S01.E10: Blue Bayou

[Snazzy Daisy]

Fall Finale

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As Leroy Jethro Gibbs prepares for his first Christmas without his wife and daughter, flashbacks reveal the unlikely journey that led to his first day on the job as a special agent at NIS’ Camp Pendleton office working with Mike Franks and Lala.

Air Date: Dec 16, 2024

 

[threebluestars]

GO RUTH!

ETA: I absolutely love that it's not Mike Franks we have to thank for having Agent Gibbs.

It's Ruth.

Edited December 17 by threebluestars

[Grizzly]

Give the actress an Emmy! That was some back story. For the record, while I'm always doing jigsaw puzzles, I'm not a bad mother (no kids) nor have I ever killed anyone.

It's funny hearing people call Gibbs, "Leroy". 

[EtheltoTillie]

Another great episode. 

[stonehaven]

After the complete snore of the mothership, this episode comes along and give us entertainment, depth, laughter and tears. I was wondering what Linda Rondstat would think about "Blue Bayou" as the soundtrack for a bar fight. That was not my my bingo card for this year.

Great episode. 

[Skooma]

I really liked the episode but I was getting confused by the time line.  At one point I thought it was before Gibbs shot the cartel guy then it seemed like it was all afterwards.

The character of Ruth was excellent.  Most shows would have made somebody like that into a nothing person who wasn't a full and equal human being.  Just a nobody shown in passing that a Gibbs type would never give the time of day to.  His "savior" would have been a fellow Marine vet who would be the only possible type that could understand him or a "hot chick" stereotype to prop up his confidence.

Thank you, writers, for making "Ruth" a full fledged, intelligent and feeling member of the human race.

[threebluestars]

6 hours ago, Skooma said:

I really liked the episode but I was getting confused by the time line.  At one point I thought it was before Gibbs shot the cartel guy then it seemed like it was all afterwards.

 

The whole show does that for me because it's all set in "the past" so I have to keep asking myself if it's the "the past" or "the past past".
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[Daff]

It kind of annoyed me, too, that we were having to rehash, again. Pretty quickly though, it started answering questions we’ve been puzzling over. This was a really heartfelt episode. Glad Lala changed her mind. Loved the reveal that he didn’t fail the psych eval, or was that Franks lying to him? For anyone who needs the content of the two shredder strips:

”operation Sundown a catastrophic mishandling of”

and

”Bugs” Boyd had worked closely with a second sniper

[EtheltoTillie]

26 minutes ago, Daff said:

It kind of annoyed me, too, that we were having to rehash, again. Pretty quickly though, it started answering questions we’ve been puzzling over. This was a really heartfelt episode. Glad Lala changed her mind. Loved the reveal that he didn’t fail the psych eval, or was that Franks lying to him? For anyone who needs the content of the two shredder strips:

”operation Sundown a catastrophic mishandling of”

and

”Bugs” Boyd had worked closely with a second sniper

Yes, can anyone enlighten us newbies as to any relevance of those strips from Original Recipe NCIS?

[Andyourlittledog2]

OMG!  Blue Bayou. If I never heard that song again it would be too soon.  Many many decades ago I lived in an apartment where the manager and his kids lived upstairs. His teenage daughter had some breakup that she was moaning about and her bedroom was right above mine and she, I joke not, played that damn song on repeat all day and all evening for weeks. I thought I was going to lose my mind. That was when I decided I hated Linda Ronstadt. I can't even hear her sing anything anymore; it gives me PTSD.  

It was a good episode but I get tired of the murdered family storyline. I know it's a huge part of who he is but I would really like to move it to deeper background and get on with current cases more.  I know that probably won't happen (Origins, after all) but I can dream.

And please show, never ever play that song again. I can't take it.

[GHScorpiosRule]

5 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

Yes, can anyone enlighten us newbies as to any relevance of those strips from Original Recipe NCIS?

I'm at work now, but will watch later this evening and can let you know if it was even in the original Mothership. As I've learned, they've tweaked some of the things that originally happened to fit this show. Like just the other night, I watched the mothership and there was an episode where we learn Mitchell, who died while protecting Shannon and Kelly? His son is now DEA; also, that Randy (though in Mothership, he didn't have a name) asked to pass on the detail because he had "kids" not a young baby, but kids. So, there you go.

So I just watched and none of what was on this episode was ever shown on the Mothership, @EtheltoTillie. We got dribbles that Gibbs has a daughter he loved. And as I’ve stated in the comparison thread and earlier episodes, we got Gibbs’ past in two parter season finale in season three.

I will add that I don’t like how here, Franks kept avoiding Gibbs and didn’t want anything to do with him. ORIGINAL Franks (Muse Watson) knew EXACTLY what he was doing when he left Shannon’s file on his desk and walked away. He KNEW what Gibbs would do. 
There was no Lala, and since they didn’t delve too deeply into how he joined NIS, Ruth on this show could easily be slipped in as the reason why he joined NIS, which technically contradicts what we were shown on the Mothership.

I’ve decided to just hand wave any further inconsistencies or contradictions that will come down the road. And just watch to see who will be making cameos.

Lala can take several seats.

