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thedeadparrot) wrote2010-06-27 01:46 pm
thedeadparrot) wrote2010-06-27 01:46 pm
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New Obsession Of The Month: NCIS
So! This show's politics are kind of disgusting, but for some reason, I have been seduced anyway, and it can probably be summed up as: TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAM.
It's hard to find a show that can properly handle an ensemble (NCIS:LA, for example, is still struggling to figure out its dynamic, despite Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J's awesome chemistry), and NCIS somehow manages to make all of it's characters and interactions adorable even when they're dealing with dead bodies and like, supreme breaches of privacy and due process.
Anyway! I don't get fandom's woobification of Tony, and I kind of have an unreasonable crush on McGee because I have a weakness for dorky computer nerds and Ziva makes awesome puns that are hard to translate into Chinese on sketchy streaming sites. Oh, and Ducky used to go by the name "Illya Kuryakin" before he started wearing bow ties, and sometimes, he still gets mail from one "Albert Stroller" in London. When Jimmy asks who that is, Ducky just laughs and says that he's an old colleague with whom he has a regular correspondence. Then he tells a very well-edited version of "The Juniper Bush Affair" until Jimmy stops paying attention to him.
Plus! Abby! Who is so awesome that all of fandom loves her, despite having been in an canonical relationship with McGee, who is one of the show's Designated White Guys and therefore in one of the major slash ships (such as they are) in this fandom. She is just so cheerful and perky and Goth-nerd and usually high on some form of caffeine! Her relationship with Gibbs is adorable.
Basically, the show's team interaction reminds me of a basketful of puppies rolling around and biting each other's ears until Gibbs comes in and makes them all behave because he's totally the Daddy of this ragtag bunch of misfits. And then Gibbs will drink some coffee and then possibly shoot someone with the ridiculously good aim he's acquired from being a Marine sniper.
It is possible that my time here has warped my mind a bit. Whoops.
It's hard to find a show that can properly handle an ensemble (NCIS:LA, for example, is still struggling to figure out its dynamic, despite Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J's awesome chemistry), and NCIS somehow manages to make all of it's characters and interactions adorable even when they're dealing with dead bodies and like, supreme breaches of privacy and due process.
Anyway! I don't get fandom's woobification of Tony, and I kind of have an unreasonable crush on McGee because I have a weakness for dorky computer nerds and Ziva makes awesome puns that are hard to translate into Chinese on sketchy streaming sites. Oh, and Ducky used to go by the name "Illya Kuryakin" before he started wearing bow ties, and sometimes, he still gets mail from one "Albert Stroller" in London. When Jimmy asks who that is, Ducky just laughs and says that he's an old colleague with whom he has a regular correspondence. Then he tells a very well-edited version of "The Juniper Bush Affair" until Jimmy stops paying attention to him.
Plus! Abby! Who is so awesome that all of fandom loves her, despite having been in an canonical relationship with McGee, who is one of the show's Designated White Guys and therefore in one of the major slash ships (such as they are) in this fandom. She is just so cheerful and perky and Goth-nerd and usually high on some form of caffeine! Her relationship with Gibbs is adorable.
Basically, the show's team interaction reminds me of a basketful of puppies rolling around and biting each other's ears until Gibbs comes in and makes them all behave because he's totally the Daddy of this ragtag bunch of misfits. And then Gibbs will drink some coffee and then possibly shoot someone with the ridiculously good aim he's acquired from being a Marine sniper.
It is possible that my time here has warped my mind a bit. Whoops.
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and Ducky used to go by the name "Illya Kuryakin"
that's an actual pun in Russian O_o that's... very unexpected!
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I did not know about the pun, but now I am very curious to know what it is. :p
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I mean, the character's called Ducky because his name is Donald Mallard, so I mean, it is a play on his name. Just, you know, the other one. :p
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(Anonymous) 2010-06-28 05:57 am (UTC)(link)no subject
But yeah, the team. The team are ♥.
I kind of think the Tony-woobie phenomenon may be partly related to the fact that the actor played Logan on Dark Angel, though clearly fandom has run with that connection. The show needs to do some sort of meta-joke about that fact at some point, that would be funny.
Also I need to see The Man From U.N.C.L.E., apparently.
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Heh, I kind of get that reasoning re: Tony's woobieness, but at the same time, I don't think that many people in NCIS were necessarily fans of Dark Angel. I would think it's more like he's the most conventionally attractive man on the show? Possibly?
And The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is crack. I would watch out because it's frequently faily, orientalist crack as well. Usually you can tell within the first five minutes if it's an ep that will piss you off, but it isn't always clear cut.
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Thanks for the heads-up re: Man from U.N.C.L.E. I hear that it started fandom along with Trek, which makes me feel like I should watch at least a few episodes.
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Oooh, but if you're a classic Trek fan, both Shatner and Nimoy guest-starred in The Strigas Affair. That one has a good amount of Illya as well. (Plus, it features Nimoy doing a very bad Eastern European accent.)
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(Anonymous) 2010-06-28 06:00 am (UTC)(link)no subject
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P.S. I know you'll probably never use it, but would you like a DW account creation code? I have a few of them coming out of my ears.