S13.E22: Come Together (2)

[thewhiteowl]

The NCIS team hunts for a heist crew that robs a Los Angeles casino with military-grade power. Also, Kensi and Deeks hear exciting news regarding the adoption and Callen takes a big step in his relationship with Anna

[Bobbin]

Aww. Sweet. And no foot-chases or shoot-outs.  What an amazing, mixed, extended, growing family. Congrats to the newest members. Still no LGBTQ members in the NCIS universe, though. Not even in LA??

[Slade347]

28 minutes ago, Bobbin said:

Still no LGBTQ members in the NCIS universe, though. Not even in LA??

There's an on again/off again lesbian relationship with two of the regular characters on NCIS: Hawaii.

I liked that for this show this episode was kinda laid back. I actually think this could have worked as a pretty good series finale.

[Bobbin]

33 minutes ago, Slade347 said:

I actually think this could have worked as a pretty good series finale

I did think for a minute there that Grisha/Chris was going to announce his retirement. Since you mention it, this episode might have been filmed as a "just in case" parting, the history of network TV being what it is and the cost of everything suddenly  rising.

[CheshireCat]

2 hours ago, Bobbin said:

Aww. Sweet. And no foot-chases or shoot-outs.  What an amazing, mixed, extended, growing family. Congrats to the newest members. Still no LGBTQ members in the NCIS universe, though. Not even in LA??

I missed a few episodes in the middle of this season, so I don't know if Anna came out as bisexual (I don't recall her having come out in an earlier season) or if that was just Katya being Katya.

As far as the happy ending is concerned, last year, the showrunners said they wanted to give viewers a feel-good ending to the season after the year we've had. Don't know when they wrapped filming but given that they didn't bring back Hetty, left open the story with the guy whose name I've forgotten and only the Katya story is (hopefully) tied up, they may just have wanted to give us a feel-good ending again.

I'm all in favor of those endings and I'm sure they realized that no cliffhanger doesn't hurt viewership. So, I'm happy we got another happy ending to the season again.

[MissLucas]

Yeah, that was cute and could have worked as series finale if necessary. Cupcake arms dealer was one of those quirky characters that can really lighten up things (if not over-used), I hope we'll see her again.

Killbride dissing Roundtree for not mentioning Moana was great.

As for LGBTQ representaion - I'm all for it but for the love God/the Spagetthi monster/whatever don't take NCIS Hawaii as blueprint!!!

[milkyaqua]

3 hours ago, MissLucas said:

As for LGBTQ representaion - I'm all for it but for the love God/the Spagetthi monster/whatever don't take NCIS Hawaii as blueprint!!!

Ha!  This.  That storyline has been all over the place and not coherent at all.

This did seem like it could have been a wrap-up but I was waiting for the other shoe to drop once everyone was at the beach but nope, it was all good.

Not sure what happens next season as far as Hetty goes and I'm not interested in Callen trying to track down this Pennbroke person.  I'm hoping they'll ease up on the Kensi/Deeks parenting thing.  Deeks was his usual annoying self this epi.  I know they are interested in trying to adopt Pilar as well but hopefully they don't shove it down our throats like they have this season.

[preeya]

3 hours ago, milkyaqua said:

I'm hoping they'll ease up on the Kensi/Deeks parenting thing

How long will it be before Rosa gets picked up by ICE and lands in a deportation camp?

Edited May 23, 2022 by preeya

[ymeagain]

On 5/23/2022 at 1:18 PM, preeya said:

How long will it be before Rosa gets picked up by ICE and lands in a deportation camp?

It seems she's official and that her asylum request has been granted (must've been the info Deeks brought back from Guatemala). If she wasn't, don't think the county would've assigned her foster parents.

On 5/22/2022 at 9:56 PM, Slade347 said:

I liked that for this show this episode was kinda laid back. I actually think this could have worked as a pretty good series finale.

According to Gemmill this episode was written before the renewal notice came in, so it was kinda a "series" finale and a season finale just in case this was the final season.

On 5/23/2022 at 12:01 AM, CheshireCat said:

I missed a few episodes in the middle of this season, so I don't know if Anna came out as bisexual (I don't recall her having come out in an earlier season) or if that was just Katya being Katya.

