Ye Not Guilty

I'd given up on NCIS this season, but of course they couldn't conclude Tony's run without bringing back Kort (no matter what trouble the two had gotten into in real life). At first they tried to humanize him some more, but then it all turned out to possibly be a lie as he has been accused by the suspect of selling secrets to the Russians and killing people to cover his tracks since before La Granouille. And just to stick a knife in and turn it, he's now after Ziva (more specifically, her father's files). I'm not worried about the fire, however. Ziva probably set it and ran. There's no way Kort's going to survive the next episode, though. I was all for a redemption of his character, but this just harpoons all the progress he's made because he is Tony's nemesis. A nice touch was his fake eye (contact lens over the actor's real eye) but having a pirate eye patch instead of his medical one on his updated personnel file showing he'd been sacked. We don't even know why he got fired, and there's a chance he is actually innocent (although he looks pretty guilty). While all signs point to the writers making him out to be a monster since he's a character people love to hate, it does match his M.O. to find a lead on his own, keep it to himself, and try to take action alone only to get his ass kicked once again. Like Gibbs said the last time they mentioned him on the show, Kort is upfront about being an asshole. The more I think about it, the more I start to suspect Monroe since he is a character that was introduced then released and forgotten, and those characters are usually guilty. I won't be upset if it turns out Kort is guilty or dies either way; I'm just disappointed with the writing, though that ship sailed last season.

Also looking forward to next week's Sailor Moon Crystal. I was a little disappointed in this one. It should have been Makoto's episode (I was expecting her to kill Lulu or at least fight her more), but then Mini Moon got her wand (seriously how was she supposed to defend herself without it?), which instead of doing nothing got absorbed. Then Pluto showed up, as her name is actually in the episode title. The brief appearances of Haruka, Michiru, and Mamoru respectively felt pointless and added nothing. Instead of getting eaten by her plants, Lulu turned into a horrible plant monster. To be continued.