NCIS 7x24 and Doctor Who 5x06 Thoughts
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iariaNCIS 7x24 ‘Rule Fifty-One’
• I don’t know why Tony et al were so lost since as they just stated they’ve been down this road before and the last time Tony did a hell of a good job as team leader. In fact by the time Gibbs returned they were all working as a well order team in their new formation. So them being so adrift, instead of say angry or resigned, was a little irritating.
• Alison Hart was less irritating in this episode than previous but I still wish she would go away.
• I loved Vance sending Tony off on a special mission. I love when he gets sent off alone on these secret missions.
• Except of course it meant that Tony, along with Gibbs, weren’t there for Ziva’s citizenship ceremony and I felt horrible for her. I wonder whose presence she was missing the most? Tony at least had a good reason; Gibbs on the other hand didn’t in my eyes. He should have told Alison that he did have somewhere important to be.
• I was surprised that Gibbs didn’t at all try to justify his killing of their father during that scene with Paloma and Alejandro. I mean I’m sure they know about Kelly and Shannon’s deaths, I can’t see how they wouldn’t, but I’m still surprised that they weren’t brought up even once.
Doctor Who 5x06 ‘The Vampires of Venice’
• I did find it a bit confusing to go from the Doctor having an epiphany about Amy and what’s happening one moment to him sending her and Rory off on a date in Venice the next. Shouldn’t he actually be doing something to work out what’s happening?
• I found myself really feeling for Rosanna. Yeah, killing off a bunch of people and changing the species of a bunch more is very wrong. However – her planet with most her species just died and she only just escaped with her sons (or at least they were the only ones to survive) and she was not only trying to insure their survival, she was trying to ensure the survival of her species.
• The Rosanna/Doctor scenes were excellent and I was feeling some real chemistry there. I am curious about how she knew exactly who he was.
• I have no idea how I ever thought this version of the TARDIS looked cramped and smaller than the previous. It’s huge! I love the levels and doorways.
• Amy’s defeat of Francesco didn’t really work for me. After killing him off she comments “Well, that was easy.” and I was saying the exact same thing. I probably would have just brushed it off if almost the next shot hadn’t been of the cloudy and stormy sky. Where exactly did that ray of sunshine come from again? I also had other problems with the whole sunlight issue. I mean Isabella fails to escape because the sunlight burns her and yet during her execution scene it didn’t appear to bug her at all. The transformed girls were hit with sunlight when Guido lifted their vales and while they flinched back from the sun it didn’t cause them to burn, yet only a couple seconds of reflected light caused Francesco to burst into ashes. How the sunlight affected this fish species just wasn’t used very consistently throughout the episode.
• “We don’t discuss this. I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it!” – Doctor. Yikes. This Doctor sure is imperious isn’t he? It kind of makes me uncomfortable – both here and in the previous episode with River – in a way that Nine and Ten being the same way didn’t. I think someone needs a visit from Donna.
• I like Rory but I am really getting a Mickey feel from him. And the Doctor’s line about ‘one person getting a taste of all that and then to go back, it will tear you apart’ I immediately thought of Rose and Mickey. Rory’s phone message to Amy from his bachelor party telling her that it’s been ‘seven hours since I told you I love you’ made me go awww.
• “You know what’s dangerous about you? It’s not that you make people take risks it’s that you make them want to impress you. You make it so that they don’t want to let you down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you’re around.” – Rory. Hmm, that’s a really interesting take. The Doctor doesn’t make anyone do anything – they’re all grown-ups who can make their own choices - but I do agree that he makes them strive to be better; both for him and just to keep up with them. And I think that’s a good thing.
• I love how much the Doctor loves the unknown. His glee at the vampires made me smile and I loved him and Amy jumping in delight together over finding vampires in Venice. I guess it’s just this episode but I was reminded strongly of Rose and the Doctor in that scene.
• “Yours is bigger than mine.” – Rory
“Let’s not go there.” – Doctor.
Hee. I love the Doctor’s bigger-on-the-inside pockets.
• “I mean I’ve been around a bit but that’s... ew.” – Doctor. Huh. That did not feel very Doctor-ish to me at all. I mean the beginning of the sentence ‘been around a bit’ amused me but the ‘eww’... I’m pretty sure that Nine wouldn’t have been impressed by that.
