Hello, retcon!

[healingmirth]

I was thinking I'd rewatch season 1 of NCIS to try to come up with a missing scene I wanted to write for a challenge. It turns out that what I should have decided was to watch season 1 for the first time, because I've never seen at least the first 10 episodes. I'm particularly enjoying Tony's casual Gibbs-like clothes, and the fact that early in the season, Gibbs, Kate, and someone else (Paula Cassidy? I already forget who) make references to Shane and The Maltese Falcon that totally go over Tony's head. Also, the fact that Fornell doesn't know who Gibbs is in the first episode. Oh, show.

Given the massive number of canon-reference favorites that I understand now (Tony being jealous of Stan Burley, Gibbs making Kate and Tony use their belongings for target practice, "the second B is for bastard," among others) I really should have realized how many episodes I missed. Oh, and Gibbs totally says he's been married three times. I assumed he said he had three ex-wives, in some sort of clever writer-type dodge, but nope!

Now I'm tempted to go watch all sorts of first-season episodes and see what else they massively rewrote.

Also, I totally didn't realize that there were 11 seasons of M*A*S*H I felt like I'd seen every episode in syndication at some point - it would have taken less than a year of watching the two episodes that were on every night if they'd shown them in order - but now I wonder if I have.

ETA: Ha! Episode 11, Tony is sitting on consultant!McGee's deck in his postage-stamp office. Is sitting cross-legged on his desk. Curled up in the corner by the filing cabinet. Oh, Tony. Please go buy some dignity. I have no idea how he pulled off bossing the Probie around once he joined the team.

Comments

Re: M*A*S*H

[jules]

In my experience watching the episodes on a very regular basis (now, this was... OMG seven years ago when I had a job where I got out at 2:30 and spent all afternoon watching M*A*S*H pretty much) they almost only aired the post-Tracker episodes. Maybe that's changed, or maybe I just caught them during a later spell, but I'm almost positive that they cherry-picked episodes.

Re: M*A*S*H

[healingmirth]

If I'm remembering my syndicated-TV-watching habits correctly, I would have been watching M*A*S*H more or less during Star Trek: TNG's original run - which I think was also when I saw most of the original Star Trek episodes. Which was... way more than 7 years ago. Wow, I feel old now.

Back in the day, we had to walk to school barefoot, uphill, in the snow, and you watched whatever was on TV on the three broadcast stations that came in, because that's all there was, and you were grateful for it!