NCIS random ramblings
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kerravonsenI've been watching NCIS season 3 (while doing crochet).
Can I say how much I ♥ ♥ ♥ Abby? So Much Love. If she and Jo Grant got together, the world would be blinded with the sunshine and love and awesomeness.
Ducky! Ducky, Ducky, Ducky! I would be happy if it was just the Abby and Ducky show, I would!
As for Gibbs, he could make Chuck Norris cry.
Tony, I still dislike him.
Surprisingly, I like Ziva more than I expected to, though I don't like how in recent episodes she and Tony seem to be ganging up on McGee. I hate that. I liked it better when she wouldn't give Tony the time of day. Tony is a sleaze-ball who isn't good enough to be called a rake.
I really dislike Tony, don't I? I'm not sure which aspect of him I hate more: that he's a shallow lying womanizer, or that he's mean to McGee. Of course, both things point to a deep-seated insecurity, but somehow that does not make me feel sympathy towards him.
On a different note, I'm half-amused by the way they deal with computer-geek stuff on the show. I'm sure that the scriptwriters have "insert technobabble here" in their scripts... and the resultant technobabble is about 50% right. It's like they have the right words for the situation, but put together in the wrong order. For example, in a recent episode I watched, Abby and McGee were intercepting the webcam feed on the computer that the bad guys had hacked into, and replacing it with their own looped video. Good idea, clever stuff to do. I can't remember all the technobabble they were saying but it was things like "need to make a fake mirror of the hard drive" and "it's a common codec so that shouldn't be a problem"... I'm not entirely sure why they would need to make a mirror of the hard-drive, but the remark about the codec probably did fit. As I said, about 50% right.
It isn't helped by the visuals/directing, I have to say. I remember one episode, I think it was in the previous season, where Abby was talking about the "source code", and the tech-speak was absolutely correct in that context, and then it was ruined by the image on Abby's computer screen, which was full of gibberish rather than a page of C-program source, which is what it should have been. Obviously the Art Department (or whoever is responsible for what was on the computer screen) thought that "source code" meant "encryption" rather than "programming language". It kind of made me sad, because they were so close to actually being accurate in that episode, and they were let down at the last minute. Likewise, it's half sad and half amusing when "hacking" is considered to be best shown by Abby and McGee sitting side by side with a keyboard each, seeing if their words-per-minute skills are faster than their adversary's. I expect that the director wanted "visual drama" rather than realism. Oh well. I have to give them points for trying Real Hard.
Can I say how much I ♥ ♥ ♥ Abby? So Much Love. If she and Jo Grant got together, the world would be blinded with the sunshine and love and awesomeness.
Ducky! Ducky, Ducky, Ducky! I would be happy if it was just the Abby and Ducky show, I would!
As for Gibbs, he could make Chuck Norris cry.
Tony, I still dislike him.
Surprisingly, I like Ziva more than I expected to, though I don't like how in recent episodes she and Tony seem to be ganging up on McGee. I hate that. I liked it better when she wouldn't give Tony the time of day. Tony is a sleaze-ball who isn't good enough to be called a rake.
I really dislike Tony, don't I? I'm not sure which aspect of him I hate more: that he's a shallow lying womanizer, or that he's mean to McGee. Of course, both things point to a deep-seated insecurity, but somehow that does not make me feel sympathy towards him.
On a different note, I'm half-amused by the way they deal with computer-geek stuff on the show. I'm sure that the scriptwriters have "insert technobabble here" in their scripts... and the resultant technobabble is about 50% right. It's like they have the right words for the situation, but put together in the wrong order. For example, in a recent episode I watched, Abby and McGee were intercepting the webcam feed on the computer that the bad guys had hacked into, and replacing it with their own looped video. Good idea, clever stuff to do. I can't remember all the technobabble they were saying but it was things like "need to make a fake mirror of the hard drive" and "it's a common codec so that shouldn't be a problem"... I'm not entirely sure why they would need to make a mirror of the hard-drive, but the remark about the codec probably did fit. As I said, about 50% right.
It isn't helped by the visuals/directing, I have to say. I remember one episode, I think it was in the previous season, where Abby was talking about the "source code", and the tech-speak was absolutely correct in that context, and then it was ruined by the image on Abby's computer screen, which was full of gibberish rather than a page of C-program source, which is what it should have been. Obviously the Art Department (or whoever is responsible for what was on the computer screen) thought that "source code" meant "encryption" rather than "programming language". It kind of made me sad, because they were so close to actually being accurate in that episode, and they were let down at the last minute. Likewise, it's half sad and half amusing when "hacking" is considered to be best shown by Abby and McGee sitting side by side with a keyboard each, seeing if their words-per-minute skills are faster than their adversary's. I expect that the director wanted "visual drama" rather than realism. Oh well. I have to give them points for trying Real Hard.
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Date: 2012-03-17 01:03 am (UTC)Have you got to the episode where one of the other characters asks Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was younger?
My favourite Gibbs quote, ever!
Do you wonder how he gets the finished boat out of the basement? I loved the way they turned that into being part of the show. :¬D
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Date: 2012-03-17 01:15 am (UTC)Yep. (huge grin) It was in Season 1 or 2 (because it was Kate who asked Gibbs); the episode where they meet Ducky's mother, if I recall correctly.
Do you wonder how he gets the finished boat out of the basement? I loved the way they turned that into being part of the show. :¬D
I've seen the episode where the kid asks Gibbs how he's going to get the boat out of the basement when it's done, yes. Me, I suspect that the boat is NEVER going to get finished. All Gibbs ever seems to do to it is plane it. I expect that if my brother-in-law watched NCIS, he would have as much criticism of the woodworking side of it as I do for the computer side of it. But I like the boat anyway. It shows another aspect of Gibbs's character; for him that boat is meditation.
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Date: 2012-03-17 10:19 pm (UTC)However at no point do you see the boat being removed, it happens off camera!
However unless he hires Dirk Gently or borrows the TARDIS there is no way the craft could be carried up the stairs! So a secret exit like Batman's Batcave perhaps?