• I don’t know why Tony et al were so lost since as they just stated they’ve been down this road before and the last time Tony did a hell of a good job as team leader. In fact by the time Gibbs returned they were all working as a well order team in their new formation. So them being so adrift, instead of say angry or resigned, was a little irritating.
• Alison Hart was less irritating in this episode than previous but I still wish she would go away.
• I loved Vance sending Tony off on a special mission. I love when he gets sent off alone on these secret missions.
• Except of course it meant that Tony, along with Gibbs, weren’t there for Ziva’s citizenship ceremony and I felt horrible for her. I wonder whose presence she was missing the most? Tony at least had a good reason; Gibbs on the other hand didn’t in my eyes. He should have told Alison that he did have somewhere important to be.
• I was surprised that Gibbs didn’t at all try to justify his killing of their father during that scene with Paloma and Alejandro. I mean I’m sure they know about Kelly and Shannon’s deaths, I can’t see how they wouldn’t, but I’m still surprised that they weren’t brought up even once.
Doctor Who 5x06 ‘The Vampires of Venice’
• I did find it a bit confusing to go from the Doctor having an epiphany about Amy and what’s happening one moment to him sending her and Rory off on a date in Venice the next. Shouldn’t he actually be doing something to work out what’s happening?
• I found myself really feeling for Rosanna. Yeah, killing off a bunch of people and changing the species of a bunch more is very wrong. However – her planet with most her species just died and she only just escaped with her sons (or at least they were the only ones to survive) and she was not only trying to insure their survival, she was trying to ensure the survival of her species.
• The Rosanna/Doctor scenes were excellent and I was feeling some real chemistry there. I am curious about how she knew exactly who he was.
• I have no idea how I ever thought this version of the TARDIS looked cramped and smaller than the previous. It’s huge! I love the levels and doorways.
• Amy’s defeat of Francesco didn’t really work for me. After killing him off she comments “Well, that was easy.” and I was saying the exact same thing. I probably would have just brushed it off if almost the next shot hadn’t been of the cloudy and stormy sky. Where exactly did that ray of sunshine come from again? I also had other problems with the whole sunlight issue. I mean Isabella fails to escape because the sunlight burns her and yet during her execution scene it didn’t appear to bug her at all. The transformed girls were hit with sunlight when Guido lifted their vales and while they flinched back from the sun it didn’t cause them to burn, yet only a couple seconds of reflected light caused Francesco to burst into ashes. How the sunlight affected this fish species just wasn’t used very consistently throughout the episode.
• “We don’t discuss this. I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it!” – Doctor. Yikes. This Doctor sure is imperious isn’t he? It kind of makes me uncomfortable – both here and in the previous episode with River – in a way that Nine and Ten being the same way didn’t. I think someone needs a visit from Donna.
• I like Rory but I am really getting a Mickey feel from him. And the Doctor’s line about ‘one person getting a taste of all that and then to go back, it will tear you apart’ I immediately thought of Rose and Mickey. Rory’s phone message to Amy from his bachelor party telling her that it’s been ‘seven hours since I told you I love you’ made me go awww.
• “You know what’s dangerous about you? It’s not that you make people take risks it’s that you make them want to impress you. You make it so that they don’t want to let you down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you’re around.” – Rory. Hmm, that’s a really interesting take. The Doctor doesn’t make anyone do anything – they’re all grown-ups who can make their own choices - but I do agree that he makes them strive to be better; both for him and just to keep up with them. And I think that’s a good thing.
• I love how much the Doctor loves the unknown. His glee at the vampires made me smile and I loved him and Amy jumping in delight together over finding vampires in Venice. I guess it’s just this episode but I was reminded strongly of Rose and the Doctor in that scene.
• “Yours is bigger than mine.” – Rory
“Let’s not go there.” – Doctor.
Hee. I love the Doctor’s bigger-on-the-inside pockets.
• “I mean I’ve been around a bit but that’s... ew.” – Doctor. Huh. That did not feel very Doctor-ish to me at all. I mean the beginning of the sentence ‘been around a bit’ amused me but the ‘eww’... I’m pretty sure that Nine wouldn’t have been impressed by that.