Edited Wednesday at 02:44 AM by GHScorpiosRule

[Snazzy Daisy]

An episode without investigating a case. It feels like a filler but the friendship between Gibbs and Ruth makes it interesting.

It shouldn’t have taken Lala more than a week to figure out that Gibbs is protecting her. If she murders someone, will she be confessing that to Gibbs? 🙄

Ruth is the driving force behind Gibbs and she manages to pull Franks out of his assholeness. Not every day we get to meet someone who has the nerve to call Leroy Jethro Gibbs “a loser”.

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“Finish strong, Leroy. Don’t be a little bitch!”

The scene at the back of Gibbs’ pickup truck is hopeful and heartwarming. It’s the first time we see Gibbs laughing. Then he loses her too. 😢

They’re setting up Bugs and his partner as the big bad. But am not really invested in him due to lack of build up for his character.

The shredded papers:

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“They labeled Operation Sundown a catastrophic mishandling of…”

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“That Boyd, aka Bugs, had worked closely with a second sniper.”

 

[EtheltoTillie]

22 minutes ago, Andyourlittledog2 said:

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It was a good episode but I get tired of the murdered family storyline. I know it's a huge part of who he is but I would really like to move it to deeper background and get on with current cases more.  I know that probably won't happen (Origins, after all) but I can dream.

And please show, never ever play that song again. I can't take it.

I like the song and Linda Ronstadt but I can understand where you’re coming from lol. 
Anyway, I think they will move on from the family murder story line. What we’ve seen so far was necessary to set up the character. 

Edited Tuesday at 10:13 PM by EtheltoTillie

[Skooma]

19 minutes ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

They’re setting up Bugs and his partner as the big bad. But am not really invested in him due to lack of build up for his character.

And I am not invested in him since I have never ever heard or seen him.  Who is he?  Is he from the mothership?  Is his last name Bunny?

[GHScorpiosRule]

5 minutes ago, Skooma said:

And I am not invested in him since I have never ever heard or seen him.  Who is he?  Is he from the mothership?  Is his last name Bunny?

Nope. I believe we first saw him in the pilot.

[Snazzy Daisy]

44 minutes ago, Skooma said:

And I am not invested in him since I have never ever heard or seen him.  Who is he?  Is he from the mothership?  Is his last name Bunny?

We met Jamison “Bugs” Boyd in the “Enter Sandman” episodes. He’s the sniper who killed a woman then torched her house.

[Skooma]

5 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

We met Jamison “Bugs” Boyd in the “Enter Sandman” episodes. He’s the sniper who killed a woman then torched her house.

I have absolutely zero memory of that.  Thanks.

[Packerbrewerbadger]

After the pilot I wasn’t going to watch this, but it has grown on me. I wasn’t looking forward to this episode thinking it would be too much murdered family , but I loved it and the entire Ruth storyline. What a great character and relationshIp!

 

 But show, don’t throw out Bugs now!  I remember the character ( did they find him in the sewers?)  but I’m not invested enough tto try to remember his plot 

[CeeBeeGee]

On 12/17/2024 at 4:50 PM, Andyourlittledog2 said:

OMG!  Blue Bayou. If I never heard that song again it would be too soon.  Many many decades ago I lived in an apartment where the manager and his kids lived upstairs. His teenage daughter had some breakup that she was moaning about and her bedroom was right above mine and she, I joke not, played that damn song on repeat all day and all evening for weeks. I thought I was going to lose my mind. That was when I decided I hated Linda Ronstadt. I can't even hear her sing anything anymore; it gives me PTSD.  

10+ years ago, I lived in an older NYC building with thin walls. Someone new moved in next door and the resident played two specific songs--over and over and over. I was going crazy. After months of this, I finally knocked on her door--she was actually really sweet about it and apologized, saying "music is all I have." I later found out she was in witness protection--she'd flipped on someone in her bad neighborhood, done the right thing and now she was living in a place where she had no friends. I felt really bad but--there's a reason they torture people by playing the same music over and over. So I get it.

I was a little surprised Pool Marine (or Pool Sailor) got so aggressive, so quickly just because a ballad came on over the jukebox. Seems a bit of an overreaction.

 

On 12/17/2024 at 5:02 PM, Snazzy Daisy said:

The scene at the back of Gibbs’ pickup truck is hopeful and heartwarming. It’s the first time we see Gibbs laughing. Then he loses her too. 😢

The cinematography of this show is gorgeous. The mothership is so sterile-looking, notwithstanding those orange walls, but this show gets in some beautiful shots. I even love the opening credits sequence with that side shot of the water surface at the very end.

 

12 hours ago, Packerbrewerbadger said:

After the pilot I wasn’t going to watch this, but it has grown on me. I wasn’t looking forward to this episode thinking it would be too much murdered family , but I loved it and the entire Ruth storyline. What a great character and relationshIp!

I usually hate pilots--they're typically too heavy on the exposition (cf., the Friends pilot, with Ross telling Phoebe "stop cleaning my aura!" UGH. No actor can make s*** like that sound good).. If you can believe it, after watching the Game of Thrones pilot, I wasn't interested and skipped the rest of the season. It wasn't until a friend told me it was somewhat inspired by the Wars of the Roses that I was intrigued.