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Anybody watched the season premiere of NCIS 2 weeks ago?
I mean, the show is smart enough into their ballistic investigations, great jokes into dialogues, but the writer failed perfectly into research of what Canada is about.
For the 1st half of the episode, McGee was sent to the US/Canada border. When he spoke remotely from there via MTAC, you could see the most stereotypical crap ever created: He was wearing a big winter hat and was constantly poked around by a horse and you could see Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in the background. WTF? Then during the conversation, he said something like "it's september and it's snowing, I wanna go home". He's on the US/Canada border, not in Nunavut! When McGee came back to the office, DiNozzo went on with typical canadian jokes: seen a moose or a beaver? french-canadians, Céline Dion singing the national anthem...
This is from the IMDb:
Interesting fact, Michael Weatherly (DiNozzo) spent 2 years in Vancouver BC between 2000-2001 to shot James Cameron's Dark Angel TV series with Jessica Alba, he should know better, but I'm aware that actors have no choice but to say what the writers put in the script and follow the director.
Also, like any other patriotic american show, mexicans are drug dealers, all of them. Going to Paris? The person you are looking for is located at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower. Going to Middle East? They're all islamic extremists equiped with MK-whatever machine gun wearing a turban.
Someone remind me why I'm watching this show. I don't mind the occasional jokes about canadians, but the portrayal of RCMP and snow in september at the border is beyond stupidity.
I mean, the show is smart enough into their ballistic investigations, great jokes into dialogues, but the writer failed perfectly into research of what Canada is about.
For the 1st half of the episode, McGee was sent to the US/Canada border. When he spoke remotely from there via MTAC, you could see the most stereotypical crap ever created: He was wearing a big winter hat and was constantly poked around by a horse and you could see Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in the background. WTF? Then during the conversation, he said something like "it's september and it's snowing, I wanna go home". He's on the US/Canada border, not in Nunavut! When McGee came back to the office, DiNozzo went on with typical canadian jokes: seen a moose or a beaver? french-canadians, Céline Dion singing the national anthem...
This is from the IMDb:
NCIS is shot in Santa Clarita, California, and that episode was written by Gary Glasberg, who is also the executive producer, and directed by Dennis Smith.Factual errors: RCMP officers only wear their Red Serge dress uniform during ceremonial duties; they would never be worn while investigating a crime scene. The same is true for the 'Mounted' part of their name - only the 32 members of the Cavalry unit who participate in the Musical Ride are mounted. The concept of having RCMP officers mounted on horses in their Red Serge on daily operations is beyond laughable - simply stereotypical, along with the idea that there was snow in September just north of the US/Canadian border.
Interesting fact, Michael Weatherly (DiNozzo) spent 2 years in Vancouver BC between 2000-2001 to shot James Cameron's Dark Angel TV series with Jessica Alba, he should know better, but I'm aware that actors have no choice but to say what the writers put in the script and follow the director.
Also, like any other patriotic american show, mexicans are drug dealers, all of them. Going to Paris? The person you are looking for is located at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower. Going to Middle East? They're all islamic extremists equiped with MK-whatever machine gun wearing a turban.
Someone remind me why I'm watching this show. I don't mind the occasional jokes about canadians, but the portrayal of RCMP and snow in september at the border is beyond stupidity.