SPOILERS
“Rendezvous” was an okay episode, despite being the season
finale. I think the only thing that made it a season finale was the cliffhanger
that put main characters in danger of dying.
Body parts of a Petty Officer bring the team to Paraguay,
only to find out they just found the hand of one officer, and the body belonged
to his missing buddy. They returned to Paraguay against orders to help the man
who saved their lives while they were on a mission there. His son had been
captured by a local terror/rebelling group, and the team decides to help since
they are there. They manage to rescue all the stolen children and get them to
the safety of a helicopter, but the rebels followed them. Gibbs and McGee stayed
behind to give them some cover fire. Gibbs, I understand. McGee, that was a bit
of a bonehead move I kind of saw coming. Obviously, they’re not going to die. However,
it will be very stressful for the other characters until we all know that for
certain.
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| McGee and Torres look around the village in Paraguay. |
This was an underwhelming finale to an overall pretty okay
season. I am a fan of serial shows, or more accurately, a combination of
episodic and serialized. Usually, the back half of an NCIS season would have some big storyline that comes to a
resolution within a few episodes of the next season. Even having two or three
episodes with a certain bad guy would be fine, like all the way back with Ari
in Season 2. With the exception of Operation Willoughby, which only involved a
few characters for the heart of it, there were no big storylines like that this
season.
There are a couple explanations I can find for this. First,
last season did sort of close an era. It was the end of Michael Weatherly as a
character, as he went off to get his own TV show (or live what is probably just
Tiva fanfiction, which I am perfectly okay with). It would make sense to start
a season fresh, get the new characters in with a little backstory and a couple
episodes focused on them. Maybe next season will have a little more fire.
Second, there is still next season. That will be 15 seasons,
which is confirmed to happen, and there is no talk of ending the show yet. I
think it might be possible they are just running out of ideas at this point.
They’ve killed off enough family members, come up with plenty of terrorists,
drug lords, and schemers to rocket the show for 14 years. Maybe it should be
coming to an end? Who knows at this point. All I can say is a rewatch of the
middle seasons may be in order soon.
8/10
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