Vampire Diaries Thought & NCIS 9x13
Jan. 13th, 2012 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaIt's January 13th and I am still putting water out for the birds. That is just - wrong. Plus there is almost no snow in my yard. I'm not particularly fond of really cold weather, and I'm sure I'll be complaining when it starts, but I find this all disturbing and I'm ready for winter to start any time now.
Vampire Diaries thought:
I was thinking about how the witches keep trolling Damon and yet seem fine with Stefan. I’m fine with it because I think it’s hilarious but it is a bit weird. In this episode I can fanwank it as Stefan arriving at night and then convincing the witches to help him before dawn but it seems like the witches just generally like Stefan better than Damon. We’ve seen both of them have good relationships with witches pre-series – Stefan was friendly with both Emily and Gloria while Damon dated Bree and protected Emily’s descendants. Both of them have done horrible things. So why the preferential treatment?
And then I had an idea: Bree! He did rip her heart out, after killing her best friend which she was pretty pissed about, and we know that witches chat amongst themselves after their deaths. So after Bree’s death she was pissed and decided to make Damon’s life difficult. This idea makes me even more amused so I’m keeping it for my personal fanon (or until canon states otherwise).
NCIS 9x13 'A Desperate Man'
I didn’t like it at all.
- I've been mostly neutral about Ray and I'm not sorry to see him go but it could have been done so much better. I think they could have definitely made him a 'bad guy', or morally gray in a way not acceptable to Ziva, easily enough (he clearly had a lot of secrets) but having him be the killer was just... bad. It did not work for me at all.
- Having Ray propose to Ziva and her vacillating about whether or not to accept, especially after she'd decided to end their relationship also didn't work for me. Why not just end it there instead of making him a killer? Sometimes relationships just end without someone needing to be in the wrong. Ziva realising that she didn't care about him enough to work past his job and secrecy is honestly enough of a reason.
- I hated the heavy-handedness of Tony/Ziva, and I ship them!, especially in the final scene.
... I feel like I should say something nice. Hmm.
- I liked that Tony wasn't being jealous and an ass to Ziva over Ray but was instead trying to be a good friend to her.
Vampire Diaries thought:
I was thinking about how the witches keep trolling Damon and yet seem fine with Stefan. I’m fine with it because I think it’s hilarious but it is a bit weird. In this episode I can fanwank it as Stefan arriving at night and then convincing the witches to help him before dawn but it seems like the witches just generally like Stefan better than Damon. We’ve seen both of them have good relationships with witches pre-series – Stefan was friendly with both Emily and Gloria while Damon dated Bree and protected Emily’s descendants. Both of them have done horrible things. So why the preferential treatment?
And then I had an idea: Bree! He did rip her heart out, after killing her best friend which she was pretty pissed about, and we know that witches chat amongst themselves after their deaths. So after Bree’s death she was pissed and decided to make Damon’s life difficult. This idea makes me even more amused so I’m keeping it for my personal fanon (or until canon states otherwise).
NCIS 9x13 'A Desperate Man'
I didn’t like it at all.
- I've been mostly neutral about Ray and I'm not sorry to see him go but it could have been done so much better. I think they could have definitely made him a 'bad guy', or morally gray in a way not acceptable to Ziva, easily enough (he clearly had a lot of secrets) but having him be the killer was just... bad. It did not work for me at all.
- Having Ray propose to Ziva and her vacillating about whether or not to accept, especially after she'd decided to end their relationship also didn't work for me. Why not just end it there instead of making him a killer? Sometimes relationships just end without someone needing to be in the wrong. Ziva realising that she didn't care about him enough to work past his job and secrecy is honestly enough of a reason.
- I hated the heavy-handedness of Tony/Ziva, and I ship them!, especially in the final scene.
... I feel like I should say something nice. Hmm.
- I liked that Tony wasn't being jealous and an ass to Ziva over Ray but was instead trying to be a good friend to her.
