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NCIS Season Two
Nov. 24th, 2015 10:40 pmOkay, Kate was pretty bad this season too, so much so that I wasn't sure whether I'd finish it. I did, and I'm glad I did. She got a little better (more rounded as a character, rather than someone always defined by two flaws) at the last two episodes, but then, the next-to-last episode with the plague I'd actually seen before. Maybe that's part of why I didn't really expect Kate to be as bad as she was, and to be fair, she was suffering a little from early-season writing. (Gwen, I think, had the same issue. It would've helped if they'd been willing to admit when they were wrong, or to notice when they had double standards.) It's also an issue with some of the later P4 stuff. They stop being characters. When you just try to grab the main traits of characters, reduce them down to a couple phrases, suddenly you've lost the sum of the parts. Even character studies run the risk of being a little flat, of becoming caricatures, not true characters, but at least then you have a little more room to round out the character, to use more than two lines of description. And it's the people we're interested in, or at least should be interested in, not just poor imitations of them. It's bad when there's not even a hint that there might be more to them than what you show.
Kate's death, too, wasn't as satisfying as I'd hoped it'd be. Hurrah, she's off the show. Except...that's not exactly how it works, is it?
Bang, sudden. Realistic, or so I imagine. You don't see it coming, in most cases. It's sudden. You don't get to say goodbye. One minute, a person's alive and breathing, the next very much not. (...Well. I might be drawing a little off Hol Horse's speech right not, but it's still kind of relevant.)
Given that I nearly didn't finish this season almost entirely based on her, her death still hit me hard. It's the realism that's shocking. Especially in a show where at least one person dies almost every episode. You get used to the death, for the most part, until you realize, with something like that, that these are supposed to be actual people dying.
I can say I am looking forward to a Kate-free show, as well as Ziva. And, well, a competent Tony (How is he not-competent in between his competent police officer days and the later seasons? No one knows). And Abby, and Gibbs, and Ducky, and Jimmy. All of whom are awesome. (Jimmy, I'm surprised, shines just as much with his 'this is all completely normal' attitude and his deadpan delivery as later. Well done, sir!)
Kate's death, too, wasn't as satisfying as I'd hoped it'd be. Hurrah, she's off the show. Except...that's not exactly how it works, is it?
Bang, sudden. Realistic, or so I imagine. You don't see it coming, in most cases. It's sudden. You don't get to say goodbye. One minute, a person's alive and breathing, the next very much not. (...Well. I might be drawing a little off Hol Horse's speech right not, but it's still kind of relevant.)
Given that I nearly didn't finish this season almost entirely based on her, her death still hit me hard. It's the realism that's shocking. Especially in a show where at least one person dies almost every episode. You get used to the death, for the most part, until you realize, with something like that, that these are supposed to be actual people dying.
I can say I am looking forward to a Kate-free show, as well as Ziva. And, well, a competent Tony (How is he not-competent in between his competent police officer days and the later seasons? No one knows). And Abby, and Gibbs, and Ducky, and Jimmy. All of whom are awesome. (Jimmy, I'm surprised, shines just as much with his 'this is all completely normal' attitude and his deadpan delivery as later. Well done, sir!)
