That was kind of odd.
May. 4th, 2011 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clare_dragonflyWeird parallels between tonight's Criminal Minds and an old NCIS episode. Spoilers follow; only plot-related, nothing to do with the character arcs of recurring characters.
So the NCIS episode--which I've seen six or seven times now, because I watch reruns like an addict--starts out in a way I always find annoying: a very dramatic scene, but from the end of the chronology of the episode. (I consider this a type of fake suspense, which I hate.) Tony runs through a warehouse, shoots some bad guys, then drags Gibbs and a young blonde woman out of some water and starts giving them CPR.
Then tonight's CM episode. We have another dramatic scene from the end of the chronology. Morgan is giving CPR to someone we can't see. He and Hotch are sweating profusely (okay, that bit was just random).
At the end of the NCIS episode, we learn that Gibbs has driven his car into the water (presumably to get away from the bad guys, I still don't understand why he didn't just drive the other direction), with the blonde woman in his passenger seat. Tony drags them out and saves them.
By the end of the CM episode, we have seen the young blonde woman, in the passenger seat of an SUV, being driven into a lake by the unsub. Morgan pulls her out and saves her.
So... someone at CBS has a thing for young blonde women being driven into lakes and rescued (much as someone who works on CM clearly has a thing for the names Abby and Frank)? As far as I know, none of the same people even work on these two shows. So I guess it's just weird.
So the NCIS episode--which I've seen six or seven times now, because I watch reruns like an addict--starts out in a way I always find annoying: a very dramatic scene, but from the end of the chronology of the episode. (I consider this a type of fake suspense, which I hate.) Tony runs through a warehouse, shoots some bad guys, then drags Gibbs and a young blonde woman out of some water and starts giving them CPR.
Then tonight's CM episode. We have another dramatic scene from the end of the chronology. Morgan is giving CPR to someone we can't see. He and Hotch are sweating profusely (okay, that bit was just random).
At the end of the NCIS episode, we learn that Gibbs has driven his car into the water (presumably to get away from the bad guys, I still don't understand why he didn't just drive the other direction), with the blonde woman in his passenger seat. Tony drags them out and saves them.
By the end of the CM episode, we have seen the young blonde woman, in the passenger seat of an SUV, being driven into a lake by the unsub. Morgan pulls her out and saves her.
So... someone at CBS has a thing for young blonde women being driven into lakes and rescued (much as someone who works on CM clearly has a thing for the names Abby and Frank)? As far as I know, none of the same people even work on these two shows. So I guess it's just weird.