Ice Queen

This episode is pretty bad for NCIS, but better than anything JAG has done in years.

I came at these shows in reverse. Sure, I knew NCIS was a spin-off of JAG, but the very idea that Lawyers run criminal investigations was just silly, so I never watched JAG. Then I figured I'd give it a try. I mean, JAG was OK, if shaky. The bombastic title music was a bit over the top. The 1990s SuperHero Harmon Raab monologue was annoying as hell, but eventually disappeared. Then somewhere around season 5, the show changed course from being about investigation or trial to being a rom-com soap-opera. The Season 7 christmas episode killed this show for me. So, having endured all of that, I decided enough was enough, and to just skip to the NCIS pilot episodes.

WOW, if the show was based on the characters in here, NCIS would have been cancelled within a season. Fortunately, everyone gets a major re-write.

I can only conclude, however, that the JAG characters have also had personality transplants, and Raab acts like a total jackass for both episodes. Everyone is fairly unlikable.

It makes me glad that I'm quitting this series. While this episode was better than most of seasons 5&6, and what I saw of 7, I cannot say that it was in any way good, and I certainly won't watch beyond these episodes.

if you like the show, NCIS then this is one of two episodes featuring the mainstay of characters from NCIS (Gibbs, Dinozo, ABby and Ducky.) it show show they handle their operations when working with JAG. from these two episodes, you basically get the idea and tie in very nicely with the first episode of NCIS. after all if you know your TV from days back you know how they used to do the "spinoffs". i assure you this is done with far more taste. just remember this episode is a two parter and gos with jag episode "meltdown". it is judged that about a month after meltdown, you would get season one of NCIS.(of course the producer and creator of both shows isthe same guy.--- and of course the JAGcharacter "Bud" appears in an early episode of NCIS.

Gibbs's character was exactly the same besides this two episodes and the pilot but in the pilot he was still basically Gibbs he just really liked movies which was weird because that was Tony dinoso's thing his gut was the biggest thing to his character which in these episodes is non-existent This wasn't very well written either I understand where they were trying to go but they obviously didn't get there and it made gibbs's character look horrible if this had been on the air anytime recently I think the show might have actually gotten canceled which is ironic because the pilot is probably the best episode but this has no resemblance of his character at all in the NCIS.

This episode was very well done. The end is everything! It's making me want to start NCIS again. Also, I noticed a certain usually negative reviewer doesn't have any comments for this episode. Wonder why

For an NCIS episode this may be alright but for a JAG episode this is sub par. The NCIS plot completely shoves the JAG cast aside and in order to service the NCIS cast they make Rabb look weak in comparison. After all these years following Rabb it really shows a sense of disloyalty from the creators.

You can tell this is a backdoor pilot in only the loosest sense as everything including the title fonts are full on NCIS, skipping even the JAG titles.

A proper cross over or backdoor pilot gives credit to the new characters but also reinforces the current cast to place everyone in a good light. That just doesn't happen here. I can only say this is 4/10 for a JAG episode, if that.