards Tony because I think of them as a big brother and a little brother who sometimes don't get along but, that they will work together when they are forced to and that they can be a good team. As far as the actual case in this episode, I thought that it was too obvious and I had hoped for some kind of twist. I would give the episode an 8 of out 10.
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Post by shywriter on Jan 30, 2010 9:11:15 GMT -5
Okay, this is all about one, tiny moment, but wow: Zillions of fanfic-fangirls have been speculating about Tony’s background for years now, and here the show finally provided some canon about it. I’m still not sure I’m crazy about about all they gave us, and want to go back and watch this again a couple more times. But there’s a scene that has haunted me since sitting down a second time to watch this episode closely, and it’s all Robert Wagner: in the interview room with Gibbs, when Gibbs sits him down and tells him he should get to know Tony, the man is amazing: he goes from the glib, con man, to a moment of completely uncensored defensive snarling, telling Gibbs he should tell him to piss off, then dials it back, when he says he’ll keep it civil for since Junior thinks so much of him ... But then, after all that, when Gibbs offers him a glimpse of his own lost daughter to tell him that he shouldn’t let a chance to get to know Tony slip by – Senior simply asks if they’re done, then gets up to leave: in that moment, you see that the man is absolutely incapable of the sort of connection and emotion that a father usually has, that Gibbs is looking to find in him for Tony. RJ just exuded that quality, and brilliantly – it wasn’t like he was cruel and mean and malevolent, he was just – without, like he was missing the ‘emotional connection’ gene or something, which made it even more an even more angst-laden kind of sad: Senior is just wholly incapable of understanding, let alone making or sensing or seeing, the sort of connection that Gibbs or any father would have. That one image has just haunted me since I saw it. It can be used to help explain Tony’s actions at the end, if he somehow sensed this in his father, too, even if he didn’t fully understand it – Tony let a bit of something go, and came to his own understanding. He could be less needy of his father’s approval, and better understand his father was simply incapable of more. Tony could finally get why his father truly believed, without a shred of irony, that he was being “supportive” of his being a cop by not saying anything. All in that one, tiny moment, when RJ said “Are we done here?” and got up to leave. Whew. I never thought RJ was all that much about acting, more about being a great looking man. I take it all back, even for that one moment. There were other cool moments, but they're not in the same league... maybe for another post! |
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Post by Michele on Jan 31, 2010 0:40:52 GMT -5
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Post by dzero on Jan 31, 2010 14:10:09 GMT -5
Okay, this is all about one, tiny moment, but wow: Zillions of fanfic-fangirls have been speculating about Tony’s background for years now, and here the show finally provided some canon about it. I’m still not sure I’m crazy about about all they gave us, and want to go back and watch this again a couple more times. But there’s a scene that has haunted me since sitting down a second time to watch this episode closely, and it’s all Robert Wagner: in the interview room with Gibbs, when Gibbs sits him down and tells him he should get to know Tony, the man is amazing: he goes from the glib, con man, to a moment of completely uncensored defensive snarling, telling Gibbs he should tell him to piss off, then dials it back, when he says he’ll keep it civil for since Junior thinks so much of him ... But then, after all that, when Gibbs offers him a glimpse of his own lost daughter to tell him that he shouldn’t let a chance to get to know Tony slip by – Senior simply asks if they’re done, then gets up to leave: in that moment, you see that the man is absolutely incapable of the sort of connection and emotion that a father usually has, that Gibbs is looking to find in him for Tony. RJ just exuded that quality, and brilliantly – it wasn’t like he was cruel and mean and malevolent, he was just – without, like he was missing the ‘emotional connection’ gene or something, which made it even more an even more angst-laden kind of sad: Senior is just wholly incapable of understanding, let alone making or sensing or seeing, the sort of connection that Gibbs or any father would have. That one image has just haunted me since I saw it. It can be used to help explain Tony’s actions at the end, if he somehow sensed this in his father, too, even if he didn’t fully understand it – Tony let a bit of something go, and came to his own understanding. He could be less needy of his father’s approval, and better understand his father was simply incapable of more. Tony could finally get why his father truly believed, without a shred of irony, that he was being “supportive” of his being a cop by not saying anything. All in that one, tiny moment, when RJ said “Are we done here?” and got up to leave. Whew. I never thought RJ was all that much about acting, more about being a great looking man. I take it all back, even for that one moment. There were other cool moments, but they're not in the same league... maybe for another post! Thanks for waiting 3 weeks to post this so I can easily go back and rewatch that scene to see if I get all the same nuance that you do. What I remember most from that scene was Gibbs, taking such an interest in Tony's personal life it was almost shocking. In a good way . If I had any integrety at all I would have waited 3 weeks to post my snark  ;D |
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Post by shywriter on Jan 31, 2010 15:14:31 GMT -5
Thanks for waiting 3 weeks to post this so I can easily go back and rewatch that scene to see if I get all the same nuance that you do. Hey hey hey! Some of us have demanding bosses who keep us busy with RL crap exciting and inspiring work... That's okay, we're used to ya!  (...and honestly? It came about more in watching it the 2d time a couple weeks later, on my computer with my nose to the screen and headphones on -- NO possible distractions... ) That was a great scene -- and was far more fulfilling of the fangirls' hopes for the Tony-Gibbs relationship than the damn TIVA toe-dancing they've been doing.
(There's your chicken or the egg dilemma -- did they imagine that father-son sort of relationship all those years ago, or were they nudged that way with the fans insistence that there was more to Tony than they gave us at first? You can't tell me that his developing into the guy we'd been writing him to be years before the show got there didn't have some effect!!!  )The combination of Gibbs' scene with Senior and the last scene with Gibbs having Tony over for "cowboy" steak was very satisfying -- and a nice way to show the relationship Tony has with each of his "dads." Probably my favorite aspect of that ep, all around...  |
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