I can't recall anyone mentioning in the past that they watch this show (Tuesday evenings have a lot to choose from, it seems), but does anyone, and did you see the season finale? Holy bumblefuzz, Batman....
[ May 25, 2005, 05:15 PM: Message edited by: Papa Moose ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Jim and I do, Pops, and yes, that was roughly our reaction as well.
o_O
We knew from previews there'd be a character death, and we kept trying to guess through the episode who it was gonna be. The fakeout at the end TOTALLY caught me, to the point where the credits saw me staring at the TV with my mouth open.
Posted by DavidR (Member # 7473) on :
Wow. I absolutely did not see that particular character being the one to die. In fact if I were to have listed the characters in order of most likely to least likely to be killed off, that character would have been my least likely pick. Wow. Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
We hadn't seen any previews, so we were simply blown away. Mid-sentence (especially mid-that-sentence) was a nice touch.
Wow.
Posted by Mama Squirrel (Member # 4155) on :
I was so blown away, I don't even remember what the character was saying. Can someone remind me?
Thanks!
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Blown away. Funny Pops.
"Wow, Gibbs. I thought I'd be dead before I heard you say that." (before I'd hear you say that?)
Or something like that. (Gibbs had just said "Good Job.")
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I think Gibbs had just said something like "Tony's right."
Posted by DavidR (Member # 7473) on :
Now I'm gonna have to go back to the tape and watch the last part again because I just don't remember what the line was. Not until after I watch "Lost" tonight though.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
I believe Tony said "good job". Gibbs said something like "for once Dinozo's right"
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Kate: <laugh.> "Wow. I thought I'd die before I ever heard a com--" (compliment?)
--Pop
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I watch NCIS. (I even mentioned it in another thread the other week! So there!)
I was irritated. I really wish they'd killed Denozo. I know that this will make for a much better mourning-and-trying-to-deal period, that Tony dying would have been trite, but I wish they'd killed him instead. Hmph.
It took me a second to realize she'd actually been killed. It was just so shocking.
Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :
I really didn't want Tony to die, actually. I felt awful but I almost hoped that McGhee (sp?) was killed if only because I didn't want to part with any of the other characters. I guess Kate's actress got a new job but... jeeze, Gibbs is going to stop at nothing to get at Ari next season.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
I watch NCIS almost as faithfully as I watch CSI. I kind of figured that it would be McGee that would get it, but never Kate. I didn't think it would be DiNozzo because he'd just been through the plague thing and survived that. No logic to that assumption, I supppose, other than that isn't something that I could see the writers doing. And I was ready to go on the warpath if they got rid of Ducky because a) I like his stories which doesn't even need an audience to tell, and b) I've been a fan of David McCallum ever since I was in about fourth grade and "The Man Fron U.N.C.L.E." was my favorite TV show. I loved the part in one NCIS episode where Kate said she wondered what Ducky had looked like when he was young, and Gibbs pauses a second before saying, really deadpan, "Illya Kuryakin". It just made such wonderful sense.
But, I got to thinking about it after the episode, that from a plot point of view it made a lot of sense to have what's-his-face (the terrorist whose name escapes me right now) kill Kate. Sets up lots of tension for next season.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Having Tony die in this episode after his being so close to dying last episode would've been kinda lame. I don't mind Kate dying so much -- I do think she's the most replaceable of the cast (aside from Ducky's assistant, and who would really care if Ducky lost another assistant?) -- but I was still floored by it.
If Abby had died, I'd be done with the show forever out of spite.
--Pop
(Edit -- I was writing while lma posted, so I'm not just lame for saying the same thing.)
Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :
I'm in total agreement on the Abby thing, Pops. I adore Abby and Ducky and Gibbs and... well, Tony is a staple of the show whether you like it or not. So I suppose that, yes, Kate was the best choice in the end but I'm still wishing that they hadn't killed any of them to begin with. Why not cripple them so we think they die and they're out for the first few episodes next year?
I have to say, though, that this is the most addictive show I've watched since the first season or two of West Wing, and probably far more so. So here's looking forward to what already promises to be a charged upcoming season .
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I watch now and then, but could someone confirm this - the super-terrorist from earlier in the series...is he the same actor who plays one of the FBI agents on "Without a Trace?"
-Trevor
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
T, no. The first time I remember seeing him was in Beggars and Choosers, but he was on 24, and CSI.
Oh, and to anyone who thought it couldn't be Tony, do you not watch ER? ER spoiler ahead. . . . . . . . . . . . I mean, what they did to Romano? I mean first his arm was chopped off by the helicopter, then he was crushed by it! Compared to that, Tony getting the plague and then being shot would be nothing.
Posted by imenimok (Member # 7679) on :
I got so caught up in the episode, I totally forgot one of them had to die, and then BAM! I had to rewind it and watch it again just to make sure I saw what I saw. And the fact that Abby had that dream...man.
And NCIS is now at the top of my list of TV shows I will buy on DVD (ok, it's second after Lost), but I decided that after the plague episode. So there.
Ok, this thread can die for real now.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kayla: ER spoiler ahead. . . . . . . . . . . . I mean, what they did to Romano? I mean first his arm was chopped off by the helicopter, then he was crushed by it! Compared to that, Tony getting the plague and then being shot would be nothing.
Well, yes, but that was just ridiculous. ER, to me, jumped the shark YEARS ago. NCIS hasn't been around long enough to be that ridiculous.
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