“Something Blue” was such a good episode. McGee and Delilah
are currently my #1 ship on the show and I just love watching them interact.
The main story of the episode revolved around a Petty
Officer who suddenly died in his sleep. It turned out he had accidentally
ingested ecstasy and combined with his blood pressure medicine resulted in a
heart attack. This was another unfortunate case of wrong place, wrong time,
because the ecstasy was actually meant for a commanding officer, and not even
out of malice, just as a prank. The perpetrator is not redeemable in my eyes,
however; despite apologizing and admitting to it as soon as he was caught, he
planted the drugs in another man’s bunk and thought that drugging the CO would
be an acceptable prank.
The real heart of this episode were the interactions between
Tim and Delilah, as well as the rest of the team. This was the first episode in
a long time that I really felt again how much of a family this team is. Sure,
we have had little hints here and there throughout the season, but in this episode
all of them came together. I loved the opening scene with all of them at the
tux place, offering their opinions and showing off a little, and how easily
they all became concerned for McGee and Delilah later on in the episode. The
special “family” dinner was a wonderful end. It was really beautiful.
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| The gang helps McGee choose a tux. |
I’m docking a half point in my score just because of how predictable
the storyline was. I figured out very soon in that Tim and Delilah would ditch
the big wedding and get married before the end of the episode, because of
whatever happened with Delilah, and I guessed before the episode even began and
the thumbnail was the two of them resting in the hospital bed that she was
pregnant. I think with the amount of television I have seen over the years some
storylines and tropes are used over and over again (though I think the title
kind of gave it away too).
I can’t have been the only person crying at the scene with
Gibbs and McGee at the end. McGee wearing stars for his father? I’m okay with
that. But Gibbs giving McGee his watch, a family heirloom meant to be passed
down, is what did it for me. He even engraved it to say “Breathe”, like he had
at the hospital earlier in the episode. Papa Gibbs is my favorite type of
Gibbs, and I have this urge now to start the series over and watch little
techie Timmy and think about how much he has grown since then.
9.5/10
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