People are voting emotionally.

Fantastic!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Most of JAGs episodes were top-notch both in story line and in acting. There was great creativity in producing each show. Even the second to the last episode was well-done and in alignment with the other episodes. But the finale was a great disappointment. I thought it was a mediocre ending to a fantastic series. It was like they just decided to trash all that they had done and accomplished for the sake of seeing who could get out the stage door the quickest and with the least effort. And it was like the producer and CBS just decided that the viewing audience wasn't important anymore. All of the loyal fans they had acquired through the years were just thrown to the wind. Nevertheless, I loved the series from start to second from the finish!

I have been reading what ppl have said, but i don't remember seeing any talking about the last ep s10. I feel like I'm a ghost who can not find peace because I am missing something .. I've loved the series from day one. I have all ten seasons on DVD, and I see them like twice a year .. but every time I come to the last ep of the series, I feel that they just said OK let's just write something. I would have loved to have see that Mac, got her wedding. I am very disappointed with the way they did the last ep. we only got like 7mins where harm and mac finally tell each other that they love each other. I personally would've removed all that about the young man who joined the marine.. if the have cancelled that we would have had the greatest finish of shows ever !!!

Is this an original show or the television equivalent of an army-navy recruiting poster? What made the movie "A Few Good Men" such outstanding cinema was its willingness to steer clear of obvious military cliché. Sure you can have the fanatical colonel who was a disciple at Patton's knee but there's also ingredients in his character that makes him different. Jessup certainly had the passion of a Patton but also the contempt for authority of a Nixon. But JAG offers the hot-headed and sweating military officer whose veins pop out of his neck ad infinitum that has been seen so many times that it's a textbook study of stereotypes to avoid. Budding screenwriters take note. (Take note of a similar character in the recent film "Avatar".) But in JAG few characters are anything more than these caricatures who are exactly as you would expect them.The opening pilot episode wreaks with so much wall-to-wall story cliché, it seems a collage of scenes from other films and shows. From the strands of trumpet fanfares accompanied by snare drums at the opening (my kingdom for different music) to the flashback of the main character as a naval pilot, JAG never quite transcends to an original story. I couldn't help but think of the parody "Airplane!" with the flashback sequence. There's the tough butch woman out to prove she's as good as men, the hot-headed aircraft carrier captain, the obnoxious guy in the officer's lounge who knows the investigator, the sexual innuendos between the two investigators who just happen to be a male and a female, and the creme-de-la-creme: the main character's father was also a naval pilot who died on a mission. If I had $100 for every time someone referred to his father, I could probably buy a Carravagio. I guess you just had to have the obligatory "Your father would be very proud of you." Give me a break. Were the writers sick the day they taught how to avoid hackneyed dialog? This came off like a by-the-numbers approach to film-making that you could probably purchase at a game store for about $10. There's "Patton", "Top Gun", "Moonlighting", "A Few Good Men", almost any western of your choice where there's bar or saloon, and of course almost any over-the-top war movie of your choice, like "The Longest Day".The plot of the first episode is somewhat interesting: a woman naval pilot on the verge of an outstanding career goes missing from aboard her aircraft carrier. The two JAG corps investigators, a boy-girl team in the style of "Hart to Hart" and "Moonlighting", board the carrier to reveal the truth. Of course the implied sexual play between the two leads is so over-the-top I expected them to be leaping into a bunk together by conclusion, which is against naval regulations. At first the female character states that this is strictly a business-investigative relationship. However, when the male lead is speaking to her in private, he gets closer to her than would be necessary to kiss. And she lets it happen as if she can't refuse him. So much for the rhetoric of the show. (One thing I liked about "A Few Good Men" is that the young leads, Tom Cruise and Demi Moore, never got together.) The only notable performance of the entire episode was by Terry O'Quinn, playing a military colleague of the lead investigator's late father. He's tough, smart and not entirely sold on the idea of women naval pilots. Simultaneously he doesn't come off cliché or stereotypical. Unfortunately the pilot episode of JAG collapses under its own weight. By show's end I knew who did it. The acting is marginal, except for O'Quinn. There are too many badly scripted, acted and directed sexual innuendo scenes in the vein of Moonlighting but not nearly as good or believable. They just came off contrived as if the producers are showing us what we want to see. Also, too many cliché characters, too many other cliché scenes, like the chewing out of an inferior officer by a superior. And the hot-head in the lounge/bar. How many times have I seen this? And that's the problem with cliché. It starts seeming like a cartoon and not something real. And I begin to lose interest because I've seen it before. Good writing avoids cliché because we want to see something new, not just a jigsaw puzzle of worn-out scenes. Strangely enough, I think cliché is less believable.

JAG is one the finest television series ever produced. It was a largely underrated series until the wave of patriotism that followed the tragedy of 9/11. In the period of time that followed, many TV viewers got their first exposure to the quality acting, writing and direction that made JAG a 10 year staple in many peoples lives. The top-notch acting of David James Elliott, Catherine Bell, Patrick Laboryteaux and John M. Jackson, the crisp scriptwriting and excellent direction kept JAG both interesting and relevant. Many of us gradually became so called "JAGniks", a title that still defines our love of the series today. JAG's faithful fans were rewarded with quality, which is sorely lacking in much of the TV fare seen now. If you have never seen JAG, give it a try, in reruns or on DVD. You won't be sorry.