“@Lamis_1D: @M_Weatherly Are you excited about NCIS New Orleans?” I will see Bakula on set today!
— Michael Weatherly (@M_Weatherly) 12 september 2014This is not the first crossover between NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans. Besides Weatherly's visit to the Crescent City, the recently updated press release from the first episode of NCIS: NOLA lists David McCallum (Ducky) as a guest star. Also, NCIS' most frequently returning guest star, Joe Spano, is set to make an appearance as FBI Agent Tobias Fornell. Gary Glasberg, showrunner of NCIS and creator of NCIS: New Orleans, has stated he would also like Gibbs and Abby to appear on New Orleans. Additionally, actor Lev Gorn, whom was recently announced to be recurring on NCIS this season, could bring his role to the spin-off as well. It is likely Gorn's character is involved in NCIS' season long Russian bad guy, an arc that could potentially come to New Orleans as well.
Are you happy about another NCIS/NCIS: New Orleans crossover?
Are you happy about another NCIS/NCIS: New Orleans crossover?
ReplyDeleteNo. The New Orleans backdoor pilot was borderline unwatchable. Everything about it was just uninteresting, so having more NCIS: New Orleans on NCIS is a terrible idea.
Don't be so hard on it. I think you should watch the real pilot that comes out on September 23 before you make a judgment. Backdoor pilots are always a difficult thing because it's the new show and the regular show together in one or two episodes. You're still watching NCIS: LA and it's not like that backdoor pilot would instantly hook people on the show.
ReplyDeleteWhile I like the crossovers, there shouldn't be too many of them. The shows should have stories that are independent of one another.
ReplyDeleteSince I watch both NCIS and NCIS:LA and will be watching NCIS: New Orleans, any crossovers are a good thing in my opinion. Shows that they belong within the same universe, rather than being separate entities.
ReplyDelete"Borderline unwatchable" ? Not at all. NCIS 2-parter that aired during JAG was considerably different compared to the first official NCIS episode (Yankee White). The same was true when it came to NCIS:LA's 2-parter on NCIS (Legend 1 and 2). You can't judge an entire (unaired) television series, based on a backdoor pilot, which could depict the future episodes in a much different light.
Hell, NCIS itself changed considerably during the course of it's first season. Yankee White showed Gibbs to be somewhat movie-savvy, referencing repeatedly, the movie 'Air Force One', yet later on in the series, he seems mostly oblivious to movies. Some older movie/tv-show references certainly, but that attribute moved over to DiNozzo over time.
Difficult to gauge how the backdoor pilot would have affected me since I got into NCIS LA after watching 3.01. But I enjoyed the backdoor pilot. I did not enjoy NCIS: NOLA's (or NCIS: NO as I like to call it) backdoor pilot. I am going to watch the opening episode but there is a strong chance that I will lose interest and not make it to the end.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I have a similar opinion in regards to "NCIS:Red", which aired as a backdoor pilot during NCIS:LA. I felt it was "borderline unwatchable", primarily due to bad casting choices, and virtually no interpersonal chemistry between characters.
ReplyDeleteCould be fun! I'm up for it.
ReplyDeleteBackdoor pilots are usually very different from the eventual product. All the CSI spinoff must have undergone changes, and so did NCIS: LA and so will NCIS: NOLA. I challenge you to watch the full 43 minutes of the first episode.
ReplyDeleteI see someone has brought NCIS Red and I can tell you that I didn't like that backdoor pilot very much either. Still, had it gone to series I would have checked it out because I knew it would be different from the NCIS LA episodes.
NCIS: Red was, let's be fair, pretty awful. But I would much rather sit through a season of that than this.
ReplyDeleteThat's one thing I like about NCIS LA. It's different to NCIS. From the backdoor pilot, it seemed like NCIS: NOLA is literally just NCIS in a different city with annoying accents.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Daniel on this. I challenge you (and anyone else who are on the fence), to watch the first, possibly first few episodes of the actual series, before condemning it.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be watching every single new pilot this year so it's quite likely that shows I don't like are gonna get dropped after one episode, and NCIS New Orleans is probably gonna be in that list. But I will be watching the first episode.
