david gideon

I thought they spent an awful lot of time with the hang-gliding open. And they ran the full intro complete with all the team names, which helped fill more time (gotta find that extra 30m somewhere). But the jump-rope at the end made the episode.

I feel the same way. Maybe because I know it's an earlier race, and 60m episodes have been padded out to 90m each.

I was hoping Rob would say, just once, 'The Randomizer is on the prowl', which would be a callback to 'Greed' Fox's first big-money primetime game show. Greed's Terminator would choose a contestant in a similar manner to the Randomizer, as Chuck Woolery would declare 'The Terminator is on the prowl...'.

I don't like the way Maddie's storyline is going in ep 5. Partly because I like the character, but also because it's kind of a cliché. I'm hoping they go somewhere unexpected with it, or just get it over with quickly.

I love the show but ep 1-2 had credibility problems, as noted above with just three people searching when they could have had hundreds. Also, when Harry spotted the solar panel that was powering the coffin camera, why not look for the wire that runs to the camera? AFRAIK there has to be one. I'm glad Maddie is back on the job in ep 3-4 (from the preview, haven't watched yet).

My favorite team got eliminated, but they appeared rather somber in an interview clip earlier in the episode so I was kinda prepared for it.

Supposedly this was the first episode filmed (after the pilot I presume). I don't blame them for delaying it. How many times can Charlie suffer life-threatening injuries and still crawl her way out of a deep hidey-hole? Overall an unpleasant episode, but more to the point they're starting to give Charlie the physical invulnerability of Sylvester the cat.

When I saw Patrick Labyorteaux's name in the opening, I expected another appearance by JAG officer Bud Roberts. But Bud never showed up. Apparently Patrick was playing a different role, Olev Kozlov, a Russian gangster type. I had no clue it was Patrick behind that beard.

Don't care for the cliffhangers either. Alex Wagner is no Anderson Cooper. She's too happy and smiley. She needs to be more serious and wry like Coop. One of the players looked familiar to me; I'm sure she's not really DIchen Lachman ('Dollhouse', 'Agents of SHIELD') but that's who I see every time Avori is on the screen.

I watched the third season episodes. I thought the first two were really good: kept me guessing with all the plot twists. #3 had a more serious tone: a serial killer with a connection to Dodds. It was OK but I was ahead of the detectives at one or two points. I'm looking forward to the next batch (why only three a year?!?).

I guess I'm the only one who likes Maddie. I hope nothing too awful happens to her over the hiatus.

My only complaint about this episode is Casey's hair. I'm old enough to remember the Mickey Mouse Club.

Seems odd Gibbs thanked McGee for having his back for 18 years. McGee was a probie when he joined the team. DiNozzo was second in command for years. But he wasn't there to thank so that may explain it. Even with Gibbs this season seemed to lack something. I'll keep watching (it's the only network show I never miss) but not with as much enthusiasm. The producers talk like 'you can't count Gibbs out' etc but I don't buy it. Of all the original cast David McCallum is the only one still there, even if he does little more than make an occasional cameo every month or two. I suspect this will be the final season.

The man who fell is her friend from college (I think) who was the manager of the hotel. It was not officially open yet though some people like the travel writer were there to make an assessment of it. This whole production seemed more elevated than the usual Sunday night mystery. Maybe seeing actual location filming at exotic locations instead just another part of British Columbia made it seem special. If there are more travel writer mysteries they can't go back to filming in Vancouver now; the expectations have been set.

That final shot of Gibbs floating may have been designed to go either way once Harmon made his decision. If he's done, freeze frame on him floating. If he re-ups, wait another second and freeze frame on him swimming away. I'm not too worried about how they'll bring him back into NCIS (as long as there's no mandatory retirement policy in TV NCIS). In JAG Harm quit the Navy and the season opened with him flying a crop duster if I remember correctly. But he was back in uniform after a few weeks. There's always a way.

Yeah I got a similar impression there. Also some touching while they were watching tv, plus Biff explaining that she was adopted. Those all seem like clues to me. It's probably as far as they'd want to go in a Hardy Boys story, but I'm not sure planting hints about a lesbian relationship (if that's what they were doing) is what people want to see in a Hardy Boys story. For that matter all the pyrotechnics at the end, and the amulets of power or whatever are fantasy elements that for sure don't belong. Hardy Boys isn't Dr Strange or Harry Potter. Notwithstanding the previous objections there was some stuff I liked about the show (nice seeing Linda Thorson again) but it was too long. Letterboxing an already wide screen seems artsy for no reason (I saw tops of heads being cut off). The last ep should have showed and identified the key cast members on screen one by one at the end, because the closing credits just whip by in tiny type.

So he used to be a police officer, was injured on the job, left the force with a bullet in his back. Now he putters around with his boat in his spare time. It's like a remake of Harry O minus Farah Fawcett.

Every time they showed that cove where they were fishing I thought hey, that looks just like the cove in season two of The Exorcist. Both shows filmed in BC so it may well have been. Other than that my attention tended to wander.

Much better send-off for Ziva than having her killed off-screen. But there should have been a closing scene in Paris with her daughter and Tony. Or maybe they're saving that for a 'very special episode' to come.

I give Abracadaver points just for not winding up with the killer trying to kill the lead female. That happens too much in these movies. I noticed a quick glimpse at the edge of the screen of a sign in front of the 'Magic Manor' that read Scottish Rite Cathedral. It was only visible for a split second, but that was enough to track it down: the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Hamilton Ontario.

Apparently there's no Food and Drug Administration in Flashworld, since anyone can cook up a home-brew miracle drug, test it in secret, and then start distributing it without bothering with any of those pesky government approvals. In fact, they can get the police department to help them do it!

Last night Nell was dressed like Mrs Butterworth. That was the distinguishing feature of the episode for me because I long ago lost interest in all the Russians: I couldn't tell you who's who, let alone who is who's father. If Hetty is back how come she's never at work? She can do her job from a park bench?

I was a little distracted by all the times their breath was visible (thanks to the Canadian weather) in Atlanta GA. I know they tried to explain it away by referencing a 'cold snap' but with today's HD tvs it's hard not to notice stuff like that. I also noticed a bit of dialogue probably dubbed in after the filming. When they cut to a scene with Hailey and the coroner eating breakfast at Hailey's place, they added Hailey saying It was sweet of you to bring me breakfast. Just to make sure nobody got the wrong impression. (They stuck it over an establishing shot of the house and then Hailey taking a seat with her back to the camera.)

That is correct. But I put 'mistrial' in quotes because this wasn't a mistrial at all. The prosecution evidence was inadmissible. That's not grounds for a mistrial. This was a simple ruling on evidence (which happens all the time, though in real life would have been addressed before the trial began). If this situation happened in real life the defense would get the evidence excluded, then the prosecutor would free to continue and try to prove the case. If they couldn't meet the burden: not guilty. Double jeopardy rule prevents trying him again. If judges declared a mistrial because evidence was excluded, you could have cases being tried any number of times, giving the pros multiple bites at the apple and making the double jeopardy clause meaningless. Calling a 'mistrial' because the judge excluded evidence is another reason why this trial goes in the top ten of ridiculous teevee criminal trials.

The trial was one of the worst I've seen on tv; one mistake after another ending up with the 'mistrial' and the cockeyed notion that they could restart the investigation from the beginning and charge him again. (They couldn't. Once the jury is sworn in jeopardy attaches and you can't try him a second time.) JAG took liberties in procedures etc now and then but nothing as bad as this. But I liked the McGee B-story so there's that.