Here There Be Dragons

I don’t bond easily with TV shows, so when I find one that I like, I am a faithful fan. Right now I only have four shows that I watch (NCIS, TBBT, Homeland and Game of Thrones). I just may have found my fifth.

I am one of those NCIS fans who hasn’t seen very many episodes from S1 and S2 – I didn’t start watching until S3 and never had time to go back and catch up -- although I have watched some of them, so I am not completely clueless to the happenings in the early days of the show. But, I have to admit that I am far from well versed in these two seasons

My friend nakeisha  loves S1 & S2, after reading some of her comments and posts, I have decided that I am going to go back and watch all the episodes during hiatus – and I am watching them in order.

I started last night with 1.1 Yankee White – the pilot episode.

Here are some of the things I noticed:

·         Gibbs has been building boats from the beginning – first scene that we see of him he is in his basement sanding a boat

·         It’s a two man field team (Gibbs and Tony)

·         Gibbs smiles A LOT and has a sense of humor about most things

·         The rules have been around from the beginning

·         Ducky has always had his little anecdotes

·         Tony was competent – but fun

·         Gibbs flirted with Kate (oh yes, he did – it was subtle – but it was there)

·         Abby wasn’t quite as gothic or quirky

·         Abby looked about 10 lbs heavier (and it looked good on her – she’s way too thin now)

·         Gibbs was a movie buff – He knew a lot about the movie Executive Decision set aboard Air Force One.

·         Fornell has been around since the beginning and he and Gibbs didn’t know each other (not sure how the shared ex-wife plays into that – I am a bit confused on that timeline – maybe subsequent episodes will clear that up for me)

·         Gerald was Ducky’s assistant

·         The gag that no one has ever heard of NCIS (the agency) has been around since the beginning

·         Director Tom Morrow ROCKED – I didn’t know what we were missing in a Director until I saw him

I am excited about watching the episodes that I haven’t seen and re-watching the episode that I have seen with “fresh eyes”.

A good way to get my NCIS fix over the hiatus!