One of my new (within the past year) TV obsessions is NCIS. I started watching one day when there was a marathon on TBS and have been hooked ever since. But only recently have I started watching the new episodes.
Last night, I recognized not one, but two actors from other TV shows I used to watch, who I just couldn’t take seriously after seeing them in their past roles. (This may mean that I watch too much TV. We can revisit that later.)
Danneel as Rachel Gatina - teen soap brat and a half.
Don’t recognize the name? She was the bitch (one of them) on One Tree Hill. She was everything from bad girl to best friend to reformed to druggie to rehabbed. But to see her playing a lab assistant in NCIS? Well, Rachel Gatina wouldn’t be caught dead in a lab. Unless she was having sex there.
Ah, Luke Ward. Cheating boyfriend and badass jock extraordinaire of the O.C. Maybe his character last night wasn’t quite as much of a stretch. He was essentially a no-good ex-fiance. (Not for cheating this time, but for orchestrating the murder of his fiancee’s father. Some people are so picky.)
Maybe it’s just me that has trouble with this. I know actors usually don’t want to be typecast or pigeonholed. And I’m sure that these two appreciate the chance to move from teen soap to legit crime drama.
But I don’t think I can take seriously someone whose best known line is: “Welcome to the O.C., bitch!“
Sorry, Chris. Maybe next time.
I was straight up obsessed with the OC. It is now on SoapNet and I enjoy watching reruns way too much. Viva la Chrismukkah.
Wanna know a secret? I own the first two seasons…it was/is kind of a guilty pleasure.
I. Love. NCIS.
Twins!
that dude has “d-bag” written all over his forehead.
I think it’s also shaved into his chest hair.
He really said that?
Yikes.
Well, just his character, but still.
NCIS… writing that down…
Sounds like exactly the kind of trashy TV that’s all the better to torture B with…
Anything I can do to help, my dear.
Nothing good comes from TBS marathons…days of your life just gone.
Exactly, because who wants to be a quitter and stop in the middle?
I knew I recognized Luke from somewhere! I just couldn’t place it.
NCIS = love.
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