On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, the CBS website had the following description for the most > recent episode of "NCIS: LA": > > Following the murder of a Russian woman, the NCIS team uncovers > evidence that answers who and why Callen was shot six months ago.
> Would someone care to diagram that sentence? I can't answer either of your questions (though I can tell that who ever wrote the description on the CBS website has graduated from college within the last ten years). Your post does make me think again about NCIS:LA. My TiVo still records this show, and I watch it, and it has not yet sunk to the CSI: Miami depths that I originally envisioned for it (but it still may). But something about this show still hasn't jelled - it is like watching a play still in working out the kinks in New Haven. I have decided that the problem is mostly with the psychologist (ugh, will TV ever have one of those that I Don't hate? At least Troi had a nice rack) and the character of Hetty, played by the great Linda Hunt. Their efforts to make Hetty mysteriously formidable, a la Gibbs, have been strained, artificial and ineffective. This would normally not require much in the way of writing or directing, since Hunt can communicate surreal gifts almost without saying anything - but she has seemed off her game to me. So much so that I wonder if she is suffering some kind of medical problem while making this show. I would be willing to bet there are scenes that have aired in which she is reading her lines off a prompter, and other times when she barely seems to understand what she is saying. I really like her as an actress and I hope she is okay. This is a more general problem with the show - they are making promises about most of their main characters that they can't quite deliver on. Odonell and LL Cool J are likable enough, but neither seems to be quite the hot shot everyone in the show thinks they are. All of this gives me renewed appreciation for the work of Mark Harmon, who has managed to pay off the build up they give him on NCIS and make it look easy - so easy I guess that the producers thought anyone and everyone could do it. They can't - at least not yet. Harmon can and deserves credit for it. To be fair I stopped watching NCIS mothership after one season, and it took me two years to come back to it, and the show seemed much better by then, so the LA crew may get it together over time (although that psychologist character is a non-starter, they are going to have to give it up). Whatever happened to the babe who seemed to be running the LA NCIS unit in the pilot? She seemed better suited to carry some of the Gibbs weight and aura. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