The real Anna never "came out" as bisexual. That was a deep fake with Katya, so pretty sure that was just Katya being Katya (trying to make Callen doubt whether or not Anna loved him).

Overall, I liked the episode. Interested to see where/how the writers tackle all the changes next season. Could be really interesting or a hot mess.

[CheshireCat]

Finally watched it properly. There were a lot of things that I liked about the episode. It had a good pace, we had Kensi and Deeks as one field team, we had Sam and Callen as the other and we had two people in Ops. That worked very well. Killbride was there but not pushed into our faces or too grumpy and we actually sort of got an explanation for his grumpiness. Although, didn't he live in DC before? Did he not drive in DC during rush hour?

I really enjoyed the arms dealer and her glee over Killbride being so miserable in LA. That was fun!

And not only did we get Sam and Callen partnering up again, we also got a bit of improv undercover work. Yay! More of that please! I also liked that moment between Sam and Callen when Sam told Callen that each time things got good for him he started to push people away. I like that it got addressed, that Callen didn't deny it and that was a really nice friendship moment between them. I don't want all of their moments to be like that as I enjoy their banter but I wouldn't mind if we got more of that every now and then. In general, I'll be happy if we get more Callen and Sam working a case together next season than we got this season. They just work as partners for me and that's one of my most favorite aspects about the show.

Did Sam really think that Anna's always been good for Callen? I remember when Callen first revealed that there was a thing between him and Anna, Sam seemed a bit exasperated. He was teasing but still, he seemed to be believe that Callen was asking for trouble, too.

I really appreciate that Sam is supportive of the relationship and didn't try to talk Callen out of it because of who Anna is. The relationship has been rocky enough, so it's good that Sam didn't make it even more complicated but did more or less the opposite. I also appreciate that TPTB allowed Callen to get to that point. I've always said that I don't care who he's with as long as TPTB allow him to be happy because he deserves some happiness. If Anna's that person, I'm okay with it. I'm just happy for Callen.

The episode would certainly have worked as a series final but I'm glad that it's not. I really want to see what I'm expecting will be a bit of a crazy wedding and I hope we get to see it. (Though Callen strikes me as the kind of guy who'd be happy to elope and tie the knot at a beach somewhere with just the two of them present. I don't think Anna would want that, though).

I liked the proposal. I think it was true to the characters. Yes, it sounded like Callen might be breaking up with Anna but it didn't feel like the writers had come up with something just to add drama. It connected to the conversation Anna and Callen had at the beginning of the episode and it felt natural because it needed to be addressed. And the rest was simpe and straight-forward and very fitting.

I felt a bit sorry for Rosa who was thrust into all the craziness, though. Oh, and who dressed Killbride? He looked hilarious! But the three older guys were a nice touch. It reminded me a bit about the scene in Dirty Dancing where the owner of the resort laments that the young couples of today don't want club vacation with their parents anymore.

If we get more of what the last three episodes were in terms of teams and pace and focus on the characters for next season, I'll be content.

[CheshireCat]

On 5/24/2022 at 8:52 PM, ymeagain said:

It seems she's official and that her asylum request has been granted (must've been the info Deeks brought back from Guatemala). If she wasn't, don't think the county would've assigned her foster parents.

Forgot to add that to my last post: I would have liked more information on that, too. They're fostering her so I'm assuming she's been granted a legal status but I think they still have to prove that she's an orphan in order to adopt her. So, it looks like there's plenty of story left for next season (not that I'm desperate for that, just saying. Although, I do prefer this over the constant baby talk and what amounted to almost an obsession of having their own child).

Which reminds me: why did they need the arms dealer to tell them that she'd wished her foster parents had been a bit more like Kensi and Deeks? First of all, she hardly knows them. Secondly, Callen already told them that several episodes ago and not only makes that a lot more sense because he knows them very well but it would also mean a lot more to me if I were them because he does know them. When he says, he knows what he's talking about. The arms dealer has no idea what Kensi and Deeks are like, so what is that really worth?

