Review(s): DVD JAG (Judge Advocate General) - The Complete Second Season
disappointed
Let's see, 52 weeks a year, given summer reruns there should be 36 episodes, so why is the 'complete second season' only 15 episodes?
Getting better and better...
I too missed the explanation to this cliffhanger, what happened to Harm after his arrest and it took a little time to get used to Catherine Bell, but she is really good. I also see the point now, Lt. Austin was very nice and beautiful but perhaps too smooth, so to speak. No tension.
Can't wait for the 3rd and 4th Season!
Catherine Bell's introduction, it was her series from that point on.
i bought this DVD not because it was a great show. It had its moments, but for the most part i thought it was one of the most poorly written shows on TV.
but there are a lot of things i liked about this show. they had some of the best actors on TV. (including from season one) the cimenatography was one of the best on TV. it always had a movie feel to it. the music is incredibly memorable. it had one of the greatest music themes in TV history.they got the technical aspects right. down to the uniform code and the lingo both military and legal.
but what i never liked about the show was it was incredibly cliched. the storylines throughout the series were quite hard and even improbable to believe. except for harm and mac the characters never really grew and they constantly contradicted themselves in discussing their own histories. they had great actors but hardly no real scripts to match it. it is not that i find the characters hard to believe in. it just that they were on there so long that i just got used to them and how they were acting. i never really cared for them except for a few moments during the course of the series.
But i did believe in Harm and Mac. i understood and got the chemistry between the two. they were a team definetly - i bought it. it was like watching a good pitcher and catcher during a game. they will probably go down in history as one of the great partnerings in television. but that is as far as it went. they had good chemistry. but not much else.
the series itself as a whole could have done much better. the potiential was there. but like i said, it was an incrediably cliched show that pandered to the 45 and up audience that presented itself as an in your face die-hard yeah military - i'm not going to rock the boat - show. it never ventured from that premise. it never told the same tired stories that they did from a different perspective. no real depth ever attempted, they will never be confused with Law & Order or MASH which are the best Miliatary and legal shows on tv. but i realized that was never the producers point. so inspite of my criticisms. i still enjoyed the show. and the reason for me, at least, is simple. CATHERIME BELL!
from the time Catherine Bell was introduced it became - slowly but surely - her show. i think i'm not alone in that. she is what made the show fun and worth coming back too. week after week. David James Elliot did a good job. but you can only do so much with that character. and that was exhausted really after the third season. Sarah Mackenzie was the same way. she really was just a female version of Harm. but that is what made Catherime so great. she brought herself to the role. her personality was in all over Mac. she is a woman that does not take herself too seriously and that is what she made mac become. that was really the only difference between Harm and Mac. one did not take themself too seriously. the other did very much. Catherine and Mac had a genuine sense of humor, i never got that from DJE and Harm. it was like he tried to hard to show he had one.
when DJE threatened to quit the show. i think it would have been a safe bet that the show would have survived nicely without him. as a matter of fact i think that was what there intentions were. to make the show about sarah. i think it would have been a little better even. but if CB had left. i don't know if it could have lasted too much longer.
but all that being said. i like the Second Season. i will reccommend it. i don't have the first season. i don't want it. to me Catherine Bell was the star of the show. the reason to watch it and the reason to own this DVD and the rest the show that is sure to come.
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