Challenge #7: Tony's Tuesday Review
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the_navy_yardEpisode Title: "Dog Tags" (Season Five, Episode Thirteen)
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Review:
I'll be blunt. I loathe this episode with a passion. To the point that if it wasn't for the fact that it makes such a good jumping off point for AU fan fictions, I wouldn't watch it at all. "Dog Tags" is full of missteps, bad characterizations, and even worse logic.
It is actually difficult for me to list all the things I dislike about the episode there’s so many of them. From the beginning when McGee is sent to watch the back door of the property by himself(!!) breaking all the standard/accepted protocols which state entrances should be watched by pairs of agents. He’s sent alone with no backup while the other three storm the front door. Then he gets attacked but no one seems to hear a thing until he shoots the dog despite the sliding door being in the same room as where the rest of the team is standing around talking about McGee. Rather than send him to the hospital, also a standard thing for workplace injuries, everyone seems more concerned with the animal he shot. He’s sent back alone, gets bitched out by Abby for defending himself, and then teased and tormented by Tony over the injury. Only once does anyone ask about how he feels and then only in passing!
Speaking of Abby and the dog, not only does she break evidence protocol by covering the dog with McGee’s coat – which as far as we know he never gets back nor is compensated for – she ignored standard practices and even the best of logic by not kenneling a potentially dangerous animal! Her constant concern over the dog and her treatment of McGee in comparison makes you wonder just how much of their friendship is real or does she just use McGee for what she can get from him and string him along otherwise. Her forcing McGee to adopt the dog is the final straw on an already badly written episode as he is correct, the dog will always be aggressive toward him and possibly other people.
Everyone – with the apparent exception of McGee – seems totally out of character in this episode. The writing doesn’t mesh with other seasons or even the rest of this season. And, as we’ve seen other times, McGee’s injury seems to do an instant heal as he’s back without bandages or scars the following week. “Dog Tags” is a logic fail of epic proportions!
Yes, I really, really dislike this episode... I’m certain it’s obvious to everyone now.
Caf-Pow rating: 1 Caf-Pow
Review:
I'll be blunt. I loathe this episode with a passion. To the point that if it wasn't for the fact that it makes such a good jumping off point for AU fan fictions, I wouldn't watch it at all. "Dog Tags" is full of missteps, bad characterizations, and even worse logic.
It is actually difficult for me to list all the things I dislike about the episode there’s so many of them. From the beginning when McGee is sent to watch the back door of the property by himself(!!) breaking all the standard/accepted protocols which state entrances should be watched by pairs of agents. He’s sent alone with no backup while the other three storm the front door. Then he gets attacked but no one seems to hear a thing until he shoots the dog despite the sliding door being in the same room as where the rest of the team is standing around talking about McGee. Rather than send him to the hospital, also a standard thing for workplace injuries, everyone seems more concerned with the animal he shot. He’s sent back alone, gets bitched out by Abby for defending himself, and then teased and tormented by Tony over the injury. Only once does anyone ask about how he feels and then only in passing!
Speaking of Abby and the dog, not only does she break evidence protocol by covering the dog with McGee’s coat – which as far as we know he never gets back nor is compensated for – she ignored standard practices and even the best of logic by not kenneling a potentially dangerous animal! Her constant concern over the dog and her treatment of McGee in comparison makes you wonder just how much of their friendship is real or does she just use McGee for what she can get from him and string him along otherwise. Her forcing McGee to adopt the dog is the final straw on an already badly written episode as he is correct, the dog will always be aggressive toward him and possibly other people.
Everyone – with the apparent exception of McGee – seems totally out of character in this episode. The writing doesn’t mesh with other seasons or even the rest of this season. And, as we’ve seen other times, McGee’s injury seems to do an instant heal as he’s back without bandages or scars the following week. “Dog Tags” is a logic fail of epic proportions!
Yes, I really, really dislike this episode... I’m certain it’s obvious to everyone now.
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Date: 2012-08-30 12:20 pm (UTC)Perhaps, its the fact that McGee gets a little more face time that they like and the rest just goes by the wayside. Don't get me wrong, I am all for more McGee (he is a woefully underused character), but not like this, as it is too high a price to pay.
Given the history, I am afraid of the story line involving his injury from the blast (because we see in episode 3 BTS pics, he is looking right as rain)
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Date: 2012-08-30 12:43 pm (UTC)And I think I told you in your journal that the way things are looking with that first episode, McGee's just going to get up, dust himself off and walk away. Not a scratch on him. That explosion is epic fail already for me and it's not even aired yet! Especially since I had a civil engineer friend look at the images of the bomb, do some speculating on the loads of the building, and he agreed with me - it should have looked more like the Oklahoma City Bombing aftermath than what we're apparently going to see. *sigh*
I so have to remember my mantra!