[LittlePeas3]

On 5/26/2022 at 6:25 PM, CheshireCat said:

Finally watched it properly. There were a lot of things that I liked about the episode. It had a good pace, we had Kensi and Deeks as one field team, we had Sam and Callen as the other and we had two people in Ops. That worked very well. Killbride was there but not pushed into our faces or too grumpy and we actually sort of got an explanation for his grumpiness. Although, didn't he live in DC before? Did he not drive in DC during rush hour?

I really enjoyed the arms dealer and her glee over Killbride being so miserable in LA. That was fun!

And not only did we get Sam and Callen partnering up again, we also got a bit of improv undercover work. Yay! More of that please! I also liked that moment between Sam and Callen when Sam told Callen that each time things got good for him he started to push people away. I like that it got addressed, that Callen didn't deny it and that was a really nice friendship moment between them. I don't want all of their moments to be like that as I enjoy their banter but I wouldn't mind if we got more of that every now and then. In general, I'll be happy if we get more Callen and Sam working a case together next season than we got this season. They just work as partners for me and that's one of my most favorite aspects about the show.

Did Sam really think that Anna's always been good for Callen? I remember when Callen first revealed that there was a thing between him and Anna, Sam seemed a bit exasperated. He was teasing but still, he seemed to be believe that Callen was asking for trouble, too.

I really appreciate that Sam is supportive of the relationship and didn't try to talk Callen out of it because of who Anna is. The relationship has been rocky enough, so it's good that Sam didn't make it even more complicated but did more or less the opposite. I also appreciate that TPTB allowed Callen to get to that point. I've always said that I don't care who he's with as long as TPTB allow him to be happy because he deserves some happiness. If Anna's that person, I'm okay with it. I'm just happy for Callen.

The episode would certainly have worked as a series final but I'm glad that it's not. I really want to see what I'm expecting will be a bit of a crazy wedding and I hope we get to see it. (Though Callen strikes me as the kind of guy who'd be happy to elope and tie the knot at a beach somewhere with just the two of them present. I don't think Anna would want that, though).

I liked the proposal. I think it was true to the characters. Yes, it sounded like Callen might be breaking up with Anna but it didn't feel like the writers had come up with something just to add drama. It connected to the conversation Anna and Callen had at the beginning of the episode and it felt natural because it needed to be addressed. And the rest was simpe and straight-forward and very fitting.

I felt a bit sorry for Rosa who was thrust into all the craziness, though. Oh, and who dressed Killbride? He looked hilarious! But the three older guys were a nice touch. It reminded me a bit about the scene in Dirty Dancing where the owner of the resort laments that the young couples of today don't want club vacation with their parents anymore.

If we get more of what the last three episodes were in terms of teams and pace and focus on the characters for next season, I'll be content.

^ This.  I could have written all of this.  

My one question about this episode is: Wasn't Switch outed ages ago?  Despite this, I did love the "life coach" comments all the way through that part of the episode, I kept giggling.  

I also loved at the end, Kilbride, Sam's dad and Arkady.  Kilbride's clothes were priceless.  His comments about Arkady were too.  When Arkady called him and Sam's dad comrades, I thought he was going to climb over the table.   

[CheshireCat]

9 hours ago, LittlePeas3 said:

My one question about this episode is: Wasn't Switch outed ages ago? 

I'm pretty sure they used Switch recently, I'd say this season or the previous one. Although, that doesn't mean that he wasn't outed before 😉

9 hours ago, LittlePeas3 said:

Despite this, I did love the "life coach" comments all the way through that part of the episode, I kept giggling. 

Reflecting on that, can you imagine Callen as a life coach? Run and hide! 😂

[LittlePeas3]

10 hours ago, CheshireCat said:

I'm pretty sure they used Switch recently, I'd say this season or the previous one. Although, that doesn't mean that he wasn't outed before 😉

Reflecting on that, can you imagine Callen as a life coach? Run and hide! 😂

I thought the "King Pin" episodes, when he went undercover as Switch to find King, was then end, Hetty even said it was compromised then.  And then later, he went to see her when she was at a prison farm or something similar, to check? 

[catsitter]

On 5/23/2022 at 5:21 AM, Bobbin said:

Aww. Sweet. And no foot-chases or shoot-outs.  What an amazing, mixed, extended, growing family. Congrats to the newest members. Still no LGBTQ members in the NCIS universe, though. Not even in LA??

There was Gregorio in NCIS New Orleans.