The Good Fighter

Ordinarily, I find NCIS entertaining and occasionally humorous. Not going to get into any specifics to give away the synopsis, but this is one of the screwiest episodes yet. Maybe the producers felt it was time to give Casey a major role, but the interrogation room scenes were way off the chart. Perhaps the writers were on vacation?

The episode a while back where Casey and Jimmy were stick in the cafe was interesting, cleverly written, and even fun at times, but this one just didn't cut it as far as I am concerned.

The fall break is around the corner and hopefully the writers will get some new ideas. I am one who is waiting to see.

What an absolutely RIDICULOUS EPISODE!!

Gone are the days when NCIS had multiple plots and story arcs. Now we have simplistic plots, goofy dialogue & one dimensional characters.

Honestly, if you're going to write a specialty episode just for a dumb side character, at least make it interesting. This "Casey is super amazing at everything" thread the show keeps pulling is LAME. (It's like making Urkle a super hero - DUMB!)

I've watched this show since the first episode & am about to pull the plug on it. I'd hoped that the addition of Gary Cole was going to bring something interesting to the show. But it feels like the show has been re-tooled as a kid's program.

The dialogue has become ridiculous, the plots have become ridiculous, the constant grade-school gossip circles are ridiculous, the lack of any REAL knowledge on how NCIS (and other criminal agencies) work is ridiculous.

When i was growing up LOTS of shows had adult characters behaving ad adults. Today all shows seem to have replaced their leads with 20-somethings or adults acting just as juvenile.

Sad that the producers of NCIS think their audience is too dumb for real adult plots, characters & dialogue.

NCIS managed Gibbs/Mark Harmon leaving quite well. I like Parker and the whole team. There have been some interesting episodes this season as well, but this one was very off. Even then, I just have no episode yet that made me go "wow", neither does there seem to be any plot setup since the Raven, which I hope is still yet to come.

I just feel like NCIS is sticking to their formula, without getting any bold surprises or setups, which makes it really stale and boring. Additionally there have been too many relationships and love stories for a crime series within just this season pushed onto me.

And this episode just really showed the staleness with the poor writing on top of everything. It really seemed like they wanted to get a good setup and personal story for Kasie. The character surely can have her stories, but the writing was very boring in the way of not really being able to build a big connection. No plot that you couldn't see coming, no big boom and just generally not a lot happening that got me interested in this episode. Honestly think she deserves better than that, because I love her character.

Since Casey has been added to the show, the writers have apparently decided that she is the only person who can solve a crime. I want to scream every time the phrase "What Casey found " is used. The new outline is the team brings all the evidence to Casey, she solves the mystery and the team is the muscle and either kills or arrests the killer. The dialogue for both Casey and the rest of the team is silly and cliched. I am ready for new (or the original) writers to get back to the original quality of the show. I would be happy if Casey was killed off in the first episode of season 22. I am ready for a more serious storyline. This episode was the absolute worst.

This was a very disappointing episode.

Too much inane talking trying to cover over the fact that they are struggling to stretch the limited storyline to last 43 minutes. And some times the talking is at the most ludicrous of times (as if these highly intelligent people are totally lacking in common-sense).

Too many plot holes in the very limited plot that there is to make that plot credible. If you are going to have IT as a theme, at least let it get the technical basics right.

I've watched every episode of NCIS from the beginning but the lack of new ideas means that the whole series is beginning to wear thin.