ReplyDeleteAs for your "terrible accents" comment, I assume it to be related to Scott Bakula's character. And on that part, I'd agree that his accent could use some work. But Lucas Black is from Alabama. It's his real accent. And Zoe Mclellan's character is from the midwest, her accent was suitable.
ReplyDeleteMake or break for NCIS: New Orleans, depends on cases, humor and actors. And I'm personally a big fan of Scott Bakula, and enjoyed Zoe Mclellan's performance on JAG. New Orleans has a hundred times better casting choices than NCIS: Red had.
What's the difference between CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY? It's all just CSI set in a different city. And yet, as you receny told me, you found CSI: NY the best of the three. Maybe that might happen wit NCIS as well.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you say that you like LA because it's different from the mothership, then I think you should watch CSI: Cyber as well as that seems very different from the other theee CSIs.
Both Scott Bakula and Lucas Black's accents annoyed me. It just angered me hearing them speak.
ReplyDeleteThen you are effectively disliking the actor (Lucas Black). As I said, he was born in Alabama, his accent as Agent LaSalle is genuine, since the character is from the same region.
ReplyDeleteBut all three CSIs had different aspects to them. Obviously CSI in itself was quite different to other stuff on tv. CSI Miami had a lead character that was stand-out, but was above the rest of the team, knew so, and acted just within his own rights. CSI NY had a lead character that was stand-out, above the rest of the team but didn't act like it very often and worked well within the law.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've seen of NCIS: NOLA it's literally just NCIS in a warehouse in New Orleans. That is the only way I can describe it.
The prospect of CSI Cyber just makes me chuckle. CBS have got Intelligence, which by all rights is doing pretty badly in the ratings. So CBS then thinks it'd be a good idea to make a spin-off of CSI that is basically a realistic (by that I mean the lead doesn't have a computer chip in their brain) replica of a show that got cancelled after 13 episodes because of poor ratings. The backdoor pilot was the 5th lowest rated episode of the 22 ep season. It just defies any sort of logic to me.
This news isn't new lol. There been reports mons ago that NCIS:NO will have a crossover with NCIS.
ReplyDeleteAs a European it makes no odds since I can barely distinguish a Southern US accent from a northern, they all sound or less twangy or drawling. Never could get into NCIS:LA, have tried watching different eps over the season and find little if any cohesion among the characters, not because the actors are bad, because I don't think they are but the scriptwriting is so totally off that viewing is impossible. A priori with NOLA I think I might watch it since I did like the pilots on NCIS, and the actors are considerably more consolidated than those of NCIS:LA. At least that's the impression I have
ReplyDeleteI don't find any real differences among the CSI versions except the actors. Personally I can't stand the actor who plays Horatio so I don't usually watch that version, and find the one with Jorja Fox and the other cast members whose names I don't recall offhand a more rounded version.
ReplyDeleteOnly recently watched the NCIS pilots that aired in JAG, and found them unbearable because of the 2 main actors of JAG Catherine Bell (whom I find unbearable per se as an actress) and the chap whose name I don't recall, along with the rest. Those are the only episodes of JAG I've managed to watch since the series seemed to be a pretentious version of the Tom Cruise film All Good Men
ReplyDelete"pretentious version of the Tom Cruise film All Good Men"
ReplyDeleteDo I detect a hint of Swede? (I'm a Swedish/American resident in Sweden) In Sweden, the title for JAG, and the title for A Few Good Men, was exactly the same (På Heder och Samvete), and they do share a similar premise (JAG lawyers prosecuting crimes involving the US Military).
Beyond that, they share very little similarities. A Few Good Men gave a rather black eye to the US Military (via the concept of using a "Code Red" type discipline behavior), while JAG sorta glorified the US Military (Former Navy Pilot, now a lawyer, often prosecuting AND conducting major investigations). I loved watching JAG, but I think a lot of the investigation scenes should've been handled by NCIS. I don't think JAG would've remained as popular, if it was solely a legal series.
No Swede, Scandinavian sorry:-( May be a hint of Euskaldun though.
ReplyDeleteI found the acting was infinitely better in a Few Good Men unlike JAG, which was saved by the secondary actors. Admittedly except for the NCIS pilots fitted in to the series I never managed to watch a complete episode. It felt too pretentious and rather propagandistic. Furthermore I find most series based on legal proceedings rather tedious even those set in the Old Bailey with all the wigs and Victorian protocol