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NCIS jumps the shark
CBS ^ | January 15, 2008 | Reed Steiner

Posted on 01/15/2008 6:54:09 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee

Muslim Arabs are good.

Caucasian Americans [and Germans] are evil.

Islam is a religion of peace.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ncis
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Sigh.

There were some good conservative ties to this show.

For instance, Mark Harmon's grandfather was William Franklin Knox, who was Alf Landon's VP running mate on the GOP ticket in 1936:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Knox#Family
And Michael Weatherly had a prominent supporting role in Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120728/fullcredits#cast

And the show even has an Israeli agent in a prominent role [albeit portrayed by a Chilean actress]:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1580243/
Oh well, another one bites the dust.
1 posted on 01/15/2008 6:54:10 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
This one joins The Unit's "Pandemonium, Part I" in CBS's Hall of Shame:
http://www.tv.com/the-unit/pandemonium-part-1/episode/1131584/recap.html

2 posted on 01/15/2008 6:54:38 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
TRIVIA: This was the last episode completed before the writers strike halted production on this and many other shows. (edit)
3 posted on 01/15/2008 6:57:26 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

I have felt the bias in previous episodes but fought the urge to turn off the show. If this is as bad as it sounds I will be gone. Sad. This was one of the only shows that I watched faithfully.


4 posted on 01/15/2008 6:59:12 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Yeah, Deal or No Deal is about to jump the shark, too. Saw a commercial tonight where they are going to have ellen degeneres as one of the models...


5 posted on 01/15/2008 6:59:30 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Although most dead people vote democrat, aborted babies, if given the choice, would vote Republican.)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

It was a bit thick.

And the bad guys turned out to be converted white guys.


6 posted on 01/15/2008 7:00:45 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy; et al

watched the show...bad white guy converted to Islam in PRISON !!! Germans are “safe” bad guys. Pretty good show considering it’s written by Hollywierd liberals.


7 posted on 01/15/2008 7:06:47 PM PST by junkman72 (just another day at the junkyard)
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To: TomGuy

Not one of their better episodes. But it wasn’t as bad as all that.


8 posted on 01/15/2008 7:07:39 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

You lasted a whole lot longer than I did. The show has been going to pot for a long long time. Like with all seeBS shows, they ultimately turn to the dark side.


9 posted on 01/15/2008 7:10:20 PM PST by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: TomGuy

Converted *mercenaries.* I didn’t think it was a bad show at all.


10 posted on 01/15/2008 7:11:46 PM PST by Rte66
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To: originalbuckeye
If this is as bad as it sounds

It is.

I will be gone.

Me too.

Shame - I really wanted to see how the chemistry would work out between DiNozzo & Ziva.

Also to find out who would be the first to score with Abby. [Lately, she's been having a lot of chemistry with Gibbs, of all people.]

Oh well, it was CBS - what else should I have expected?

11 posted on 01/15/2008 7:16:48 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: Sherman Logan
The stupidest part was the "safe" imam claiming that "we," presumably Americans, had been oppressing them for 500 years.

WTF? 500 years ago, 1508, America didn't exist. The only Europeans in the Western Hemisphere were still stuck in the Caribbean.

500 years ago (for that matter up to 1683, not much more than 300 years ago), most Muslims thought Islam was still on the offensive against the Dar al Harb.

The oppression of the West against Islam cannot at most be predated before Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, or just a little over 200 years.

Real Western oppression cannot be predated before WWI's aftermath, or less than 100 years, and cannot be realistically extended past WWII. IOW, Western oppression lasted something like 30 to 100 years in the millenias-long history of the Middle East.

I wish TV characters would occasionally challenge idiotic statements like the above.

12 posted on 01/15/2008 7:21:04 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
I wish TV characters would occasionally challenge idiotic statements like the above.

For a while there, it looked like maybe Harmon's character was going to speak up, and make Ducky look like the spineless PC moron he was, but, alas, it was not to be.

Oh well, so much for NCIS.

13 posted on 01/15/2008 7:40:25 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Jeez guys, I read the interview with Don Bellisario: the ex Marine who is pro US and pro military.

This guy wrote and created MAGNUM PI: unlie lib Hollywood, he depicted Vietnam Vets who are not crazy, and in a normal light.

This could be NOT his fault but probably some lib CBS exec who told him to change it.

I pass by his production co here in Hollywood every day on Gower and his building was the first one to told the WGA strikers to GTFO of the premises.


14 posted on 01/15/2008 8:09:04 PM PST by max americana
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Just more hollywierd PC BS.


15 posted on 01/15/2008 8:10:38 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

And the writers wonder why nobody cares that they’ve gone on strike.

If you want to watch some *good* TV, anime has come a hell of a long way. I’m currently plowing through Trinity Blood, which is a recapitulation of Renaissance-era European politics with a fantasy/SF twist.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=253381177&s=143441


16 posted on 01/15/2008 8:14:43 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Really stupid episode. FInally, a network television show features not one but two evil, homicidal Muslim jihadi...and both are white converts. *eyeroll*

I had to laugh at the part about the white guy converting to Islam in prison. Yeah, you see that all the time.


17 posted on 01/15/2008 8:21:45 PM PST by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Ha, I was waiting for DiNozo & Ziva to hook up, too. DiNozo wouldn’t have known what hit him (so to speak).

LaGrenouille’s daughter was quite the babe and that about did him in. Then there’s “the Director’s” longings for both LG and Gibbs. Of course, there’s also that Army “gal” that Gibbs tolerates.

Abby and Proby get along well as geekalikes, but she deserves better - and much much better than the little guy who really died in real life.

Hope it continues.


18 posted on 01/15/2008 8:27:12 PM PST by Rte66
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

See, I thought Ducky did just fine - very Christian, doing the right thing, leading by example (even if it was to make up for something he regretted in his past) - and he did actually cheat, so “our side” won.


19 posted on 01/15/2008 8:29:19 PM PST by Rte66
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To: originalbuckeye

The original poster was actually quite gentle. We watched all the way through in hopes that they would redeem themselves. They didn’t. We wondered if they had CAIR come do the writing while the regular writers were on strike.

We’re done with this show.


20 posted on 01/16/2008 7:14:20 AM PST by MizSterious (Deport all the illegals to sanctuary cities.)
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